As someone noted, most of the early quantum stuff been built in Canada (d-wave is not a full quantum one, it is "just" annealing, a specific subset case, but nice anyway), Swiss etc., not USA really. Be sure Russia, China (their guys always win the math olympiads) built stuff too (lots russians in D-Wave canada office...), just they are more secretive.
NSA it is simply paying a few people as matter of consult what the hell this quantum thing it is going to be, in case. Quantum stuff it is not (yet) classified and regulated as nuclear energy or bombs. There is free exchange of info between scientists and USA (=NSA) got a minority role in the world really. Unless and until united nations will have a Quantum agency with inspectors going around to check scientists (like for uranium and plutonium things), there will be free exchange of info and progress will be known in realtime, either from universities or commercial vendors.
We not yet got fully functional and reliable qubits in hardware (I repeat: D-wave is a subset only, not the complete thing - still the nicest one you can buy for $1M today). Anyone can follow what's the state of qubit hardware implementation on the proper forums and repositories, for example this:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.0257v1.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7579v1.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6866v1.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4647v1.pdf
Said this, there is space for conspiracy theory of course.
For example a friend of mine who lives in China, uses an encrypted VPN in order to access the wide internet (facebook, netflix and such). He say that depending what he browses, despite VPN is encrypted, he gets "stopped traffic" from ISP, needing to restart, like if chinese govt firewall it can decrypt his VPN realtime. It coud be paranoia
