I was in the IC when Palantir was being rolled out and took a bunch of their training courses at their facilities in Georgetown
They have the data storage that complies with DCID and RMF ATO requirements across every IL and compartment
Before Palantir the only thing that we had was Analyst Notebook and you had to have a CD to run it and manage your own data repos locally
Palantir was entirely browser based and you didn’t have to manage data at all so they killed AN almost immediately
Additional DoD SRG IL5 controls on top of FedRAMP
Physical and logical separation of IL5 workloads from lower-level workloads
U.S. citizenship and background checks for all cloud personnel with access
Hosting and data storage within U.S. territory
Continuous monitoring and incident response plans that meet DoD requirements
DoD-specific access controls and encryption <<<
Thats quite some strict list which most companies would just not pass...