Pentagon personnel have built more than 103,000 AI agents and logged over 1.1 million agent sessions on the Department of Defense’s GenAI.mil platform, according to Jacob Glassman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for science and technology foundations in the research and engineering directorate. Glassman disclosed the figures at the Box Federal Summit on April 23, noting that the agents were created in approximately five weeks using Google Gemini’s Agent Designer tool.
1.2 Million Users Across the DoD
GenAI.mil now has more than 1.2 million discrete users, according to DefenseScoop. The platform launched in December 2025 with Google Public Sector as its first technology provider, offering Gemini for Government to approximately three million civilian and military personnel for unclassified work, according to a Google Cloud Blog post. Five of six military branches have since designated GenAI.mil as their preferred enterprise AI system.
Agent Designer, introduced on March 10, 2026, is a no-code/low-code platform that lets users build AI agents using natural language. Personnel can create digital assistants to automate repetitive, multi-step administrative tasks without programming skills: drafting meeting read-aheads, generating action items from calls, or breaking down complex project goals into task checklists.
Workforce Pressure Driving Adoption
Glassman framed the rapid adoption against two converging pressures. The first is staffing. The Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) cost the department experienced workers, and, as Glassman told DefenseScoop, “the downward pressure is not going away.”
The second is operational tempo. The ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, is straining resources across the department. “We are now at a point where we are in a constrained environment, a highly pressurized environment because the conflict in Iran is touching most of us in the department almost every single day,” Glassman said, according to Breaking Defense.
He cited a specific example: a team tasked with producing a Congressional report had fewer people available after staffing cuts. Using GenAI.mil, they not only completed the report but produced what Glassman called “the best report we’ve written in the past five years.”
Beyond Gemini
The Pentagon has announced plans to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok into GenAI.mil alongside Google’s Gemini products, according to DefenseScoop. The Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO), which falls under the R&E undersecretariat, has also begun releasing agents developed with the technology for broader department use.
Scale Without Precedent
103,000 agents in five weeks is, by any available benchmark, the fastest large-scale agent deployment in a government setting. For context, the entire GenAI.mil platform crossed one million users in just over a month after launch. The combination of no-code tooling, top-down encouragement from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CTO Emil Michael, and genuine operational pressure has created adoption velocity that most enterprise rollouts take quarters to achieve. The question now is governance: who audits 103,000 agents built by personnel with no programming background, and what guardrails exist when those agents operate on data that sits one classification level below secret.