In normal times, you'd be able to either read an already released tender, or you could FOIA the procurement details for this project. How likely do you think it is that those exist and you could access them today?

> did Palantir get the deal because of the close connections with

A self-established hallmark of this administration is to draw lines that define allies and enemies, to favor the former and harm the latter.

Rewarding allies with highly privileged and unprecedented access to US Gov assets - that is how this admin delivers what it advertised.

My understanding is they are and have always been uniquely unique. Their infrastructure was designed from the outset for highly classified use-cases (DoD IL6, Top Secret classifications), is unmatched by enterprise analytics software vendors + their tech is (apparently although nobody really seems to know) very very good.

Why doesn't anyone know this, though? I too am a bit mystified by ... whatever it is that Palantir does, but I think you hit the major point, which is that perhaps it is the classified nature of their prime use cases that makes it so difficult to discern how it is they work.

I have a friend who works at Palantir, I have no clue what he does, we've never talked about his work, he's not interested in talking about it, no clue anything about anything in their stack, they really just don't talk. I guess this is the value of Palantir?

This is a joke, right?