The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing

Anthropic's AI model Claude is caught in a contradiction: the U.S. military is actively using it for targeting decisions in a conflict with Iran, while the Trump administration has ordered civilian agencies to stop using Anthropic products and given the Department of Defense six months to transition away. Meanwhile, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin are already replacing Claude with competing AI systems due to concerns about the company becoming a supply-chain risk (a vendor whose products pose security or policy problems).