US Army rolls out Google collaboration suite to 180,000-plus personnel
No Workspace growing pains, Army undersecretary says
By Colin Demarest and Davis Winkie
Jan 13, 02:18 PM
McLEAN, Va. — The U.S. Army has provided Google Workspace, the search-and-software giant’s collaboration suite, to more than 180,000 personnel in the wake of email licensing shortfalls and other information-technology dilemmas.
The tally, only expected to grow, comes about six months after the service started quietly testing the constellation of digital tools with a select group and three months after it began publicly rolling it out to troops.
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: “None that I’ve been made aware of. At all.”
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 and its mail.mil addresses to the Army 365 system, involving Microsoft products.
https://www.militarytimes.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2023/01/13/us-army-rolls-out-google-collaboration-suite-to-180000-plus-personnel/
