May 1 (UPI) -- The Pentagon announced Friday that it has reached deals with eight artificial intelligence companies to deploy their software department-wide.
The agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Oracle are meant to help streamline data analysis, elevate situational understanding and improve warfighter decision-making, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
The eight companies' AI products will be integrated into the Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 network environments, as well as GenAI.mil, the Pentagon's official AI platform, to be made available to the several million people who work for the department.
The exclusion of a deal with Anthropic, whose Claude AI technology is among the most popular in the United States, follows a fallout earlier this year between the company and the department over its products being used to wage war.
"These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters' ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare," the Pentagon said in the release.
