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CoreWeave supplies the AI stack; Leidos, a $17.2bn defense integrator, supplies the personnel clearances and facility accreditation a public internet cloud cannot self provision.
CoreWeave and Leidos said Thursday they will move a commercial AI cloud into the sealed classified intelligence rooms (SCIFs) used by U.S. spy agencies and the Department of War, the Pentagon's current title. Leidos, a $17.2 billion defense integrator with more than 50,000 employees, brings the personnel clearances and facility accreditation a commercial GPU provider cannot self-provision.
CoreWeave rents GPU capacity to commercial AI labs. Leidos will provide accreditation, secure architecture, cyber operations, and mission integration. The result is a public-internet cloud stack rebuilt to live inside facilities cut off from the open internet.
The two companies plan five offerings: classified training and inference, analyst intelligence-fusion and imagery tools, cyber ranges for AI-attack war-gaming, synthetic data and digital twins, and connectivity to forward-deployed units. The underlying platform is the same stack CoreWeave rents to commercial labs, "rebuilt" for classified rules. That is a CoreWeave and Leidos claim, not an independent assessment, per The Next Web.
Leidos Intelligence president Jason O'Connor called the arrangement "sovereign AI compute at scale, secure by design." The Department of War published prior classified-networks AI agreements on May 1, 2026, giving the partnership a policy runway. The deal is a collaboration, not a procurement award: no dollar value, contract length, or specific agency has been disclosed.