The Pentagon has entered into an alliance with seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies, the Department of War announced on May 1.
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the department said in a statement.
SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle have all been tapped to provide AI support for the government’s “classified networks for lawful operational use,” the department said.
“As mandated by President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the Department will continue to envelop our warfighters with advanced AI to meet the unprecedented emerging threats of tomorrow and to strengthen our Arsenal of Freedom,” the Pentagon said….