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L3Harris: 10 minutes to scope a supply shortage, down from 3 months and 30 people

L3Harris (defense) reported this on 10 Sep 2026 in company self-report (source). It belongs to the data and ontology layer.

What they built

An enterprise data layer on Palantir Foundry unifying 33 ERPs (~3.5M data connections), feeding a Sector Control Tower for executives and a Program Digital Cockpit for program teams.

The result

Scoping which programs a glass shortage for circuit boards affects now takes ~10 minutes, versus ~3 months and ~30 people before; a fine-tuned open model on the same data beat a frontier model on country-of-origin monitoring at 95% lower model cost.

The number covers impact scoping of a supply constraint (not resolution of the shortage); the cost figure covers one narrow monitoring task.

“The cost of our fine-tuned open-source model was 95% lower than the frontier models we were using,” L3Harris said.

The layer: data and ontology

Shared definitions of your metrics and records, used by both staff and agents.

  • One definition for every metric that matters
  • Linked objects across ERPs, CRM and documents
  • A log of human decisions and their reasons

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