NATO agrees sole-source procurement of Palantir's Maven

UK UAV pilots seen during NATO Exercise ‘Steadfast Defender' in Poland on 26 February 2024. It is intended that data feeds from systems including UAVs will be better shared and integrated across alliance forces using MSS NATO. (MoD/Crown Copyright)

NATO allies agreed to a sole-source procurement of Palantir's Maven Smart System NATO (MSS NATO) software, a representative of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) told Janes .

The procurement took only six months, one of the quickest in NATO's history. It is expected the system will be in use in May 2025. Maven was already “active and proven across nine different NATO nations contributing to real-world operations”, the SHAPE representative added.

An official from NATO's Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT) told Janes on 23 April that Maven would be demonstrated at the alliance's Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise 2025 (CWIX25) in the second quarter (Q2) but that it would not be officially tested alongside other capabilities at that time for technical reasons. The official added that they look forward to deeper involvement from Maven during the 2026 NATO exercise cycle.

Maven is designed to connect multiple command, control, and communications (C3) systems so that the “data collected from older systems, third-party apps, and even custom solutions can be shared and leveraged in ways that were previously off-limits”, according to NATO's Allied Command Operations (ACO) in comments published in the SHAPE Community Life Magazine in March 2025.