Army’s TITAN platform moving into production phase with $192M delivery award for Palantir, Anduril
Under the latest delivery announcement, the Army expects to receive eight TITAN platforms over the next 18 months.
Under the latest delivery announcement, the Army expects to receive eight TITAN platforms over the next 18 months.
Sources shared new details about this long-anticipated integration, which DOD officials announced on Monday.
“We need help in implementing agents securely, so that it doesn’t inadvertently increase our attack surface,” an Army official said. “If we have a bunch of agents roaming around, and they’re vulnerable, that just made it worse because if the adversaries attack our agents, now we’re exposed.”
The answer is to modernize accountability through an enterprise model that combines a formalized independent assessment, continuous external monitoring, and shared remediation support where small suppliers cannot reasonably carry the burden alone.
“Each and every day, we sit down as a group, we figure out the guardrails we’re going to apply to these agents, [and] we ask ourselves: Is it risk that a human should be answering, or is it risk that an agent can answer?” Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said. “And right now, today, humans are all responsible for risk. We have not turned any agents loose to assume risk on their own behalf.”
The officers recently served in advisory roles for the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, a Germany-based, U.S.-led organization founded after Russia’s invasion in 2022 that oversees support for Kyiv.
“That’s where this is going,” Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney said.
“I would say we definitely have our foot in the pool, but we need to jump in a little deeper,” Brig. Gen. William Ottati said.
Sources familiar with the deal expressed unease about the government’s handling of this significant procurement decision.
A Marine Corps spokesperson said there are no rank requirements to participate in the hackathon and that judges will be a mix of military, government civilian and industry leadership.