Palantir won a $178,4 million contract with the US military to build and customize a battlefield information system inside a large truck.
TITAN will be the Army's first artificial intelligence station vehicle, and Palantir has designed it to provide access to space-based, high-altitude, airborne and ground-based sensors that will provide it with “targeting information for improved mission commands and long-range precision shots ", According to company announcement.
TITAN stands for Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, and perhaps the title sounds harmless enough. Who has ever been killed by a node?
TITAN technology, however, is built to "maximize the use of AI for Soldiers by incorporating feedback and insights from Soldier touchpoints at every step of the deployment and attack process," the statement said.
The goal of the TITAN project is to bring together military software and hardware providers in a new way. These providers include "traditional and non-partners" of the US military, such as Northrop Grumman, Anduril Industries, L3Harris Technologies, Pacific Defense, SNC, Strategic Technology Consulting and World Wide Technology, as well as Palantir.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Alex Karp, motor-mouth CEO of Palantir, mentioned that TITAN was the logical extension of it Maven, a controversial project for using machine learning to distinguish people from objects in drone footage. Karp said that TITAN came from a collaboration between "people who have built software products that have been used on the battlefield and have been used commercially."
