Google Is Pursuing The Pentagon’s Giant Cloud Contract Quietly, Fearing An Employee Revolt

The employee culture at Google is generally anti-war, but Google’s Technocrat leadership is not. Thus, leadership is trying to keep their employees off the protest line as it pursues a huge, juicy contract from the Pentagon. ⁃ TN EditorLast August, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis made a journey to the West Coast and met with Google founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai. Over a half day of meetings, Google leaders described the company’s multi-year transition to cloud co