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DoD AI Office Awards Frontier AI Contracts For Workflow Needs

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, July 14th, 2025

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DoD AI Office Awards Frontier AI Contracts For Workflow Needs

Doug Matty, DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer. DoD photo

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…

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