Palantir Expands Airbus and US Government Deals
Palantir Technologies has renewed and expanded its collaboration with Airbus on the Skywise aviation data platform and received expanded authorization from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency. The new government authorization covers its Federal Cloud Service for on-premises and edge deployments. The deals reinforce Palantir's role in civil aviation and secure government data infrastructure.
- The partnership between Palantir and Airbus began in 2015 to increase the production rate of the A350 aircraft, which was achieved by integrating data on schedules, parts, and defects into Palantir's Foundry platform. - The Skywise platform, a result of the collaboration, is used by over 100 airlines and more than 50,000 users, combining in-flight, engineering, and operational data to improve aircraft design, safety, and efficiency. - The renewed multi-year agreement with Airbus allows for the migration of the Skywise platform to sovereign cloud environments, giving Airbus and its clients more flexibility to meet evolving regulatory and data governance requirements. - The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) authorization extends Palantir's existing Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) accreditations, which are designed to handle controlled unclassified and classified information up to the SECRET level. - This new government authorization is hardware-agnostic, meaning Palantir's full technology stack—including its Gotham, Foundry, and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)—can be deployed on hardware chosen by the customer, from large data centers to mobile units in vehicles. - The DISA authorization implements an "authorize once, use many" model, which provides a repeatable accreditation package to government customers, significantly reducing the time required to achieve an Authorization to Operate (ATO). - Palantir's work with the U.S. government is extensive, with its software used by the CIA, Pentagon, ICE, and the CDC; multi-year contract ceilings awarded in 2025 alone totaled over $13.7 billion. - The President and CTO of Palantir USG is Akash Jain, who stated the DISA authorization enables the deployment of mission-critical capabilities with the survivability and resilience needed by warfighters.
