Project Meridian will start immediately with Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich co-leading a 120-day Pentagon review of the weapons and technologies U.S. troops may need for future wars.
Pete Hegseth said the group, directed by CTO Emil Michael, will map warfare domains "from under the Earth to beyond the moon" and produce both a public report and a classified annex.
SpaceX contractor Musk and Anduril founder Luckey bring direct defense-tech experience, but their roles could also trigger conflict-of-interest scrutiny because their companies compete for Pentagon business.
The review is part of Hegseth's broader military overhaul, which also created a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command and new career tracks for "autonomous warfighters" across the services.
At his State of the Force address at Quantico, Hegseth framed the push as a bid to prevent the U.S. military from falling behind the next technological shift.