Palantir (PLTR) publicly challenged the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) over a program called MARS, the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System. The DIA launched this program in 2018 to replace a Cold War-era data analytics system and has been trying to build the new platform largely in-house since then.
However, Palantir is saying that the DIA is wasting taxpayer money and violating procurement law by attempting to rebuild this system from scratch with unreliable results. It wants in on the action.