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Judge Rules in Favor of Palantir in Lawsuit Against US Army
[Defense News] WASHINGTON -- In what could be a big blow to the Army’s current path to develop its internal intelligence software suite -- which has been long been marred in controversy -- a presiding judge in a lawsuit brought by Palantir Technologies protesting the Army’s acquisition efforts for the system has ruled in favor of the Palo Alto-based company.Palantir filed a bid protest in the US Court of Federal Claims against the US Army June 30 for issuing what it says was an unlawful procurement solicitation for the service’s next iteration of its Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) that shuts the company’s commercial offering out of the competition. DCGS-A spit, spit, spit. The protest -- filed through Palantir’s lawyers Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP -- argues that the lawsuit was necessary because the Army should be stopped from moving forward on an unlawful and risk-prone software development project that would reinvent the wheel at a very high price. Palantir’s lawyers have called the Army’s acquisition efforts for DCGS-A Increment 1 and Increment 2 both illegal and irrational. Not to mention most intelligence analysts hate it. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-01 |
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