Elon Musk to Co-Head War Departments Project

If you thought, following the end of Elon Musk’s DOGE tenure, that you’d seen the last of him in the Trump administration, you’d be sorely mistaken because he’s just been tapped to head up the Department of War’s new project Meridian alongside former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (GA-6) and younger protection tech billionaire Palmer Luckey.

Meridian will examine not only what weapons we needs to be focusing on in the future, but what domains we’ll need to dominate to guarantee our security. With the steering of Department of War Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael, the workforce is tasked over the next 120 days with not just predicting our wants in the next few years, but what we could require many years from now.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launched the trio Wednesday at his State of the Force tackle at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia:

🚨 THERE HE IS! Elon Musk just obtained appointed by SecWar Pete Hegseth to co-lead the Pentagon’s PROJECT MERIDIAN for the future of warfighting

And Elon made sure to personally show up for Hegseth’s State of the Force tackle in Quantico 🔥

Elon with President Trump to surge Super… pic.twitter.com/vB22T1ok69

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 30, 2026

🚨 THERE HE IS! Elon Musk just obtained appointed by SecWar Pete Hegseth to co-lead the Pentagon’s PROJECT MERIDIAN for the future of warfighting

And Elon made sure to personally show up for Hegseth’s State of the Force tackle in Quantico 🔥

Elon with President Trump to surge Super Intelligence at the White House yesterday, now he is serving to our army keep primary

PURE PATRIOT! 🇺🇸

They already have a cool brand:

From under the earth to past the moon, our warfighters can have technological superiority.

PROJECT MERIDIAN: THE FUTURE OF WARFARE 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Fr3ngH1Y6z

— Department of War CTO (@DoWCTO) September 30, 2026

Musk, the proprietor of the social media platform X, has had astounding success in the tech world, is the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, and is the richest man in the world. He also famously served as the top of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he repeatedly made headlines about discovering a number of situations of mass graft and waste in the federal authorities.

Gingrich is an creator and pundit who served as the Republican House Speaker from 1995 to 1999 and was most famous for his “Contract With America.”

Thirty-four-year-old Palmer Luckey, meanwhile, based Oculus VR and later the protection company Anduril Industries.

The trio isn’t losing any time — they’ve already attended their first assembly.

Hegseth said the initiative would start immediately, and he would meet with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich in a secure web site just 200 yards from the stage after his speech.

Project Meridian can have 120 days to “ruthlessly map the trajectory of wars, domains and technologies,” culminating in a public rollout of its findings and a categorised annex.

Hegseth described a sweeping mandate that stretches “from under the Earth to past the moon.”

It isn’t just a query of what; it’s also a query of where.

Rather than developing new army methods or insurance policies, the group will search to determine “the domains that we must conquer and capabilities we must master” and focus on “discovering, developing and fielding” weapons and systems that could possibly be needed by future generations of American troops.

I can’t declare to know what this is, but it appears fairly futuristic:

PROJECT MERIDIAN will inform the @DeptofWar on the deadly capabilities required to dominate the future of warfare, from the subterrane to the seabed. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4boJz60gQZ

— Department of War CTO (@DoWCTO) September 30, 2026

I’m very curious certainly to see what they arrive up with. I’m fairly sure it will not be boring. 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s management, the warrior ethos is coming back to America’s army.

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