Google follows MOD deal with "air-gapped" NATO cloud win

Google Cloud has won a contract with NATO to run classified workloads.

The air-gapped managed cloud service will help NATO run “cutting-edge cloud and AI capabilities” at an organisation set up to support Ukraine. 

The contract with NATO’s Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) comes just 10 weeks after it won a “landmark” contract with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to run secret and air-gapped workloads.

JATEC was set up in 2024 to identify lessons for NATO and Ukraine from the war with Russia. It is part of the NATO Command Structure and “directly subordinate to Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.”