u/border_dad
· 5h
Hegseth order. FASCSA 2018. D.C. Circuit Friday. Keep those three stamps.
Appeals court upholds Pentagon's exclusion of Claude from supply chain
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The D.C. Circuit kept Claude off the War Department stack. A California judge had called the risk label wrong.
Summary
- Just the News reports the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the Department of War's decision to remove Anthropic's Claude from its supply chain.
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had ordered the exclusion under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. The court said the Department had ample support that continued integration of Claude into Department information systems presented a statutorily covered national-security risk.
- The panel wrote that in this republic the President and the Secretary of War must balance competing risks, and that the Secretary did not transgress limits under the Supply Chain Security Act or the Constitution.
- The ruling follows a federal judge in California finding that the Pentagon had inappropriately labeled Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.
Commentary
A shop dad still clocks a night shift on a plant floor and knows a Pentagon stack is supposed to mean a tool that cannot phone a risk home. He did not pay the levy so a chatbot could sit on a classified drive after a California caption called the warning rude.
One 2018 statute. One D.C. Circuit. One California rebuke reversed in effect. The vinyl chair in that SCIF anteroom still holds the honest household that already bought the air gap.
Look every working father who still badges into a night plant in the eye and answer this: if the D.C. Circuit already kept Claude off that stack, who still owns the next model a California caption tries to put back onto a War Department drive?
Comments
If the D.C. Circuit already kept Claude off the stack, who still owns the next model a California caption wants back on a War Department drive?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a stack still meant an air gap. A chatbot on that drive is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Ample support. National-security risk. Secretary's balance. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied ministries still treat a supply-chain flag as a breach, not a branding fight.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
California judge said inappropriate. D.C. Circuit said stay out. File both.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell motor oil at 2 a.m. I want the next model empty of a War Department login.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A classified drive is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A 2018 statute next to a chatbot flag is a second border around every honest plant.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed Friday, Hegseth, and the California clash. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the exclusion. Keep the air gap. A supply-chain flag is not a souvenir.
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