It’s no surprise that the government is a major client of a man who runs a rocket ship company that can reach the space station, builds armored electric vehicles and owns a network of communications satellites.

Elon Musk has previously criticized NASA's Artemis moon exploration program as being "extremely inefficient."

President Donald Trump had said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk's DOGE, which has swept through federal agencies searching for spending cuts as part of Trump's overhaul and shrinking of the U.