Mission
Help responders make faster, clearer decisions in the field.
A² Perceptions exists to help public-safety teams perceive, share, and act on mission-critical information without pulling attention away from the environment in front of them.
Who we are
Building shared field intelligence from Northern Virginia.
Located in Northern Virginia and veteran-owned, A² Perceptions sits in the middle of local SAR teams that operate throughout the state and near Washington, D.C., where public-safety experts, emergency managers, federal agencies, and technology leaders converge.
Vision
Make complex field data understandable at the speed of response.
Our vision is a wearable XR mission-awareness platform that turns routes, clues, teammate positions, sensor feeds, and uncertainty into shared spatial context that responders can trust and use.
Our story
From shared-perception research to a SAR-first startup.
A² Perceptions grew out of academic work from Virginia Tech University on shared perception, human-AI teaming, and XR systems for emergency response. Both founders met each other while doing research for their PhD and decided to team up. Their research asked a practical question: how can distributed responders see, share, and coordinate around the same mission context?
That question is now becoming a company. We are refining early research insights into commercial workflows for search and rescue first, with future public-safety applications across police, EMS, disaster response, and field command.
Northern Virginia
Field, policy, and technology meet here.
SAR teams operate across forests, mountains, trails, parks, rural areas, waterways, and urban edges throughout Virginia.
The Washington, D.C. region brings together public-safety practitioners, emergency managers, researchers, federal stakeholders, and technology partners.
Our team
Researchers, builders, and public-sector technologists.
A² is led by founders focused on translating advanced perception technologies into useful, testable, and deployable public-safety workflows.
Co-Founder · CEO
Matthew Corbett, Ph.D.
Matthew Corbett guides company strategy, commercialization direction, customer discovery, and the translation of shared XR research into public-safety mission workflows.
Co-Founder · CTO
Matthew Wilchek, Ph.D.
Matthew Wilchek leads the technical vision for A², drawing on experience in AI, XR, shared perception, human-in-the-loop systems, and public-sector field technology development.
VP of Business Development
Michael Wilchek
Michael Wilchek brings more than 30 years of business development, retail operations, and regional leadership experience, having managed large store teams and multi-location operations across nationally recognized brands.
CFO
Christopher Ramirez, CPA
Christopher Ramirez brings more than 15 years of corporate accounting and financial auditing experience, including work with Big Four accounting firms, to support A² Perceptions’ financial strategy and growth planning.
Why here
Northern Virginia is a strong place to build for public safety.
Close to SAR operating realities
Virginia includes mountain, forest, park, rural, and urban-edge search environments where team coordination and navigation matter.
Near Washington, D.C.
The region connects public-safety expertise, emergency management, federal stakeholders, research institutions, and mission-focused technology partners.
Built for broader response
Starting with SAR lets A² test a concrete mission need before expanding the same field-awareness loop to other public-safety teams.
Connect with A²
Help shape the platform vision.
A² Perceptions welcomes conversations with SAR teams, public-safety professionals, emergency managers, researchers, and technology partners as we continue to define the right product path.
Email: contact@a2perceptions.com