Can we please stop spreading the “6 month grace period” myth? It doesn’t apply to contractors. Okay I’ve been lurking and I just can’t let this keep going. I keep seeing people in here say things like “relax, contractors have six months to keep using Claude” and it’s driving me crazy because it’s just… not how this works. And if someone at a defense contractor reads that advice and acts on it, they could be in serious trouble. Here’s the thing — there were actually two separate orders issued Friday, and people keep mixing them up. Trump’s Truth Social post mentioned a six month phase-out. Yes. That’s real. But read it again — it was talking about federal agencies. Like, government agencies that have been using Anthropic and need time to unwind those contracts. That’s who the six months is for. Hegseth’s order is completely different. He invoked 10 U.S.C. § 3252 — a supply chain risk statute — and that one is pointed directly at contractors. And it says effective immediately. There is no six month window in that order. None. So if you work at a company with DoD contracts, DFARS applies to you, and your legal team is not going to care what some Reddit thread said. They’re going to see “effective immediately” and act accordingly. Anyway. Just please stop telling people they have six months. They don’t. Talk to your compliance team, not Reddit. submitted by /u/newyorkerTechie
Originally posted by u/newyorkerTechie on r/ClaudeCode
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