Pentagon strikes classified-network AI deals with eight providers including AWS, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA

The Department of Defense announced agreements with AWS, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Reflection and Oracle to deploy advanced AI on classified IL6 and IL7 networks. The pact is framed as the operational foundation for an 'AI-first' U.S. military, covering data synthesis, decision support and warfighter tooling.