Two large protection tech gamers, Palantir and Anduril, are speaking to tech firms together with SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, in response to a report within the Financial Times.
The purpose, the FT says, is to problem the dominance of “prime” protection contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing. One unnamed participant described this as an effort to “present a brand new technology of protection contractors,” whereas one other stated this shall be a extra environment friendly strategy to promote the federal government cutting-edge weapons and different tech.
Initial partnerships might be introduced as quickly as January, in response to the report.
Palantir and Anduril (each named after magical gadgets in J.R.R. 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. At the time, the businesses stated they had been “launching a brand new consortium to make sure that the U.S. authorities leads the world in synthetic intelligence.”
