The Pentagon announced on Friday that it has inked deals with six of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies to use their software in the War Department’s classified work, after a deal with Anthropic for the use of its Claude systems fell through.
The department said that it entered into agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, as well as with Google, as reported earlier this week.
OpenAI and SpaceX had previously been deployed within the War Department for the tools to be used in military scenarios, but the agreement allows usage to expand to everyday operations.
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the department’s release said.
Integrating AI software into classified settings is intended to streamline workflow and “augment warfighter decision-making in
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