WashingtonElon Musk will co-lead a Pentagon study of future warfare.

Musk’s SpaceX and co-lead Palmer Luckey’s Anduril both hold Defense Department contracts.

Project Meridian covers AI, autonomy, directed energy, and fighting underground and on the moon, with Newt Gingrich joining.

It reports in 120 days, in an unclassified public document.

How each outlet framed it
Aol
contrasts Pentagon role with costly DOGE tenure (failed cost cuts, agency gutting, boycotts); frames Project Meridian as lower-profile 120-day technological dominance study

Sources: Aol