It's part of director Brett Goldstein's desire to push the group to do more applied work in critical areas.

The agency said in a report that any personally identifiable information its systems capture is incidental and won't be stored.

Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the FAA spoke in favor of the recently introduced Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018.

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental has inked a $400,000 contract with the airspace security company, which provides both hardware and software solutions for finding, tracking, classifying and "neutralizing" malicious drones.