Pentagon AI Deals: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Oracle, SpaceX, and Reflection AI—Why Anthropic Was Cut and What It Means for Defense AI
The Pentagon has moved decisively to operationalize artificial intelligence across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), signing agreements with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, NVIDIA, SpaceX, and Reflection AI. The deals accelerate AI adoption in both unclassified and classified environments for analysis, logistics, and large-scale data processing—without building entirely new classified compute from scratch. Equally…