US EditionU.S. Navy Hires Palantir to Reorganize Shipbuilding Supply Chain With AI
The $448 million contract deploys AI tools across shipyards and suppliers to cut submarine production times and improve visibility into schedule, cost, and risk, Navy officials said.
- On Tuesday night in downtown Washington, D.C., Navy Secretary John Phelan and Palantir chief Alex Karp announced Shipbuilding Operating System under a $448 million contract.
- To address long-standing shortfalls, ShipOS targets the Submarine Industrial Base to boost production capacity and tackle decades-old problems rooted in outdated tech and work practices.
- Pilot programs demonstrated concrete time savings, with ShipOS deployed across two major shipbuilders, three public shipyards, and 100 suppliers, cutting Electric Boat’s scheduling from 160 hours to under 10 minutes.
- The two-year contract ties Palantir payouts to measurable results such as reducing valve delivery from 12 to 10 months, overseen by Maritime Industrial Base Program and Naval Sea Systems Command.
- Looking beyond submarines, the Navy plans to apply lessons to surface ship programs after validating approaches, while Palantir likened the effort to Project Maven and said it's 'absorbing the risk along with you' amid the DoD GenAI.mil launch.
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The Navy says AI cut a 160-hour submarine-planning job down to just 10 minutes — now it's investing $448 million to go bigger
After an initial focus on submarine shipbuilders and shipyards, the AI program will expand to surface ship programs.US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Heather C. Wamsley/releasedThe Navy's investing almost half a billion dollars on a new, Palantir-powered AI system for shipbuilding.Ship OS sped up the workflow for submarine jobs.This capability is starting with private and public yards and will steadily expand into other sh…
Navy, Palantir announce software tool to accelerate shipbuilding
The Navy today announced the launch of a new software tool from Palantir Technologies intended to accelerate shipbuilding and repair, which will be rolled out at three of the four public shipyards, two private yards and 100 supply chain companies in the coming months. The system, dubbed Ship OS, is an artificial intelligence-powered shipbuilding operating system similar to Palantir's Maven Smart System, according to Navy Secretary John Phelan an…
Navy, Palantir Announce $448M ‘Ship OS’ AI Tool for Shipbuilding and Repair
The Navy’s four public shipyards and two unidentified private shipyards are working with Palantir for a program the service is calling “Ship OS” as part of a new $448 million effort to improve efficiency through better use of data. Announced at an industry day on Tuesday, the Shipbuilding Operating System program, or Ship OS, will collect data from across the new construction and maintenance systems to streamline shipbuilding and the repair of t…
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