Intelligence (C5ISR) - Palantir sends AI-fueled TITAN prototype to Army

[Kirkhill]

An upgraded Queen Mary.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/07/palantir-titan-army-jblm

A Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, or TITAN, prototype. Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Army

The first Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node was delivered to a base in Washington state, just months after Palantir Technologies won a $178 million contract to build prototypes.

Why it matters: TITAN is key to the U.S. military's connect-everything-everywhere campaign and is a dramatic move away from spreadsheets and sticky notes of the past.

• TITAN lets troops hoover up data from space, air and land and employ artificial intelligence to quickly and accurately parse it, ultimately reducing the time it takes to pull the trigger.

Context: Palantir is expected to build 10 prototypes after besting RTX in a yearslong faceoff.

• Palantir's subcontracting team includes heavyweights Northrop Grumman, Anduril Industries and L3Harris Technologies.

What they're saying: "Having a software prime win a hardware contract, I think, has not gone unnoticed, both from the existing industrial base but also the defense-tech players, as a signal of how serious the department is about doing these things differently," Shyam Sankar, Palantir's chief technology officer, told me.

What's next: Soldiers will put TITAN prototypes through rigorous testing. Feedback will shape how the project proceeds.

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Signs of change - palantir and anduril moving past raytheon, boeing and northropgrumman.

 

[OldSolduer]

And a juicy target for (pick a munition)

 

[AmmoTech90]

How is it a sign of change? A software company that produces software the intelligence community has used for years is the lead in a program that focuses in moving its software from the office to the field? At the prototype stage for 10 units. There are companies in Ottawa that do similar things and buy parts from bigger companies.

Edit: and its not a Queen Mary. It's a MLVW SEV equivalent.

 

[Kirkhill]

Do you want Chatbots populating your HQs?

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The Army War College is currently developing tools that will provide direct access to immediate, accurate, and timely data to support operations. Instead of spending one or two hours to generate a “best guess” estimate, planners can receive instantaneous and authoritative assessments. Instead of well-intentioned but uninformed projections on escalation risks resulting from troop stationing in proximity to adversary borders, planners have a deliberate conversation with an artificial-intelligence-enabled strategic advisor (AIeSA) that considers historical context amidst current conditions to advise on likely outcomes. Instead of hastily created menus of courses of action by fatigued staff officers, planners have an untiring, unwavering advisor that can offer suggestions to augment the human imagination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/13/microsoft-bing-ai-chatbot-error/

 

[Baz]

We’ve added another “C”… that should solve everything.

In my experience, nobody ever had a common definition understanding of what C…I… meant anyway.