Palantir Maven Becomes Pentagon Backbone // AIDRAN

The phrase carries specific institutional weight that the public reaction largely missed. A program of record is not a large contract — it is a designation that embeds a system into the Pentagon's planning, budgeting, and acquisition cycle in a way that survives individual administrations and secretarial changes. The Jerusalem Post's coverage of the Feinberg memo noted Maven is already described as the primary AI operating system for the U.S. military — the designation does not introduce Maven, it makes removing it require dismantling a budgetary and operational architecture rather…

Palantir's Maven Is No Longer a Contract — It Is the Architecture

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