To protect the nation and preserve operational readiness across multiple defense networks—ranging from unclassified administrative environments to highly restricted secret and top-secret systems—defense leaders require fast, accurate, and secure access to critical data. Historically, software adoption across vast organizations faced significant hurdles.

As Deya Banisakher, Acting Director for Frontier AI at the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), explains it, “The department is so vast and large and innovative such that we had hundreds of pilots that were being built and dying on the vine... the data was there, the pilots were there, the users were there. It's just that they weren't finding each other.”

To bring this vision to reality, Google Public Sector, working with the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO), launched Gemini on GenAI.mil. Operating at mission speed, the joint team stood up the secure platform in just 54 days. The platform leverages Google Cloud’s secure-by-design infrastructure, and Google's Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google platform to handle massive throughput across global networks while adhering to strict defense security guardrails.

The platform provides a centralized environment where personnel across every branch can build, deploy, and govern custom AI agents to support daily operations and workflows. The impact was immediate:

• First enterprise AI platform on GenAI.mil: Gemini was the first enterprise AI capability made available across the GenAI.mil ecosystem, establishing the benchmark for secure, scalable agentic workflows across the Department of War
• Same-day model access: CDAO deployed Gemini 3.6 Flash inside the platform on the same day as its commercial release—ensuring government personnel immediate access to cutting-edge commercial technology
• Massive adoption: The platform scaled to over 750k users in the first month, and now has 1.5 million+ active users, with more than 55,000 personnel participating in live interactive training sessions within the first few weeks of deployment
• Agent creation: Personnel across the department have created over 100,000 custom AI agents tailored to support specific administrative, operational, and research workflows

GenAI.mil provides access to Gemini models and intuitive agent building tools, enabling personnel across the department to transform administrative bottlenecks into automated workflows. In one case, a team faced a backlog of 27,000 complex policy documents requiring multi-gate security reviews.