By MacKenzie Sigalos
Publication Date: 2026-03-10 16:02:00
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A day after Anthropic sued the Trump administration for designating the artificial intelligence company a supply chain risk, Google is deepening its relationship with the Defense Department and expanding the role of its Gemini AI models inside the military bureaucracy.
On Tuesday, Google said it will introduce a feature that lets civilian and military personnel build custom AI agents for unclassified work on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s enterprise AI portal. The DOD’s workforce of more than 3 million people will now be able to use a no-code or low-code tool called Agent Designer to create their own digital assistants for repetitive administrative tasks.
Google said that those agents can help with work such as drafting meeting notes, creating action items and breaking large projects into step-by-step plans. They will initially run on unclassified…
