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$94,687,811

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

ACTION DATE2026-05-07·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314426F0126_1205_12314426A0009_1205
Award description

CENTRALIZE FARM PRODUCTION & CONSERVATION IT SYSTEMS, AUTOMATE PROCESSES, AND INTEGRATE DATA FOR BETTER EFFICIENCY PER THE LANDMARK PLATFORM INITIATIVE. STAFF + PRODUCERS GAIN UNIFIED ACCESS, WITH POSSIBLE EXTERNAL AGENCY DATA INTEGRATION AS NEED

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Consolidate USDA farm production and conservation IT systems, automate processes, and integrate data across agencies for operational efficiency.

Sub-sectors
farm-it-systemsdata-integrationusda-modernization
Why this matters

Landmark platform initiative modernizes critical agricultural infrastructure supporting U.S. food production and conservation policy implementation at scale.

Supply-chain signal

Signals USDA's shift toward enterprise data platforms; favors vendors with government-scale integration and interoperability capabilities.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strengthens U.S. agricultural data sovereignty and domestic food-system resilience through centralized, integrated IT infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002278.

Period of performance
Start
2026-04-18
End
2027-04-17
Status
activein 335 days
Sources

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