We lately introduced the launch of Google Public Sector, a brand new Google subsidiary targeted on serving to U.S. federal, state, and native governments, and academic establishments speed up their digital transformations. Google Public Sector brings Google applied sciences to authorities and schooling prospects at scale, together with open and scalable infrastructure; superior knowledge and analytics, synthetic intelligence, and machine studying; fashionable collaboration instruments like Google Workspace; superior cybersecurity merchandise; and extra—in order that businesses and establishments can higher serve residents and obtain their missions.
In simply the few months because the introduction of Google Public Sector, we’ve seen continued momentum. We introduced that Google Workspace has achieved the U.S. Division of Protection’s (DOD) Influence Stage four (IL4) authorization. And constructing on the success with authorities prospects just like the U.S. Navy,Protection Innovation Unit, and the U.S. Division of Veteran Affairs, we’ve additionally shared how we’re serving to instructional establishments like ASU Digital Prep—an accredited on-line Ok–12 college provided by means of Arizona State College—make distant immersive studying know-how extra accessible to college students throughout the USA and around the globe.
As we speak, it’s my pleasure to introduce Karen Dahut as the brand new CEO of Google Public Sector. With greater than 25 years of expertise in know-how, cybersecurity, and analytics, Karen is a extremely achieved govt who has constructed companies, developed and executed large-scale development methods, and created differentiated options throughout each industrial and federal industries. Karen joins us on Oct. 31. At the moment, Will Grannis, who designed and launched Google Public Sector as founding CEO, will return to his position because the CTO of Google Cloud.
Karen was beforehand sector president at Booz Allen Hamilton, the place she led the corporate’s $four billion international protection enterprise—representing half of the agency’s annual income—and international industrial enterprise sector, which delivered next-generation cybersecurity options to Fortune 500 corporations. Below her management, Booz Allen grew to become the premier digital integrator serving to federal businesses use know-how in assist of their missions.
Karen additionally has deep expertise in constructing revolutionary options that assist organizations sort out their hardest challenges. For instance, at Booz Allen, she served as chief innovation officer and constructed the agency’s Strategic Innovation Group, which delivered new capabilities in cybersecurity, knowledge science, and digital applied sciences. Previous to Booz Allen, Karen was an officer within the U.S. Navy and served because the controller for the Navy’s premier biomedical analysis institute.
We imagine Google Public Sector will proceed to play a important position in making use of cloud know-how to resolve complicated issues for our nation—throughout U.S. federal, state, and native governments, and academic establishments. We’re excited immediately to have Karen main this new subsidiary, offering extra alternative within the public sector and serving to scale our companies to extra authorities businesses nationwide.
