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Pentagon AI office awards Anthropic, Google and xAI up to $200m each, after OpenAI’s June award

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Source: Chief Digital and AI Office (ai.mil)Also reported by Breaking Defense

The Chief Digital and AI Office of what was then the Department of Defense announced agreements with Anthropic, Google and xAI, each with a ceiling of $200m, following a similar $200m award to OpenAI announced in June 2025. The awards fund agentic AI workflows using frontier models across warfighting, intelligence, business and enterprise systems.

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI each hold Pentagon agreements worth up to $200m for agentic AI in warfighting and intelligence, the vendor ties behind the later dispute over usage limits.

When
14 Jul 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0020
Who
Department of Defense, Chief Digital and AI Office, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Chief Digital and AI Office (ai.mil) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 7 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Chief Digital and AI Office (ai.mil)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 21 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0020: “Pentagon AI office awards Anthropic, Google and xAI up to $200m each, after OpenAI’s June award.” wheresthe.ai, 14 Jul 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-cdao-frontier-ai-awards-2025-07/ (source: Chief Digital and AI Office (ai.mil)).

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