Palantir has been awarded a contract to build artificial intelligence (AI) vehicles for the United States military through the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program. The $178.4 million contract calls for Palantir to build the United States Army's first 10 AI-powered vehicles. Five in the basic version and five more versions with higher capabilities.
Under the TITAN program, AI vehicles can gather all the information on the battlefield collected by sensors located in space, high altitude, aircraft and various other assets. Through the collected data, TITAN can process clearer battlefield information to identify targets. The TITAN vehicle will operate as a node that disseminates the processed information to other assets operating in the same field.
With TITAN, the process of identifying the target and its location on the battlefield is shortened using an automation system. It can also integrate systems developed by partners such as Northrop Grumman, Anduril Industries, L3Harris Technologies, Pacific Defense, SNC, Strategic Technology Consulting, and World Wide Technology.
The use of artificial intelligence on the battlefield was initiated under Project Maven almost a decade ago. Recently an AI was used by the American military to attack 85 targets in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.