{"id":26900,"date":"2026-05-04T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26900\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:49:10","slug":"dod-expands-its-classified-ai-work-with-8-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26900\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD expands its classified AI work with 8 companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight U.S. technology companies have <a href=\"https:\/\/defensescoop.com\/2026\/05\/01\/dod-expands-classified-ai-work-with-8-companies-excluding-anthropic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed formal agreements<\/a> to deploy their frontier AI capabilities on the Defense Department\u2019s classified networks \u201cfor lawful operational use,\u201d according to a Pentagon press release published Friday. DOD\u2019s new deals with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle follow a major contract dispute between the department and Anthropic that culminated earlier this year over potential ethical constraints that accompany the use of AI in warfare and for national surveillance. \u201cIntegrating secure frontier AI capabilities into the Department\u2019s Impact Level 6 (IL6) and Impact Level 7 (IL7) network environments will streamline data synthesis, elevate situational understanding, and augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments,\u201d officials wrote in Friday\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan congressional push to codify a National Science Foundation-based artificial intelligence research enabler continued this week with the<a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/create-ai-act-senate-bill-nairr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reintroduction in the Senate of the CREATE AI Act.<\/a> The bill from Sens. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Todd Young, R-Ind., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., would establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) that would give AI researchers, educators and students more access to tools, data and other information to help develop new systems. Heinrich, founder and co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus, said in a press release that the NAIRR would go a long way toward \u201cdemocratizing access to AI,\u201d ensuring that American workers are prepared for the future and primed to lead \u201crapid advancements\u201d with the emerging technology that boost the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast\u00a0\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-daily-scoop-podcast\/id1585861564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-daily-scoop-podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0KZJcp1fu5JKlollvXeLD8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLdUknNydaOBVXUB1bXwLQRfEnF9kxN7Ma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight U.S. technology companies have signed formal agreements to deploy their frontier AI capabilities on the Defense Department\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,331,388,781,4862],"class_list":{"0":"post-26900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-department-of-defense-dod","12":"tag-pentagon","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}