00:00I'm announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare.
00:09Under the leadership of the department's chief technology officer, Emil Michael,
00:13Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds,
00:20Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, all of whom are up in the audience with us today.
00:28Please stand if you would.
00:32Thank you.
00:37Thank you.
00:43Those three great Americans are going to be joined by a team of senior leaders, hand-picked private sector leaders,
00:50and subject matter experts from across our nation's unmatched innovation, academic, and policy ecosystems.
00:57Project Meridian, the future of warfare, is not about developing new strategies or new policies.
01:03We already do that.
01:05Rather, its purpose is to creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer and capabilities
01:13we must master.
01:15We should have been thinking about Autonomous Warfare Command 10 years ago.
01:19We need to be looking forward into the future to achieve technological and military dominance on the battlefield for decades
01:26to come.
01:27It is futuristic on purpose.
01:30It is futuristic on purpose.
