# Vanguard

- **Event:** [National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech)](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/3rd-annual-natsec-hackathon)
- **When:** May 2 at 9:00 AM – May 3 at 4:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** Shack15, San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Elijah Arbee](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/ebowwa), [Parnell Thrower III](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/PThrowerIII)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/ebowwa/meta-wearables-dat-ios
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/RHOalwk9Ifk
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/3rd-annual-natsec-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/3rd-annual-natsec-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/28

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.

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