The deal's terms — permitting use for 'any lawful government purpose,' including classified applications — give the Pentagon a breadth of access that Google's expanding Pentagon partnership frames not as a concession but as a strategic alignment. What this establishes is not merely a contract but a precedent: that frontier model access is available to military clients at the classified level, and that employee objections, even when organized and named, will not alter that calculus. The Project Maven exit in 2018 was the anomaly; this deal confirms it. Google's public…