After Ukraine lost Starshield service without warning, Palantir says neither it nor Washington can switch off the Maven AI system running at NATO's top military headquarters.
The software could make strike systems more autonomous under Russian jamming, but the developer needs drone and missile manufacturers to carry it into combat.
TITAN is the US Army's mobile, AI-enabled intelligence and targeting ground station, built to fuse data from distributed sensors and accelerate target nomination for long-range fires.
The ousted defense minister has found American capital for his procurement-and-data model while Kyiv's own export channel has issued no permits and charges 20% to 30% up front.
A paper published by NATO's own Command and Control Centre of Excellence names Alliance consensus as Russia's real Baltic target, then proposes a new assessment unit. NATO's procurement agency contracted that capability five months ago.
NATO is testing the $61 billion startup's AI software as the data backbone for air operations across 32 nations, with one of three platforms winning long-term implementation.
Palantir Foundry is Palantir's ontology-centric data-integration and operational-application platform, used across commercial, civil-government and defense-industrial programs.
Palantir AIP is the company's generative-AI and autonomous-agent layer, built to connect LLMs and other models to controlled enterprise, intelligence and military workflows.
Palantir Gotham is Palantir Technologies' government and defense data-fusion platform, used for intelligence analysis, targeting workflows, sensor tasking and access-controlled common operating pictures.
Tokyo is weighing a US firm's software for the core of how its commanders read the battlefield, a first for the Self-Defense Forces that also opens a fight over who controls Japan's military data.
The Pentagon quietly rewrote how it picks targets to let AI initiate actions under human watch, codifying a kill-chain shift already worth billions in drone and software contracts.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry says over 100 firms now train AI models on real combat imagery in the Palantir-built Brave1 Dataroom, with Shahed-type attack drones the priority target set.
The Pentagon's Crucible 2 turns a $54.6 billion autonomy budget line into a contracted shoot-off, and the 25-firm roster shows who the Pentagon is betting on to fly the swarms.
