Thiel’s Palantir Wins Battle Over Army Combat Data System
- Company, co-founded by Peter Thiel, challenged bid process
- Judge rebukes Army, gives Palantir second chance for review
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A Palantir Technologies Inc. unit won a second chance at a contract to build the next phase of the U.S. Army’s integrated combat data system, an undertaking potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Army failed to adequately consider commercially available options for the system, effectively shutting out the Silicon Valley firm from bidding, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The judge barred the Army from awarding the contract and ordered it to restart the process of evaluating technology that already exists. The ruling puts Palantir USG back in the running.