GCP – A New Era of Innovation: Public Sector Highlights from Next ‘25
We’re at an inflection point right now, where every industry and entire societies are witnessing sweeping change, with AI as the driving force. This isn’t just about incremental improvements, it’s about total transformation. The public sector is already experiencing sweeping change with the introduction of AI, and that pace will only intensify. This is the promise of AI, and it’s here and now. At our recent Google Cloud Next ‘25 we showcased our latest innovations and reinforced our commitment to bringing the latest and best technologies to help public sector agencies meet their missions.
Key public sector announcements at Next
It was an exciting week at Next ‘25 with hundreds of product and customer announcements from Google Cloud. Here are key AI, security, and productivity announcements that can help the public sector deliver improved services, enhance decision-making and operate with greater efficiency.
- Advancements in Google Distributed Cloud that let customers bring Gemini models on premises. This compliments our GDC air-gapped product, now authorized for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret levels, and on which Gemini is available, provides the highest levels of security and compliance. This enables public sector agencies to have greater flexibility in how and where they access the latest Google AI innovations.
- Enhancements to Agentspace that let every employee benefit from AI – Agentspace is now seamlessly integrated with Chrome Enterprise, allowing employees to search and access all their enterprise resources directly from the search box in Chrome, streamlining workflows and boosting productivity. Added to this, we recently announced that Agentspace achieved FedRAMP High authorization.
- Support for a full suite of generative media models and Gemini 2.5 – Our most intelligent model yet, Gemini 2.5 is designed for the agentic era and now available in Vertex AI platform. This builds on our recent announcement that Vertex AI Search and Generative AI (with Gemini) achieve FedRAMP High authorization,providing agencies with a secure platform and the latest AI innovations and capabilities.
- Simplifying security with the launch of Google Unified Security – We are offering customers a security solution powered by AI that brings together our best-in-class security products for threat intelligence, security operations, cloud security, and secure enterprise browsing, along with Mandiant expertise to provide a unified view and improved threat detection across complex infrastructures.
- Transforming agency productivity and unlocking significant savings – We are offering Google Workspace, our FedRAMP High authorized communication and collaboration platform, at a significant discount of 71% off for U.S. federal government agencies. This offering in combination with Gemini in Workspace being authorized at the FedRAMP High level gives unprecedented access to cutting edge AI services for U.S. government workers.
Helping customers meet their mission
All of this incredible technology – and more – came to life on stage and across the showfloor at our Google Public Sector Hub, where we showcased our solutions for security, defense, transportation, productivity & automation, education, citizen services, health & human services, and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). In case you missed our live demos on Medicaid redetermination, unemployment insurance claims, transportation coordination, and research grant sourcing, contact us to schedule a virtual demo or discuss a pilot. To get hands on with the technology register for an upcoming Google Cloud Days training for the public sector here.
We are proud to work with customers across the public sector, as they apply the latest Google innovations and technologies to achieve real mission-value impact. Ai2 and Google Cloud announced a partnership with Google Cloud to make its portfolio of open AI models available in Vertex AI Model Garden. The collaboration will help set a new standard for openness that leverages Google Cloud’s infrastructure resources and AI development platform with Ai2’s open models that will advance AI research and offer enterprise-quality deployment for the public sector. This builds on our announcement that Ai2 and Google Cloud will commit $20M to advance AI-powered research for the Cancer AI Alliance. You can catch the highlights from my conversation at Next with Ali Farhadi, CEO of Ai2 here.
We are also building an innovation hub in Texas with Rice University, advancing access to information about treatment for Opioid Use Disorder with Google AI with Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), accelerating AI research with extensive GPU cloud deployment at Carnegie Mellon University and so much more.
Read more about our public sector customer stories and sessions at Next, and catch the on-demand recordings here.
Scaling our impact with partners
All of this incredible innovation with our customers is further enabled by our ecosystem of partners who help us scale our impact across the public sector. At Google Cloud Next, Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector announced the launch of a joint Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) solution. The new MxDR for government solution integrates Google Security Operations (SecOps) platform with Accenture Federal’s deep federal cybersecurity expertise. This solution uses security-specific generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) to significantly enhance threat detection and response, and the overall security posture for federal agencies.
Additionally, Anthropic’s Claude models are now authorized for FedRAMP High and IL-2 workloads through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform. With these authorizations, federal agencies can use Claude while meeting their strict regulatory compliance requirements, helping balance innovation and security.
Lastly, Lockheed Martin and Google Public Sector also announced a collaboration to advance generative AI for national security. Integrating Google’s advanced generative artificial intelligence into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory ecosystem will enhance Lockheed Martin’s ability to train, deploy, and sustain high-performance AI models and accelerate AI-driven capabilities in critical national security, aerospace, and scientific applications.
A new era of innovation and growth
AI presents a unique opportunity to enter a new era of innovation and economic growth, enabling the public sector to get more out of limited resources to improve public services and infrastructure, make public systems more secure, and better meet the needs of their constituents. Harnessing the power of AI can help governments become agile and more secure, and serve citizens better. At Google Public Sector, we’re passionate about applying the latest cloud, AI and security innovations to help you meet your mission.
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