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QuSecure Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Garfield Jones, Former Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for U.S. CISA at Department of Homeland Security

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QuSecure Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Garfield Jones, Former Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for U.S. CISA at Department of Homeland Security
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QuSecure Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Garfield Jones, Former Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for U.S. CISA at Department of Homeland Security

2025-11-12 19:00 Last Updated At:11-13 14:55

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 12, 2025--

QuSecure Inc., the market leader in quantum-safe security, today announced that Garfield Jones has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Research and Technology Strategy. A renowned technical advisor and test and systems engineering manager with extensive knowledge of IT and DoD systems, Dr. Jones will lead QuSecure’s technology strategy to meet U.S. Federal Government mission and security requirements, and build and nurture partnerships with stakeholders to drive strategic planning and continuous innovation for cryptographic management.

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“Garfield’s deep expertise and proven track record are critical to our growth plans,” said Rebecca Krauthamer, CEO, QuSecure. “His experience in working with government agencies as they shift to post-quantum cryptography is invaluable. I am thrilled to welcome Garfield to QuSecure and look forward to working together as we continue to develop first-mover solutions that enable organizations to quickly and seamlessly remediate cryptographic risk and enhance zero-trust security.”

Prior to joining QuSecure, Dr. Jones served as Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, he developed the strategy and guidance on using innovative, leading-edge technology across CISA, including articulating and documenting the future technology vision to achieve mission objectives and goals. Dr. Jones led the post-quantum cryptography initiative at CISA, consulting with executive branch level staff on crafting and disseminating guidance for federal agencies and national policy on research development and adoption of PQC technology.

Specifically, Dr. Jones worked with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of National Cyber Director (ONCD), and various federal agencies to execute tasks outlined in executive orders 14306 (Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity) and 14144 (Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity) and memos such as OMB 23-02 (Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography) issued by the Executive Branch.

He also held the position of Deputy Program Manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, responsible for systems engineering, architecture, and testing. Before joining DHS, he was a systems engineer developing complex weapons, geographic, and information systems for agencies such as Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). In 2018, he retired from the Army Reserves after serving 16 years active duty and nine years reservist as an Information Systems Warrant Officer.

Dr. Jones holds a Doctor of Engineering in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a concentration in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and continues to serve as a professor at Morgan State University and University of Maryland where he teaches computer science and systems engineering. In 2023, he received a patent for a system and method for monitoring and routing of computer traffic for cyber threat risk embedded in electronic documents. Additionally, Dr. Jones has filed a patent application for a system and method for generating a high fidelity model of a cyber physical human system.

“With the onset of quantum computing and evolving threats, organizations need to start preparing for post-quantum cryptography, yet conventional cryptographic algorithms are not enough,” said Jones. “As the pioneer in cryptographic agility, QuSecure is providing organizations with the most advanced protection so that they can see their vulnerabilities and protect against threats. I am excited to join the team and look forward to expanding our footprint as we help organizations maintain cryptographic hygiene at scale.”

QuSecure has experienced unprecedented growth and today has the most crypto-agility deployments of any organization worldwide. With a diverse roster of customers that includes the U.S. Army and Air Force, key players in the telecommunications and energy sectors, leading financial institutions and global cloud services providers, QuSecure has quickly become the market’s leader in delivering crypto-agile, quantum-resistant cybersecurity enterprise software solutions. Recently, the company announced the successful closing of additional funding, bringing its Series A round to $28M. Additionally, with its ongoing commitment to innovation, QuSecure released QuProtect R3, the industry’s first and only fully integrated, production-ready PQC platform designed to make encryption modernization simple for everyone.

About QuSecure™

QuSecure is the pioneer and leader in quantum-safe cybersecurity with a mission to use the advent of quantum computing to fix the foundation of data security infrastructure. The QuProtect R3 platform is available through AWS Marketplace or directly from QuSecure and partners including Accenture, Dell, Cisco and Carahsoft. QuSecure’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and crypto-agile innovation provide the lowest-friction path to inventory cryptographic communications and transition to quantum resiliency: anytime, anywhere, on any device. For more information, visit www.qusecure.com.

QuSecure Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Garfield Jones, Former Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for U.S. CISA at Department of Homeland Security

QuSecure Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Garfield Jones, Former Associate Chief of Strategic Technology for U.S. CISA at Department of Homeland Security

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 1, 2026--

Vantor, the leading provider of unified spatial intelligence from space to ground, has been awarded its third National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Luno contract to provide NGA and other U.S. Government agencies automated, near real-time orbital intelligence of high-interest objects in space.

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Under the $2.3 million contract, Vantor will utilize its high-resolution imagery of space objects, also known as non-Earth Imagery (NEI), to deliver intelligence on priority objects in low Earth orbit, including providing alerts when anomalies are present. The analysis will be largely automated, marking a significant step forward in eliminating manual processing and accelerating timely and actionable insights for Space Domain Awareness.

“In a contested domain like space, awareness is everything,” said Susanne Hake, Executive Vice President & General Manager, U.S. Government at Vantor. “Still, it’s the one domain where exquisite visual intelligence is extremely hard to come by, creating literal and figurative blind spots. Our NEI capabilities are one of the few technologies that can provide high-resolution visual intelligence of objects in space, providing intelligence analysts and decisionmakers with a deeper understanding of the behavior and intent of high-interest space objects—a decisive edge in an increasingly complex environment.”

Vantor’s orbital intelligence capabilities can provide insights into a space object’s features, health, velocity, and movements, including whether an object is changing orbit—a situation that could endanger the safety of U.S. assets in space. Vantor satellites can capture images of other spacecraft at an industry-leading resolution of less than 10 cm from hundreds of kilometers away, making it possible to quickly characterize those space objects and determine their health and status.

This award marks the third win for Vantor under NGA’s Luno program. Vantor previously announced a Luno contract to automatically detect land use land cover change at global scale, enabling NGA to anticipate where maps and their features may require updates. And in June, Vantor was awarded a Luno contract to deliver AI/ML-generated object detection services to identify assets across air, maritime, land, and rail domains; determine counts at specified locations; detect trends and anomalies; and perform advanced spatial and temporal geospatial intelligence analysis.

“These awards reflect the core of Vantor’s mission—to deliver real-time intelligence faster than the speed of threat, from space to ground,” said Hake. “By integrating our persistent monitoring, change detection, and space-domain awareness capabilities, we’re empowering our partners to understand and act on threats across every domain, before they emerge.”

The Luno program—made up of Luno A and Luno B—is part of NGA’s ongoing efforts to execute an agile acquisition strategy that unlocks the capacity and innovation of the commercial geospatial industry.

About Vantor

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence to unlock a more autonomous, interoperable world. We give decision makers and operators the power to build a unified intelligence picture, delivering the clarity they need to navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. We fuse data from the world’s most capable imaging satellites with real-time sensor feeds from space, air, and ground to create an AI-ready digital twin of Earth. Our spatial intelligence platform automates every part of the cycle—from tasking to collection to production—to update and analyze this foundation at the pace of change. Our products drive deeper mission-critical insights and connect the next generation of autonomous systems across the defense, intelligence, and commercial landscape.

Vantor non-Earth image of a Chinese imaging satellite, collected under the NGA Luno B contract. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite features a large deployable antenna that enables high-resolution radar imaging from orbit.

Vantor non-Earth image of a Chinese imaging satellite, collected under the NGA Luno B contract. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite features a large deployable antenna that enables high-resolution radar imaging from orbit.

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