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What Government Contracts Does Palantir Hold?

Not affiliated with Palantir Technologies Inc. This page is a factual reference list — for the controversies attached to some of these contracts, see our dedicated pages linked throughout, and our Controversies Timeline for the chronological view.

Palantir's government business spans defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian agencies across multiple countries. This page consolidates the specific contracts already sourced in detail elsewhere on this site into one reference list, organized by agency.

U.S. Department of Defense

Palantir's Gotham platform is used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy for logistics, readiness tracking, and operational decision-making — Palantir has stated its software helps track the readiness of more than a million U.S. Army personnel. More broadly, federal contract tracking has put Palantir's cumulative U.S. government awards at roughly $5.0 billion as of 2026, skewed toward the Department of Defense, detailed further on our Palantir vs. Anduril comparison page. Palantir's software has also been reported in use supporting Ukrainian and Israeli military operations.

U.S. intelligence community

Palantir's roots trace back to early contracts with the U.S. intelligence community, seeded in part by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm — see our page on who founded Palantir for that history. Reported customers in this category include the CIA and NSA, though the extent and nature of NSA-specific work has been directly disputed by Palantir, covered in full on our page about whether Palantir spies on Americans.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Palantir has held ICE contracts since 2011, including the Investigative Case Management system, the FALCON tool, and a 2025 ImmigrationOS contract worth $30 million — see our dedicated ICE page for full detail and sourcing on each of these.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Since 2018, the IRS has used Palantir's Lead and Case Analytics platform, with total reported payments exceeding $130 million as of 2026 — see our dedicated IRS contract page.

Other U.S. civilian agencies

Reported work also spans the CDC, NIH, USDA, and the Social Security Administration, with the latter two connected to a 2025 federal data-expansion effort covered on our page about Palantir's role in DOGE.

United Kingdom

Palantir holds contracts with the UK Ministry of Defence and, more prominently, a contract worth up to £330 million over seven years to build and run the NHS Federated Data Platform, awarded in November 2023 following earlier COVID-era work that began in March 2020 — see our dedicated NHS contract page for the full, ongoing controversy around this relationship.

Other allied governments

Contract-tracking sources describe Palantir's government relationships extending to NATO allies and public-health contracts in Europe and Canada during the COVID-19 period, alongside UK defense contractor Babcock via a Foundry and AIP partnership tied to Babcock's own Ministry of Defence work.

A note on scale and change over time

Government revenue made up roughly 55% of Palantir's total revenue as of mid-2025, per the company's own reporting — see our dedicated page on Palantir's revenue growth for the fuller government-versus-commercial trend over time. This list reflects contracts documented in reporting available as of this writing and will change as new agreements are signed, renewed, or ended.


Sources consulted: this page synthesizes contract-specific sourcing already compiled in detail on our ICE, IRS, NHS, DOGE, Anduril comparison, revenue growth, and biggest-customers pages — see each linked page for its own primary sourcing.

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