“Grok For Government” – Elon Musk’s AI Company Reveals Contract With Defense Department

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, announced models available for United States Government customers called “Grok for Government.”

“Announcing Grok for Government – a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers,” xAI announced.

“We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners,” it continued.

The company revealed it already has a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, adding that its products are available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule.

“This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products,” it added.

Announcing Grok for Government – a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers

We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners

1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense
2) our…

— xAI (@xai) July 14, 2025

More info from The Economic Times:

This comes after a very public dispute between Musk and President Donald Trump, where the latter also threatened to deport the billionaire.

When Musk still headed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there were reports that xAI was being used within the US federal government for data analysis purposes, including at agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), even though Grok was not officially approved within some departments.

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) on Monday announced contract awards to “leading U.S. frontier AI companies to accelerate Department of Defense (DoD) adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.”

“Frontier AI companies lead development of the most advanced AI models and technologies, conduct insightful research into the use of frontier AI, and pioneer efforts to address both the potential benefits and risks of frontier AI technologies,” a press release read.

NEWS: @xAI has announced Grok for Government, along with two new partnerships for US Government partners.

• A new contract from the US Department of Defense with a $200M ceiling
• xAI Products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule.… pic.twitter.com/SK9wnwskP0

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 14, 2025

CDAO wrote:

The awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – each with a $200M ceiling – will enable the Department to leverage the technology and talent of U.S. frontier AI companies to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas. Establishing these partnerships will broaden DoD use of and experience in frontier AI capabilities and increase the ability of these companies to understand and address critical national security needs with the most advanced AI capabilities U.S. industry has to offer.

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“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” said Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty. “Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our Joint mission essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems.”

DoD is implementing a commercial-first approach to accelerating DoD adoption of AI. Today’s awards bring in the best U.S.-based frontier AI talent to help apply cutting-edge AI to solve DoD use cases. CDAO is also providing access to many of the latest generative AI (GenAI) models for general purpose use to Combatant Commands, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Staff via Army’s Enterprise Large Language Model Workspace powered by AskSage, and to the broader enterprise via embedded AI models within DoD enterprise data and AI platforms, including the Advancing Analytics (Advana) platform, Maven Smart System, and Edge Data Mesh nodes, which enable AI integration into workflows that occur within these data environments themselves. Finally, DoD is partnering with the General Services Administration (GSA) to bring the best AI technologies to the federal government while leveraging whole-of-government buying power for AI production and compute resources.

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