“The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to know of alternatives to the Palantir software it’s using to integrate and analyze data on the coronavirus pandemic in near real time.”
“VA needs a commercial off-the-shelf solution allowing the Veterans Health Administration to track and analyze COVID-19 hotspots. But the agency doesn’t know of any licenses besides Palantir Gotham that can securely integrate data in any format, according to a request for information (RFI) issued Tuesday.”
“The decision to possibly switch up cloud-based software-as-a-service providers comes after agencies like VA and the Department of Health and Human Services quickly awarded multi-million dollar contracts to the Silicon Valley company for its data services, citing the ‘unusual and compelling urgency’ of coronavirus recovery…”
“VA seeks interoperable services that can be deployed in a day and quickly configured for its analysts to efficiently create data visualizations and workflows. Solutions must preserve data ownership, allowing the owners to control security and access and audit use…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA open to alternatives to Palantir for coronavirus tracking – By Dave Nyczepir, September 4, 2020. FedScoop.
