Companies
Google announces AI offering for classified environments
A “large percentage” of U.S. military and intelligence agencies briefed on the upcoming Gemini version expressed interest in the tool, a Google executive said.
Podcasts
WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on Google's government cloud and AI push
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec's publications including us, jumps in to break down both what Google's cloud can now do for federal agencies and the tech giant's larger public sector ambitions.
Companies
Google is now authorized to host classified data in the cloud
The security milestone puts Google in a position to compete for classified business at U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.
Companies
Accenture Federal, Google open AI center of excellence
The partnership is focused on helping agencies modernize their citizen services.
Companies
Google centers public sector strategy on alliances with integrators
This global tech giant's relationships with Accenture's federal subsidiary and Deloitte help show how partnering strategies are evolving in the government market.
Companies
Google hires former Navy CIO
Aaron Weis joins the global tech giant to lead its public sector technology strategy after four years as the Navy's lead IT official.
Contracts
Pentagon on track to award $9 billion cloud contract in December
The Pentagon’s chief information officer said the multi-cloud, multi-vendor JWCC contract will be awarded “in about a month.”
Companies
Google hires Booz Allen vet to lead public sector business
Google stood up the business over the summer to have a single unit responsible for selling the tech giant's product suite in the government and education markets.
Google names new top lobbyist in DC
Internet giant names former House lawmaker to head up its Washington lobbying operation.
L.A. cuts back on Google, CSC e-mail project
Citing concerns about security, the L.A. City Council voted to limit Google and Computer Sciences Corp.e-mail migration contract.
Storms continue to rain on LA municipal cloud project
Controversy still swirls around CSC's Google email implementation in Los Angeles. What's the latest complaint?
Two years in, Google and CSC face critics in LA cloud project
Google and CSC's contract to provide the city of Los Angeles with cloud-based applications faces completion issues after nearly two years.
Google stops suit against Interior
Company says Interior will consider them for future cloud solicitations, but the Interior says, 'not so fast.'
Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?
Recent outages for Google Docs and Office 365 add to a string of public clouds going dark.
Patents, mobility drive Google's $12.5B Motorola bid
Google will pick up a wealth of patents with Motorola acquisition as its faces bigger competitors and a future built on mobile computing.
All of GSA's e-mail now in Google cloud
The General Services Administration has successfully migrated its 17,000 e-mail users to Google Apps for Government, according to GSA Administrator Martha Johnson.
Google, the news and reader reactions
Readers respond to a discussion of Google's influence on the news.
Google turns off tool for searching government sites
Google has stopped operating several specialized search tools, including the Google.com/UncleSam search engine of government-related Web sites.
Twitter's Costolo becomes Obama adviser
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins telecom advisory panel.
DOJ approval for Google's ITA purchase conditional
The U.S. Department of Justice announced April 8 that it conditionally approved Google's acquisition bid for ITA Software Inc.
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