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Palantir Terror: They Need More Power (Unironically)
In this episode, we examine recent government contracts awarded to Palantir and discuss their implications for national security. Palantir has secured significant contracts, including a $480 million deal for the Maven Smart System and a $217.8 million contract from the Space Forces' Space Systems Command. We tackle concerns about data integration, government efficiency, and privacy issues while highlighting the potential benefits Palantir's technology could bring. Join us as we explore how AI-driven command and control capabilities could revolutionize government operations and why public fears may be misplaced.
Simone Collins: So , I looked up like what's been going on with Palantir, like the new government contracts. Yeah. And I am horrified. I'm genuinely horrified, but it's because I cannot believe the government has not already implemented this tech.
Like,
Malcolm Collins: I love what our fans, it's like, are you guys worried about what Palantir is and you're worried about the Yeah, I'm worried,
Simone Collins: like, is what is the new tech? There are two things that happened recently. In May, 2024, Palantir won a $480 million contract for the Maven Smart System, which is an AI powered prototype for military and intelligence applications with an expected completion date of May, 2029.
And in 2025, the Pentagon increased this contract ceiling by 795 million, bringing the total to over 1 billion, anticipating increased demand from military users for AI driven command and control capabilities. I absolutely want that for a government like, imagine how insecure you would feel if your government was doing nothing with ai.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah, seriously.
Simone Collins: And then also a 217.8 million contract was awarded to Palantir, a sub, a subsidiary of it to Palantir, USG by the Space Forces, space Systems Command.
Malcolm Collins: Well, and also keep in mind how much for joint forest missions safe this is than going to like the NSA or something. Where, oh God, where they, well,
Simone Collins: it's just wasteful.
Like the NSA can try to do this. So a, another, another thing is that like people are, are freaking out about them because a lot of these deals, there are other deals too. For example, ice did a contract ice seize all the weapons
Malcolm Collins: they can get. I've seen the way people are freaking out about them, I know
Simone Collins: it's, they did a 30 million Palantir, did a 30 million deal with ICE to provide software monitoring visas and tracking deportations offering quote, near real-time visibility into migrant movements.
I'm like, wait, you didn't have that before? Are you kidding me? Like, what were you doing before? You know, and the Palantir's also in discussions with the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to deploy its Foundry platform. And it, the Foundry platform of Palantir organizes and analyzes data.
So it, it, it enables the merging of sensitive data sets across agencies and why people are freaked out about the Foundry platform is that it's, it's. One central to many app palantir's government contracts, but it allows agencies to integrate data from various sources. So you can take financial records and immigration data and health records, which is
Malcolm Collins: exactly the thing that led to nine 11 was not being able to integrate.
Yeah, no, not enough
Simone Collins: interagency communication because there's so, 'cause they
Malcolm Collins: had knowledge that this was going to happen. Yes. When people
Simone Collins: weren't talking with each other because they're idiots and Palantir fixes this. And so you, you put this all into a ce
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