Lindsey Clark reports via The Register: Palantir has been awarded a $178.4 million U.S. Army contract to equip heavy-duty trucks with battlefield information systems. Billed as the Army's first AI-defined vehicle, Palantir will provide a system for the TITAN “ground station” that will access space, high-altitude, air, and ground sensors for “enhanced mission command.” is designed to provide actionable targeting information for Palantir said in a statement that it is also capable of long-range precision fire.
TITAN stands for Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, and it may sound innocuous. Who has been killed by a node so far? TITAN solutions “incorporate specific feedback and insights from Soldier touchpoints at every stage of the development and configuration process to maximize Soldier usability.” The statement said it was built to “do the work.” The purpose of the TITAN project is to connect military software and hardware providers in new ways. These include Northrop Grumman, Anduril Industries, L3Harris Technologies, Pacific Defense, SNC, Strategic Technology Consulting, World Wide Technology, and the U.S. military's “traditional and nontraditional partners” such as Palantir. is included.
Palantir Motormouth CEO Alex Karp said in an interview with Bloomberg that TITAN is a logical extension of Maven. Maven is a controversial project in which Palantir is a partner and which used machine learning and engineering to distinguish between people and objects in drone footage provided by Google, which famously withdrew after employee protests. That's a story. Karp said TITAN is a partnership between “people who have developed software products that have been used on the battlefield and used commercially.” “The simple insights you see on the battlefield in Ukraine are also found in Israel, but they are difficult for organizations to internalize,” he said. [For] This move by the Department of Defense is one of the most historic ever taken. Because the basic message is, “We're going to fight hard, we're going to put the best people on the battlefield, and the best isn't just one company.'' “This is a team of people led by Palantir, the world's most prominent defense software provider,” he said. .
