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2025-06-15
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The absence of ethics agreement records for FBI employees transitioning to Palantir Technologies is consistent with the general unavailability of such records for career civil servants, who file ethics agreements with…
2024-09-19
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U.S. Civil Rights Commission found FBI is primary DOJ agency utilizing facial recognition technology for generating leads in criminal investigations
2024-06-15
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FBI technology contracts worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars are awarded through the DOJ's ITSSS-2 vehicle ($8 billion cap), meaning they appear under DOJ's name in USASpending rather than the FBI's…
2024-06-15
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The ITSSS-2 contract vehicle ($8 billion) filed under the Department of Justice rather than the FBI provides a structural mechanism for technology procurement to be opaque at the FBI-specific level
2024-06-15
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The ITSSS-2 contract vehicle's $8 billion cap provides a procurement pathway that enables FBI to spend hundreds of millions on Palantir, Clearview AI, and other surveillance technology without creating direct FBI…
2024-06-15
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The FBI's ITSSS-2 task orders are reported in USASpending under the DOJ's contract identifier, not under a separate FBI-specific contract number, but individual orders can be identified by filtering for 'ordering…
2024-06-15
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Palantir Technologies' SEC filings (10-K, 2021-2024) classify revenue from FBI contracts within an aggregated 'U.S. government' revenue line item, making individual contract values for FBI-specific technology systems…
2024-06-15
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FBI's use of the DOJ-wide ITSSS-2 contract vehicle, valued at $8 billion, allows the Bureau to acquire technology without filing separate contract records under 'FBI' in USASpending, consistent with standard federal…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's use of the ITSSS-2 contract vehicle, worth $8 billion and available to all DOJ components, creates a structural mechanism where FBI-specific technology acquisitions may be recorded only as DOJ-wide spending…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's use of DOJ-wide contract vehicles such as ITSSS-2 ($8 billion cap) consolidates procurement records under parent agency DUNS numbers, making FBI-specific awards unresolvable by standard USASpending queries…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's use of the $8 billion ITSSS-2 umbrella contract vehicle, which allows all DOJ components to procure technology services as task orders, is a legally distinct mechanism from FOIA (c)(3) exclusion that could…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's use of DOJ's ITSSS-2 contract vehicle, worth $8 billion, provides a structural mechanism through which FBI-specific technology procurements may be reported as DOJ-wide spending, reducing per-agency…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's ITSSS-2 contract vehicle, valued at $8 billion, consolidates procurement from all DOJ components including the FBI, meaning individual FBI technology procurements worth hundreds of millions are invisible to…
2024-06-01
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The FBI's $8 billion ITSSS-2 contract vehicle, available to all DOJ components, provides a structural channel through which FBI procurement spending can appear in USASpending under the Department of Justice parent…
2024-06-01
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FBI's ITSSS-2 contract vehicle worth $8 billion is available for use by all DOJ components including the FBI
2024-06-01
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The ITSSS-2 contract vehicle is publicly valued at $8 billion and is available to all DOJ components, but individual FBI task orders awarded under this vehicle may not be searchable by 'FBI' in USASpending if filed…
2024-01-01
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A 2024 review of Palantir's SEC filings shows that FBI contracts are reported as part of aggregated federal revenue, preventing public identification of specific technology systems acquired or their deployment scope.
2023-09-12
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GAO found FBI initially used facial recognition services without requiring staff training, with only 10 staff completing training out of 196 who accessed services
2022-06-15
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The FBI's $18,000 Clearview AI licensing agreement, established in 2022, may have been awarded through the ITSSS-2 contract vehicle or another non-standard pathway, given the absence of publicly recorded competitive…
2022-01-01
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Palantir was initially funded in 2022 by the US Central Intelligence Agency's venture-capital arm to provide data-analytics software to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the Department of…
2022-01-01
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The FBI signed an $18,000 licensing agreement with Clearview AI in 2022 for facial recognition technology
2022-01-01
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In-Q-Tel funded Palantir Technologies in its early stages, and Palantir subsequently received FBI contracts; this funding pathway may allow technology development to proceed without FBI procurement disclosure until…
2021-01-01
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Incidents of data leaks or mismanagement have been noted, including the 2021 software misconfiguration that allowed some FBI employees unwarranted access (which, according to Palantir, was because the end user did not…
2021-01-01
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FBI's own data management failure in 2021, where a software misconfiguration on Palantir-linked systems allowed unwarranted employee access, occurred on a system whose acquisition and operation were not subject to…
2020-06-15
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FBI contracts with Palantir Technologies, disclosed in Palantir's SEC S-1 filing, are not reflected in publicly searchable USASpending records under the FBI as the awarding agency, which is consistent with the contract…
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