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DOD
DOD
abbreviation
Department of Defense
Example Sentences
The backlash intensified when users noticed a detail in Oura’s post: Palantir, the controversial software company partly founded by Peter Thiel, was involved because of Palantir’s software and data contract with the DOD.
This followed an Aug. 27 announcement: Oura, the Finnish health technology company behind the smart ring, announced it was opening a manufacturing facility in Texas to “better meet the needs of the DoD.”
A company spokesperson told Slate that while the news about the manufacturing facility was new, the nature of the relationship between Oura and the DOD, which began in 2019, had not changed.
But for many users, the fact that the DOD is Oura’s largest enterprise customer was new information—and unwelcome.
The DOD can only access data that has been shared by service members who’ve consented.
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