Dec 22 (Reuters) - Data analytics firm Palantir

Technologies ( PLTR ) and defense tech company Anduril

Industries are in talks with about a dozen competitors to form a

consortium that will jointly bid for U.S. government work, the

Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The consortium is planning to announce as early as January

that it has reached agreements with a number of tech groups and

the companies in talks to join include SpaceX, OpenAI,

autonomous shipbuilder Saronic, and artificial intelligence data

group Scale AI, FT said citing several people with knowledge of

the matter.