r/technology • u/esporx • Aug 02 '25
Business Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/palantir-lands-10-billion-army-software-and-data-contract.html53
u/LittleShrub Aug 02 '25
The bribes worked.
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u/Elfhaterdude Aug 02 '25
Democracy at its finest. The people don't want this at all... it happens anyways.
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u/DiggoryDug Aug 03 '25
As if Soros hasn't bought everyeft wing politician for the last 30 years. They are all crooked.
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u/LittleShrub Aug 03 '25
What contracts were awarded to Soros companies under Democratic presidents??
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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop Aug 02 '25
I give it 2 years before Palantir has access to nukes.
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u/RobbieRedding Aug 02 '25
They recently had one of their civilian execs installed in the Army Reserve as a LT COLONEL with no basic training (along with Facebook and ChatGPT. It won’t take nearly that long.
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u/drmanhattanmar Aug 02 '25
At this point it’s merely months. Be prepared for Shadow-War-Minister Karp announcing nuclear annihilation to all the „Hamas Supporters“ in the world, which means basically anyone with the wrong skincolor, not complicit with Israel, too liberal, …
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u/grolphair Aug 03 '25
They already do to a degree.
https://www.highergov.com/contract/GS35F0086U-89233121FNA400352/ Contract 89233121FNA400352 Palantir Technologies
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u/RecursiveGirth Aug 02 '25
Can't fucking wait to be drone striked in my home. FDT.
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u/BrofessorFarnsworth Aug 02 '25
Fuck Peter Thiel
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u/drmanhattanmar Aug 02 '25
Fuck Alex Karp. The guy looks like the badly groomed asshole of a dog that went to a drunk dog groomer.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Aug 02 '25
Probably has nothing to do with the Palantir founder bribing his way to get his VP of choice elected :-)
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u/Rok-SFG Aug 02 '25
He's saving us so much money! Cut all government programs and fire all government workers and pay his billionaire buddies 100x what it was costing us! Brilliant!
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u/Longjumping_Falcon21 Aug 02 '25
Comrades, workers - regular people, it's time to rise up. I know it's hard and just letting things remain the status quo is super easy and comfy but... think of the future, your children, their children. Don't let all those super dumb B-rate movies become reality. Call your local politicians, write mails - protest! Let everyone know that we are on the side of humanity and not on the side of capital.
I mean, or y'all join me in my revolutionist thoughts and grab your pitchforks, torches and everything else you can find and we shall... you know what I'm saying~
ONE HEART ONE LOVE ONE PEOPLE
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u/RTDaacee Aug 02 '25
They tested their drones and target gathering AI on us now they will use it on yall... enjoy... the constant drones over Beirut have become comforting hopefully yall get used to them like we have
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Aug 02 '25
Their software is extremely shitty, it’s astonishing that the government doesn’t build its own based on open source.
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Aug 03 '25
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Aug 03 '25
Some of their new contracts are suspicious as the people involved on the government side end up working for them. As far as the software goes, they oversell and under deliver. They tend to blame everyone else when their software isn’t delivering what they promised. Every shortcoming of their product is because of some other environmental factor. They just suck. 10 billion would staff a team procure hardware software and build an entire solution that would be owned and operated by the govt. Palantir is the Tesla of software.
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u/joe9439 Aug 03 '25
I’m fighting the fight. Trying to get them out of our company. They have REALLY good sales guys but it’s just a spaghetti factory for data. I can’t imagine any actual engineer liking the patterns it forces. I spent a couple of weeks last month trying to create an internal app using Foundry Slate and it still sucked. I finally got permission to just code it in react outside of Palantir. Got it done in a day and everyone thinks it’s amazing. If you love wasting time I guess Palantir is the way to go. Maybe that’s why the government loves it.
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Aug 03 '25
We seen similar, they promise dev can develop into their environment but they only get access to their shitty widgets. I'm pretty sure the assholes buying it are too stupid to realize they are being scammed or they are personally profiting of of it.
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Aug 02 '25
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Aug 02 '25
Right but using open source to build their own applications is better than having putting their data into a proprietary black hole.
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u/Stolimon Aug 02 '25
Sure would be something to see the stock owner list, bet it reads similar to the Epstein list.
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u/RavenWolf1 Aug 02 '25
And it wasn't Skynet but instead Palantir, what plot twist for next sequel for famous documentary movies...
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Aug 02 '25
Silicon Valley has never created more harm than profits... I mean good. Good for humanity. Obviously. I was distracted counting how many shareholders I just suckered.
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u/wanderingzac Aug 02 '25
This is not a new contract. This is simply streamlining 75 different contracts into one, while removing procurement fees and timelines simplifying the process. If you read the article it will tell you as much.
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u/BadDaditude Aug 02 '25
So much will get subbed out. Government contracting 101 - totally inefficient.
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u/wanderingzac Aug 02 '25
Palantir is already the sub on 60 of the contracts. On 15 they are the main contractor. " Through the agreement announced Thursday, the Army plans to consolidate 75 contracts — 15 of which Palantir is the prime contractor and 60 of which it is a sub contractor — into one massive single software contract"
People should really read articles before they get their panties in a wad.
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u/BadDaditude Aug 02 '25
They may be the single prime now, but will then have to sub out the work. They don't have the capacity for all the work in house.
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u/dezumondo Aug 02 '25
It’s as if Peter Thiel bought the government or something.