This analysis summarizes and reflects on the following research: Suchman, L. (2020). Project Maven was introduced to the media and U.S. general public in the summer of 2018 when several Google employees voiced concerns over the company's contract to automate the labeling of images from U.S. military drones to determine "objects of interest" (including vehicles, buildings, and persons) with sparse details on its intended purpose. In solidarity, academic researchers supported Google employees' concerns and added that "further automation…of the US drone program can only serve to worsen an operation that is already highly problematic, even arguably illegal and immoral under the laws and norms of armed conflict." While Google decided not to renew the contract following its employees' protests, the project's contract was picked up and continued by a different company. This story, and Project Maven more generally, typifies an intersection of critical security studies and technology studies that Lucy Suchman examines in research on automation and artificial intelligence technologies in U.S. counterterrorism strategies.