artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) across the Joint Force and establish AI-enabled decision-making as the cornerstone of our strategy,\u201d Feinberg wrote.<\/p>\nPalantir and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
PALANTIR RISES FURTHER AT THE PENTAGON<\/p>\n
Feinberg\u2019s order is a significant win for Palantir, which has landed a growing \u200bstream \u200bof contracts with the U.S. government, including a deal announced last summer with the \u200bU.S. Army worth up to $10 billion. Those awards have helped \u200cdouble the company\u2019s stock price in the past year, lifting its market value to nearly $360 billion.<\/p>\n
Maven can rapidly analyze huge amounts of data from satellites, drones, radars, sensors and intelligence reports, and use AI to automatically identify potential threats or targets, like enemy military vehicles, buildings and weapons stockpiles.<\/p>\n
During a presentation at a Palantir event earlier this month, Pentagon official Cameron Stanley, who leads its AI office, demonstrated how the company\u2019s Maven platform could be used for weapons targeting in the Middle East, and he showed heat map screenshots from the Maven platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we started this, it literally took hours to \u200cdo what you just saw,” he said, according to a YouTube video uploaded by \u200bthe company last week.<\/p>\n
United Nations expert panels have warned AI weapons targeting without human intervention \u200braises ethical, legal and security risks since AI picks up inadvertent \u200bbiases from the data sets used to train it.<\/p>\n
Palantir says its software does not make lethal decisions and humans remain \u200cresponsible for selecting and approving targets.<\/p>\n
Palantir developed its AI system \u200bto serve the Pentagon\u2019s Project Maven, which \u200bbegan as a drone-imagery labeling program in 2017. In 2024, the Pentagon awarded Palantir a contract worth up to $480 million. That year, Palantir\u2019s Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar told the House Armed Services Committee that Maven had \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of users and urged Congress to \u200bprovide more funding. In May 2025, the Pentagon increased \u200cthe contract ceiling to $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n
One potential complication in deeper Maven adoption is the software\u2019s use of the Anthropic-made Claude AI tool, \u200bReuters previously reported. Anthropic was recently deemed a supply chain risk by the Pentagon, amid a months-long spat over safety guardrails \u200bsurrounding the AI.<\/p>\n
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