
The Army on Monday lost a months-long court battle with Palantir, giving the data-mining company another shot at the program to build the service’s battlefield data management system. The ruling also codifies a requirement for the Pentagon to weigh commercially available technologies before it attempts to reinvent the wheel, according to attorneys who tried the case.Palantir sued the Army in late June, asserting that its commercial data management system could meet requirements for the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) but…