Twenty new companies will join the program in February.

Ten new companies will spend the next three months building counter-drone technologies and learning about the Air Force's need for this kind of tech.

The government wants to be "right in there" during early customer discovery.

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.

The technologies under development really run the gamut.

Plus, one cofounder's thoughts on what this says about the future of innovation in government.