Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, discussed some of DARPA’s technology projects during a demonstration event held Wednesday at the Pentagon, DoD News reported Wednesday.

Prabhakar appeared with Stephen Welby, assistant defense secretary for research and engineering and Defense Department chief technology officer, and program managers at the DARPA Demo Day 2016 to describe over 60 military platforms designed for national security missions.

“Today is the day that we bring some of those crazy technologies into the Pentagon [to] get them in front of our customers and our partners — people across all the military services and across DoD and the intelligence community,” said Prabhakar, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016.

Among the platforms she described at the event include the Communications Under Extreme Radio Frequency Spectrum Conditions program and the Microphysiological Systems project.

Prabhakar said DoD has started to integrate the CommEx platform with the military data exchange network, Link 16, in an effort to protect DoD aircraft from potential jamming threats.

The MPS program is designed to help DARPA “test suspicious threat agents when we don’t want to test them on people,” she added.

The Defense Department looks to address challenges on network segmentation and update previous enforcement strategies that use access control lists on enclave firewalls of routers, a blog entry posted on the Cisco website said Wednesday.

Michael Overstreet, DoD security systems engineering manager, said that the agency has released guidelines on how to process and handle digital data as well as other requirements on data classification and compartmentalization.

Overstreet noted that a product line from Cisco could work to assist DoD efforts through its Identity Services Engine, Cisco TrustSec and StealthWatch offers that work to help clients build network segmentation using policy-driven segmentation based on identity.

He added that the products were designed to give users network access, provide network enforcement and aim to accelerate security operations.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held its DARPA Demo Day 2016 at the Pentagon Wednesday to provide members of the Defense Department community an “up-close” look at DARPA’s technology and military systems portfolio.

DARPA program managers, academic and private-sector project leaders demonstrated over 60 ongoing programs that encompass early phases to existing warfighter and military support technology, the agency said Wednesday.

Arati Prabhakar, DARPA director, said the Demo Day event acted as an outlet for the agency’s people to share its work for the members of the science and technology community that include defense companies, commercial startups, firms, universities, government agencies, laboratories and other DoD partners.

The event featured 10 strategic investment categories that the agency’s research focus on including air, biology, counterterrorism, cyber, ground warfare, maritime, microsystems, seeds of surprise, spectrum and space.

DoD also added that demonstrations of the technologies filled the Pentagon’s center courtyard throughout the one-day event.

The U.S. Army has tested a radar-based system for unmanned aerial vehicles at at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as part of an effort to help military operators fly UAS in civilian airspace.

The Army’s project manager of unmanned aircraft systems led the testing and two Gray Eagles were positioned on a collision course to assess the ground-based sense-and-avoid system and maintain its skills, the Army said Tuesday.

“Today, there is a growing list of UAS units in the states, returned from combat deployments, that need to safely maintain their skills,” test lead John Innes said.

The new system provides a traffic display of other aircraft near the unmanned craft and notifies the operator of potential danger.

A human ground based operator tracked the system health, warnings and aircraft positions through the traffic display and alerted the aircraft operator to potential hazards during the exercise.

Operators will conduct the last phase of tests for GBSAA in the fal as the Army expects changes within the system due to ongoing development efforts, Innes said.