BREAKING | Made in America: How Palantir Is Modernizing the Military With AI
Greg Little, Senior Counselor at Palantir
Greg Little, Senior Counselor at Palantir, joins Sourcery to discuss how AI is reshaping national defense, why America must rebuild its manufacturing base (especially with ships), and the urgent need to weaponize capitalism.
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Greg shares a Game of Thrones-inspired breakdown of the defense ecosystem—from Lockheed to startups—and how Palantir’s tools are driving outcomes across the U.S. Navy, industrial supply chains, and even hospital systems. We unpack how the Pentagon needs to evolve, why AI isn’t just hype, and why Palantir’s First Breakfast initiative is the best defense movement ever.
This conversation is part of Sourcery’s “Made in America” Mini-Series recorded at the Reindustrialize 2025 Summit.
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Topics include:
Palantir’s work with the Navy & defense contractors
The national security implications of China’s manufacturing scale
Why America must learn to build again
How AI is being deployed in shipbuilding, logistics, and battlefield awareness
The Pentagon’s Game of Thrones: Pentagon = Iron Throne, Lockheed = Lannisters, Startups = Starks
The economics of government procurement vs. value
Financial audits as a weapon of war
Palantir’s infrastructure advantage for startups
How AI can close the “kill chain” & the “cash chain”
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Palantir's Role in Reindustrializing America
(04:02) How Palantir is deploying AI across the U.S. Navy
(05:16) The China Shipbuilding Gap: 200 to 1
(06:34) Game of Thrones Analogy: Defense tech's competing houses
(13:18) “First Breakfast”: “Weaponizing Capitalism”
(17:13) Why the Pentagon’s obsession with cost hurts national security
(21:03) AI + Capitalism vs. Bureaucracy: Who Wins?
(24:51) What Palantir actually does
(26:45) Can financial audits help win wars? (Yes!)
(30:21) Ontologies, explained (kind of)
(34:12) The “Alien Autopsy Room”
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