By Theresa Hitchens on April 16, 2021 at 3:03 PM DoD held its first demo of tech to counter small drones April 5-9, 2021 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. WASHINGTON: DoD’s joint office to counter small drones small drones will hold a second set of industry demos and looks likely to invite new participants. “We’re keeping all options on the table,” Army Col. Greg Soulé, director of acquisition & resources at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems Office (JCO), told reporters today. The first demo, held April 5-9 at Yuma Proving Ground, focused on what DoD calls Low Collateral Effects Interceptors (LCEI): systems that can be used to knock out small drones in crowded airspace or urban areas without hurting civilians, civil infrastructure or friendly troops. The three contenders were tested against lightweight Group 1 UAS, according to an Army press release.