Palantir fights Pentagon over key intelligence contract
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Palantir is battling the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency for the ability to bid for a contract to modernize its data analytics system, according to a filing obtained by Axios.
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The General Services Administration, DIA or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth himself could move to cancel MARS and "fundamentally reimagine the program," given the advances in AI since the program's
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Palantir is battling the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency for the ability to bid for a contract to modernize its data analytics system, according to a filing obtained by Axios
Palantir's already massive foothold at the Pentagon could eventually expand to an agency tasked with providing foreign military intelligence to prevent and win wars
Summary
Palantir's already massive foothold at the Pentagon could eventually expand to an agency tasked with providing foreign military intelligence to prevent and win wars. What's inside: Palantir argues in its protest that the DIA is wasting taxpayer money, and flouting the law, by refusing to consider a commercial solution for its data analytics modernization efforts. The agency launched MARS (Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System) eight years ago and has been developing it ever since to replace a Cold War-era system. Palantir claims the DIA is pouring money into trying to build the system from scratch, with unreliable results, rather than opting for a commercial solution.