In normal times, you'd be able to either read an already released tender, or you could FOIA the procurement details for this project. How likely do you think it is that those exist and you could access them today?

> did Palantir get the deal because of the close connections with

A self-established hallmark of this administration is to draw lines that define allies and enemies, to favor the former and harm the latter.

Rewarding allies with highly privileged and unprecedented access to US Gov assets - that is how this admin delivers what it advertised.

My understanding is they are and have always been uniquely unique. Their infrastructure was designed from the outset for highly classified use-cases (DoD IL6, Top Secret classifications), is unmatched by enterprise analytics software vendors + their tech is (apparently although nobody really seems to know) very very good.

This is a joke, right?