Anthropic has appointed Teresa Carlson to lead its global government business, signaling the company’s intent to make trusted AI foundational to the national security enterprise of the United States and its allies. Carlson previously founded and led Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector business, building it into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. The watershed came in 2013, when AWS won the Central Intelligence Agency’s landmark Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract, the first time a commercial cloud provider had been entrusted to build and operate infrastructure for the US intelligence community at the highest levels of classification. Under Carlson’s leadership, AWS built air-gapped Secret and Top Secret cloud regions for the US government and extended that model to allied governments, including the United Kingdom’s intelligence agencies, Australia’s national security community and NATO governments across Europe. Her public sector remit spanned government, defence, education, healthcare and non-profit customers in more than 150 countries. Before AWS, Carlson led Microsoft’s US federal business and later held global leadership roles at Splunk and Flexport. Her appointment comes as Washington races to define its AI regulatory posture, competition with China for AI leadership intensifies, and Anthropic prepares for a public listing.