DHS signs a $1 billion buying agreement with Palantir

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.

In 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).

Federal 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).

How we know: 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.