Companies

Google eyes security growth in planned $32B Wiz acquisition

The global tech giant undertakes its largest-ever purchase as cloud and artificial intelligence threats evolve.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Companies

What Google’s return to defense AI means

More competition in a hot market — and the plain fact that only the Pentagon will set boundaries.

  • By Patrick Tucker
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.

  • By Alexandra Kelley and David DiMolfetta
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.

  • By Frank Konkel, Nick Wakeman and Ross Wilkers
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.

  • By Frank Konkel
Companies

Accenture Federal, Google open AI center of excellence

The partnership is focused on helping agencies modernize their citizen services.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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.”

  • By Edward Graham
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.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Google names new top lobbyist in DC

Internet giant names former House lawmaker to head up its Washington lobbying operation.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

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.

  • By Washington Technology staff

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?

  • By David Hubler

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.'

  • By Washington Technology staff

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.

  • By Kevin McCaney

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.

  • By Nick Wakeman

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.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

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.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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