Meta Platforms Inc. is working with longtime collaborator Palmer Luckey’s defense firm, Anduril Industries, on a project to build high-tech VR/AR helmets for the U.S. Army.

The EagleEye project is a $100 million contract, a tiny slice of a $22 billion Army wearables project that Anduril is leading, the companies announced Thursday.

Anduril and Meta are partnering to design and build what they call a “range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield.” Presumably, helmets, glasses and other wearables will offer an augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) perspectives.

The devices — underpinned by Anduril’s autonomy software and Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) models — are likely to include sensors that enhance the hearing and vision of soldiers, allowing them to detect flying drones from miles away or to detect hidden targets. The devices are also likely to let soldiers interact with AI-powered weapon systems.

“Meta has spent the last decade building AI and AR to enable the computing platform of the future,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. For Meta, the partnership represents a significant expansion into support for U.S. government technology adoption, building off its Reality Labs investments and work supporting adoption of its Llama open source AI models for national security uses by the U.S. and its allies.

“I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” said Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR who was forced out of then-Facebook in 2017 amid his pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton political activity. “Of all the areas where dual-use technology can make a difference for America, this is the one I am most excited about. My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that.”

“I have successfully persuaded not just Meta but many others that working with the military is important,” Luckey said in a recent interview. His company has landed $6 billion in government contracts worldwide.

“I’ve always said that we need to transition from being the world police to being the world gun store,” Luckey told CBS News.