"The pandemic has pushed the upper limit of what even DDS is able to do," says the tech-development agency's deputy director.

White-hat hackers will have from mid-December to the end of January to find vulnerabilities in the army.mil domain and other areas specified by the Army.

DDS's Rogue Squadron team helped the Navy detect and monitor drones near the USNS Mercy and Comfort hospital ships giving relief during early surges of COVID-19.

The DOD wants to turn more than 86 million specimens into digital data to be run through machine learning algorithms.

DDS says the app is an "upgrade" of current biometric technology used on the battlefield today. And, of course, its name is a reference to Star Wars canon.

DIU is looking for platforms that enable drones to work as a larger autonomous team to swarm enemy forces.