Pentagon surges Palantir Maven Smart System contract spending to more than $1B

Just under a year in, the Pentagon is set to increase spending on an initial $480 million contract to deploy Palantir's Maven Smart System prototype across combatant commands, bringing the total agreement to a value of nearly $1.3 billion.

The contract modification, which the Defense Department announced yesterday, will tack an additional $795 million onto the agreement struck at the end of May 2024. The timeline remains the same, though, with the estimated completion date for late May 2029.

The announcement comes just over seven months after Shannon Clark, Palantir head of defense growth, told Inside Defense about the growing demand for MSS prototype adoption following initial deployment across the COCOMs, which gave way to a separate, Army-led $99.8 million contract for the company to expand its availability beyond the COCOMs.

MSS is part of the ecosystem that makes up National Geospatial Agency’s program of record, Project Maven, which is meant to allow users to scan the battlefield to predict, screen and counter threat activity.