Palantir CTO's US Army Reserve role focuses on identifying soldier coders

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, who is a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve, has described his primary duty as identifying soldiers with coding skills. He works with the Army's personnel department to locate these programmers within the ranks. Sankar noted that junior enlisted soldiers with programming abilities currently lack a defined career path. He is a member of the Army's Detachment 201, an innovation unit he joined this year alongside executives from Meta and former OpenAI staff.