Overview
- The pilot concentrates on the submarine industrial base and is managed through the Maritime Industrial Base program and NAVSEA with participation from four public shipyards, two private yards, and a target of roughly 100 suppliers.
- Payments to Palantir hinge on verified performance improvements, and the Navy says industry would assume sustainment costs after the pilot if the tools deliver measurable value.
- Officials reported early gains including submarine schedule planning cut from 160 hours to under 10 minutes at Electric Boat and material review times reduced from weeks to under one hour at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
- Palantir personnel are working inside participating yards to ingest and normalize disparate legacy data, identify bottlenecks, and pinpoint drivers of throughput and schedule risk.
- The platform is intended to provide predictive warnings of supply-chain issues 60–180 days in advance, and any expansion beyond submarines to surface ship programs would follow successful validation.