Google Gemini AI

GenAI.mil is the U.S. Department of War's enterprise generative-AI platform, giving DoW civilian and military personnel authorized, CAC-gated access to commercial large language models — including Google's Gemini for Government — for unclassified administrative and analytical work. It is owned and managed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), and the directory's "Google Gemini AI" entry refers specifically to the Gemini model access available through this platform (at gemini.genai.mil).

What it is

GenAI.mil launched December 9, 2025, as the Department of War's centralized access point for frontier commercial AI tools, initially built around Google Cloud's Gemini for Government. The platform is certified to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and operates at DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5), running on FedRAMP High-authorized commercial cloud infrastructure. Google has stated DoW data is not used to train public Gemini models. The CDAO holds contracts with four frontier AI vendors — Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI — each worth up to $200 million; xAI's Grok was added to the platform in the months after launch, with OpenAI's ChatGPT following. Personnel can also use a no-code "Agent Designer" feature to build custom AI agents for repetitive administrative tasks.

Who operates it

GenAI.mil is owned and operated by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the Department of War's enterprise AI office. A dedicated "GenAI.mil Task Force" (GenTF) was stood up under CDAO as a 180-day pilot to accelerate adoption across the services. Google Cloud is the initial commercial AI vendor providing the underlying Gemini for Government model access.

Access

GenAI.mil is restricted to Department of War personnel — active-duty service members, civilians, and contractors — who authenticate with a valid DoD Common Access Card (CAC). There is no public, unauthenticated version of the tool; the login portal itself requires CAC credentials, which is normal for a .mil authentication gate and not a sign the site is broken. No publicly documented self-service account-request form (e.g., a SAAR or AMPS-style portal) was found for GenAI.mil specifically; eligibility and onboarding appear to run through DoW/service-level IT and AI-adoption channels rather than a public registration page.

How logisticians use it

As part of the broader DoW workforce (roughly 3 million personnel with platform access), logisticians can use GenAI.mil's Gemini access for unclassified tasks such as drafting and summarizing reports, analyzing structured data, and building lightweight AI agents via Agent Designer to automate repetitive administrative workflows — for example, standardizing recurring status reports or triaging routine correspondence. Because the platform is CUI/IL5-certified, it is positioned for sensitive-but-unclassified logistics administrative work rather than classified operational planning.

Related systems

GenAI.mil sits alongside other DoD-specific generative-AI efforts, including service-level platforms such as the Army's Enterprise LLM Workspace (chat.genai.army.mil) and the Air Force's now-sunset NIPRGPT pilot; CDAO's stated intent is for GenAI.mil to become the DoW-wide standard rather than a patchwork of separate service tools. It is administered by the same CDAO office responsible for broader DoD AI policy and adoption efforts.