
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has awarded contracts to Anthropic, Alphabet’s [GOOG] Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk’s xAI to help the department leverage autonomous models for workflows in different mission areas. Each company’s award has a $200 million ceiling. The contracts will give DoD wider access to commercially-available agentic AI workflows and the resulting relationships will allow the companies to better understand the department’s needs, the CDAO said on Monday. “The adoption of AI is…