Pentagon’s AI office awards Palantir a contract to create a data-sharing ecosystem

Published on June 5, 2024

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp speaks at an AI conference on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024. Palantir was recently awarded a contract from the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to develop a data-sharing ecosystem.

The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, leveraged its marketplace for fast-tracking the acquisition of innovative technologies to award Silicon Valley-based Palantir a contract to develop a data-sharing ecosystem — a tool that will help the Pentagon with its connect-everything initiative.

CDAO announced last Thursday that the ecosystem — known as Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories, or Open DAGIR — will enable the Department of Defense to scale its use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities through greater collaboration with private sector partners. 

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