The US Department of Agriculture and Palantir Technologies have agreed to a $300 million contract to help carry out the National Farm Security Action Plan and improve how the USDA serves American farmers, reports CNBC.
USDA awarded the contract directly to Palantir, saying it was the only company with the right federal approvals, data models, and system connections to meet the project’s deadlines. This agreement builds on Palantir’s previous work with the USDA’s Landmark platform and launches the ‘One Farmer, One File’ initiative as the main goal. The full system is expected to be ready by 2028.
The agreement will consolidate USDA’s legacy systems into a single platform powered by Palantir Foundry. This should lower maintenance needs, boost data security, and help deliver programs more quickly.
A key part of the deal is the ‘One Farmer, One File’ initiative, which will give each farmer a single digital profile. Farmers will be able to apply for services, submit data, and receive payments all in one place, so they won’t have to visit offices in person.
This marks Palantir’s third big federal contract in the past three months, after a $75 million USDA remote-sensing deal and work on the $185 billion Golden Dome program. While the $300 million contract is much smaller than Palantir’s 2026 revenue target of $7.2 billion, it helps the company stay ahead in federal data modernisation. Palantir’s 2025 revenue was $4.5 billion, up 56% from the previous year, with US government revenue rising 55%.
USDA expects the full platform to be ready by 2028, bringing together the FSA, NRCS, and RMA into one digital system. In the short term, goals include rolling out online acreage reporting across the country, improving the Landmark platform’s disaster recovery and subsidy payments, and building tools for fraud detection and monitoring foreign threats as part of the NFSAP.
