An expert and former defense officials told Breaking Defense that the service’s push to award high ceiling, prolonged contracts could speed up acquisition processes but ultimately only time will determine their effectiveness.
"We’re deploying an AI-powered shipbuilding operating system across the maritime industrial base," Navy Secretary John Phelan told an audience alongside Palantir chief Alex Karp.
As missions stretch farther and comms grow less reliable, predictive software could become the edge that keeps missions afloat.
The Army has “evolved” its networks to better support US Northern Command in ways that it sees as a model for other theaters worldwide, CDAO David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
The small company’s Legion software is also being integrated with Northrop Grumman’s AiON counter-drone system.
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Executives from both Lockheed and Raytheon indicated interest in building a space-based interceptor, and hinted at their broad approaches to Golden Dome.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.
In an interview with Breaking Defense, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin argues the Air Force is most apt for an Indo-Pacific fight relative to other services.
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.
“Leveraging Palantir’s sophisticated manufacturing and AI tools will allow us to streamline manufacturing and radically enhance fleet capabilities,” said Richard Jenkins, Saildrone’s CEO
As “dirty” RF and contested environments proliferate, autonomy increasingly depends on resilient positioning.
In which five executives, three lawmakers and two Pentagon officials weigh in on whether they think DOGE will be a good thing or a bad thing for the Defense Department.
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.
Gallagher, who departed Congress in April, started at Palantir in June and sees it as a continuation of a mission of "preventing World War III."
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.