Mercury Systems and Palantir Technologies just agreed to automate the exact process that once nearly cost Mercury its credibility with the Pentagon.
Three years ago, the Andover, Massachusetts, defense electronics maker was writing down earnings and answering to an activist investor because its factories could not deliver on schedule
Now it is handing that problem to the company built on turning chaotic government data into usable decisions. Mercury (MRCY) makes the ruggedized processing hardware that lets radar systems, jets, and missiles handle enormous volumes of data in real time. Palantir (PLTR) makes the software the U.S. military increasingly relies on to fuse intelligence and logistics data into a single operating picture.
Combining them is less about new technology and more about repairing an old weakness. What Palantir will actually do inside Mercury’s plants Under the agreement, first detailed in a Seeking Alpha report on Monday, Aug. 3, Palantir will deploy two initial workflows inside Mercury’s factories to streamline material planning and cut manual scheduling work. The company will also build what it calls an enterprise ontology, essentially a digital twin of Mercury’s operations, using Palantir’s Foundry platform.