Germany’s Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) has chosen the French company ChapsVision over Palantir for its analysis tools, pushing the American company out of the running for that country’s data management software.
The BfV will use ArgonOS, ChapsVision’s data collection and analysis platform. The system connects disparate data sources including internal sovereign data, open source intelligence, and, allegedly, the dark net. The system is run locally and has no cloud connectivity for storage or artificial intelligence features.
Germany feels the move is vital to its own defence. In April 2026, Vice Admiral Dr. Thomas Daum, Germany’s Chief of Cyber and Information Domain Services, announced that the country would not be handing over its valuable intelligence data to outside and untrusted parties, including US-based Palantir.
“I don’t see that happening at all at the moment,” he said. “As much as we are interested in the functionality for our own database, it is simply inconceivable at themomentto grant industry staff access to the national database.”
The German officials are further concerned with using American private companies for “sensitive state infrastructure,” according to Opexnews.
