# Anthropic still flagged as risk to defense industrial base, US official says > Source: > Published: 2026-09-03 13:30:47+00:00 WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Emil Michael, the U.S. under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said in a Thursday post on X that Anthropic remains a designated "Supply Chain Risk" at the Department of Defense and across the defense industrial base, pushing back against suggestions of a thaw in relations between the AI company and the Trump administration. (Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Editing by Mark Porter)