Steve Simoni

Co-Founder and President, Allen Control Systems · 1 appearance on the record.

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Simoni is a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineer who co-founded Allen Control Systems, a defense-tech company known for building Bullfrog, an AI-powered autonomous weapon system designed to defeat aerial drones. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of restaurant technology company Bbot, which was acquired by DoorDash in 2022.

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Allen Control CEO: Our counter-drone gun will be on every military vehicle

“I think that like bullfrog is going to be everywhere. Like every vehicle in every military that has a gun on it needs to be replaced with a gun that can hit drones. So, I mean, we're going to be in like every country. This is one of the biggest products of all…”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 49:30 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Allen Control CEO: Electronic warfare cannot stop AI drones; kinetic defense required

“The countermeasures we were investing in as a country, like electronic warfare or like microwave technology. I don't think those are going to be like long-term sustainable for some of the new drones of the future. So we saw that early and started to work on ki…”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 43:29 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Allen Control CEO: Future warfare will be robot-on-robot, replacing human soldiers

“I mean, it's going to robot on robot action. So like these new products are so lethal that it's tough for like people to be on the battlefield of the future. So that's where it's headed. It's not like exactly augmenting soldiers, like some people's vision, but…”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 46:40 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Simoni: Allen Control Systems builds AI machine guns for counter-drone warfare

“We make AI machine guns that are really purposely built to neutralize drone threats. Also they can take out other targets as well, but it's primarily meant for the drone warfare future.”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 42:54 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Simoni: Allen Control vertically integrates Bullfrog's electronics, PCBs, and steel

“We do everything pretty much on this turret, because it's like all the power electronics, all the PCBs, we cut all the steel, like it's our, it's like an art project of sorts, because there's so many things you have to do right to hit a drone that fast, that f…”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 44:05 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Simoni: Allen Control Systems Has Raised $43 Million So Far

“So yeah, we raised like forty three million dollars so far.”

Steve Simoni Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 48:59 Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery wit	Oct 5, 2025	5m

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