WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense has announced it will deploy Google’s Gemini as part of its new generative AI platform, marking one of the first large-scale uses of a commercially developed AI tool across the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the rollout signals a new era for American warfare. “The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I,” Hegseth said in a video message.
The platform, called GenAI.mil, will allow Pentagon employees to use Gemini for tasks such as deep research, document formatting, and analyzing video or imagery at unprecedented speed. The rollout extends generative AI access to all desktops in the Pentagon and across U.S. military installations worldwide. Google Cloud emphasized that the platform will only handle unclassified work, including personnel onboarding, automating administrative tasks, and accelerating contract workflows, and that Defense Department data will not train Google’s public AI models.
The Pentagon has been rapidly integrating AI into its operations. Emil Michael, the department’s chief technology officer, said AI tools are intended to streamline daily administrative work, analyze intelligence, and simulate conflicts. Deployment of AI capabilities will expand to millions of Pentagon users across different classification levels in the coming weeks. Google previously secured a $200 million contract to provide AI tools to the department, joining other companies such as xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI, which have also signed Pentagon contracts this year. The success of Gemini is reshaping AI strategies among competitors, and the Pentagon may extend GenAI.mil to additional AI providers in the future.