cost-plus development contract. One of the capabilities that bidders had to demonstrate was that they had in place an accounting system able to track the hours worked that would be billed to the government as hundreds of staffers labored away writing the new software. Palantir, of course, had...
The pressure from the field became ammunition for Palantir’s growing platoon of Washington lobbyists. Philippone and his staff often got copies of the email traffic going to the Pentagon, which their lobbyists passed along to staffers on Capitol Hill. Emails and memos—like one that saying “...