Pentagon awards 7 AI contracts for classified networks

The Pentagon awarded AI contracts to SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Reflection for deployment across its classified networks, according to a Mobile World Live report published in October 2025. The companies will be integrated into Impact Levels 6 and 7 environments, which are the highest tiers of classified cloud used by the US military for sensitive and top-secret workloads.

The Pentagon said the contracts are intended to support data synthesis, situational awareness and decision-making for military personnel operating in complex environments. The department also said it wants to avoid dependence on a single supplier and is building an architecture that prevents vendor lock-in. Separately, the Pentagon said its internal GenAI.mil platform reached more than 1.3 million users within five months of launch, processed tens of millions of prompts and deployed hundreds of thousands of AI agents.

Anthropic was not included in the seven contracts. Mobile World Live reported the company was blacklisted by the department earlier in 2025 as a supply chain risk after refusing to grant unfettered rights to its models, though other US departments were reportedly seeking access to its Mythos AI model. The Pentagon’s multi-vendor approach reflects a broader push by governments and large enterprises to spread AI workloads across several cloud and model providers rather than rely on one vendor.