Allen Control Systems, or ACS, a defense tech company specializing in precision robotics, announced a new partnership with Attalon, an aerospace and defense company that develops advanced lasers, precision optics, optical coatings and similar solutions. The collaboration will integrate Attalon’s Valaris high-energy laser subsystems into ACS’s Bullfrog autonomous weapon station.
Serving multiple branches of the U.S. military, Bullfrog is an AI-powered weapon station that transforms existing weapons into precision counter-drone systems. Through a combination of advanced laser architectures and domestic engineering and manufacturing, Valaris offers scalable, mission-ready capabilities for advanced directed energy systems. The partnership announcement closely follows the creation of ACS’s Directed Energy division, which develops high-energy laser systems.
“Directed energy is becoming a defining capability in the counter-drone fight, but it will only make a difference if promising systems can urgently transition from the lab to the battlefield,” Steve Simoni, ACS’s co-founder, said in a statement. “Pairing Attalon’s world-class laser technology and their domestic manufacturing base with Bullfrog’s autonomous precision robotics will allow us to provide U.S. and allied forces with a critical capability they can field at scale.”
