Other causes supported by Lucas include his own educational foundation set up to help bring about a technology-enriched educational system of the future.
As revealed last year, the US Department of Homeland Security is working on a system called FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology) that relies on an array of sensors and advanced algorithms to detect physiological and behavioral cues that are said to indicate malintent.
Termination of the Future Combat System in April of 2009 was accompanied by the usual assurances that its technology would be applied to other efforts, but little came of that.