[mnholt]

This is almost certainly a proof of concept based on language in the PR. The Government should always keep a pulse on the market and be willing to buck the status quo. Office is the standard now, but GSuite could be so in 15 years.

[sirjaz]

God I hope not. GSuite is a resource hog, well almost any webapp is. Also, it makes it more insecure. It is always better to have native apps that work off-line than a webapp

[judge2020]

How is it more insecure?

[ocdtrekkie]

Office can work in an airgapped environment, anything using Google Workspace can be compromised over the Internet. (I presume the Army is a big enough deal they could get a private network link to Google, but that still isn't an airgap.)