Defense & National Security AI
C2, autonomy, ISR, wargaming
Defense AI moved from experimentation to procurement in 2025: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI all secured DoD/national-security contracts (each up to ~$200M under the CDAO 2025 awards), Anthropic and Palantir/AWS deployed Claude into classified environments, and the Replicator initiative scaled attritable autonomy. ITAR, classification, and sovereign-compute requirements make this a walled-garden vertical.
Program
CDAO frontier-AI awards; Replicator
Gate
IL5/IL6, ITAR, security clearance
How it fits the stack
Defense & National Security AI with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Defense & National Security AI in the AI stack. Defense & National Security AI with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
- Defense & National Security AI —depends on→ Palantir Technologies
- Defense & National Security AI —partners with→ Anthropic
- Defense & National Security AI —partners with→ OpenAI