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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.
The office meant to keep Pentagon AI trustworthy is 70 percent unstaffed and its coordinating council has no charter, while the department pushes AI into target recognition and agentic systems on a wartime footing.
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.
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.
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.