> Any sort of backroom dealings where they whisper off the record to defense CTOs that they have a problem with anthropics leadership and would prefer that they sub out to OpenAI or Gemini instead for LLM services would be totally illegal and a violation of procurement law. So they definitely can’t do that.

It doesn't seem they'd be subject to any kind of effective enforcement to me

Anthropic would definitely have standing to sue if it was ever expressed in writing and leaked.