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Leidos and CoreWeave Advance Secure Federal AI
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Fusion42 · 30 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Major US defense contractor Leidos is partnering with specialized AI cloud provider CoreWeave to offer secure, air-gapped AI compute capabilities to US defense, intelligence, and federal agencies. Leidos will integrate its proprietary AI/ML solutions onto CoreWeave’s FedRAMP-compliant private cloud infrastructure, creating a new channel for deploying sensitive AI workloads.
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The US government's path for buying secure AI is solidifying around prime contractors bringing in specialist cloud partners. Your route to a defence contract is no longer just getting onto AWS GovCloud; it's getting your software onto the Leidos-CoreWeave stack.
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