Pentagon and AI Contracting

The Pentagon has ordered Anthropic’s Claude removed from classified Defense Department systems within six months after an internal memo showed it was being used in sensitive national‑security areas — including nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense and cyber warfare — and CBS reports Claude is, so far, the only large‑scale AI operating on DoD classified networks. Sources say Claude and similar AI tools are being used in current U.S. operations against Iran to sift imagery and sensor data, build and assess targeting packages and help process roughly 1,000 potential targets a day, prompting a tech‑industry rally behind Anthropic and renewed debate over balancing rapid AI adoption with oversight.