DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit has invited industry to present low-collateral defeat capabilities that would help the Pentagon with counter-drone efforts at installations without doing harm to nearby communities, Air and Space Forces Magazine reported.

“You’re trying to have it crash in a way that doesn’t crash on somebody’s house or somebody’s car or some kid that’s walking home from school,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. “And since spaces are very much nested in American communities, except for some of the nuclear sites that are in more remote locations, you still have those collateral damage concerns.”

The DIU solicitation is part of Replicator 2. If successful options emerge, they could go into pre-production next year.

Army photo by Sgt. Jacob Suess