The Reuters report confirmed something the AI governance conversation had been circling without naming: Palantir is no longer a vendor the Pentagon chooses to use — it is infrastructure the Pentagon has chosen to depend on . The program of record designation is the formal mechanism by which the US military signals long-term commitment to a platform, generating the kind of institutional gravity that makes future displacement unlikely regardless of which administration holds power. The targeting system was already operational during the Iran conflict; what changed this week is its…