Vanguard

Vanguard — Real-Time Persistent Surveillance for Palantir Foundry The problem with military surveillance today is that every option requires too much: drones need operators and FAA clearance, fixed cameras need infrastructure, radio reporting takes hands and attention, and nothing writes automatically into Palantir Foundry. Vanguard turns a $300 pair of Ray-Ban glasses into a Palantir-native intelligence sensor. A soldier puts them on and starts walking. The system detects every person in view, assigns them a persistent track ID that survives even when they briefly leave frame, and writes live TrackedPerson objects directly into Palantir Foundry — automatically, in real time, with no operator input. When someone crosses a predefined zone, a ZoneTransition event fires in Foundry. Bounding boxes and track IDs overlay the glasses stream. The soldier's phone runs everything on-device. Nothing requires a tablet, a drone, fixed infrastructure, or someone staring at a screen. The pipeline runs on Meta DAT SDK 0.6.0, Apple Vision for person detection, OC-SORT for persistent tracking, a Bun/TypeScript relay server, and Palantir Foundry Ontology API for live intelligence writes. A web Command Center shows all live streams, per-workflow telemetry, and per-node firing analytics in real time. The US Military already runs on Palantir. Vanguard didn't build another dashboard. It built the sensor that feeds it — hiding in plain sight.