The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.

Curious if they use NWS weather station data or if they collect their own.

It is pretty much an independent system. There are only a handful of organizations on the planet operating an independent global weather model. For historical reasons the US operates two of them. A good argument can be made that the European model is better than either, so it might make sense for the US to combine some of those global weather model resources.

unless "all private except certain secure friends" is not in the spirit of US Federal Science?

Isn't it true that open methods beat closed expensive methods many times.. in the case of weather prediction, it is trivial to benchmark predictions.

For how long? Like seriously, how long until that department/company/office is shut down

I was a private yacht chef for 6 years. I would always source weather from https://www.metoc.navy.mil/ and plan meals around it. I'm pretty good with a Japanese chef's knife in 8 foot seas.

His cuts on dry land: ~~~

Some Mel Brooks level humor here

Air Force / Space Force already employ meteorologists for their own stuff, I'm sure the US military will have accurate information. It just will not get to the public until it has been properly sharpied.

They’re briefing Elon Musk on China war plans, I don’t think the current leadership will care much where they source weather data as long as it aligns with the current ideological purity purge.

There's no proof he was part of any briefing, and pretty much everyone has denied this has happened. You need to diversify your news sources beyond the ones that confirm your beliefs, truthful or not.

If you genuinely believe the real problem here is reporting, not that it's unclear (and had to be denied by the President himself) whether a private citizen with massive and well documented conflicts of interest and who doesn't hold a TS clearance was briefed on some of the nations most sensitive military planning I'd suggest I'm not the one with an information consumption and evaluation issue.

Right, there's only one meeting room at the Pentagon.

Should he be in _any_ pentagon meetings? I mean, the admin is trying to deny he has any official role beyond advisor, and he’s not US born.

So someone that was, say, hired to make a website for the Pentagon can’t go and have a meeting there? Especially if they’re foreign born?

Given how game changing Starlink has proven to be for military operations, he probably should.