Pentagon Taps Google AI for 3 Million Employees

• Pentagon selected Google's Gemini for Government AI platform for its approximately three million employees.
• The platform, named GenAI.mil, aims to deliver AI capabilities and foster an "AI-driven culture change" within the Defense Department.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth highlighted the software's role in quickly analyzing video and imagery for military use.
• Google Cloud previously secured a $200 million contract to provide AI to the DoD, with other firms like OpenAI and xAI also receiving contracts.
• Google already supplies AI capabilities to the US Navy, Air Force, and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit.

Why It Matters: Pentagon's Google AI adoption for millions of staff signals a new era in defense.