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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted a visit to the Pentagon by industrialist, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted industrialist and presidential advisor Elon Musk at the Pentagon today.
Department officials said the meeting was not related to his efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency but was rather the result of a personal invitation by Hegseth for Musk to visit the department’s headquarters.
During a private meeting in the secretary’s office, which lasted about an hour, defense officials said the two men discussed innovation, efficiency and smarter production, as they might apply to the Defense Department.
In a message to the force days after taking office, Hegseth said rebuilding the U.S. military would rely on all three things he discussed with Musk.
“We will rebuild our military by matching threats to capabilities,” he said. “This means reviving our defense industrial base, reforming our acquisition process, passing a financial audit and rapidly fielding emerging technologies. We will remain the…
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The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment is working with partner agencies, including the Missile Defense Agency and the military services, to pursue a Golden Dome designed to protect against inbound missile attacks
Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump told Congress and Americans the U.S. would pursue a Golden Dome, similar to Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, designed to protect against inbound missile attacks.
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment is working with partner agencies, including the Missile Defense Agency and the military services, to make that happen, said Steven J. Morani, currently performing the duties of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment on Tuesday at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington.
“Consistent with protecting the homeland and per President Trump’s supply chain challenges associated with standing up the Golden Dome,” Morani said.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan wanted to build such an air defense system, but technology wasn’t available at the time to bring that project to fruition. Morani said the challenge would be formidable and require a lot of teamwork.
“This is like the monster systems engineering problem. This is the monster integration problem,” he said. “This is going to be layers of architecture working together at all group level elevations … to protect the United States … so we’re going to need all the services and agencies that do this kind of work to step up.”
Morani said the acquisitions and sustainment community is focused on meeting the president’s request for the Golden Dome while realigning also to meet Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s priorities. Among those priorities are reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military by matching threats to capabilities and re-establishing deterrence to defend the homeland.
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Avian cranial kinesis is the result of increased encephalization during the origin of birds
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Yet birds differ from their reptile ancestors in many important ways. A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of their skulls.
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