{"id":91552,"date":"2026-10-31T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellites-cant-wait-for-the-2030-post-quantum-deadline-milsat-panel-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:27:52","slug":"satellites-cant-wait-for-the-2030-post-quantum-deadline-milsat-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellites-cant-wait-for-the-2030-post-quantum-deadline-milsat-panel-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellites Can\u2019t Wait for the 2030 Post-Quantum Deadline, MilSat Panel Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Nick David, Editorial Lead, SatNews<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l.jpg\" alt=\"The \u201cAttack at Machine Speed: Cyber, AI, and the Counterspace Threat\u201d panel seated on stage beneath a slide of panelist names at the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week 2026, with moderator Paul Struhsaker at the podium.\" class=\"wp-image-127526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a35b2a03d2-a28e0c-l-274x182.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The \u201cAttack at Machine Speed\u201d cyber, AI and counterspace panel at the MilSat Symposium. (Photo: SatNews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clock on post-quantum encryption runs out in 2030. Commercial companies are moving faster than the government to meet it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the government side, \u201cwe\u2019re somewhat bound by the NSA Type 1 encryption standards,\u201d Lt. Col. Vinny Pande, materiel leader and deputy director at SpaceWERX, said Thursday on the MilSat Symposium panel \u201cAttack at Machine Speed: Cyber, AI, and the Counterspace Threat\u201d at Silicon Valley Space Week. \u201cThe problem is we don\u2019t quite have the mandate on the Space Force side to put money behind it because we have to trust the NSA and the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceWERX, which describes itself as the Space Force\u2019s in-house venture arm, puts about $500 million to $700 million a year of non-dilutive capital into startups, he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:var(--sn-heading)\">Start now, not in 2030<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moderator Paul Struhsaker of Arrasar Partners framed the problem: quantum computing will make the cryptographic keys in use today obsolete, and federal agencies have been told to move to post-quantum keys by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panelists said waiting for the deadline is already too late for satellites. Spacecraft fly for many years, the new NIST post-quantum standards are already out, and data encrypted at rest is likely already in adversaries\u2019 hands, waiting for a quantum computer to break it. Security measures \u201chave to be implemented today, not in 2030,\u201d said David Gelerman, president and CEO of SpaceBridge, starting with post-quantum key exchange and authentication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanket Kamble, co-founder and CTO of threat-simulation company OrbitSec, warned that an attacker doesn\u2019t have to compromise a satellite\u2019s AI to destroy the mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel also included Chris Badgett of Kratos, Brendan Harris of Dell Technologies Federal, Jeremy Hallett of Brindabella and Company, and Col. Jon Strizzi of Space Systems Command\u2019s Space Systems Integration Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick David, Editorial Lead, SatNews The \u201cAttack at Machine Speed\u201d cyber, AI and counterspace panel at the MilSat Symposium. (Photo: SatNews) The clock on post-quantum encryption runs out in 2030. Commercial companies are moving faster than the government to meet it. On the government side, \u201cwe\u2019re somewhat bound by the NSA Type 1 encryption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}