Scoop: Palantir fights Pentagon over key intelligence contract
Summary
Palantir is challenging the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) over a contract to update the DIA’s data analytics system. Palantir argues that the DIA is wasting money by building a new system from scratch instead of using existing commercial technology.Key Facts
- Palantir wants to bid on a contract to modernize the DIA’s data analytics system.
- The DIA has been developing the MARS system for eight years to replace an old Cold War-era system.
- Palantir claims the DIA is spending too much money trying to build MARS themselves with poor results.
- Palantir protests that the DIA is ignoring commercial technology options that could work better and cost less.
- The White House supports letting all companies compete fairly for such contracts.
- A senior Trump national security official said President Donald Trump has issued orders encouraging the use of the best private sector technology.
- There is a chance the MARS program could be canceled or redesigned due to new advances in artificial intelligence.
- Palantir declined to comment, and the DIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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