Boeing Taps Palantir to Bring AI to Defense, Space Factories (1)

Boeing Co. will partner with Palantir Technologies Inc. to integrate artificial intelligence on current and future defense programs and in its factories.

The US planemaker’s defense unit will deploy Palantir’s Foundry platform to standardize data analytics and insights across its factories that produce fighter jets, helicopters, missiles and satellites, the two companies said in a statement on Tuesday.

Palantir will also provide Boeing with AI expertise on a “number of undisclosed classified and proprietary efforts focused on supporting military customers’ most sensitive missions,” according to the statement.

Shares in Boeing rose 2% and closed at $216.34 in regular trading on ...