By receiving IL5 authorization, which allows Gemini to handle sensitive but unclassified Defense Department data, Google said the deployment will give more than 3 million civilian and military personnel access to the same advanced AI tools businesses use to streamline administrative work and improve productivity. “By hastily deploying AI tools at-scale without sufficient testing, oversight, and support, the Trump Administration not only risks creating significant confusion for federal agencies, but potentially opens the floodgates to a host of failed AI projects that may undermine agency goals, waste taxpayer dollars, harm the public, and further cement vendor lock-in,” Senior Policy Analyst Quinn Anex-Ries wrote. Google said that military data won’t be used to train its public models and that the system is meant to streamline tasks like onboarding, contracting, and policy analysis, with room to add more models as the department expands its AI use.
Author: Jason Nelson
Published at: 2025-12-09 22:55:42
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