Defense technology for a new era of drone warfare
Mission statement
Creating autonomous precision weapon systems to safeguard our military and allies, ensuring dominance on every battlefield.
Founding
ACS was founded by CEO Steven Simoni, CTO Luke Allen, and COO Mike Wior. Simoni and Allen are former U.S. Navy nuclear engineers who met in the service. Both were instrumentation and control systems engineers for Navy nuclear reactors and have backgrounds that span robotics, computer vision, machine learning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science.
After serving in the Navy, Simoni and Allen founded Bbot, a software and robotics restaurant technology startup, where they met Mike Wior, CEO and co-founder of Omnivore, a restaurant POS transaction system. Simoni and Allen’s company was acquired by DoorDash in 2022, and Wior’s company was acquired by Olo in the same year.
They created ACS in recognition that the battlefield has evolved rapidly to include machine-warfare threats. ACS is building counter-drone robotic gun systems for this new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics.
Steve simoni
Luke Allen
Mike Wior
Engineering team
ACS's engineering team consists of skilled engineers from industry and leading technical universities, specializing in mechanical, hardware, and software engineering. Led by our VP of Engineering, Aric Schorr, they are rapidly developing affordable, low-SWaP solutions. These technologies provide advanced CUxS full kill-chain capabilities to effectively neutralize the growing threats posed by unmanned systems.
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Growth team
With over 60 years of combined service in the Special Operations and Intelligence communities, ACS’ Capture team brings a unique understanding of the threat landscape and the operational demands of our Nation’s warfighters. The team also brings years of sales and DoD procurement expertise, along with a deep knowledge of the counter drone market that uniquely postures ACS to rapidly scale to meet the needs of the U.S. and its partners.