Elon Musk returns to US government for Pentagon war study
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He will co-lead Project Meridian with Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of defence tech firm Anduril Industries, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich
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Agence France-Presse Published: 6:03pm, 1 Oct 2026
Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump’s government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the future of war.
Musk served as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency before departing in May last year, having publicly fallen out with Trump.
In a speech at the Quantico military base, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said “Project Meridian” will be “an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare”.
“We are leveraging a unique source of American advantage, one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders and our technologists,” Hegseth said.
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