Ex-Palantir Veteran to Run Data, IT Security for RFK Jr.’s HHS

A longtime Palantir Technologies Inc employee is now overseeing data at the US health department.

Clark Minor, a software engineer at Palantir who went on to lead its platform infrastructure and cloud strategy, has been tapped to serve as the chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named as the position hasn’t been announced. The health department’s new head, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was sworn in on Thursday.

Minor’s new role comes as former Palantir employees and people otherwise linked to ...