Austin-based defense start-up Allen Control Systems to open Mountain View office – Mountain View Voice

Austin-based defense start-up Allen Control Systems to open Mountain View office  Mountain View Voice

Founded in 2022, Allen Control System merges artificial intelligence capabilities with defensive weapons. Its headquarters are in Austin, Texas, and its new Mountain View office will be located near Mountain View Whisman’s light rail station in a 16,000-square-foot office. The defense tech start-up Allen Control Systems is opening an office in Mountain View. Founded in 2022, Allen Control System merges artificial intelligence capabilities with defensive weapons. Its headquarters are in Austin, Texas, and its new Mountain View office will be located near Mountain View’s Whisman light rail station in a 16,000-square-foot office, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. The exact location was not disclosed due to security concerns, and a Mountain View spokesperson could not confirm the location.

It is also not clear when the Mountain View office will open. Allen Control System’s flagship product is the Bullfrog: an autonomous robotic weapon that can detect a drone using computer vision and other technology, track it, and automatically aim a machine gun at the drone. The weapon has been adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps for countering drone threats. Luke Allen, the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, told the Business Journal that Silicon Valley was a natural choice for ACS’s expansion, given the region’s deep pool of robotics talent. ACS has recently raised $200 million in a Series B funding