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Anthropic offers FedRAMP High 'Claude for Government' to civilian US agencies

Anthropic has launched Claude for Government, available to U.S. federal and state civilian agencies in a FedRAMP High–authorized environment. The package matches enterprise features (pay-as-you-go with caps, admin budget/model controls, audit logs, two-person approvals, and chats kept on agency devices) while the Pentagon continues to ban Claude amid ongoing legal and political disputes over supply‑chain risk and Anthropic's policy refusals.

KEY POINTS

  1. Anthropic has launched Claude for Government, available to U.S.
  2. federal and state civilian agencies in a FedRAMP High–authorized environment.
  3. The package matches enterprise features (pay-as-you-go with caps, admin budget/model controls, audit logs, two-person approvals, and chats kept on agency devices) while the Pentagon continues to ban Claude amid ongoing legal and political disputes over supply‑chain risk and Anthropic's policy refusals.

WHY IT MATTERS

The move lets Anthropic sell a FedRAMP High–secured AI product to civilian government customers even as the military ban, legal rulings, and political tensions keep procurement and security questions unsettled.

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Anthropic brings Claude to civilian agencies as its fight with the Pentagon drags on

Anthropic is now offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The platform had been in open beta since July and runs in a FedRAMP High-authorized environment, the strictest security level in the US government's cloud services program. The offering is aimed at civilian agencies because Claude is banned at the Pentagon. In March, the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company …

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