Openai is officially on Pentagon’s payroll. Defense department announced A $ 200 million contract with OpenIAI is used to provide new artificial intelligence tools to the US government, in which active cyber defense is used.

Underlining its latest contracts, the DOD stated that Openai “will develop the prototype frontier AI capabilities to solve important national security challenges in both war and enterprise domains.” This work will be completed mainly with an estimated completion date of July 2026 in Washington, DC region.

Openai said in a new blog post The DOD contract has its first partnership as part of a new initiative to provide their AI technology to workers in federal, state and local governments. According to the company announcement, “a limited base” is offering a custom model for national security, OpenAI said that all use cases should follow its policies and guidelines. Openai’s current use policy Your services are being used to “develop or use weapons” and “injure others or destroy the property”.

“This contract, with a $ 200 million roof, will bring OpenaiI’s industry-comprehensive expertise to identify the defense department and help prototype how the frontier AI can change its administrative operations, improving how the members of the service and their families get health care, how they see the program and the data of the program and the acquisition, support the active cyber defense,” said that “said.

This is not the first time Openai has dropped to bed with the army, Entered a partnership with Enduril Industries in December 2024 To integrate your AI software in the Defense Tech Company’s counterpreed system. The new one-year DOD contract is opposed to the first versions of Openai’s terms of service, which last year banned its technology from being used for a prohibition-“military and war” removed by the company.