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Palantir, Raytheon To Share $876 Million Contract For Army Battle Management System

Friday, March 9th, 2018

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Palantir, Raytheon To Share $876 Million Contract For Army Battle Management System

DCGS-A Photo: U.S. Army

Nearly two years after Palantir Technologies sued the Army for not considering commercial products for its battlefield data management system, the company is co-recipient of a $876 million contract for that very program.Raytheon [RTN] and Palantir will share in the firm-fixed-price contract for the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Capability Drop 1, the Army said March 8. The contract specifically requires “a commercial item that is a combined hardware and software solution to meet the interoperability, security, training, usability and…

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