content: Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA ##Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA
  
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  Taylor Hatmaker
  @tayhatmaker / 1:59 pm CDT•May 20, 2020
  
  
  
  Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel,  is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playing a new and increasingly prominent role in providing the government with software tools to address the COVID-19 crisis.
  
  This month, the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a new $5 million contract to Palantir through veteran-owned software reseller i3 Federal LLC, which lists Palantir as a partner. The contract, set to run through November, will provide the VA with Palantir’s Gotham software to “track and analyze COVID-19 outbreak areas and make timely decisions with insight into supply chain capacity, hospital inventory, social service utilization and lab diagnostics.”
  
  Palantir’s Gotham tool, best known for its use by law enforcement agencies, is one of the company’s main products and collects disparate data streams onto one platform. Twitter user Jack Poulson first spotted the contract, which was later reported by FedScoop
  
  
  http://archive.is/Km0yJ
  
  https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/palantir-covid-19-va-contract/