"Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, memo says" 20 March 2026

Palantir’s Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve ​Feinberg said in a letter to Pentagon leaders, a move that locks in long-term use of Palantir’s weapons-targeting technology across ‌the U.S. military.

In the March 9 letter to senior Pentagon leaders and U.S. military commanders, Feinberg said embedding Palantir’s Maven Smart System would provide warfighters “with the latest tools necessary to detect, deter, and dominate our adversaries in all domains”...

...Maven is a command-and-control software platform that analyzes battlefield ​data and identifies targets. It is already the primary AI operating system for the U.S. military, which has carried ⁠out thousands of targeted strikes against Iran over the last three weeks. Designating Maven as a program of record will streamline its adoption across all arms ​of the military and provide stable, long-term funding, Feinberg said...

...Maven can rapidly analyze huge amounts of data from satellites, drones, radars, sensors and intelligence reports, and use AI to automatically identify potential threats or targets, like enemy military vehicles, buildings and weapons stockpiles...

...United Nations expert panels have warned AI weapons targeting without human intervention raises ethical, legal and ​security risks since AI picks up inadvertent biases from the data sets used to train it.

Palantir says its ​software does not make ⁠lethal decisions and humans remain responsible for selecting and approving targets...

...Palantir and the Pentagon did not ​immediately respond to a request for comment...