WATCH: Elon Musk goes inside Pentagon for 'amazing' visit with Pete Hegseth...and dons space jacket

Dressed in a bright blue space-themed flight jacket, the worlds richest man, Elon Musk, met with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Friday morning. 

The session was surrounded by controversy after a report surfaced indicating it could involve war plans for China, though the administration rebuked that report. 

Following the high-interest visit, the SpaceX founder and the secretary posted a nearly minute long video of their meeting on X. 

Amazing visit with [Elon Musk] at the Pentagon today, Hegseth wrote alongside the edited clip with generic stock music. 

He is a patriot, and I look forward to continuing our work together. With Elon and [DOGE] we are ensuring our Military continues to be the greatest fighting force the world has ever known. 

The cost-cutting czar Musk met with Hegseth to discuss efficiency efforts as the Pentagon looks to improve innovation, efficiencies & smarter production, Hegseth wrote. 

He’s there for DOGE, not there for China, President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office while Hegseth stood beside the seated president after the meeting. 

And if you ever mention China, I think he’d walk out of the room. 

SpaceX founder and DOGE leader Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday

The video of their meeting showed the pair and other staff in meetings and touring the Pentagon facilities

Musk wearing the blue jacket gifted to him by the Air Force Academy 

Cuts at the Pentagon could total up to 60,000 of the agencys roughly 900,000 person work force.

The cuts would mean 5% to 8% of the workforce getting slashed, though Trump admin officials are also concerned with what this could do to U.S. military readiness. 

Musks visit Friday almost certainly dealt with how to reduce Department of Defense workers. 

The DOGE leaders intriguing look involved a blue jacket he received on a 2022 visit to the U.S. Air Force Academy. 

On the front theres a patch featuring a spacecraft with a rocket and Starship 19 written on it. 

DOGE estimates that it has saved $115 billion dollars since its inception, according to its site. 

Those savings total to just over $700 per taxpayer.

After the Pentagon meeting, Trump announced with Hegseth in the Oval Office that Boeing has won a contract to create a new fighter jet called the F-47, an apparent homage to the 47th president.

President Donald Trump with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 21, 2025. Secretary Hegseth joins the President to announce a major defense program

Trump next to an F-47 poster

The sixth-generation fighter will work directly with a vast amount of autonomous drone vehicle wingmen, the president noted. 

Compared to the F-22, the F-47 will cost less and be more adaptable to future threats - and we will have more of the F-47s in our inventory, said Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General David Allvin.

Allvin said the F-47 will have significantly longer range, more advanced stealth, and will be more easily supported than the F-22. 

The F-35 project, the plane that the F-47 will replace, was a notoriously expensive and delayed program. 

Just this model of plane is estimated to have cost between $1.7 - $2 trillion over its lifetime.