# ELITE **Entity class:** System, platform, or program **Domain:** Palantir and Enforcement ## Definition Palantir's field-facing lead-resolution application for ICE combines mapped leads, consolidated subject profiles, address-confidence scores, and geographic concentrations. It delivers integrated holdings as location-resolved work for field teams. ## Operational role The enforcement stack connects source records, case context, prioritization, and field-facing leads. ICM organizes investigative work; ImmigrationOS adds the functions described in its procurement; ELITE supplies maps, profiles, address scores, and lead concentrations. These are complementary roles in a pipeline that helps professionals find and act with greater coverage and competence. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|Investigative Case Management]] · [[wiki/Entity Resolution|Entity Resolution]] · [[wiki/Intelligence Fusion|Intelligence Fusion]]. ## Relationships - **developer:** [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir Technologies]]. - **field-lead confidence function:** [[wiki/Address-Confidence Scoring|Address-Confidence Scoring]]. - **pipeline role:** [[wiki/Intelligence Productization|Intelligence Productization]]. - **subject-view function:** [[wiki/Consolidated Case Profile|Consolidated Case Profile]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Field-facing lead resolution [[wiki/ELITE|ELITE]] turns integrated [[wiki/United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] holdings into location-resolved work for field teams. Its reported functions are a geospatial lead map, a consolidated subject profile, a confidence score for the current address, and the identification of geographic concentrations. The January 15, 2026 reporting drew on internal material, procurement records, and sworn testimony. The supplied operational account places reported use from September 2025. The user-guide reporting lists address information from [[wiki/United States Department of Health and Human Services|HHS]], [[wiki/United States Citizenship and Immigration Services|USCIS]], and [[wiki/Thomson Reuters CLEAR|Thomson Reuters CLEAR]]. Fortune connected the HHS feed with the 2025 ICE–[[wiki/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services|CMS]] interagency arrangement covering nearly 80 million enrollees. The guide’s statement that additional sources are being integrated describes an extensible source-data architecture. ## Address scoring and resource allocation ELITE’s scoring scale, weighting, and operational cutoff have not been published. Probabilistic record linkage provides a useful explanatory model: independent address assertions can be compared by recency, reliability, and agreement. The [[wiki/Fellegi-Sunter Model|Fellegi–Sunter]] framework is a historical methodological reference for that general discipline; the supplied account proposes it as a way to understand scoring rather than identifying ELITE’s implementation. An operational threshold determines when a team commits time, personnel, and vehicles to a location. A higher cutoff concentrates effort on stronger leads; a lower cutoff widens coverage. İnal’s productization stage explains the relationship: processed information becomes a decision product carrying confidence and a criterion for use. Address confidence and the action threshold perform different jobs within that product. ## Reported performance and continuing verification At the May 2026 [[wiki/Border Security Expo|Border Security Expo]], an ICE official reportedly described access to 20 million potential leads on agents’ iPhones through Palantir systems. 404 Media attributed its account to four attendees. The supplied secondary account names [[wiki/Matthew Elliston|Matthew Elliston]] and attributes access to 30–40 datasets, a location-success increase from about 27 percent to just under 80 percent, and some investigative tasks falling to 10–15 minutes. These remain attributed agency-performance figures, relayed through the cited reporting. Skip-tracing contracts supply a separate human location-verification service using records, field confirmation, and time-stamped photographs. The supplied account proposes a feedback connection between that service and address-score calibration. That connection is a useful architecture to investigate through the actual delivery specifications and data interfaces. The known roles already complement each other: software prioritizes and resolves leads, while field work can confirm a particular location. ## Position in the enforcement stack [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|ICM]] supplies case records and workflow, [[wiki/ImmigrationOS|ImmigrationOS]] supplies the prioritization and lifecycle functions described in its award, and ELITE delivers field-facing leads. LexisNexis procurement describes API delivery into the Palantir platform, while generative-AI tip triage processes incoming public information. Together those functions connect collection, enrichment, modeling, and productization with an operational recipient. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#VIII. Palantir, ImmigrationOS, ELITE, and the Contractor as Sovereign Function|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — VIII. Palantir, ImmigrationOS, ELITE, and the Contractor as Sovereign Function]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [404 Media — ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid, January 15, 2026](https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/) - [404 Media — ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir, May 12, 2026](https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/) - [Harici — Palantir Systems Give ICE Agents Access to 20 Million-Person Target List, Report Says](https://harici.com.tr/en/palantir-systems-give-ice-agents-access-to-20-million-person-target-list-report-says/) - [Sophie Feng and Jay Stanley, ACLU, All the Ways Palantir Is Assisting Trump's Abusive Removal Campaign (March 24, 2026).](https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/palantir-deportation-roundup) - [Fortune, Palantir/ICE Connections Draw Fire as Questions Raised About Tool Tracking Medicaid Data (January 26, 2026).](https://fortune.com/2026/01/26/ice-allegedly-uses-palantir-tool-tracking-medicaid-data/) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Thomson Reuters CLEAR|Thomson Reuters CLEAR]], [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir Technologies]], [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|Investigative Case Management]], [[wiki/Address-Confidence Scoring|Address-Confidence Scoring]], [[wiki/Target-Rich Areas|Target-Rich Areas]], [[wiki/Immigration-Nexus Mapping|Immigration-Nexus Mapping]], [[wiki/Cross-System Data Fusion|Cross-System Data Fusion]], [[wiki/Medicaid-Derived Enforcement Data|Medicaid-Derived Enforcement Data]], [[wiki/United States Department of Health and Human Services|United States Department of Health and Human Services]], [[wiki/United States Citizenship and Immigration Services|United States Citizenship and Immigration Services]], [[wiki/Consolidated Case Profile|Consolidated Case Profile]], [[wiki/Geospatial Lead Concentration|Geospatial Lead Concentration]], [[wiki/Matthew Elliston|Matthew Elliston]], [[wiki/Actionable-Location Product|Actionable-Location Product]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].