On Monday, the House passed a $733 billion defense policy bill, by a 220 to 197 vote, for fiscal year 2020. The lower chamber’s 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is $17 billion less than the president’s budget request. Lawmakers are expected to meet in the coming months to reconcile the …

Palantir Technologies has received a potential five-year, $143.8M blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Navy to deliver commercial-off-the-shelf software, hardware and related support services to the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Palantir Technologies has won a potential contract worth over $800M from the U.S. Army to build and deploy a battlefield intelligence platform for warfighters, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Army selected Palantir and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) in March 2018 to help address the service’s technology requirements for the Distributed …

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Palantir Technologies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $876 million contract to help the U.S. Army address technology requirements for the service branch’s Distributed Common Ground System. The Defense Department said Thursday the DCGS-Army Capability Drop 1 program requires an integrated hardware and software platform designed to support training, security, usability, …

Palantir Technologies has landed a $222 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for the delivery of All Source Information Fusion software licenses and associated support services. The Defense Department said Wednesday Palantir will provide ASIF licenses to support SOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. SOCOM will …

The U.S. Justice Department has awarded Palantir a five-year, $9.9 million contract to provide software to federal investigators for collaboration and examining large-scale financial crimes, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes that Palantir will supply and implement a data analysis tool to support money laundering investigations by DOJ and the …

The Air Force Research Lab and the U.S. Space Force have initiated the development of new cybersecurity architecture for satellites, FedScoop reported Monday. The Space Force will work with Xage Security to create a zero trust-style security system that is “rooted in tamperproof blockchain technology” to protect space systems.

Sam Jones, a former civilian software engineer at the U.S. Air Force, has joined data analytics company Govini as chief product officer. He supported Department of Defense customers through his previous senior product and engineering roles at Palantir Technologies and Shield AI.

BAE Systems has received an initial order under a multiple-award contract to upgrade components of the U.S. Army’s common ground infrastructure for intelligence operations.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 27 companies spots on a potential five-year, $950M contract to develop and operate systems across ground, air, maritime, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains in support of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program.