The Pentagon signs classified-network AI agreements with eight frontier companies

The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with eight frontier AI companies to deploy their AI capabilities on the department’s classified networks for what it described as lawful operational use. The listed companies are SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle.

The release says the deployments will extend across the department’s Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 environments, which are used for classified workloads. According to the department, the goal is to improve data synthesis, situational awareness, and decision support across warfighting, intelligence, and enterprise operations.

The announcement also gives one of the clearest usage snapshots yet for the department’s GenAI.mil platform. It says more than 1.3 million personnel have used the system, generating tens of millions of prompts and deploying hundreds of thousands of agents within five months.

The department says it is structuring the effort to avoid vendor lock while giving classified users access to a broader set of domestic frontier-model providers. Based on the official release, the concrete same-day change is that eight AI companies now have agreements to place advanced AI capabilities inside classified Defense Department network environments.

Source: U.S. Department of War release