Palantir and Anduril reportedly type expertise consortium to bid on protection contracts

Two main protection expertise gamers, Palantir and Anduril, are speaking with tech corporations together with SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, in accordance with a report in the Financial Times.

The goal, in accordance with the FT, is to problem the dominance of “main” protection contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing. One nameless participant described this as an effort to “present a brand new technology of protection contractors”, whereas one other stated it might be a simpler approach to promote weapons and different superior applied sciences to the federal government .

The primary partnerships might be introduced as early as January, in accordance with the report.

Palantir and Anduril (each named after magical gadgets from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings) hinted that one thing like this was within the works earlier this month, with an integration announcement between Palantir’s AI platform and Anduril’s Lattice software program. On the time, the businesses stated they have been “launching a brand new consortium to make sure the U.S. authorities leads the world in synthetic intelligence.”