GE’s Palantir AI Partnership is Expanding

GE Aerospace and Palantir Technologies Inc. have expanded their current partnership into a multi-year cooperative effort to implement agentic AI-enabled technology to maximize GE’s production of military aircraft engines, to improve productivity and ensure availability and readiness of defense systems.

The length and other terms of the new agreement were not revealed. It’s understood that Palantir software will aid GE in predicting equipment failures, identifying supply chain constraints, and optimizing parts availability for customers.

“Agentic” artificial intelligence is a class of AI applications capable of working autonomously to achieve specific goals by carrying out multi-step, complex functions with limited human involvement.

“GE Aerospace has spent decades building and sustaining the engines that drive American airpower. By pairing their deep engineering expertise with Palantir's AI-enabled software, our partnership is helping to unify data across the enterprise to keep more aircraft available and more airmen trained,” stated Palantir’s head of Defense technologies, Mike Gallagher.

The new partnership follows on an agreement announced last month by which Palantir is sharing its expertise with GE in an assignment from the Defense Logistics Agency to increase readiness for J85 small turbojet engines powering U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon training aircraft.

However, in their joint announcement the new partners reported about two years ago GE Aerospace and Palantir piloted a “sustainment workflow” that gave GE and the USAF visibility into parts demand and shortages, and identified improvements for readiness and efficiency.

Now, that capability is being applied across GE’s production systems to support sustainment, MRO, and new engine production.

GE Aerospace is using Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform across select supply-chain functions, helping coordinate fulfillment, sourcing, allocation, maintenance, repair, and customer service.

GE Aerospace supplies about a dozen different engine models to the Pentagon for various military aircraft, including the F110 for Boeing’s F-15EX/F-16; the F404/F414 for the Boeing F/A-18/T-7 fighter; the T700/T901 for the Boeing Apache and Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters; the T408 for the Boeing CH-53K helicopters; and F101/F118 for Boeing B-1B/B-2 bombers.

“As the demands on the warfighter and aviation have grown, so has the need for innovation—not only in hardware, but in the digital systems that enable supply chains to keep fleets mission-ready. To better address the evolving needs of our warfighters, GE Aerospace and Palantir have partnered to bolster warfighter readiness,” according to their joint announcement.