Bjorn D. Simundson

Industrial designer · Inventor · Founder

Design for the uncharted.

Twenty years of professional industrial design, from the consumer-electronics bench to expeditionary water infrastructure for the U.S. military. Founder and CTO of Atmosphere Ventures; founder of Moonshot Works.

ProductsAtmosphere VenturesAtmospheric water generation for defense, industry and islands. SAM.gov registered. IncubatorMoonshot WorksWhere the water-from-air program began in 2016. Engineering studies and ventures. The personbjorn.coWho did the work, and the record of when.

Background

Bjorn D. Simundson is an international award-winning industrial designer and entrepreneur. He trained as an understudy to the designer of the Mazda Miata and won the 2005 Michelin Challenge Bibendum. His "sustainable mobility" concept work influenced production three-wheel and leaning-vehicle programs at several manufacturers.

At Blue Microphones he served on the design and vision team through the product line that preceded the company's $217M acquisition, including the Yeti, and he is the inventor of the Mikey (CES Best of Innovation, 2009).

He designed and commissioned electrorheological flow-assurance technology for crude-oil pipelines with U.S. Department of Energy support and major North American and Chinese pipeline operators, returning 19× to early investors.

Since 2016 his work has centred on water from air. The program he started at Moonshot Works became the atmospheric water generation products now sold by Atmosphere Ventures, validated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Navy. He has presented to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on four occasions and has spoken at NASA on decentralised water security.

  • NowFounder & CTO, Atmosphere Ventures, Inc. · Founder, Moonshot Works
  • EducationMFA Industrial Design, Academy of Art University (2005) · BA Business Economics, UC Santa Barbara (2001)
  • AdvisoryFBI InfraGard — Water Security and Asymmetric Warfare working groups · NASA / INCOSE speaker · White House OSTP presenter (4×) · University of Limerick, collaborative R&D on designer materials
  • Also builtSuretypedia.com — a surety-bond reference database
  • RegistryAtmosphere Ventures CAGE 20TT0 · Moonshot Works CAGE 8LDJ3

Record: water from air, 2016 → 2026

Condensed. The full dated record, with documents and public notices, lives at atmosphere.ventures/history.

  • 2016 – 2018Incubation at Moonshot Works

    Thermodynamic modelling and early atmospheric-extraction concepts. Engineering engagement with an independent product-development firm begins October 2018.

  • 2019First builds and cold-climate proof

    Water-generator work order signed January 2019. Sub-zero extraction validated in Canada. The fabrication partner that would build the production units joins the program; the first rotor test is logged 10 September 2019.

  • 2019 – 2020Washington

    Presented at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; proposal day with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on atmospheric water extraction.

  • 2020 – 2022U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    Sole-source award to the founder's venture by ERDC-CERL (public notice, July 2020). Hybrid generator-waste-heat desiccant AWG designed, built and delivered by the founder's team and its fabrication partner; two units to Army Futures Command for Project Convergence 2022 at Fort Irwin.

  • 2024Field evaluation

    Self-filling refill-station prototype exhibited at ANTX 2024.

  • 2025U.S. Navy

    Cooperative research agreement on water resilience. Self-filling water-bottle kiosk deployed to San Nicolas Island, replacing weekly airlifted water. Demonstrations at JIFX, NGAUS and ANTX.

  • 2026Commercial availability

    Industrial atmospheric water generators available through Atmosphere Ventures. GSA listing in progress.

Twelve pillars of resilient infrastructure

I. Technical foundation

  1. Atmospheric physics — thermodynamics applied for maximum extraction efficiency
  2. Low-humidity performance — proven in arid and sub-zero environments
  3. Scalable architecture — from tactical portable units to industrial installations
  4. Energy optimisation — high water yield per unit of power

II. The military crucible

  1. In-situ generation — water at the point of need, not trucked or flown
  2. Ruggedised reliability — built for maritime and austere conditions
  3. Strategic autonomy — no dependence on long, contested supply chains
  4. Rapid deployment — operational within minutes for remote and island sites

III. Sovereignty

  1. Water quality — engineered to drinking-water standards
  2. Infrastructure independence — freedom from failing grids and contaminated lines
  3. High-end integration — design that belongs in world-class estates
  4. Global impact — a practical response to the freshwater crisis

Contact

Product and government inquiries: atmosphere.ventures. Engineering studies and ventures: moonshotworks.com.