# The U.S. Department of Defense has expanded its artificial intelligence push.

*aerospace · news · 2026-05-01 · Interesting Engineering*

## Key points

- The Pentagon has signed new AI deployment agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and Reflection AI.
- Advanced AI models and hardware will be implemented in classified Impact Level 6 and 7 environments.
- The Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform has over 1.3 million users and millions of prompts generated.
- A dispute with Anthropic over military AI use limits reflects rising tech sector resistance.
- The Defense Department is emphasizing strategies to avoid vendor lock-in for military AI systems.

**Companies:** Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, SpaceX, OpenAI, Oracle, Reflection AI
**Countries:** United States

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