CISA 2030 Strategy Names AI, Quantum and 5G/6G as Infrastructure Priorities

CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's strategy document setting national cyber defense and critical-infrastructure priorities, and it was issued on October 26, 2026.

The strategy names artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 5G/6G and satellite communications among the technologies CISA says it will prioritize for secure adoption across critical infrastructure.

What it is

The document is a 10-page strategy organized around three pillars, Defend, Harden and Prevail, covering CISA's priorities through the decade.

Under Defend, CISA says it must take up its cyber defense mission with renewed purpose and work with partners to set conditions for decisive decision making.

Under Harden, the agency says it will invest in intelligence-driven approaches operationalized through coordinated action with partners, while under Prevail it says it will build capacity across its regional offices for faster mobilization.

What it requires

The strategy commits CISA to lead the assessment and rapid deployment of emerging technology that accelerates collective cyber defense and ensures continuity of communications, a category that covers AI, quantum computing and next-generation networks.

ExecutiveGov reported that CISA said it will lead the assessment and deployment of transformative technologies, including artificial intelligence, that can advance critical infrastructure operations, and that it also named quantum computing as a transformative technology to be assessed at the national level under the Defend pillar.

The agency set a phased timeline: within 60 days it will begin reviewing its core services and capabilities to meet key objectives, within 180 days it will provide a plan to implement the strategy and measure its results, and within 365 days it will report on its progress in carrying out the strategy.

What security leaders should do

Security leaders in critical-infrastructure sectors should track the 60-, 180- and 365-day milestones above and look for CISA's implementation plan and progress reports, since those documents will likely spell out concrete AI, quantum and OT expectations beyond this high-level strategy. Programs that already map to CISA's prior AI guidance, the Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence, the Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services guidance and the AI-OT security principles, are well positioned, since the strategy frames AI as one pillar of a broader technology-assessment effort rather than a standalone program. Leaders should also prepare for parallel attention to quantum readiness and 5G/6G-dependent emergency communications, since the strategy treats these as part of the same transformative-technology priority as AI rather than separate workstreams.