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Waymo MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Military Score 0.00 /10 D Waymo - BDS-1000 269
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Waymo is a Delaware limited liability company consolidated by Alphabet as a variable-interest entity, with Alphabet funding the significant majority of its February 2026 investment round 1, 2. Waymo’s public materials describe a civilian autonomous-driving business and public ride-hailing service 3, 4.

No public evidence identified of a Waymo contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body 4, 5. No public evidence identified that Waymo appears in the reviewed Israeli defence-export or defence-exhibition material as a defence supplier.

Waymo’s USPTO owner record lists a Mountain View, California address in connection with a 2020 trademark filing, but that historical address record does not establish any Israeli operating presence 6.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Waymo identifies the Waymo Driver as its autonomous-driving technology and operates a public autonomous ride-hailing service 3, 4. Its described fleet includes fully electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles and the Zeekr Ojai platform 4.

The reviewed corporate materials do not describe tactical, ruggedised, military-specification, weapons-integrated, or Israeli-security-force variants of Waymo products 3, 4. No public evidence identified of Israeli military end-user certificates, export-licence applications, export-control decisions, or contract-modified Waymo products for Israeli security end-users 4, 5.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of Waymo vehicles, equipment, or services supporting construction, demolition, barriers, checkpoints, settlements, detention sites, or military installations in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights 4, 5. No public evidence identified of a Waymo construction, maintenance, engineering, or infrastructure contract with an Israeli military or settlement-related end-user 4, 5.

Waymo’s reviewed product descriptions concern autonomous passenger transportation rather than heavy machinery or construction equipment 3, 4.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of a Waymo component, software, co-development, technology-transfer, licensing, or manufacturing relationship with Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or IMI/Elbit Land 4, 5.

Israel’s Innovation Authority cited Waymo’s Arizona service as an international autonomous-vehicle comparator while describing a separate Mobileye, Volkswagen, and Champion Motors robotaxi project in Israel 7. That announcement does not identify Waymo as a participant in the Israeli project 7.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Waymo providing transport, fleet support, facilities, telecommunications, fuel, freight, port, or other sustainment services to IDF bases, detention facilities, or Israeli security installations 4, 5.

Waymo’s public FAQ and company description instead describe civilian autonomous ride-hailing operations and autonomous-driving technology 3, 4.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Waymo manufactures, integrates, maintains, or supplies lethal systems, munitions, weapons components, fire-control systems, targeting systems, missile-defence components, or strategic-platform subsystems to Israeli defence end-users 4, 5.

The reviewed Waymo materials describe civilian autonomous driving and robotaxi operations rather than software designed to make targeting decisions or generate weapons effects 3, 4.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of a grant, denial, suspension, revocation, enforcement action, sanctions or embargo investigation, or litigation concerning Waymo defence exports to Israel 4, 5.

No separately named Waymo subsidiaries, Israeli-domiciled Waymo entities, Israeli offices, occupied-territory locations, franchisees, or licensees were identified in the reviewed corporate and regulatory records, although this record-scoped finding does not prove their absence 1, 4, 2, 6.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Waymo was not named in the supplied full-text pre-scan of the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report, making that document negative only as to its own text and not evidence of sector-wide absence 8. No public evidence identified in this bounded review of a Waymo-specific boycott, divestment, exclusion, or corporate-response campaign based on Israeli defence-sector activity 4, 8.

A 2019 Waymo Veterans Day post identified employees with U.S. Army Reserve and U.S. Navy service and described an employee veterans group 9. That pre-2020 civilian employment material does not evidence a relationship between Waymo and Israeli forces or Israeli defence procurement 9.

Waymo identifies Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov as co-CEOs, while Alphabet’s proxy identifies the parent company’s board nominees, but the reviewed materials do not establish operational roles for Alphabet directors at Waymo 1, 3, 10. No public evidence identified in the bounded review of Israeli-defence, settlement-organisation, FIDF or reservist-fund, or Israeli-prime equity ties by the current Waymo leadership identified in the reviewed corporate materials 3, 4.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/goog-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001652044/3df3f79a-6297-4085-a369-fb1d33acb004.pdf ↩ ↩2

  3. https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/investing-to-bring-the-waymo-driver-to-more-riders/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://waymo.com/about/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  5. https://waymo.com/faq/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  6. https://tmng-al.uspto.gov/resting2/api/casedoc/cms/case/99237998/office-action/OfficeAction7990477.pdf ↩ ↩2

  7. https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/press_release/introducing-an-autonomous-vehicles-regulation-review-for-the-commercial-use-of-avs/ ↩ ↩2

  8. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2

  9. https://waymo.com/blog/2021/12/accelerating-mission-velocity/ ↩ ↩2

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817926000342/goog-20260424.htm ↩