https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980506 This was my guess. The government is disentangling itself from the

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980506 This was my guess. The government is disentangling itself from the company, because IAD guys are starting to realize that Palantir is just another consulting firm. Moreover, they're a consulting firm that failed to deliver on their promises. I'm not sure if they'll be audited and put to sleep, or if they have enough government patrons. FinTech has realized Palantir's tech is pretty pictures and the rest is just a datalake setup. To negotiate and buy it is hard, even when it was the new hot company. Then to actually run the software be prepared to pay high rates for their "forward deployed engineers", which the rest of us just call "software consultants." Their branding is excellent, in that they managed to offer a more "West Coast mentality," as I've heard sneered by government clients. Having worked and lived with devs from the Bay Area, I can say that the the government could use a lot of help from Silicon Valley. But Palantir is not the help they need.