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Executive Order 14409 creates a classified cyber benchmark for frontier models and a voluntary pre-release engagement framework

The NSA will determine which models are covered frontier models by their cyber capabilities; developers may give the government up to 30 days of pre-release access; DOJ will prioritise AI-enabled cybercrime; no licensing or preclearance is authorised.

Policy and strategyUnited States2 Jun 2026

Signed weeks after Project Glasswing, the order also set 30-day deadlines for hardening federal systems and asked for the framework by 1 August. It explicitly disclaims mandatory licensing and does not address open-weight models publicly. Analysts read it as formalising the trusted-access model in which cyber-capable variants reach vetted defenders early.

What to do: if you are a frontier developer, prepare for the benchmarking process; if you run critical infrastructure, position for early defensive access through the framework's partner selection.