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LAS VEGAS\u2014<\/strong>Users of the Pentagon\u2019s enterprise-wide generative-AI platform now have access to Google Cloud\u2019s latest and most advanced commercial AI model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, after several weeks of using the software in preview mode.<\/p>\n

The software is available to defense users through the GenAI.mil platform and will also be available for all Gemini for Government users across the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cGemini 3.1 Pro is Google\u2019s most sophisticated model yet, and it really represents the frontier of American AI,\u201d Pentagon Chief Data Officer Gavin Kliger said in an interview Thursday. \u201cAnd so the department is working with our engineering team together to make sure we can have this capability available across the department.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest upgrade for the platform, which launched in December with initial plans to integrate Gemini for Government, and later announced plans to incorporate AI models from OpenAI and xAI.<\/p>\n

Up to 3 million users have access to GenAI.mil, which is actively being used by more than 1.3 million of them, Kliger said. They are tapping the generative-AI software to automate tasks and workloads, streamline laborious processes, and disseminate and summarize data-heavy documentation in the department\u2019s Impact Level 5 environments, which handle sensitive unclassified data.<\/p>\n

Kliger\u2019s team offered several examples of how defense personnel are using generative AI shared by the department. One user at Navy Recruiting Command used Gemini to cut the time to build an automated database to manage personnel and accounts from several years to three months, saving an estimated 10 weeks of labor annually. And a lab director at the Defense Logistics Agency used generative AI to reduce the time to draft statements of work \u201cfrom weeks to hours,\u201d helping secure $1 million in last-minute funding for a laboratory modernization.<\/p>\n

Google Public Sector Chief Executive Officer Karen Dahut said the company\u2019s decision to software-define its commercial cloud and bring it to the government market\u2014as opposed to using physically separate data centers for government users\u2014allows the company to accredit its commercial software faster than competitors. That speed-to-market advantage is most critical in defense missions, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing is that this [Gemini 3.1 Pro] is our most recent, newest, most capable model, period,\u201d Dahut said on the sidelines of Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas. \u201cSo GenAI.mil users are getting it only eight weeks behind all the commercial customers,\u201d who gained access in February.<\/p>\n

GenAI.mil, launched on Dec. 9, accumulated 500,000 users within a week and 1 million users within a month \u201cwith zero latency issues and zero downtime,\u201d Dahut said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo other cloud provider could have launched at that scale,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kliger said \u201cone of the cool things about all the growth is that it\u2019s been organic\u201d: the department makes modern AI tools available to its employees but isn\u2019t prescriptive about their use.<\/p>\n

Kliger also said increased collaboration with industry is critical in ensuring AI dominance over adversaries including China.\u201cThe work we do now is going to set the tone for the next decade, and these are super important technologies for the national defense, our national security,\u201d Kliger said. \u201cChina, of course, has a really tight collaboration between the government and its private sector, effectively a controlling relationship. And so making sure we\u2019re engaging with the frontier labs, working together closely like we are with Google, is incredibly important for the nation. Google has been a great partner with the department.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pentagon enters its vibe-coding era<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past several weeks, users have tapped another Google Cloud product made available through GenAI.mil, Agent Designer, to vibe-code thousands of agentic AI agents. AI agents are autonomous systems that use large language models such as Gemini to perform tasks without human intervention at each turn.<\/p>\n

At the Box Federal Summit Thursday, Jacob Glassman, deputy assistant defense secretary for science and technology foundations in the research and engineering directorate, said users had already built more than 100,000 AI agents on GenAI.mil.<\/p>\n

These AI agents have authorizations to operate at IL5, which means they can be used for the department\u2019s most sensitive unclassified data. They also don\u2019t require much coding experience or training to use.<\/p>\n

Agent Designer \u201callows anyone, be they technical or not, to kind of use natural language to describe the system they want to set up,\u201d Kliger said. \u201cOne of the big changes we\u2019re seeing is moving from the old concept of the large language models being just a chat interface to being an actual platform where it can run tasks on its own.\u201d\n\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n