"Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nation's shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port. The $448 million contract will bring Palantir's technology to work on shipbuilders, shipyards, and critical suppliers, said US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan and Palantir CEO Alex Karp during a presentation Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C."
"Phelan listed strengthening US shipbuilding and the Maritime Industrial Base as the top priority of his $292.2 billion budget request for 2026, which called for 19 new battle force ships. The budget also invests $2.5 billion just for submarine builders to increase their "health and supply chain enterprise." Palantir's software will initially be deployed across two major shipbuilders, three shipyards, and 100 suppliers, all of which are part of the Maritime Industrial Base ( MIB), a Navy program established in 2024 to revitalize US shipbuilding and repair."
Palantir and the US Navy signed a two-year, $448 million deal to apply Foundry operational software to shipbuilding, shipyards, and critical suppliers under a program called ShipOS. The software will be deployed initially across two major shipbuilders, three shipyards, and 100 suppliers within the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB). The Navy identified strengthening shipbuilding as the top priority of a $292.2 billion 2026 budget request that calls for 19 new battle force ships and includes $2.5 billion for submarine builders' supply chain health. Early deployments reduced submarine schedule planning from 160 manual hours to under 10 minutes.
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