Anduril Industries was awarded a major contract for counter-drone work with Special Operations Command.

The directed energy program could give the military tools to disable incoming drones.

The deal for the counter-UAS tech was created by DIU through a new type of contract vehicle.

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.

In this second iteration, sponsored by BAE Systems, the tech bootcamp program will be accepting companies with "commercially viable" anti-drone technologies like sensors and computer vision to "identify" and "mitigate" unmanned systems.