
That company is called Palantir Technologies, and if you don’t know much about it, that’s by design.Ī lot of that could change in the coming months, however: Palantir is about to go public. Looking for a tidy private-sector solution to a messy government problem, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paid a shadowy Silicon Valley company with ties to the Trump administration to build something new.


In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax machines, were woefully unprepared for the massive amounts of data they needed to process.
