The US Department of Defense has launched GenAI.mil, a new AI platform powered by Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, to equip nearly 3 million personnel with advanced capabilities. This initiative aims for AI technological superiority, enabling tasks like policy summarization and risk assessment. The platform ensures secure, unclassified use, with Google guaranteeing data won’t train public models. The US Department of War, also known as War Department, has launched GenAI.mil, a military-focused artificial intelligence platform powered by Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, delivering advanced AI capabilities to nearly 3 million military personnel and civilian employees across all Pentagon desktops and American military installations worldwide.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the platform represents the Pentagon’s commitment to achieving “an unprecedented level of AI technological superiority” following President Donald Trump’s July mandate. The deployment marks one of the largest mass rollouts of commercial generative AI technology across the entire defense apparatus.
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“There is no prize for second place in the global race for AI dominance,” said Emil Michael, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering. “We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce.”The platform enables defense personnel to perform tasks including summarizing policy handbooks, generating compliance checklists, extracting key terms from work statements, and creating detailed risk assessments for operational planning. All tools are certified for Controlled Unclassified Information and Impact Level 5, ensuring secure operational use.
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Google emphasized that employees can only use the platform for unclassified work, and data from GenAI.mil will never train Google’s public models. The tech giant previously held AI-related contracts with the Department of Defense, including the controversial Project Maven drone program.The War Department is providing no-cost training to all employees, designed to build confidence in using AI and maximize its potential. Gemini for Government features natural language conversation, retrieval-augmented generation, and web-grounding against Google Search to reduce AI hallucinations.Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael indicated that additional AI models will be available on the platform in the future, further establishing what Hegseth called an “AI-first” workforce culture aimed at dominating the digital battlefield.
