Pentagon awards multiple companies $200M contracts for AI tools

The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office on Monday awarded four tech companies individual contracts valued at up to $200 million to provide advanced AI capabilities to address national security challenges.

The awards were issued to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI.

“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty said in a statement. “Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our Joint mission essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems.” 

Under the contract, the Defense Department can deploy the latest AI offerings, agentic AI workflows, large language models and technologies developed by these firms.

“These advanced AI solutions will enable the DoD to effectively address defense ...