Artificial intelligence is sweeping the world and even the United States federal government. AI is being researched, developed, adopted and implemented across the Department of Defense in particular, and as the technology is better understood and harnessed, new opportunities are being unlocked. However, with the rise of AI language tools and chatbots, security, ethics and […] More

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has tapped Google‘s public sector business arm for a multi-phase collaborative agreement to digitalize visitor experience at the library. The organizations have agreed to co-create interactive experiences using artificial intelligence as well as extended and augmented reality technologies available on Google Cloud, the tech firm said Monday. The […] More

Google and the Department of Labor have partnered to offer training for military personnel transitioning to civilian life under DOL’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. Lisa Gevelber, founder of the Grow with Google program, wrote in a blog post that service members at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, U.S. Army’s Fort Drum in […] More

Lynn Martin, vice president of the North American public sector business at Google Cloud, said artificial intelligence, collaboration tools, security platforms and online education will change how government employees provide services to the public in 2023.  Martin wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Thursday that AI, which has been used in climate science, health […] More

Google‘s public sector business helped the U.S. Navy implement a suite of cloud-based communications and collaboration applications for a shipyard located in Japan. Lynn Martin, vice president of the North American public sector business at Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post the Workspace platform allows U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance […] More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle have secured spots on a potential $9 billion cloud procurement vehicle from the Department of Defense. The multiple-award Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract is intended to provide military personnel with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud offerings spanning all security domains and classification levels from the strategic level to the tactical edge, DOD said Wednesday. […] More

Google Cloud’s service offering has received a Defense Information Systems Agency provisional authorization to host Department of Defense data at Impact Level 5. DISA said Tuesday the IL5 provisional authorization covers several services, including BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Hardware Security Module, Cloud Key Management Service, Google Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management, Persistent Disk […] More

Google’s government and education arm and Battelle’s National Ecological Observatory Network have partnered to help advance ecological research by expanding access of scientists and researchers to NEON datasets using cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other computing tools. Battelle-operated NEON is a National Science Foundation-funded observatory that collects spatial and temporal datasets that researchers use […] More

Google will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal arm and Sada Systems to help the U.S. Army deploy a suite of cloud-based collaboration applications for as many as 250,000 soldiers. Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector unit, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Army’s Workspace implementation project is one of the first collaborative efforts […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has teamed up with Google to create a new suite of chips designed to help researchers and technology startups measure the performance of artificial intelligence memory devices. Under a cooperative research and development agreement, Google will shoulder the initial cost of constructing and operating a production facility while […] More

SkyWater Technology is collaborating with Google‘s public sector arm to provide an open source capability for the former’s 90-nanometer fully depleted silicon on insulator complementary metal-oxide semiconductor process technology. The company said Thursday it secured $15 million in funding from the Department of Defense to release a new commercial SKY90-FD open source chip design offering […] More

Google has secured Impact Level 4 authorization from the Department of Defense for Google Workspace, its cloud computing software formerly known as G Suite. Google Workspace is now approved for use when handling controlled unclassified information of federal government customers to ensure secure collaboration as well as seamless operation, Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector business, wrote […] More