North America / company / reviewed 2026-09-27
OpenAI
Named in CDAO’s July 2025 frontier-AI awards.
The announced award ceiling is $200 million. The record establishes an award, not the amount spent or the use of a particular model in a particular operation.
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2025 AI award
US Department of Defense → OpenAI
$200 million ceiling per award; not obligated or spent funds.
2025-07-14 · contracts with
Proposed sector coverage
OpenAI → AI companies & data-center operators
This AI/cloud business is included in the proposed scope of a mandatory levy. This is a policy design connection, not an existing assessment or payment.
Date not isolated · funds
Uses early training and inference capacity
OpenAI → Abilene / Lancium campus
OpenAI reported running initial workloads on OCI at Abilene. No direct landholding or building ownership is inferred.
2025-09-23 · compute customer
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USD 200,000,000
CDAO frontier-AI award ceiling
Up to Ceiling, not expenditure. Do not sum with obligations or investment totals.
2025-07-14 · Award announced July 2025 · documented
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- Frontier AI awards: four ceilings of $200 millionCDAO / 14 July 2025 · Publication date not isolated · source access 2026-09-27
Imported from the checked September 2026 guide; retain historical scope and publication dates.
- Stargate expansion and initial Abilene workloadsOpenAI · 2025-09-23 · source access 2026-09-28
OpenAI confirms early training and inference workloads on OCI at Abilene. Use does not establish title to land or buildings.