War Secretary Hegseth Announces Establishment of "Autonomous Warfare Command"

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the creation of the Autonomous Warfare Command and launched Project Meridian, co-led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, aimed at advancing US military technological modernization and autonomous combat capabilities.

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First, today at my direction, we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWARCOMM.

A new four-star combatant command with service-like authorities built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force in the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history.

We need to be thinking even further ahead, years and decades even into the future. to ensure America's military supremacy so as we scan that horizon of an unknown future we should have the humility to recognize that the best forecasters of future conflict do not solely reside inside the pentagon there are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them so today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage one our adversaries do not have our innovators our senior leaders and our technologists big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution for tomorrow's conflicts and that's why today at my direction I'm announcing Project Meridian an effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare under the leadership of the department's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael.

Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, And Newt Gingrich.

Project Meridian. The future of warfare is not about developing new strategies or new policiesWe already do that. Rather its purpose is to creatively lookto the future. And identify the domains that we must conquer. And capabilities we must master.

Their work will be focused on discovering, developing and fielding the weapons and systems that our children and our grandchildren will need in their lifetimes without any creative limitations or restrictions.

On any future battlefield, from under the earth to beyond the moon, our American warriors will be armed with absolute technological superiority.

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