Four retired general officers now lead and advise the post-quantum security firm as federal migration deadlines take hold
MIAMI, Nov. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LTG (Ret.) Roger L. Cloutier Jr., U.S. Army, former commander of NATO Allied Land Command, now leads operations at Qtonic Quantum Corp, the company announced today. He has chaired the company's Allied Defense Council since May 2026 and continues in that role.
Cloutier is one of four retired general officers who lead and advise Qtonic Quantum. Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mark E. Weatherington, U.S. Air Force, former deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, chairs the company's Defense Innovation Council. LTG (Ret.) Milford H. "Beags" Beagle Jr., U.S. Army, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, is Senior Leader of its Allied Defense Council. BG (Ret.) Shan K. Bagby, U.S. Army, former chief of the Army Dental Corps and a hospital commander, works with the company on health care security.
The appointment comes as post-quantum cryptography moves from policy to deadline. Executive Order 14412, "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," was signed June 22, 2026. The Department of War's post-quantum cryptography strategy states that, unless otherwise noted, all of its systems must support quantum-resistant algorithms by Dec. 31, 2030, or be phased out, and must use them by Dec. 31, 2031. Defense components now have fixed dates to work toward. Qtonic Quantum expects the contractors whose systems connect to defense networks to be held to the same calendar.
Cloutier is responsible for how the company is structured and how it runs day to day. Two products anchor that work for enterprises and federal agencies. QScout inventories an organization's cryptography and produces a signed CycloneDX 1.7 cryptographic bill of materials. QSolve executes the prioritized migration plan.
The four generals work alongside company advisers including Richard H. Ledgett Jr., former deputy director of the National Security Agency, and David Mussington, former executive assistant director for infrastructure security at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
"Every command I led came down to one question: Will the plan hold when it meets reality?" Cloutier said. "The organizations that make these deadlines will be the ones that treat cryptographic migration as an operation, with an inventory, a sequence and a name next to every step. That is the work I intend to run here."
"My last command was the place where the Army writes its doctrine and trains the leaders who carry it out," Beagle said. "The hard part is rarely deciding what to do. It is getting a large organization to do it on time. Roger and I both commanded the Army Training Center at Fort Jackson. I took the same post two years after he left, and the foundation he built was still there. Anyone staring at a 2030 deadline needs someone who has moved a large organization on a hard date."
"A hospital runs on systems that cannot go down and data that cannot leak, so post-quantum migration there is an operational problem before it is a technical one," Bagby said. "Roger taking on operations means a health system gets a plan that respects how it actually works."
Cloutier, Beagle and Bagby are available for interviews through the media contact below.
Note to Editors: Retired General Officers Who Lead and Advise Qtonic Quantum
LTG (Ret.) Roger L. Cloutier Jr., U.S. Army. Founding Chair, Allied Defense Council. Leads company operations. Commissioned through Army ROTC and retired on Oct. 1, 2022, after 34 years of service. Commanded NATO Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey, from August 2020 to August 2022, the alliance's standing headquarters for land forces, whose commander is the principal land adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Previously commanded U.S. Army Africa and the Southern European Task Force, and the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Served as chief of staff of U.S. Africa Command, as executive officer to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and as director of force management at Headquarters, Department of the Army. Commanded a brigade and a battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. Deployed to Panama for Operation Just Cause and to Bosnia for Operation Joint Endeavor. Decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mark E. Weatherington, U.S. Air Force. Chairman, Defense Innovation Council. Commissioned in 1990 from the U.S. Air Force Academy and retired in September 2023. Final assignment was deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command and deputy commander of Air Forces Strategic-Air, U.S. Strategic Command, at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. Previously commanded Eighth Air Force and the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center, the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, and the 28th Bomb Squadron. A command pilot with more than 2,400 hours in the B-1, B-2 and MQ-9, including combat over Afghanistan. Holds a master's degree in history and completed the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and a Brookings Institution foreign policy fellowship.
LTG (Ret.) Milford H. "Beags" Beagle Jr., U.S. Army. Senior Leader, Allied Defense Council. Commissioned in 1990 and retired on Sept. 5, 2025, after 35 years of service. Final assignment was commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Army's center for doctrine, leader development and professional military education, and commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Previously commanded the 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum, New York, the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the 193rd Infantry Brigade. Combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Holds degrees from South Carolina State University, Kansas State University and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
BG (Ret.) Shan K. Bagby, U.S. Army. Works with Qtonic Quantum on health care security. Retired in 2023 as chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps. Commanded Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, the U.S. military's only Level I trauma center, and U.S. Army Regional Health Command-Central, the Army's largest medical region by geography, with hospitals, clinics and dental and veterinary facilities serving hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries across the central United States. A board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Holds a master's in health care administration from Baylor University and a master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College. Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Chairs the board of University Health Foundation in San Antonio.
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About Qtonic Quantum
Qtonic Quantum Corp is a leading quantum cyber risk and vulnerability intelligence firm for enterprise and federal environments. The company finds cryptographic exposure, proves it is material and sequences the fix before an adversary can use it. Its platform includes QScout, which finds cryptographic exposure under approved scope and produces a signed CycloneDX 1.7 cryptographic bill of materials, QStrike, which validates material risk with reviewable evidence, QSolve, which prioritizes and sequences the fix, QHunt, which red-teams the cryptography a mission depends on, and QShield, post-quantum protection with inspectable evidence. The Qtonic Quantum Lab independently assesses vendor post-quantum solutions, sells no preferred vendor and accepts no payment from the vendors it assesses. The company's leadership and councils include four retired general officers and former senior officials of the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Qtonic Quantum is headquartered in Miami. Learn more at qtonicquantum.com.
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