Anthropic is offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The platform has been in open beta since July and runs in a FedRAMP High environment, the strictest US cloud security level, according to The Decoder.
The offer is aimed at civilian agencies. The Pentagon has barred Claude after labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, following the company’s refusal to remove its bans on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The source does not say which agencies have signed up or when the current offer began.
What agencies get
The service includes the same features Anthropic offers enterprise customers, and agencies pay for what they use, subject to fixed caps. Administrators can set budgets and decide which models each department can access. The platform also includes audit logs and requires two-person approval for sensitive actions.
Chats stay on agency devices, according to the report. It does not give further details about how agencies will set those controls in practice, or what the fixed spending caps are.
The Pentagon dispute is unresolved
The Pentagon’s ban sits alongside a broader effort to remove Claude from government use: the source says President Trump ordered all agencies to drop it. The military continued using Claude during the Iran war before removing it.
The legal fight has produced mixed results. In late August, a San Francisco judge struck down one of two supply-chain-risk designations as unlawful retaliation. In late September, a Washington appeals court upheld the other. Those decisions leave the dispute unsettled, even as Anthropic offers the product to civilian agencies.
Why it matters
For civilian agency staff, the offer could provide access to Claude with agency-set budgets, model permissions and approval controls. The source does not identify participating agencies or explain whether the Pentagon’s restrictions affect which civilian departments can use it.
