Armor: Helsing attacks Palantir with a new product on the software market

The defense company is launching an agent-based AI platform. It is intended to help with the evaluation of military data. This means that Helsing could score points with the Bundeswehr.

Berlin, Düsseldorf. Europe's most valuable defense start-up Helsing is competing with the US company Palantir in the software market for armed forces with a new AI product. “With Clarity, European armed forces receive software that is developed in Europe, runs on their own infrastructure and remains under their control,” said Helsing’s co-chief Gundbert Scherf at the presentation of the agent-based AI platform in Berlin on Wednesday.

According to him, there is currently a “surplus of information and data overload”. Scherf asked: “What’s the point of terabytes of data if we need hours to evaluate them?”

The fact that Helsing is now introducing the software is no coincidence. The Bundeswehr wants to digitize and standardize its data collection. The BWI, the Bundeswehr's IT system house, is currently viewing offers from 30 companies.

Helsing is already one of them together with the sensor manufacturer Hensoldt. It was initially unclear whether the new Clarity software was already available to the BWI. Scherf said it was not possible to comment on specific tenders.

The Bundeswehr wants to present a prototype in early summer

The software should be able to evaluate combat data in real time and pass it on to soldiers in order to gain an information advantage. Thomas Daum, Vice Admiral and Inspector of Cyber ​​and Information Space for the Bundeswehr, told the Handelsblatt in September: “Market exploration is ongoing and I am optimistic that we will be able to present a prototype in the second quarter of 2027.”