Google Public Sector is one of four companies awarded contracts worth up to $200 million each to support the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, alongside Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI.
Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty said the adoption of AI is transforming the department’s ability to support warfighters and maintain a strategic advantage over adversaries.
“Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our Joint mission essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems,” he added.
DOD may deploy Google’s AI innovations and secure cloud infrastructure, including Cloud Tensor Processing Units, Agentspace and access to Google’s entire Contiguous United States infrastructure for AI, said Google Public Sector Vice President of Federal Sales Jim Kelly.
“These advanced AI solutions will enable the DoD to effectively address defense challenges and scale the adoption of agentic AI across enterprise systems to drive innovation and efficiency with agile, proven technology,” he added.
Google Public Sector is already working with federal customers including the Navy, Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit on mission-critical operations. Its Google Distributed Cloud and air-gapped appliance recently earned Defense Department Impact Level 6 authorization, adding to its earlier Top Secret clearance. The designation gives DOD users access to secure, compliant air-gapped cloud environments for highly sensitive data and applications.
Matty said DOD is taking a commercial-first approach to speed up AI adoption by bringing in top U.S.-based frontier AI talent to apply cutting-edge technologies to mission needs. It’s also making the latest generative AI models available for general use by Combatant Commands, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff through the Army’s Enterprise Large Language Model Workspace powered by Ask Sage, and across the enterprise through embedded AI models in DOD data and AI platforms.
In addition, DOD is working with the General Services Administration to deliver AI technologies across the federal government and leverage whole-of-government buying power for AI production and compute resources.