Palantir Technologies and Texas-based non-profit BlueForge Alliance have been selected by the U.S. Navy’s recently formed Maritime Industrial Base (MIB) program office to spearhead “Warp Speed for Warships,” a digital-transformation initiative aimed at accelerating warship production and fleet readiness. The project will deploy Palantir’s Foundry software—rebranded in this context as the Warp Speed manufacturing operating system—to connect shipbuilders, suppliers and other stakeholders across the maritime industrial base. BlueForge, which has received more than $1 billion in Navy funding since its 2022 founding, said the partnership would give shipyards the data tools needed to scale output and improve resilience. “Our strategic partnership with Palantir is about moving with urgency and precision,” BlueForge co-chief executive Kiley Wren said in the joint announcement. The award is part of a broader push by the Navy to modernize shipbuilding workflows. Earlier this week, Huntington Ingalls Industries expanded a separate partnership with C3 AI to apply artificial-intelligence tools across its Newport News and Ingalls shipyards, targeting gains in planning, logistics and supply-chain management.