00:03I'm announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America's best minds to study the future
00:11of warfare. Under the leadership of the department's chief technology officer,
00:17Emil Michael, Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds. Elon Musk,
00:26Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, all of whom are up in the audience with us today. Please stand if you
00:33would. Thank you. Those three great Americans are going to be joined by a team of senior leaders,
00:52handpicked private sector leaders, and subject matter experts from across our nation's unmatched
00:57innovation, academic, and policy ecosystems. Project Meridian, the future of warfare,
01:04is not about developing new strategies or new policies. We already do that. Rather,
01:09its purpose is to creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer
01:16and capabilities we must master. We should have been thinking about autonomous warfare command
01:2210 years ago. We need to be looking forward into the future to achieve technological and military
01:28dominance on the battlefield for decades to come. It is futuristic on purpose.
