GenAI Tooling Alignment RFC - Source Documentation

US Defense Primes GenAI Adoption

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Official Press Release (Oct 2024) “Empowering Innovation with Secure Generative AI Across Enterprise” - LMText Navigator deployment to U.S.-based workforce - 8,000+ engineers using AI Factory - Code generation, data analysis, business process automation - https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/empowering-innovation-with-secure-generative-ai-across-enterprise.html

NVIDIA Case Study “Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory: Powered by NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD” - Internal chatbots and coding assistants - Dev environment setup reduced from weeks to minutes - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/lockheed-martin-ai-factory-with-dgx-superpod/

DefenseScoop (Oct 2025) “Lockheed Martin integrating Google’s generative AI tools into workflow ops” - Gemini integration for on-premises/air-gapped environments - https://defensescoop.com/2025/10/29/lockheed-martin-google-generative-ai-gemini/

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Boeing

CDO Magazine Interview with Abhi Seth, Boeing Chief Enterprise AI and Data Officer (Nov 2024) “Success of Any AI Capability Is in Being Used Sustainably by the Business” - GenAI platform deployed late 2023 to 170,000 employees - 22,000 active users - Generative AI Academy established - https://www.cdomagazine.tech/aiml/success-of-any-ai-capability-is-in-being-used-sustainably-by-the-business-the-boeing-company-chief-enterprise-ai-and-data-officer

Boeing Innovation Quarterly (Dec 2025) “Shaping AI for the Sky” - 70+ generative AI applications including Code Assistant - 8,000 employees trained via GenAI Academy, 2,600 certified super users - 12-week sprint innovation cycles (down from year-long) - https://www.boeing.com/innovation/innovation-quarterly/2025/12/shaping-ai-for-the-sky

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Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Press Release (Aug 2025) “Northrop Grumman to Accelerate AI Innovation with NVIDIA Tools” - Access to NVIDIA’s AI and generative AI software portfolio - NVIDIA Omniverse integration - https://news.northropgrumman.com/artificial-intelligence/Northrop-Grumman-to-Accelerate-AI-Innovation-with-NVIDIA-Tools

Business Wire (Oct 2025) “Future Tech Accelerates Northrop Grumman’s Launch of Enterprise AI Factory” - NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs - Red Hat OpenShift AI - Production-ready environment for scaling AI across mission-critical workloads - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251028360221/en/Future-Tech-Accelerates-Northrop-Grummans-Launch-of-Enterprise-AI-Factory

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DoD-Level Adoption

DefenseScoop (Dec 2025) “The era of GenAI.mil is here” - Pentagon awarded OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI contracts up to $200M each - Summer 2025 contract awards for LLMs, agentic AI workflows, cloud infrastructure - GenAI.mil launched Dec 2025 for 3 million defense personnel - https://defensescoop.com/2025/12/18/genai-mil-users-have-mixed-reactions-and-many-questions/

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China PLA DeepSeek Deployment

Primary Sources

South China Morning Post (March 23, 2025) “China’s PLA is using DeepSeek AI for non-combat support. Will actual combat be next?” - PLA Central Theatre Command General Hospital announced “embedded deployment” of DeepSeek R1-70B - All data stored and processed on local servers - PLA General Hospital “301 Hospital” also deployed - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3303512/chinas-pla-using-deepseek-ai-non-combat-support-will-actual-combat-be-next

Jamestown Foundation China Brief (Oct 2025) “DeepSeek Use in PRC Military and Public Security Systems” - Dozens of distinct procurement documents explicitly calling for DeepSeek-based tools - Analysis of PLA Procurement Network - Private companies winning majority of contracts for DeepSeek-integrated military tools - https://jamestown.org/program/deepseek-use-in-prc-military-and-public-security-systems/

Reuters via DroneXL (Oct 2025) “China’s Military Deploys Cost-Efficient DeepSeek AI Across Drone Swarms and Robot Dogs” - 12 PLA procurement tenders in 2025 citing DeepSeek (vs. 1 citing Alibaba Qwen) - Xi’an Technological University: DeepSeek-powered system assessed 10,000 battlefield scenarios in 48 seconds - https://dronexl.co/2025/10/28/china-military-deepseek-ai-drone-swarms-robot-dogs/

Policy/Analysis Sources

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (March 2025) “China’s Military Reportedly Deploys DeepSeek AI for Non-Combat Duties” - https://www.fdd.org/analysis/policy_briefs/2025/03/27/chinas-military-reportedly-deploys-deepseek-ai-for-non-combat-duties/

Asia Times (March 2025) “China explores military applications with DeepSeek” - Huawei MDC roadmap for DeepSeek deployment (March-April 2025) - Norinco P60 autonomous vehicle displayed at IDEX 2025 - https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/china-explores-military-applications-with-deepseek/

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Suggested RFC Language

Context Paragraph (with citations)

Defense primes have already deployed enterprise GenAI at scale—Lockheed’s AI Factory supports 8,000+ engineers with internal coding assistants,¹ Boeing reached 170,000 employees in late 2023,² Northrop stood up an AI Factory on NVIDIA Blackwell.³ China moved faster: by March 2025, PLA units announced embedded DeepSeek deployments on local servers,⁴ with dozens of military procurement notices following throughout the year⁵—all running on domestic Huawei chips without US dependencies.

Footnotes: 1. Lockheed Martin, “Empowering Innovation with Secure Generative AI Across Enterprise,” October 2024 2. CDO Magazine interview with Abhi Seth, Boeing Chief Enterprise AI and Data Officer, November 2024 3. Business Wire, “Future Tech Accelerates Northrop Grumman’s Launch of Enterprise AI Factory,” October 2025 4. South China Morning Post, “China’s PLA is using DeepSeek AI for non-combat support,” March 23, 2025 5. Jamestown Foundation China Brief, “DeepSeek Use in PRC Military and Public Security Systems,” October 2025

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Potential Pushback Mitigation

Claim	Risk	Mitigation
“Defense primes deployed in 2023”	“Which ones? Source?”	Boeing CDO Magazine interview: GenAI platform to 170,000 employees “by late 2023”
“8,000+ engineers at Lockheed”	Verification request	Direct from Lockheed press release and NVIDIA case study
“China March 2025 deployment”	Bold claim, invites scrutiny	SCMP primary source + soften to “PLA units announced embedded deployments”
“Dozens of procurement notices”	Quantification challenge	Jamestown Foundation systematic analysis of PLA Procurement Network