A senior Pentagon official told Business Insider that Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday to agree to the Defense Department's terms; otherwise, it will find other levers to compel the AI startup to cooperate with the military. The official said Hegseth is prepared for the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) - a decades-old wartime law that gives the president broad authority over private companies in the interest of national security - on top of designating Anthropic a supply chain risk.
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM, award was especially notable, not only for its size but the number of allies and partners that will receive the missile.