The US Department of War, also known as the 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 Defence Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the platform represents the Pentagon’s commitment to achieving AI dominance.
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 defence apparatus.
The Pentagon prioritises AI dominance as a strategic imperative.
Emil Michael, the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, stated that there is no room for second place in the global race for AI dominance. “We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce.”
The platform enables defence personnel to perform tasks such as summarising policy handbooks and 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 emphasised that employees could only use the platform for unclassified work and data from GenAI. MIL will never train Google’s public models.
The tech giant had previously held AI-related contracts with the Department of Defence, including the controversial Project Maven drone program. The War Department is providing free training to all employees, designed to build confidence in using AI and maximise 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.
