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Using Palantir with Open Source Data: Finding and Preventing Fraud in Stimulus Spending
Douglas Hassebrock, Assistant Director, Investigations, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Alex Fishman, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (HR.1) established the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse in Stimulus Spending. Analysts use Palantir to carry out their mission by fusing open source and transactional data sets to find anomalous spending patterns. Once anomalous behavior has been discovered analysts link the corporate entities and individuals associated with the fraud to build a target package for investigation and prosecution by the appropriate agencies in the oversight community. The Board captures its analytical experience by building predictive models in Palantir that agencies use to better allocate resources to combat fraud.
