Bureaucracy or Incompetence? At the Washington Times is an interesting story of a Stryker Brigade Commander requesting Palantir fully SIX MONTHS before deployment only to receive it in the last month or two of deployment. This is the untold story of how the Army, according to those close to Col. Tunnell, resisted his requests and relented only when he was in actual combat. The Palantir shipment did not arrive until February 2010. By the time it showed up and soldiers became acclimated to it, the brigade was in its last months of deployment Of course, the Army denies that this occured and that the unit deployed with Palantir... Read more: Unit’s fight for better anti-IED software won after heavy casualties - Washington Times
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