Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson to Join Project Meridian Defence Study

SUMMARY

Agility Robotics announced on 5 October 2026 that its CEO, Peggy Johnson, will take part in Project Meridian. The initiative was commissioned by the Department of War and brings together industry executives and former government leaders to examine the future of warfare. Its aim is to inform long-term defence capability development and investment priorities.

The MITRE Corporation leads Project Meridian, which will produce strategic recommendations over a 10- to 20-year horizon. The project explores emerging technologies, evolving operational concepts and the capabilities needed to meet future national security challenges.

Agility says Johnson will join as an individual consultant, drawing on her technology leadership experience and on the company's work developing and commercially deploying humanoid robots. Agility states that her role is separate from its commercial operations.

In a statement, Johnson said she sees an opportunity for humanoid robots to support service personnel by taking on physically demanding and repetitive logistics tasks. She said this could strengthen supply chains and let personnel focus on higher-value work. She also said she intends to bring lessons from real-world commercial deployments to the study.

Agility describes its humanoid, Digit, as commercially deployed today. Its announcement presents Johnson's participation as that of an individual consultant to MITRE.

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