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Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)

Army finalizing contracting approach for scaled-up version of enterprise data platform

Army Chief Data and Analytics Officer David Markowitz told DefenseScoop the goal for Army Data Platform 2.0 is to offer users new capabilities from multiple vendors.
A woman walks under a sign of big data analytics US software company Palantir at their stand ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 22, 2022. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Palantir, Anduril form new alliance to merge AI capabilities for defense customers

The teaming initiative, which the companies are calling a “consortium,” is emerging as the firms separately continue to rack up big contract wins with the Pentagon.
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron and U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors assigned to the 90th Fighter Squadron fly in formation above U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships in the Pacific Ocean in support of Valiant Shield 2024, June 7, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Keegan Putman)

Joint force, international partners, contractors test command and control capabilities in Pacific exercise

Valiant Shield provided an opportunity for the Department of Defense and its partners to put interoperability and CJADC2 concepts to the test.
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Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The CAOC is comprised of a joint and coalition team that executes day-to-day combined air and space operations and provides rapid reaction, positive control, coordination, and de-confliction of weapon systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua Strang)

Combatant commands poised to scale targeting capabilities via Palantir’s Maven system

Work under the new contract will initially cover five U.S. combatant commands: Central Command, European Command, Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command/NORAD, and Transportation Command.
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