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 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

ICF has partnered with Google‘s cloud business in an effort to provide federal agencies and other public sector customers with expanded cloud and analytics services in support of their digital transformation initiatives. The firm said Tuesday new Google Cloud capabilities will be paired with ICF’s expertise in public sector domain and technology consulting to help […] More

Lesta Brady, director of federal civilian sales at Google’s cloud business, said the use of Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine, a platform meant for Earth science data and analysis, helped the U.S. Forest Service at the Department of Agriculture analyze a decade’s worth of land-cover changes within an hour. The Forest Service developed new […] More

Google’s cloud business has secured a multiyear, $13 million contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs a platform for the development of web-based tools intended to simplify former military personnel’s access to health care services and records. Google Cloud said Wednesday VA will implement the Apigee application program programming interface management platform to further […] More

Palo Alto Networks has combined its security expertise with Google Cloud‘s scalable infrastructure to jointly design and engineer a new service aimed at addressing security challenges and helping customers detect threats that may harm their cloud networks. The new Cloud Intrusion Detection System is developed to assist cloud users in learning more about network-based threats […] More

Google Cloud has unveiled a set of service offerings meant to help federal, state and local government agencies establish zero trust architecture in compliance with the new executive order on cybersecurity. The company said Tuesday its new service offerings are Zero Trust Assessment and Planning, Secure Application Access Anywhere and Active Cyber Threat Detection. The […] More

Google Cloud and SpaceX have teamed up to enable public sector agencies, companies and other organizations to deliver data, applications and cloud services to their teams that are operating at the network edge. SpaceX will establish Starlink ground stations within Google’s data centers to facilitate the delivery of data and applications to any location using Google Cloud and SpaceX’s constellation of more than 1,500 Starlink satellites as part of the partnership.

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ManTech International and Google Cloud have agreed to team up to deliver cloud and analytics services to the U.S. federal government. “The partnership grows out of successful collaborations between ManTech and Google Cloud to accelerate government’s digital transformation,” said Matt Tait, chief operating officer of ManTech.

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Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google“™s cloud segment, said the company has ramped up efforts to use its automated platforms to support the COVID-19 vaccination programs of state and local governments. Kurian said in a blog post published Monday that Google Cloud has deployed its Intelligent Vaccine Impact technology to help manage vaccination campaigns across the nation.

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Intel and Google's cloud computing arm have joined a National Institutes of Health program that seeks to provide COVID-19 researchers access to biomedical data from underrepresented groups as part of efforts to improve population health. The NIH All of Us Research Program will make biomedical information available to researchers through the Researcher Workbench platform, which is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and hosted on Google Cloud.

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Google Cloud has introduced a suite of technologies designed to help local and regional governments implement COVID-19 public health strategies to ensure vaccine availability and equitable access. 

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