Pentagon's Tradewinds Program Uses Five-Minute Videos to Speed AI Purchases

The Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office runs the Tradewinds program, which grants "post-competitive" status to AI vendors based on videos of five minutes or less.

That status can let government buyers use other transaction agreements and sometimes make awards in less than a week. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are listed as participants, though none commented.