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American data integration and analytics company Palantir has secured a $7.6 million one-year contract for the Australian Department of Defence.
The contract, announced via AusTender on 11 February this year, was awarded under limited tender and facilitates that Palantir will supply an information and communications technology system platform.
Earlier this month, Palantir Technologies announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency has authorised Palantir Federal Cloud Service Forward (PFCS), extending PFCS’s existing Impact Level 5 and Impact Level 6 provisional authorisations to include on-premises and edge deployments
With this authorisation, Palantir’s technology stack, including its platforms – Apollo, Gotham, Foundry and AIP – and underlying infrastructure like Rubix, can be deployed across any environment, from enterprise data centres to the tactical edge, on hardware of the customer’s choosing.
This hardware-agnostic approach gives US government customers a single, repeatable accreditation package that adapts to any architecture they require, whether a large-scale, on-premises data centre deployment or a small form factor designed to be mobile and survivable in the back of a vehicle.
PFCS Forward significantly accelerates the US government’s ability to deploy multivendor architectures to the edge, critical for the survivability and resilience of mission-critical workloads. For industry partners, Palantir FedStart and Palantir’s Mission Manager now unlock on-premises and edge deployments alongside cloud.
“The future of warfighting demands software that can operate anywhere – from enterprise data centres to the tactical edge,” according to Palantir USG president and CTO Akash Jain.
“PFCS Forward delivers on that promise with a hardware-agnostic authorisation that enables mission-critical capabilities to be deployed with the survivability and resilience our warfighters need.
“We’re proud to continue our work with DISA to give the US government the flexibility to bring cutting-edge technology wherever the mission demands.
“This opens the door for true multivendor architectures at the edge, bringing best-of-breed commercial technology to critical national security missions with unprecedented speed.”
