Trump administration requests security review of Meta's Llama after nine months of federal deployment

The Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its open-weight Llama models for voluntary government security review as of June 2026, nine months after federal agencies began deploying the models for contract review, IT issue resolution, and national security applications including aircraft landing site identification. The review request arrives after operational deployment rather than preceding it—an unusual sequence for sensitive systems. Meta's existing commitments, including $600 billion in U.S. investment through 2028, establish cooperative context for the voluntary arrangement.