“Add the Department of Veterans Affairs to the growing list of agencies using Palantir’s data services for coronavirus recovery.”
“The VA Technology Acquisition Center awarded a nearly $5 million contract to the Silicon Valley company for its Gotham data-sharing software, already used by the HHS Protect system informing White House coronavirus efforts.”
“The Veterans Health Administration will use the software to track and analyze COVID-19 outbreak areas and make ‘timely’ decisions using supply chain capacity, hospital inventory and social services data, according to the contract.”
“Hospitals are part of the Department of Health and Human Services‘ coronavirus data-gathering efforts, and VHA operates within 1,243 facilities nationally, giving it a broad view of the pandemic…”
“HHS awarded two contracts totaling $24.9 million to Palantir in April without competition citing the ‘unusual and compelling urgency’ of coronavirus recovery. One of those contracts was for a Palantir Gotham subscription worth $17.4 million and the other for cloud platform implementation to the tune of $7.5 million.”
“Both helped stand up HHS Protect, which pulls data from federal agencies, all 50 states, health care facilities, and academia with contributions from private industry to inform the White House Coronavirus Task Force…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA is latest to turn to Palantir as agencies hone real-time coronavirus surveillance systems – By Dave Nyczepir, May 19, 2020. FedScoop.
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