CoreWeave and Leidos are teaming up to develop sovereign AI cloud services to meet the requirements of the US Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense (now stylized as the Department of War or DoW).

Leidos will bring its decades of experience working with the US government, while CoreWeave will contribute its AI cloud platform.

The two intend to develop a dedicated sovereign AI cloud for intelligence and defense organizations in the US, using the same technology stack as advanced AI deployments but adapted to meet security and classification requirements.

This will include classified AI cloud services, intelligence analyst augmentation, cyber AI for simulation, autonomous defense testing, and threat modeling, and Edge-to-Cloud AI orchestration to connect the platform to disconnected and tactical environments.

The platform will be deployed within Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities-accredited data centers.

“Combining CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform with our mission-grade federal integration accelerates delivery for IC and DoW priorities, expanding our nation’s AI superiority,” said Jason O’Connor, president, Leidos Intelligence. “This is the next evolution of mission technology—sovereign AI compute at scale, secure by design, mission integrated, operationally resilient, and ready for the realities of classified national security work. That is what our team will provide to our government partners.”

“Artificial intelligence is becoming foundational to our nation, and federal teams need secure, scalable platforms to operationalize it,” said Sachin Jain, chief operating officer, CoreWeave. “CoreWeave is trusted by many of the world’s leading AI organizations to power the most complex workloads. Through CoreWeave Federal and our collaboration with Leidos, we intend to extend those capabilities to highly secure government environments with the performance, resilience, and operational rigor these missions require.”

CoreWeave launched CoreWeave Federal, a dedicated business that will deliver AI cloud services to US government agencies, in October 2025.

Many of the traditional hyperscalers offer cloud regions dedicated to providing government services, as well as on-premises hardware offerings.