Allen Control Systems

Allen Control Systems (ACS) is an Austin, Texas-based defense technology company that builds autonomous, AI-powered weapon stations designed to detect and neutralize small unmanned aerial systems (drones) for military customers on land and at sea. The company was founded by CEO Mike Wior, President Steve Simoni, and CTO Luke Allen; Simoni and Allen are former U.S. Navy nuclear engineers, and all three previously worked together at Bbot, a restaurant-technology startup acquired by DoorDash in 2022 (Wior had separately founded Omnivore, a restaurant point-of-sale company acquired by Olo the same year). It was founded by Mike Wior, Steve Simoni, Luke Allen.

ACS's flagship product line is Bullfrog, a family of autonomous precision weapon stations. The Bullfrog M240C is built for Groups 1-3 UAS defense with an 800-meter effective range and passive sensing, while the Bullfrog M2 extends effective range to 1,500 meters for sustained fire against the same drone classes; the M230 and M134 are described as future platforms aimed at convoy and tactical-formation defense. The systems can integrate low-collateral options such as laser dazzlers (effective to roughly 2 kilometers) and composite or rubber bullets (roughly 300-yard range), alongside core technology in passive machine-vision drone detection, autonomous fire control, and synthetic training-data generation for adapting to new threats.

The company's stated mission is to lower the cost-per-kill of a drone to a few dollars, reshaping the economics of counter-drone defense relative to traditional missile-based air-defense systems. As of late 2025 and mid-2026, per the sources found, ACS's Bullfrog system had been selected for U.S. Army evaluation and was described in Series B coverage as already deployed with the U.S. Army and Navy; the company had also joined the Red Cat Futures Initiative, a collaborative counter-drone and precision-defense effort, and had expanded its manufacturing footprint with a new North Austin facility.