Echodyne and Allen Control Systems (ACS) have signed a collaboration agreement to develop, demonstrate and deploy integrated counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) technologies and platforms. The companies said that the new agreement reflects a joint commitment to open architectures, rapid integration and commercial manufacturing for systems that can be fielded at scale.
The agreement establishes collaboration across Echodyne’s C-UAS radar hardware and software systems and ACS’s Bullfrog robotic weapon station capabilities, and follows the recent announcement of each company’s award from the United States’ Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) for Domestic Shield, the JIATF-401 C-UAS Marketplace and other C-UAS requirements.
“Bullfrog combines computer vision, autonomous control and precision robotics with existing weapon systems to detect, track, identify and engage unmanned threats,” Echodyne said in a 12 October press release. The company’s radar track data will extend this capability with persistent airspace positional information. EchoShield generates location and velocity data for a wide range of drone types and flight profiles, and the system’s open interfaces enables radar data to flow directly into Bullfrog and broader command-and-control (C2) platforms. Echodyne’s MESA radar architecture delivers electronically scanned array capabilities. The integrated system is designed to provide sensing and kinetic defeat.
Maritime operations are one focus of the collaboration, with EchoShield increasingly integrated aboard uncrewed surface vessels for maritime awareness and C-UAS missions.
Echodyne and ACS will continue integrated testing and participation in US defence department demonstration events designed to evaluate the combined system under representative operational conditions. The companies expect these activities to inform further product integration and support customer requirements across fixed-site, mobile, expeditionary and maritime missions.
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Image: Bullfrog in action during September 2026 tests (ACS)
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