Don’t now about the DoD, but one of the board members of the nonprofit is Will Hurd, who appears to have had a 9 year career in the CIA before turning to politics. No hard evidence of anything of course, but enough to raise an eyebrow imho.
Will Hurd is/was a managing director at Allen & Company, who runs the Sun Valley conference where this article talked about Satya Nadella and Sam Altman "bumping into each other" to secure the deal. It's looking more and more like OpenAI is the Manhattan project as AGI is to nuclear weapons.
To me it overstates what is achieved. This isn't AGI. Unsure how much the government would care about this.