Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Budget

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The Titan is notable in other ways. It came in on time and within budget, according to Palantir, a rarity in US defense procurement. And while the $178 million contract accounts for just a tiny sliver of an annual Defense Department allotment targeted at $1 trillion in the coming cycle, it represents an important inflection point in a long but uneven collaboration between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. The award, over a competing bid from RTX Corp., marked the first time a software company took ...