U.S. Navy announces partnership with Palantir to deploy AIP across the MIB

The U.S. Navy announced a partnership with Palantir (PLTR) Technologies to deploy Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform, or AIP, across the nation’s Maritime Industrial Base, or MIB. The initiative, ShipOS, authorizes up to $448M to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and autonomy technologies across the industrial base. ShipOS will leverage Palantir’s software to bring modern best practices to the complex, data-heavy environment of Navy shipbuilding. The initiative, managed by the Maritime Industrial Base, or MIB, Program in collaboration with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), will aggregate data from enterprise resource planning systems, legacy databases, and operational sources to identify bottlenecks, streamline engineering workflows, and support proactive risk mitigation, providing a unified, data-driven approach to production management that enables faster, more informed decisions. During pilot deployments, these AI-powered capabilities demonstrated transformative results. At General Dynamics Electric Boat, submarine schedule planning was reduced from 160 manual hours to under 10 minutes, while Portsmouth Naval Shipyard cut material review times from weeks to under one hour. These early outcomes demonstrate that integrating AI and autonomy directly into shipbuilding operations can dramatically improve efficiency, accuracy, and output.