{"id":428061,"date":"2026-01-25T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:13:08","slug":"openai-partners-with-major-government-contractor-to-transform-federal-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428061\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Partners with Major Government Contractor to \u2018Transform Federal Operations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a press release from Thursday<\/a>, OpenAI has just partnered with a major government contractor called Leidos to \u201cdeploy artificial intelligence in support of national priorities, including boosting the efficiency and effectiveness of government agencies.\u201d The headline of the release described what Leidos and OpenAI are doing as \u201cdeploying AI to transform federal operations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With an estimated market cap of $24 billion<\/a>, Leidos is one of those big corporations like Sun Microsystems or Oracle that are clearly beloved by the powers that be despite not having\u2014or apparently wanting\u2014much in the way of a public-facing brand. <\/p>\n

The new arrangement between Leidos and OpenAI is focused on integrating OpenAI\u2019s products into federal government workflows around national security, defense, infrastructure, and others. Ted Tanner, the CTO of Leidos said in the company\u2019s press release, \u201cLeidos and OpenAI are harnessing the transformative power of AI to help improve how federal agencies operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leidos is deeply embedded in the federal government, and involved in things like procurement and logistics, apparently navigating all the confusing legacy software systems that famously ensnared the budget cutters at DOGE last year<\/a> during the DOGE frenzy.<\/p>\n

But Leidos in particular got off easy amid the DOGE budget cuts, with DOGE announcing in February of last year that it had cut a Leidos contract worth $1 billion, and then going just kidding and reassessing the value of the cancelled contract at $560,000<\/a>. A Leidos spokesman, Brandon Ver Velde, told the Times the following month, \u201cWe strongly support the goal of creating a dramatically more efficient and effective federal government that costs taxpayers less money.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a 2023 statement<\/a> from Roy Stevens, president of what Leidos calls it\u2019s \u201cHomeland Sector,\u201d the company has a \u201cstrong relationship with DHS.\u201d Leidos\u2019 roles at the time included, according to Stevens, \u201csupporting cross-agency intelligence sharing and secure collaboration for federal and civilian agencies,\u201d in the interest of helping \u201cDHS accomplish their mission of safeguarding the homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before this Leidos partnership, there was already an OpenAI product called OpenAI for Government. In the OpenAI blog post<\/a> announcing OpenAI for Government, OpenAI indicated that it had won a contract with the Pentagon \u201cwith a $200 million ceiling.\u201d Prior to that contract, OpenAI had government contracts across \u201cU.S. National Labs\u2060, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, NIH, and the Treasury.\u201d <\/p>\n

Gizmodo reached out to OpenAI for comment about Leidos\u2019 work with the Department of Homeland Security\u2014noting that it is the umbrella organization of the controversial agencies Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (which includes Border Patrol), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We will update if we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a press release from Thursday, OpenAI has just partnered with a major government contractor called Leidos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1283,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-428061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-openai","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}