The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded Palantir Technologies a five-year block acquisition to expand the use of the department’s artificial intelligence and large-scale data analytics platform across agencies.

The deal is valued at up to $1 billion and will allow multiple DHS agencies to acquire the Palantir platform without initiating separate competitive contracts for each deployment. The blanket purchase agreement has pre-approved prices and terms, and funds are distributed through separate task orders over a five-year period, rather than as a single upfront award.

Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms are expected to form the technical backbone of the deployment.

The Gotham platform is used in government and defense contexts to integrate, analyze, and visualize large amounts of structured and unstructured data. The Foundry platform provides data integration, workflow management, and operational modeling capabilities that enable agencies to integrate disparate databases and build mission-specific applications on a shared data layer.

According to According to Wired today, DHS agencies including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will have access to Palantir services as part of the deal.

DHS is expected to use Palantir’s platform to support investigative case management, threat identification, logistics coordination, and operational planning. The platform applies machine learning models and rules-based analytics to information from enforcement databases, biometric systems, financial records, travel data, and other sources to generate risk assessments, link analysis, and operational dashboards.

The contract with Palantir is not the department’s first effort to use artificial intelligence. public AI Inventory disclosure It showcases hundreds of AI-enabled use cases across DHS, from fraud detection to anomaly identification to document processing and more. However, the Palantir agreement will consolidate the department’s software procurement in an environment where agencies are seeking to quickly integrate AI and data analytics into front-line operations.

For Palantir, this contract strengthens its position as a long-term federal technology supplier. Government contracts currently account for about 55% of Palantir’s revenue, and new contracts could make that number bigger again.

The partnership also continues Palantir’s longstanding involvement in immigration and border-related data systems, an area that has attracted intense public and policy scrutiny.

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