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Pentagon officials are sorting through a flood of industry feedback about the controversial Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program as the department weighs next steps for reform efforts, Defense Department CIO Kirsten Davies said Wednesday.

Killer robots displayed in front of Capitol Hill to protest OpenAI’s Pentagon contract in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2026.Photo: Lenin Nolly/NurPhoto

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prototyping and Experimentation Alexander Lovett, left, shows a drone to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, right, at a display of multi-domain autonomous systems in the Pentagon courtyard, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington.Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

American service members will now have access to military versions of ChatGPT and Grok as the Pentagon tries to incorporate more AI into its daily workflows.

The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.”

The Pentagon rolled out OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI’s Grok for Government from SpaceX across the military Monday, giving personnel two new commercial AI tools for sensitive, unclassified work.

A federal court just ruled the Pentagon’s retaliation against an AI supplier illegal, and the fallout lands squarely on one of Palantir’s most critical defense programs before a make-or-break September deadline.

A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government had punished the artificial intelligence company for publicly criticizing the Pentagon.