Pentagon study effort bringing together government, academic and private-sector figures to examine technologies and battlefields of future decades.
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf says competitive processes won the company up to $20 billion from the Army and up to $2.9 billion for a shipyard. The Army award dates from March, before Palmer Luckey joined Project Meridian, and the shipyard award came days after he did.
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Anduril is spending $3.7 billion of its own capital on a Baltimore County shipyard to go with a Navy submarine contract worth up to $2.9 billion. The yard will make Virginia-class parts, so getting the money back depends on the Navy buying more boats.
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Donald Trump signed a 'morally binding' AI pact with six CEOs, then made intelligence chief Jay Clayton his AI czar. For firms building on American models, the appointment carries more consequence than a pledge they have no way to enforce.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the Project Meridian study 120 days to report on what US forces need to fight future wars. Defense-tech vendors now have a report date to plan around, co-written by two executives whose companies already sell drones and satellites to the government.
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Donald Trump spent hours questioning Musk's Grok at a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, a month before the Maduro raid, Time reports. The only answer made public is a forecast about Venezuelan street reaction that turned out right, a thin record for the high opinion of Grok he reportedly took away.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to lead a 120-day study of where the US military falls short. Two of the three run companies that hold Pentagon contracts, so the military's suppliers will help draft the first list of what it lacks.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced AUTOWARCOM, a four-star command for autonomous and robotic warfare with "service-like authorities" he did not define. Defense suppliers now have a command to plan around before anyone has said whether it will hold money or sign contracts.
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