The Army collapsed 75 data and software contracts into one deal potentially worth $10 billion—a deal won by Palantir—and it’s just the beginning of how the service wants to buy software.

“This is going to be one of many enterprise licensing agreements that we're looking at entering into,” Army CIO Leonel Garciga told reporters.

The goal is to reduce costs, while making it easier to buy software and getting the functions the service needs “on demand.”

“We have a lot of big software packages that are out there. They've been bought over several years, several program offices, several commands [and] not getting a lot of parity across the board on how they're being delivered. Adding a lot of complexities,” Garciga said. “But our intent is to continue to move down this path, to really focus o

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