No problem! The DoD^HW will just use DeepSeek!
(I wish this were a joke)
The legal name of the department is still the Department of Defense. The "Department of War" is a preferred name by the administration.
They are after the models without post training guardrails.
They've already been using Signal - which is "commercial" app, meaning it's not meant to be used like that - for top-secret (or at least highly sensitive) military communications during the military strikes on Yemen. If that was fake, I apologise, I was deceived. I wouldn't be surprised if things turned out that way again, to be honest. That's something to be expected, actually (IMO).