## OpenAI Secures Classified Pentagon Contract After Anthropic Exclusion
OpenAI secured a classified Pentagon contract hours after Anthropic was banned from defense work. Defense Secretary designated Anthropic a supply chain risk. Anthropic had held a $200M Pentagon contract but negotiations collapsed over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns. OpenAI becomes the primary AI provider for classified military networks.
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- **Source**: 
- **Sector**: The Vault
- **Tags**: openai, pentagon, ai, defense, contract
- **Credibility**: unverified
- **Published**: 2026-03-02 00:40:12
- **ID**: 1458
- **URL**: https://whisperx.ai/en/intel/1458