A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’
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A $244 million, supplier-named memo inside DoD underscores how entrenched certain software vendors have become in mission workflows—procurement norms are bending around them. If you sell into government, treat integration with these incumbent platforms as a go-to-market strategy, not a nice-to-have.
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