Palantir Signed a $300 Million Dollar Deal with the USDA to 'Modernize' how the Government serves American Farmers....
This should scare you and wake you up simultaneously
Palantir just signed a $300 million dollar deal with the USDA to modernize how the Government serves American Farmers.
Palantir just signed a $300 million deal with the USDA to modernize how the government serves American Farmers. It falls under the National Farms Security Action Plan, which now treats farmland and food production as critical national security infrastructure. The project is called: One Farmer, One File and it puts every USDA interaction a farm has, including loans, subsidies, and disaster aid, not a digital profile so farmers can apply from their phones and get paid in days instead of weeks. *This is the latest federal contract for Palantir, which also recently signed a $1 billion deal with DHS for immigration and intelligence work.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has partnered with Palantir Technologies under a $300 million blanket purchase agreement, or BPA, to support the National Farm Security Action Plan and enhance service delivery to U.S. farmers.
04 / 22 / 2026 - USDA and Palantir Launch Partnership to Deliver Faster, Modernized Support for Farmers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Palantir Technologies Inc. announced the signing of a $300 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to America’s farmers. The agreement advances two priorities: strengthening farm security as a national security imperative and accelerating producer-first program delivery across USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) mission areas. Building on capabilities already in use at USDA, Palantir will provide operational software to enable USDA to improve service delivery for American farmers and government field staff — and in doing so, secure the nation’s breadbasket.
Farm security is national security. Through this partnership, Palantir is empowering USDA with core capabilities that will enable it to secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse, and foreign adversary influence. In doing so, USDA will gain critical visibility into risks that can affect America’s agricultural production and food supply.
This agreement also supports USDA’s ‘One Farmer, One File’ initiative, which is cutting the red tape farmers face when accessing USDA services, delivering digital-first tools they can use from home, reducing time-to-payment, and accelerating post-disaster recovery. This builds on existing work with USDA’s Landmark platform powered by Palantir, which backed the rollout of the $11 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program in February. Within 62 minutes of opening, the program broke all prior USDA records for online farmer sign-ups - allowing farmers to enroll without visiting a county office and delivering over $4.4 billion directly to farmers in the program’s first five days.
This is an excellent X post -
“The USDA just handed Palantir a $300 million no-bid contract to consolidate American farm data into a single platform, and the details deserve more attention than they are getting. The deal, built around something called "One Farmer, One File," will give one company a unified digital profile of every farmer in the country, their land, their subsidies, their supply chains, all of it running through the same Foundry platform that already powers ICE deportations and military targeting.
Since trump took office, Palantir's federal contracts have nearly doubled, spanning Defense, Homeland Security, ICE, Treasury, Justice, HHS, and now the USDA. The USDA is just the latest door to open, and this one leads straight to the food supply.”
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USDA Launches ‘One Farmer, One File’ Initiative to Better Support Farmers
“The goal of “One Farmer, One File” is to reduce the administrative burden for farmers. Additionally, this effort will make program delivery more efficient, save time for USDA staff, and decrease spending on disparate information technology systems.
The “One Farmer, One File” initiative is part of a broad modernization effort to unify all FSA, NRCS and RMA systems. This uniformed system will retire legacy systems and remove agency silos. USDA began work on this system in 2025 and plans to greatly advance the effort in 2026. USDA anticipates completing the project in 2028.
The “One Farmer, One File” initiative and broader modernization effort are just one example of how the Trump Administration is committed to simplifying and streamlining programs for producers. For example, USDA is using Login.gov to expedite Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) payments to producers. The Administration is also streamlining its conservation programs to make it easier for producers to bundle and apply for the practices needed on their farms.
While in San Antonio, Secretary Rollins also visited Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boenig’s farm to launch the Deregulatory Agenda for American Agriculture and Consumers (PDF, 5.6 MB) which is a package of deregulatory actions taken by the Trump Administration to cut red tape, unleash innovation, and increase affordability for farmers, ranchers, and consumers. In just one year, President Trump cut 129 regulations for every new one resulting in $211.8 billion in net cost savings.”
NATIONAL FARM SECURITY ACTION PLAN - (Dept of War)
"We're going to promote agricultural and economic prosperity, defend the foundations of agriculture and food ... and strengthen domestic and agricultural productivity," Hegseth said. "Together, we are elevating the protection of U.S. agriculture into America's national security framework by ensuring systems remain protected against potential terror attacks, major disasters and other emergencies, with the full support of the Department of War and the national security enterprise."
In July 2025, the Agriculture Department announced the National Farm Security Action Plan, a governmentwide, multiprong effort focused on ensuring America's ability to secure its own food supply, in part by eliminating interference from adversarial nations. Part of that plan involves using presidential authorities to reclaim farmland in the U.S. currently owned by foreign adversaries — such as China — including land owned by adversarial nations that encroaches on U.S. military installations.
"When our farmland is threatened, the welfare of the entire nation is put on the line," Rollins said. "It is undeniable that America's enemies are playing the long game, infiltrating our research institutions, stealing our technology, launching cyberattacks on our food system and buying up our farmland. China alone owns 265,000 acres of American agricultural land ... these actions expose strategic vulnerabilities in America's food and agriculture supply chain."
The National Farm Security Action Plan is designed to protect America's farmland, and DOW is part of that effort. The MOU solidifies the department's commitment to the plan.”
NATIONAL FARM SECURITY ACTION PLAN - (Dept of War)
“Agriculture is foundational to our nation. Our Founders saw agriculture as the essential pursuit to the cultivation of republican ideals. Americans, after all, must eat. Today, threats to American agriculture not only expose us to risks of
shortages, foreign dependencies, and higher prices but they also strike at one of the most essential pillars of the American republic. Defending access to American abundance and preserving the American experiment is the essence of agriculture security. And it is why farm security is national security. The food and agriculture sector is designated as critical infrastructure. National Security Memorandum (NSM)-16 and NSM-22 make it national policy to defend food and agriculture systems against terror attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. This vital sector is a known target for terrorists and malicious actors. Intelligence gathered by American forces in Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks uncovered documents involving U.S. agriculture along with al-Qaeda training manuals specifically targeting agriculture. The food and agriculture sector entails vast open space and distances, interconnected “just in time” networks, transboundary movement of products, and dependence on new technology that creates a tempting, target-rich environment for malicious actors.”
NATIONAL FARM SECURITY ACTION PLAN
This National Farm Security Action Plan enables USDA to begin its work alongside other Cabinet officials, Congress, and State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments to address the imperative for agriculture security in America.
This Action Plan serves as the launching point for USDA to work in further unison with governors, state legislators, and other partners to fully integrate agriculture into the broader national security enterprise over the coming months and years. Together, we can and must protect and expand the resilience and durability of the U.S. food supply.
More broadly, this bold Action Plan articulates key activities that will:
• Promote Agricultural and Economic Prosperity through securing our nation's farmland, identifying gaps in the supply chain and other security vulnerabilities.
• Defend the Foundations of Agriculture and Food by enhancing research security and evaluating all USDA programs to ensure they put America First.
• Strengthen Domestic Agricultural Productivity through safeguarding
plant and animal health, protecting critical infrastructure, and promoting
American agricultural products in the U.S. and abroad.