Nvidia - Military Audit

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

AFSC Investigate reports that several purchases of NVIDIA Jetson cards and DGX products appeared in Israel Ministry of Defense tender-exemption disclosures during 2023–2025, but characterises the individual contracts, military units, and purposes as unclear ¹.
The accessible Ministry of Defense page describes a database of recently executed tender exemptions, but the bounded review did not retrieve NVIDIA-specific records, contract numbers, values, procuring bodies, or scopes ².
The reported purchases therefore remain an unverified civil-society lead rather than independently confirmed NVIDIA–IMOD procurement ^{1, 2}.
No public evidence identified of an independently verifiable NVIDIA contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding with IMOD, the IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body in the reviewed sources ^{1, 2, 3}.

Elbit Systems’ 2022 LANIUS brochure identifies an “NVIDIA Jetson TX2” as the drone’s companion-computing component ⁴.
The same brochure describes LANIUS as a search-and-attack drone with an integrated arming mechanism and human approval of attack-fire procedures ⁴.
This is manufacturer evidence of an NVIDIA component integrated into a weapons-capable Elbit product, but it does not identify the commercial supplier, transaction date, purchaser, quantity, or IDF end-user ⁴.
A 2022 SIBAT directory includes a third-party listing for rugged GPU computers using “Nvidia Xavier/Jetson etc.” for tanks and armoured personnel carriers, UAVs, robots, and unmanned vehicles ⁵.
The SIBAT listing evidences NVIDIA-branded components being described in an Israeli defence-industry directory, not NVIDIA’s own listing as a defence contractor or a sale of the described systems to Israeli forces ⁵.
No public evidence identified of NVIDIA marketing a ruggedised, mil-spec, Israeli-specific tactical variant, or of publicly available export-licence applications or end-user certificates for NVIDIA products supplied to Israeli military or security end-users ^{1, 2, 5}.

No public evidence identified of NVIDIA equipment or services being used for settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, checkpoints, military-base construction, or related infrastructure in occupied territory in the reviewed materials ^{6, 7, 8}.
NVIDIA’s fiscal-2026 filing states that it owns and leases facilities for data-centre, research-and-development, sales, and administrative purposes in several countries, primarily including Israel, but does not provide Israeli facility addresses or place a facility in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights ⁹.
The available OHCHR and UN materials provide document-scoped rather than sector-wide absence findings, and should not be read as proving the absence of all relevant commercial activity ^{6, 7, 8}.

Elbit’s 2023 ESG report states that its Synergy7 Center in Beer Sheva collaborates with international deep-tech companies including NVIDIA in a robotics-lab innovation setting ¹⁰.
That disclosure does not describe a procurement contract, component-supply agreement, co-production arrangement, licensed manufacture, technology transfer, or a specified weapon system ¹⁰.
Elbit’s LANIUS brochure directly supports component integration of NVIDIA Jetson TX2 into an Elbit product, while leaving the direct supply path, quantity, delivery date, and end-user unresolved ⁴.
No public evidence identified of a verified NVIDIA component-supply contract with IAI, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime beyond the limited collaboration and product-integration evidence described above ^{4, 10}.

No public evidence identified of NVIDIA providing facilities, transport, catering, fuel, waste, telecommunications, freight, port handling, or other base-support services to Israeli military installations or defence cargo ^{2, 11}.
NVIDIA’s Israel-1 supercomputer was reported to have started operations in November 2023 for NVIDIA research and development and unspecified selected partners, without a named defence user ¹¹.
Israel-1’s reported existence should not be treated as evidence of military access without a named customer or contract ¹¹.

The LANIUS evidence links NVIDIA Jetson TX2 to a weapon-capable loitering-drone product, but does not establish NVIDIA as prime contractor, weapons manufacturer, munitions supplier, system integrator, or operational user ⁴.
The brochure does not establish NVIDIA involvement in LANIUS airframe manufacture, payloads, targeting decisions, operational deployment, or Israeli military procurement ⁴.
No public evidence identified of NVIDIA supplying components specifically for Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, combat aircraft, tanks, naval platforms, ballistic missile systems, ammunition, explosive ordnance, or warhead components ^{1, 4, 5}.

NVIDIA’s November 2025 regulatory-compliance document lists Israel alongside references to a Ministry of Economy exemption permit and a Ministry of Defense encryption licence ¹².
The reviewed compliance material does not identify a military or security end-user, export-licence application, product quantity, or a decision concerning supply to Israeli forces ¹².
No public evidence identified of an NVIDIA-specific grant, denial, suspension, revocation, sanctions enforcement action, court proceeding, or judicial review concerning defence supply to Israeli military or security end-users ^{1, 2, 6, 13}.
NVIDIA is a Delaware corporation and the consolidated reporting entity for NVIDIA Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries ⁹.
NVIDIA’s significant-subsidiary exhibit identifies Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. as a 100%-owned Israeli-incorporated subsidiary, while noting that the exhibit omits subsidiaries not significant in the aggregate ¹⁴.

AFSC Investigate classifies NVIDIA under “Military Contractors/Suppliers/Logistics” and cites alleged IMOD purchases as well as the LANIUS/Jetson TX2 integration ¹.
AFSC’s LANIUS component claim is supported by Elbit’s brochure, while its IMOD procurement assertion requires underlying tender-exemption records before it can establish direct procurement or operational use ^{1, 2, 4}.
The reviewed UN Special Rapporteur report, the 2023 OHCHR business-enterprise database, and the 2025 OHCHR update produced no NVIDIA mention in the supplied document-scoped pre-scan ^{6, 7, 8}.
Document-scoped non-mention does not establish absence from all UN materials, databases, or commercial activity ^{6, 7, 8}.
No public evidence identified of a named institutional divestment decision, NVIDIA public response, end-use-monitoring commitment, boycott campaign grounded in verified NVIDIA defence supply, or contract termination concerning Israeli defence activity ^{1, 6, 13}.