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Posted on 01/14/2026 6:45:45 AM PST by Twotone
Pete Hegseth flashed a Vulcan salute Monday as he joined Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters, where the war secretary touted the Pentagon’s wartime approach to unleashing technological innovation.
“We want to make Star Trek real,” Musk said as he welcomed Hegseth to Starbase, the small South Texas town incorporated by SpaceX employees and home to the tech tycoon’s massive rocket-building facility and launch site.
“Star Trek real,” Hegseth quipped after being introduced by Musk.
The war secretary’s remarks – part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour – emphasized the need for the US to “win the strategic competition for 21st century technological supremacy,” including by topping America’s adversaries in the fields of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, hypersonics, space capabilities, directed energy, biotechnology and long-range drones.
Until President Trump took office, the Department of War’s process for fielding new capabilities had “not kept up with the times,” Hegseth argued.
“Worse than that, we’ve done nothing but add layer upon layer” of bureaucracy, Hegseth bemoaned, lamenting the “endless projects with no accountable owners” at the Pentagon and “high churn with little progress and few outputs.”
“That sounds about like the exact opposite of SpaceX,” he said, describing it as a “dangerous game with potentially fatal consequences.”
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Phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range!
Hopefully not this Star Trek.
“If the b**ch is green, there’s something wrong with the p***y!”
(Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK-2L2ueLGw
There are probably stuff in the labs that we can only dream of.
Hold on to your wallets.
With this big a setup, the ‘acquisition of taxpayer funds’ - is going to be astronomical.
By all means, let’s give the most inefficient, bloated bureaucratic entity the world has ever known - more money.
Those poor defense contractors must really be struggling.
The domestic Air Traffic Control is about 50 years behind where the military is.
That would be a good place to start.
I think Hegseth is dead-set on stripping away the ‘inefficient, bloated bureaucracy’ & replacing it with a lean machine that accomplishes something.
Agreed. Rumor has it, a kind of sonic weapon was used to capture Maduro.
I’m stunned.
It will be a huge - and expensive, undertaking.
If and when it actually happens, they must communicate with the American people and with Congress, in detail, what their plans are. The people and Congress should be kept informed of the progress.
There needs to be accountability in any process that has the scope of reworking or realigning the DoD/DoW.
Unless they do this, we won't have any way of verifying what actually is being done. Unfortunately, this particular agency has a bad track record when it comes to communicating with Congress about how it spends the people's money.
Had a high school friend who was ROTC in college, ended up going career military and retired after 20 years as a LTC in the mid-2000s.
Dude was a techie in the service and told me back in the day when he retired that “we have tech and capability that the world has no idea of, we are not going to show our hand by using it on the goat humpers in the middle east, but if the SHTF and we have to fight a “real enemy” like Russia or China, there are things in the pipeline that will seem like it came from captured aliens at Area 51.”
Given the fraud we’re finding in EVERY AGENCY, whether state or federal, it’s obvious there really is no oversight from congress or anyone else. But I don’t know how to fix it.
I think constantly about the John Adams quotation, that our gov’t requires a moral & religious people. It’s obvious the people in gov’t are utterly amoral & irreligious.
I was going to say! One thing about “star trek” (besides that it’s one of Scientology’s greatest cash cows) is that the Enterprise is wayyyyyyy too expensive and tech-heavy to ever have gotten into space. The “holodeck” alone is financially and in terms of energy usage untenable.
But the stories about the Venezuela op are intriguing. Make sure that in the future you always have some earplugs on you.
“The “holodeck” alone is financially and in terms of energy usage untenable.”
That’s what the dilithium crystals are for.
That’s what I want - directed energy weapons that will instantly drop enemies to the ground. Or protesters who interfere or break the law.
It is amazing how the Star Trek of 60 years ago was the sexiest of them all.
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