🚨BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich will co-lead Project Meridian, a new War Department effort to map the future of warfare "from under the Earth to beyond the Moon."
The trio will work under War Department CTO Emil Michael, joined by hand-picked private sector leaders and subject matter experts.
Hegseth also unveiled a new Autonomous Warfare Command focused on AI, robotics, and drone warfare.
"Project Meridian, the future of warfare, is not about developing new strategies or new policies. We already do that. Rather, its purpose is to creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer and capabilities we must master. We should have been thinking about autonomous warfare command 10 years ago... It is futuristic on purpose."
"Their work will be focused on discovering, developing, and fielding the weapons and systems that our children and our grandchildren will need in their lifetimes, without any creative limitations or restrictions."
"I'm directing Project Meridian's findings to be completed and submitted within 120 days, culminating in a full public rollout. Of course, [with] a classified annex... Our first meeting with those three great Americans and a small group of us is happening in a SCIF about 200 yards away. Right after this speech, we are going to hit the ground running."
"Project Meridian will ruthlessly map the trajectory of wars, domains, and technologies to ensure this War Department, your War Department, dominates the future."