How to scale agents across defense and national security agencies

Agents are helping the Department of War (DOW) turn institutional knowledge into operational intelligence. When Google Gemini Agent Designer launched on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Cameron Stanley, anticipated that users would build a handful of agents. Instead, they created over 40,000 custom agents within the first week. Since its initial rollout, defense personnel have deployed more than half a million custom agents across various departments, agencies and commands. As this level of innovation continues to grow, here are three steps leaders can take today to safely scale agents across their agency.