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Pentagon Contract Puts OpenAI Engineers Inside Combatant Commands

More than 400 pages released under a FOIA lawsuit show the Pentagon bought strategy advice and adversary briefings with the models, and OpenAI staff inside its commands.

Sep 8, 2026 · 5 min read

USA

Dataminr Takes $318 Million to Be the Military's Alerting Layer, Running 60 Small Models

The Air Force bought an enterprise open-source alerting subscription for the whole US military — competitively, and from a vendor that says it deliberately avoided frontier models.

Aug 27, 2026

USA

Pentagon names 25 firms to field-test its drone-swarm software at Camp Blanding

The Pentagon's Crucible 2 turns a $54.6 billion autonomy budget line into a contracted shoot-off, and the 25-firm roster shows who the Pentagon is betting on to fly the swarms.

Jun 4, 2026