By:  Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick 1. Overview The Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic demonstrated what a battle contract negotiations can be.  Negotiations between the two blew up in a spectacular way on February 27, 2026, when Secretary of Defense Hegseth publicly labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk and ordered businesses in the DoD...

DoD just cancelled Anthropic, government style.   To do so, it used a procurement law directed to the military to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.  [Here is The Defense Salon article discussing this.] That is not the only law permitting the federal government can cancel a contractor.  The Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA)...