The USDA awarded Palantir Technologies a no-bid contract worth up to $75 million to monitor federal workers' return-to-office compliance. Contract tasks include 'real-time analytics to optimize space utilization and employee seat assignments' and 'continuous compliance monitoring' for 'regulatory compliance officers and other personnel upon detection of threats or anomalies.' The government sought no other bids. This represents Palantir's expansion from immigration enforcement surveillance into monitoring the entire federal workforce -- the same company that built ICE's deportation targeting system now tracks whether federal employees are at their desks. Palantir has secured more than $900 million in federal contracts in 2026 alone. Internal DHS documents reveal plans to spend hundreds of millions on additional AI-powered surveillance technologies.