OpenAI to Help DoD With Cyber Defense Under New $200 Million Contract

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract for helping the US Department of Defense improve its AI capabilities, including for cyber defense.

The AI giant this week announced the launch of OpenAI for Government, an initiative designed to enable the US government to enhance its workers’ capabilities using AI solutions.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) will be the first to benefit from this new initiative, through a pilot program run with the DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).

“This contract, with a $200 million ceiling, will bring OpenAI’s industry-leading expertise to help the Defense Department identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting proactive cyber defense,” OpenAI explained.

The AI company also pointed out that “all use cases ...