Picogrid integrates ‘universal translator’ for stovepiped systems into Palantir’s Maven
The small company’s Legion software is also being integrated with Northrop Grumman’s AiON counter-drone system.
The small company’s Legion software is also being integrated with Northrop Grumman’s AiON counter-drone system.
"NGA Maven is now available to all services and all combatant commands. There are 20,000 active users through more than 35 service and combat and command tools across three security domains," said NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.
American Combatant Commands worldwide already make heavy use of Palantir’s Maven Smart System to rapidly share and analyze planning data. Now NATO will start using it too.
As her signature “Open DAGIR” initiative seeks to bring in smaller, innovative software firms, “we’ve got to be a lot more explicit” in contracting language to protect their intellectual property and data rights, said Chief Digital & AI Officer Radha Plumb.
“The number of detections are way up [and] the number of models that we have are way up, [but] with the same level of compute that you had in 2017,” said Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth. “It starts to slow down. We are already seeing evidence of that.”
The recent announcements on Palantir’s Maven Smart System and other strategic tools are just the start, CDAO Radha Plumb told Breaking Defense, with announcements on tactical and business systems coming by fall.
The Chief Digital & AI Office wants to bring in a wide range of software developers to rapidly create new applications for Combatant Commands worldwide, with the new apps plugging into Palantir’s open-architecture Maven Smart System.
Evolved from JAIC’s controversial Project Maven, Palantir’s Maven Smart System pulls together data from satellites, social media and other disparate sources for military commanders and planners.