US Army chooses Google Workspace

In June, we announced the creation of Google Public Sector, a new Google division focused on helping U.S. public sector entities, including federal, state, and local governments, as well as institutions. education, to accelerate their digital transformations. We are confident that Google Public Sector and our ecosystem of industry partners will play an important role in applying cloud technology to solve our nation's complex problems.

Today, I am proud to announce one of our first major partnerships following the launch of this new subsidiary, as Google Public Sector will provide up to 250,000 US Army personnel with Google Workspace. The government has demanded more choice in cloud providers that can support its missions, and Google Workspace will equip today's military with a suite of industry-leading collaboration tools to get their jobs done.

In the military, personnel often have to work in remote locations, in challenging environments, with seamless collaboration, key to their success. Google Workspace was designed with these challenges in mind and can be deployed quickly across a diverse set of working conditions, locations, jobs, and skill levels. And more than three billion users already trust Google Workspace, which means it's familiar tools that require little training or extensive setup time for military personnel, which helps soldiers and employees to communicate better and more securely than ever before.

Together with Accenture Federal Services under the Army Cloud Account Management Optimization contract and our implementation partner SADA, we are excited to help the Army deploy a cloud-first collaboration solution, improving more traditional technologies with unparalleled security and versatility. SADA will also oversee change management and training for the 250,000 users and ongoing managed services for the Army workspace environment. Google Workspace is not only "born in the cloud" with a secure-by-design architecture, but also provides a clear path to future functionality and innovation.

One of the main reasons we are able to serve the US military is that Google Workspace recently received a DoD Impact Level 4 clearance. IL4 is a DoD security designation related to the secure handling of controlled unclassified information (CUI). This means government officials and others can use Google Workspace with more confidence and ease than ever before.

With Google Public Sector, we are committed to strengthening our relationships with the US military and other public sector agencies. In fact, we recently announced a partnership with Acclima to provide New York State with hyperlocal air quality monitoring and an alliance with Arizona State University to provide immersive e-learning technology from K-12 to students from the United States and around the world.

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