The Pentagon recently formed a unit that’s delivering Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System — or LUCAS — drones in the Middle East.

The request for additional loitering munitions comes as officials are undertaking a new Army Transformation Initiative to modernize the force for future high-tech combat.

In the aftermath of the attack, service members are being examined for traumatic brain injuries and treated for minor wounds.

The DOD is about to release a white paper asking industry for new ideas for countering adversaries’ kamikaze drones. That outreach will be followed by a technology…