Pledging to “supercharge” innovation at the War Department, Hegseth said the Pentagon is “done running a peacetime science fair while our potential adversaries are running a wartime arms

Secretary of War Peter Hegseth got roasted online after flashing the Vulcan salute and making a “Star Trek” quip at an event in Texas with SpaceX founder Elon Musk. “How about this,” Hegseth said as he made Mr. Spock’s iconic “live long and prosper” hand sign. “Star Trek real.”

Speaking to former DOGE employee and podcast host Katie Miller, Musk said, “We were a little bit successful, we were somewhat successful.” His embed with the Trump administration ended abruptly last June after he posted on X that President Donald Trump featured in the Epstein files.

On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian,

Mr Hegseth announced several plans meant to speed innovation and slammed what he called “woke” artificial intelligence. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The defense secretary on Monday is traveling to Brownsville and Fort Worth to visit SpaceX and Lockheed Martin.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Elon Musk-led commercial spaceflight company SpaceX's headquarters in Starbase, Texas, hailing the company's operations. Pete Hegseth At Starbase Hegseth visited the Starbase facility on Monday as part of the "Arsenal of Freedom" tour,

Mr Hegseth said the administration wants companies of all sizes to compete for defence business. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The move marks a major expansion of military AI use. It also arrives amid growing international scrutiny of Grok’s content controls and governance. The Pentagon plans to deploy the system across both classified and unclassified environments.