After His Explosive Tenure at Doge Elon Musk Will Be Helping The Military for Future Warfare
Elon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters Nick Robins-Early The Guardian Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. The defense department’s project brings Musk back into government work a little more than a year after his explosive tenure...
