{"id":51194,"date":"2023-01-13T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/01\/13\/us-army-rolls-out-google-collaboration-suite-to-180000-plus-personnel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:28:54","slug":"us-army-rolls-out-google-collaboration-suite-to-180000-plus-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2023\/01\/13\/us-army-rolls-out-google-collaboration-suite-to-180000-plus-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army rolls out Google collaboration suite to 180,000-plus personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

McLEAN, Va. \u2014 The U.S. Army has provided Google Workspace, the search-and-software giant\u2019s collaboration suite, to more than 180,000 personnel <\/b>in the wake of email licensing shortfalls and other information-technology dilemmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tally, only expected to grow, comes about six months after the service started quietly testing the constellation of digital tools<\/a> with a select group and three months after it began publicly rolling it out to troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo on Jan. 12 said Workspace, which includes email, chat and storage functions, has so far been successful. Asked by C4ISRNET and Army Times if there have been any significant hiccups, glitches or compatibility issues, Camarillo said: \u201cNone that I\u2019ve been made aware of. At all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Google platform was, early in the process, considered a front-running option to serve troops who lost access to official email accounts amid a choppy change from Defense Enterprise Email<\/a> and its mail.mil addresses to the Army 365 system, involving Microsoft products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the service transitioned to Army 365, it moved to an individual-license model, but quickly realized there would not be enough Microsoft licenses to cover all of its workforce. Officials initially considered having junior personnel forgo official email access, but that plan was dismissed in favor of an \u201calternate email solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution came into focus when Google announced in July its Workspace package achieved IL4 authorization<\/a>, a security requirement related to the handling of critical infrastructure, defense, intelligence, finance and proprietary business information. It had previously achieved FedRAMP High authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\t