Palantir builds software that fuses disparate government and corporate databases into a single searchable interface for analysts. Its Gotham platform is used across defense and intelligence; Foundry and its AI Platform (AIP) power enterprise and agency data operations; and its Maven Smart System puts AI-assisted targeting in the hands of thousands of military users. Seeded in part by the CIA's venture arm, it is now one of the world's most valuable companies — a market capitalization near $450 billion in 2026 — and won a consolidated U.S. Army software contract worth up to $10 billion in 2025. Per ACLU reporting, its 2025 'ImmigrationOS' build for ICE supports the administration's mass-deportation drive.
Palantir's case-management systems have been central to ICE operations targeting people for arrest and removal. Amnesty International warned the work risks contributing to human-rights violations.
Palantir quietly ran predictive-policing programs feeding person and location data into risk scores criticized for automating and entrenching racial bias.
Palantir took a contract to build ICE a system for near-real-time tracking to accelerate deportations — the most explicit surveillance-for-removal product yet.