Comment by cucumber3732842

The military has its own mechanisms for assessing the quality of its own output. They might be imperfect, but they're there. They don't need that from claude.

What they need is it to not say "it seems you're trying to build a weapons system, can you please not do that" when someone asks it to sanity check something that's on the edge of their technical expertise. Like making sure their proposed antenna dome is aerodynamically sane at transsonic speeds so the aero guys don't have to waste time rejecting it outright. Or they need it to not paternalistically screech about safety when someone tells it to read the commercial user manual for some piece of equipment and then append into the usage sections all the non-osha stuff the military does when things don't work quite right.