The Space Force granted data analytics company Palantir $110.3 million in contract extensions for the company’s cloud-based data services.
As reported by Spacenews, Under Project Warp Core, the Space Force from 2021 has used the company’s cloud platform and analytics services to aggregate large amounts of data from disparate sources.
The one-year contract extensions include:
- $58.4 million for automatic data ingestion across the Department of the Air Force,
- $32.7 million for commercial software licenses in support of Space Command and Control (C2).
- $19.2 million for data services in support of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.
The Space Force is transitioning legacy data stovepipes into the Warp Core data analytics platform through these data as a service contract. Warp Core is based on the Palantir Data platform that integrates and manages data from disparate sources.
Industry analyst Louie DiPalma, from the William Blair market research firm, estimated that, before these latest contract extensions, Palantir has been awarded more than $195 million in contracts for the Warp Core project since it started in 2021.
DiPalma noted that the new contract extensions for Palantir, although significant, are not guaranteed to continue indefinitely as the Space Force recently added new vendors to its data-as-a-service program.
