Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) has joined Palantir Technologies Inc., the U.S. defense contractor announced Thursday. This confirms a months-long rumor about the union.
The China hawk, who championed legislation that could force TikTok’s China-based owner Bytedance to sell the app or face a U.S. ban, will join Palantir as their head of defense, replacing Doug Philippone, who will stay on as an advisor.
Gallagher’s hiring came as Palantir, a data-analyzing software company founded after 9/11 to work with U.S. intelligence agencies, boasted the strongest quarter in U.S. government contracts since 2022 and a 21 percent year-on-year jump in its international government revenue in the second quarter this year….