{
  "version": "3.33",
  "compiled": "2026-10-09",
  "site": "https://stateofwatch.com",
  "claim": {
    "id": "palantir-dhs-bpa",
    "section": 1,
    "title": "DHS signs a $1 billion buying agreement with Palantir",
    "date": "Feb 12, 2026",
    "sort": "2026-02-12",
    "status": "verified",
    "checked": "3.31",
    "note": "The agreement and its orders read directly in federal award records (Oct 3, 2026). Palantir's internal email is WIRED's reporting. Corrected Oct 3, 2026: earlier versions put FEMA and CISA on the wrong list.",
    "category": "contract",
    "summary": "The Department of Homeland Security signed a five-year agreement that lets its agencies buy up to $1 billion of Palantir's data-analysis software and services without running a new competition for each purchase. By September 2026, ICE and the Secret Service had placed orders worth more than $150 million under it.",
    "body": "DHS signed the blanket purchase agreement on Feb 12, 2026: up to $1 billion over five years for Palantir's commercial software licenses, maintenance and implementation services across the department. It is issued under Palantir's General Services Administration schedule, and orders placed under it need no separate competition. WIRED reported that this lets agencies like CBP and ICE \"essentially skip the competitive bidding process\" for new Palantir purchases.\n\nIn an internal email, Palantir's chief technology officer, Akash Jain, said the agreement could expand the company's reach to the Secret Service, FEMA, TSA and CISA (WIRED, Feb 19).\n\nFederal award records list three orders under it as of Oct 3, 2026: $18.7 million for the Secret Service (\"data modeling,\" March 18), $86.3 million for the case-management system of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (April 30) and $45.8 million for case-management and analytics systems at ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (June 24).",
    "quotes": [],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "USAspending: DHS blanket purchase agreement 70RTAC26A00000001 with Palantir, and its orders",
        "primary": true,
        "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_70RTAC26A00000001_7001"
      },
      {
        "label": "WIRED, Feb 19, 2026",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/department-homeland-security-ice-billion-dollar-agreement-palantir/"
      },
      {
        "label": "SiliconANGLE, Feb 19, 2026",
        "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/19/dhs-awards-palantir-1b-deploy-ai-data-analytics-platforms/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Nasdaq"
      }
    ],
    "places": [],
    "url": "https://stateofwatch.com/claims/palantir-dhs-bpa"
  }
}