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Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says

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The Pentagon has engaged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to help identify future military capabilities, technologies, and weapons for a new initiative called Project Meridian.

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In this article The Pentagon is tapping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk , defense technology entrepreneur and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to to identify the military capabilities, technologies and weapons the U.S. may need in future wars, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday. The initiative, dubbed Project Meridian, will spend 120 days looking years and decades ahead at how warfare could change and what capabilities the U.S. military will need to maintain a technological edge. "Project Meridian, the future of warfare, is not about developing new strategies or new policies," Hegseth said. Instead, he said, its purpose is to "identify the domains that we must conquer, and capabilities we must master." This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.

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Sep 30, 2026

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Sep 30, 2026
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