Palantir
1 item across 1 edition. First seen Wed 23 Sep, last seen Wed 23 Sep.
- James Mazol, deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said at DefenseTalks on 22 September: "In January of this year, we had about 50,000 people using Maven. Then [Operation] Epic Fury kicks off, and now we're over 100,000." Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer, said the Maven capability helped the U.S. military strike 13,000 targets in 38 days during Epic Fury, calling it "data-centric warfare".
- Maven Smart System is Palantir's targeting and intelligence platform. DefenseScoop reports the department raised its contract ceiling to more than $1 billion last year, and that Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg issued a memo in March directing that the system transition into a formal program of record by the end of this fiscal year.
- A doubling of operator count inside one campaign is the clearest public figure yet on how far AI-assisted targeting has spread inside the U.S. military, and it is being stated by the officials who own the programme rather than disclosed under scrutiny.
- Neither official gave any figure for accuracy, review or civilian harm alongside the 13,000-target number, and DefenseScoop hosted the conference at which the remarks were made. Stanley said the harder unsolved problem is now logistics and supply-chain data integration.