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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
CDAO Cameron Stanley confirmed the DoD has begun engineering work on internally developed LLMs and expects them operational "very soon," with xAI and OpenAI as interim alternatives. Defense Secretary Hegseth's supply-chain-risk designation against Anthropic remains in effect. The Pentagon is also planning to give commercial AI firms access to classified training data. TechCrunch
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