LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- USDA signed a $300 million deal with Palantir Technologies Inc. this week to help the agency implement its "One Farmer, One File" initiative announced in February to help farmers reduce paperwork.

The deal announced with Palantir is expected to help modernize how the agency delivers services to farmers. The agreement is designed to strengthen farm security to accelerate the delivery of farmer programs in USDA's farm production and conservation areas, according to a news release from Palantir.

As part of the deal, Palantir will provide operational software to help USDA improve service delivery and to enable the agency to "secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse and foreign adversary influence."

"America depends on its farmers and USDA is moving fast to give them the technology they need," said Ali Monfre, federal engineering lead at Palantir.

Palantir said the latest agreement "builds on existing work" with USDA's Landmark platform powered by Palantir. That platform backed the rollout of the $11 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) program in February.

"One Farmer, One File" is meant to provide all a farmer's USDA program data in one file that will be accessed by the Farm Service Agency and the Natural Resources Conservation Service when a farmer enrolls in a program at the department.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins touted the initiative at Commodity Classic in February, when the agency launched FBA enrollment during which over 35,000 signups were tallied in a few days.

"Protecting America's farmland is protecting America itself and this work gives USDA the visibility and speed needed to safeguard our food supply," USDA Chief Information Officer Sam Berry said in a statement.

"Our farmers sustain this nation and modern tools help us support them with greater precision. I look forward to working with Palantir as we continue serving the American farming community, which serves all of us every single day."

Landmark is also enabling USDA to "transform" how farmers report acreage through self-service digital tools, according to the news release.

"For farmers, every hour of daylight matters -- they shouldn't have to spend it sitting in field offices or driving far from their land," the company said.

"Landmark gives farmers more options, enabling them to utilize county offices or self-service online tools according to their preference. Palantir is similarly empowering USDA's field staff with mobile digital tools that help them work efficiently, reduce administrative burdens, and accelerate services and payments to farmers."

Palantir said underpinning these farmer-facing capabilities is a broader transformation of USDA's technology infrastructure. The Landmark platform backed by Palantir is consolidating fragmented legacy systems into a secure, unified foundation -- reducing maintenance burden, strengthening data security, and enabling USDA to move faster as new programs and priorities emerge.

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