Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense, said: “Elon Musk will officially return to the group of advisers to Donald Trump’s administration once again.” He went on to say: “Musk, together with Palmer Luckey, one of the founders of the defense technology company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will lead ‘the Mirdin Project,’ a project that the Pentagon describes as ‘a study about the future of war.’”

Hegseth made these remarks in a speech at the Quantico military base.