# Applied Energetics, Inc.: Form 10-Q for the period ended Jun 30, 2025

- Company: [Applied Energetics, Inc.](/companies/aerg.md) (CIK 879911)
- Form: 10-Q
- Filed: 2025-08-13
- Accepted by EDGAR: Aug 13, 2025, 16:44 ET
- Period: 2025-06-30
- Accession: 0001213900-25-075742
- Inline XBRL: yes
- Main document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390025075742/ea0252534-10q_applied.htm
- All documents and exhibits: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390025075742/

## Figures reported in this filing

Standardized XBRL line items for the period ended 2025-06-30.

| Line item | Period | Value | XBRL concept |
| --- | --- | ---: | --- |
| Revenue | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | $70.3k | us-gaap:Revenues |
| Revenue | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | $280.1k | us-gaap:Revenues |
| Cost of revenue | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | $47.5k | us-gaap:CostOfRevenue |
| Cost of revenue | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | $111.4k | us-gaap:CostOfRevenue |
| Gross profit | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | $22.8k | us-gaap:GrossProfit |
| Gross profit | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | $168.7k | us-gaap:GrossProfit |
| Research and development | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | $336.2k | us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense |
| Research and development | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | $659.2k | us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense |
| Operating income | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$3.8m | us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss |
| Operating income | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$6.9m | us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss |
| Net income | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$3.8m | us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss |
| Net income | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$6.9m | us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss |
| Diluted EPS | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$0.02 | us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted |
| Diluted EPS | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$0.03 | us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted |
| Basic EPS | 3 months, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$0.02 | us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic |
| Basic EPS | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$0.03 | us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic |
| Operating cash flow | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | −$4.1m | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities |
| Capital expenditure | 6 months, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30 | $1.2m | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment |
| Cash and equivalents | at 2025-06-30 | $865.7k | us-gaap:Cash |
| Current assets | at 2025-06-30 | $1.2m | us-gaap:AssetsCurrent |
| Total assets | at 2025-06-30 | $3.5m | us-gaap:Assets |
| Current liabilities | at 2025-06-30 | $994.7k | us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent |
| Total liabilities | at 2025-06-30 | $1.8m | us-gaap:Liabilities |
| Shareholders' equity | at 2025-06-30 | $1.7m | us-gaap:StockholdersEquity |

## Management's discussion and analysis

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Our discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related disclosures included elsewhere herein and in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included as part of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

### CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the securities laws. Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to the historical or current facts and can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “may,” “believe,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “expect,” “project,” “anticipate,” “estimates,” “possible,” “plan,” “strategy,” “target,” “prospect,” or “continue,” and other similar terms and phrases. These forward-looking statements are based on the current plans and expectations of our management and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks that could significantly affect our current plans and expectations, as well as future results of operations and financial condition and may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our expectations are described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of our Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2024. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. We do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions, or changes in other factors affecting such forward-looking statements.

Applied Energetics, Inc., (sometimes referred to as the “company”) is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Our executive office is located at 9070 S. Rita Road, Suite 1500, Tucson, Arizona 85747, (520) 628-7415. www. appliedenergetics.com.

Applied Energetics, Inc., specializes in the development and manufacture of advanced high-performance lasers and optical systems and integrated guided energy systems for prospective defense, national security, industrial, biomedical, and scientific customers worldwide.

### Technology, Capabilities, and Patents

Applied Energetics, Inc. is recognized as a global leader in developing the next generation optical sources exhibiting ever-increasing output energy, peak power and frequency agility while also providing decreased size, weight, and cost of these systems for customers. Applied Energetics utilizes patented, dual-use technologies to advance critical industries. Leveraging our proprietary fiber-based architecture and wavelength- and pulse-agility capability, our Ultrashort Pulse (USP) technology can enable users to achieve specific effects across different use cases with an unmatched blend of size, weight, and power attributes. While initially designed to meet the emerging needs and priorities for the national security community, our directed energy technology also has commercial applications in both the biomedical and advanced manufacturing industries.

Our UltraShort Pulse Lasers (USP) are designed to provide:

- Frequency Agile Optical Sources from Ultraviolet (UV) to Far Infrared (IR)
- Pulse Duration Agility
- Size, Weight, and Power Optimization
- Advanced Fiber Applications
- Laser Guided Energy (LGE®)
- Laser Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC®)

The Applied Energetics scientific team is continuously innovating and expanding our patent portfolio to cover these technological breakthroughs and further enhance our suite of solutions for threat disruption for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and for commercial, biomedical and space applications with optical sources operating from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Applied Energetics has developed, successfully demonstrated and holds all crucial intellectual property rights to a dynamic directed energy technology called Laser Guided Energy (LGE®) and Laser Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC®). LGE and LIPC are technologies that can be used in a new generation of high-tech directed energy systems. Applied Energetics’ LGE and LIPC technologies are wholly owned by Applied Energetics and protected by one or more of Applied Energetics’ 26 issued patents and 11 Government Sensitive Patent Applications (GSPA). These GSPA’s are held under secrecy orders of the US government, providing the company with extended protection rights. The company also has six pending patent applications, one of which has been allowed. We continue to file patent applications as we deem appropriate to protect our intellectual property and enhance our competitive advantage.

Applied Energetics’ directed energy technologies are vastly different from conventional directed energy systems, i.e. Applied Energetics’ proprietary fiber-based architecture is a key differentiator for our most recent technology demonstrators. Compared with traditional continuous wave laser technologies with their larger footprints, AE’s architecture enables orders of magnitude size-weight-power reductions on all deliverables, creating powerful, dual-use and agile systems that can fit a host of platforms while delivering very high-intensity, ultrashort pulses of light to the required target. This unique directed energy solution allows extremely high peak power and energy, with target and effects tunability, and is effective against a wide variety of potential targets.

Applied Energetics’ unique optical fiber-based laser architectures also enable unmatched wavelength agility as well as pulse duration agility. Using innovative and highly specialized frequency shifting techniques, wavelengths can be custom tuned from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared. In addition, temporal outputs can be adjusted from continuous wave to sub-picoseconds. The technology enables the customer to adjust the lasers’ operating parameters, ultimately creating more flexibility to change wavelength and pulse width. This feature allows for optimization of laser performance for defense or commercial applications.

Our proprietary USP laser technology provides a significantly more compact solution than current continuous wave laser platforms while still delivering high peak power. Continuous wave laser systems are typically used to heat a target and, during continuous illumination, this heat transfer leads to melting or charring of the material. Using continuous wave output powers that now exceed 100 kilowatts (1kW = 1000 watts), it can take anywhere from seconds to minutes to impact a target. By contrast, Applied Energetics has delivered USP lasers to national security users that exceed five terawatts (1 TW = 1 trillion watts) in peak power, with the difference being that this peak power from a USP laser is delivered in a pulse that is less than a trillionth of a second. During this short pulse duration, and having such a high peak intensity, near-instantaneous ablation of the surface of the threat takes place. The net results of our innovative USP approaches are highly effective lasers with mountable footprints that require only a fraction of the size and weight of other-directed energy technologies.

As Applied Energetics looks toward the future, our corporate strategic roadmap builds upon the significant value of the company’s USP laser capabilities and key intellectual property, including LGE and LIPC, to offer our prospective partners, co-developers and system integrators a variety of next-generation ultrashort pulse and frequency-agile optical sources, from the ultraviolet to the far infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, to address numerous challenges within the national security, biomedical, and advanced manufacturing market sectors.

### Recent Developments

In early July, the company generated over 1 billion watts (1 gigawatt) of peak optical power at near-infrared wavelengths in a laboratory-scale ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) system, marking a significant milestone in its technological development. This achievement marks the latest in a rapidly accelerating series of performance milestones. Since December 2023, Applied Energetics has advanced its systems from hundreds of thousands of watts, to multi-megawatt levels in late 2024, to 25 million watts in April 2025, and 400 million watts in May 2025. Surpassing the gigawatt threshold demonstrates the scalability and maturity of Applied Energetics' proprietary technology and solidifies its leadership in next generation directed energy capabilities. This breakthrough was achieved using our proprietary USPL architecture, developed entirely in-house and protected by a growing portfolio of patents.

Effective May 17, 2025, the company received a Requisition from the University of Rochester in the amount of $181,639. This is part of a contractual arrangement with the university in the amount of approximately $250,000 to support its Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) for ongoing efforts to explore pulsed laser technologies. Work on the contract commenced on July 10, 2025 with a meeting at Applied Energetics headquarters in Tucson, AZ with Dr. Jon Zuegel, Laser Development and Engineering Division Director and a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester to discuss the research to be provided by the company.

On February 10, 2025, Applied Energetics announced the opening of its new Battle Lab, a world-class facility designed to test, demonstrate, and advance emerging laser technologies in dynamic environments. The facility, as planned, is also expected to provide the capacity to manufacture and integrate advanced lasers as Applied Energetics makes the anticipated technology transition to the next stage of its lifecycle. The company has installed multiple laser systems in the Battle Lab since opening and conducted demonstrations of these lasers. Over the coming months, the company intends to install and demonstrate additional ultrashort pulse lasers with varying wavelengths against relevant target packages. Ultimately, the Battle Lab is intended to support laser system testing against relevant targets and emerging threats. It is expected to enable technology maturation and be the venue for customer and partner demonstrations under realistic and controlled conditions.

### Ongoing Business Operations

In the three months ended June 30, 2025, the company continued work relating to its strategic collaboration with Kord Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, to explore the potential development and integration of an advanced pulsed laser system with Kord’s FIREFLYTM High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS). The current phase of the project began in the prior quarter with the purchase of a specially modified Firefly HELWS unit from Kord which the company is using to work on the development and integration of its proprietary Ultrashort Pulse technology in its newly opened Battle Lab, with the assistance of Kord personnel under a related services agreement.

This teaming effort is intended to advance innovative directed energy capabilities that may create future opportunities in defense and security markets. The development and integration activities focus on refining system performance, optimizing integration, and validating operational effectiveness, by striving to achieve key technical milestones that could lead to additional customer interest, contract opportunities, and expanded applications.

Applied Energetics previously entered into a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Kord, effective October 28, 2024, to further the development and deployment of Applied Energetics’ ultrashort pulsed laser (USPL) technology for defense and national security applications. The MOU outlines key areas of cooperation, including joint research and development, integration of Applied Energetics’ USPL technologies into an existing high-energy laser directed energy platform, and the exploration of new opportunities to enhance both companies’ product portfolios.

Effective August 23, 2023, Applied Energetics executed a contract with the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) with an aggregate contract price of $1.99 million payable over two years as the company performs its obligations under the contract. Under this contract, we have worked to develop a high-peak and high-average power USP optical system. The system is expected to demonstrate effects compatible with multiple Navy platforms and missions with an attractive size, weight, and power-cooling footprint. During the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the company was notified that no further funds are available for this contract and advised to stop work on it. Receipt of additional amounts under the contract, including for any work to be performed, is in doubt. The company intends to continue working in parallel on this technology as part of its ongoing internal research and development program.

Effective May 15, 2023, Applied Energetics executed a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the U.S. Army at an aggregate contract price of $1.148 million payable over two years as the company performs its obligations thereunder, with the first year currently funded. The objective of this Phase II award is to further the development and testing of an IR laser system utilizing technologies that were investigated under the US Army Phase I STTR contract which the company was awarded in May 2022. This Phase II contract award follows a successful Phase I which established a computational concept with physical modeling and simulation to establish the feasibility of an IR laser system. Phase I was performed in collaboration with the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. The company has continued its work under the contract, and provided all required reports, since its execution. On May 9, 2025, the company entered into a no-cost modification to continue work on the contract through November 14, 2025. The company also amended its related agreement with the University of Arizona consistent with this extension.

Effective March 12, 2024, a grant previously awarded to the company from the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, was transitioned into a contract. The original grant from May 2022 had a two-year period of performance. The new contract superseded the grant with a ceiling value of $1,217,535 under a base period of performance through November 11, 2024 and a 12-month unfunded option period that was to end November 11, 2025. On September 4, 2024, the company received a funding increase on this contract of $237,647 which brought the total funding on the contract to $1,455,182. Under this contract, we have worked to accelerate the development and testing of Infrared (IR) optical technology with an ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) system. The overall objective is to advance and ruggedize optical technologies that can be fielded on a variety of USMC platforms and are able to operate in harsh conditions. During the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the company was notified that funding has ceased for this contract. The contract is still in effect, and no stop-work order was received. The company has ceased recording revenue for this contract, and receipt of additional amounts under it is in doubt. The company intends to continue working in parallel on this technology as part of its ongoing internal research and development program.

### Business Development Activities

We continue to submit proposals to, and attended briefings with, various defense and other government agencies who have expressed an interest in our technology and applications. Our efforts in this area of development have produced some results. In addition to the contracts which we have been awarded, our team has been invited to, and completed, multiple briefings focused on our capabilities and submissions. We intend to continue developing and submitting proposals and to be available to attend on-site briefings. We have also engaged in discussions with private entities and academic institutions with the objective of possibly collaborating on one or more projects. Some of these could result in further customer agreements or other opportunities to grow our business.

For fiscal year 2025, which started on October 1, 2024, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was delayed, but on December 23, 2024, then-President Biden signed the 2025 NDAA into law. The NDAA sets defense spending policies, while the separate appropriations bills comprising the federal budget fund government spending, including spending on defense and homeland security. This impacts all proposals under review by the Department of Defense. On September 26, 2024, in the absence of an enacted federal budget, then-President Biden signed a Continuing Resolution (CR), HR 9747, which extended government operations through December 20, 2024. He then signed a second CR for FY25 on December 21, 2024, extending funding for the federal government through March 14, 2025. A full year Continuing Resolution, H.H. 1968, was passed and signed into law by President Trump on March 15, 2025, and extends through September 30, 2025.

In addition, the newly elected administration has established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) whose mission is to sharply reduce federal spending. In February 2025, President Trump stated that he has directed DOGE to review defense spending for possible waste, fraud and abuse. The administration has also indicated that it may pursue significant reductions to the U.S. defense budget, if both Russia and China would agree to similar cuts in their respective national security spending. The potential impact on the company of DOGE and possible cuts to the defense and national security industries, if any, is uncertain. Notwithstanding these budgetary concerns, the administration and Pentagon have indicated an interest in continuing to fund innovative defense related technologies, including in the area of directed energy.

The current budgetary and deficit funding environment, continuing inflation, tariffs and other ongoing supply chain disruptions, the appropriations process, and DOGE, among other items, all continue to create significant short and long-term challenges and risks to the company and its business development endeavors. However, we remain optimistic that the innovative nature of our technology and its novel approach to addressable threats position the company for development, growth, and market opportunities.

### Strategic Plan and Analysis

The core of our strategy has been to continue growing our management and science teams with highly qualified individuals. This has driven our recruitment efforts in the areas of R&D, science, modeling and simulation, marketing and finance. We are also contemplating adding members to our Board of Directors and our Board of Advisors. Our board and leadership team have worked to align key innovations with our roadmap to encourage and enable internal filing for a broad, strategic, and robust intellectual property portfolio and continue surveying the literature for acquisitions of parallel intellectual property to that end. We also intend to pursue strategic corporate acquisitions in related fields and technology. The company’s management continues to explore any favorable equity financing opportunities.

Our goal with the Applied Energetics Strategic Plan is to increase the energy, peak power and frequency agility of USP optical sources while decreasing the size, weight, and cost of these systems. We are in the process of developing this breadth of very high peak power USP lasers and additional optical sources that have a broad range of applicability for threat disruption for the Department of Defense, commercial, and biomedical applications, such as biophotonic illumination and imaging. Although the historical market for Applied Energetics’ LGE and USP technology is the U.S. Government, the USP technologies are expected to provide numerous platforms for commercial additive and subtractive manufacturing and biomedical and imaging markets, creating a substantially larger market for our products to address. Since 2020, the Applied Energetics team has been able to develop partnerships and teaming arrangements with the three leading laser and optics institutes in the United States, namely, the University of Arizona, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

As with many government contractors, we have experienced recent challenges with funding of our contracts by the DoD and, in particular, with funding cutbacks at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). We recently learned that funding has been discontinued on two of our ONR contracts which affects our cash position and our strategic plan. Although the contracts have not been cancelled, their funding remains in doubt so that we cannot rely on receipt of funds from them, including for work already performed. These contracts were awarded under the DoD’s Research, Development, Test & Evaluation 6.2 Applied Research program which has been targeted by DoD for a 23.7% budget cut in FY2025. We believe that the technology underlying these contracts is considered “novel” and therefore, of continued interest to the DoD in its stated areas of ongoing focus. Accordingly, we plan to continue research and development of this technology, on an internal basis, and to focus on strategic partnerships with other entities as well as seeking additional prime government contracts. Our goal is to continue to accelerate the technology readiness level of our solutions to be able to submit more proposals and be prepared to conduct more customer and partner demonstrations of our technology in our recently opened Battle Lab. Under the current state of cutbacks in government funding both by individual agencies and DOGE, we cannot be certain that any such contracts will be forthcoming.

Subject to the foregoing, we continue to execute our business development plan, further our research and development program and submit filings for intellectual property and proposals for grants and contracts. During the past several years, we continued to submit proposals and have been engaged in meetings on a continuous basis with various agencies and departments both remotely and in person in Washington, DC and at various other government facilities. Having received a significant research grant and several contracts as well as other indications in recent years, we believe the interest in our technology and applications remains high, and we continue to submit proposals for all appropriate opportunities and share our vision of the disruptive capabilities of USP optical sources for both near- and far-term threats and dual-use commercial applications.

Through our analysis of the market, and in discussions with potential customers, we remain convinced that customers are becoming more receptive and interested in directed energy technologies. According to the US Department of Defense fiscal budgets from 2017 through 2023, its directed energy spending grew from approximately $500 million in 2017 to over $1.695 billion in 2023, an increase of nearly 240%. Market analysis and projections have estimated that this directed energy sector is anticipated to reach $32.1 billion globally by 2033. We continue to be optimistic about our future and the growing opportunities in directed energy applications, especially since this growth to nearly $1.7 B annually is being accomplished without a recognized Program of Record (POR) for directed energy platforms. We believe that once these technologies are funded in production for a POR, or are approved to be integrated on fielded platforms in volumes to effect threat reduction, these DOD budgets for directed energy will grow exponentially larger to support the technology insertion. Notwithstanding the funding cuts at the ONR as described above, the Applied Energetics team anticipates a continuation of strong funding for the directed energy community. With our existing patent portfolio, and through further advancements of our technologies, we believe we have the substantial building blocks needed to become a significant and successful developer in the USP marketplace. These innovations could play a significant role in the efforts from the new administration to implement the Golden Dome for America program by advancing directed energy and other integrated technological solutions for missile and other threat protection for the country. Estimated budget requirements would exceed $50B annually.

Our research and development programs depend on our ability to procure the necessary optical and fabricated materials, components, electronics and other supplies. A significant, prolonged increase in inflation could negatively impact the cost of materials and components, which could be a particular problem with respect to our fixed fee contracts. Within the current geopolitical context, there are ongoing embargos of exports from some global suppliers of various materials that are used in electronics and some diode and laser materials, which can have negative effects on technology supply chains. This, coupled with tariffs and other trade disruptions, could significantly impair our ability to source necessary supplies and equipment when and in quantities needed. We continuously monitor potential supply chain issues and supplier liquidity and work with our supply base to ensure adequate sources of materials at reasonable costs. In some instances, we depend upon a single source of supply, but we are developing multiple sources, both internal to AE and externally where possible to mitigate the risk. In some cases, we must comply with specific procurement requirements, which can limit the suppliers and subcontractors we may utilize.

### Results of Operations

### Comparison of Operations for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2025 and 2024:

|  | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Revenue | $70,335 | $780,643 | (710,308) | (90.99)% |
| Cost of revenue | (47,490) | (384,208) | 336,718 | (87.64)% |
| General and administrative | (2,823,159) | (2,343,511) | (479,648) | 20.47% |
| Selling and marketing | (649,260) | (76,216) | (576,044) | 751.87% |
| Research and development | (336,178) | (37,923) | (298,255) | 786.48% |
| Other income | 3 | 265 | (262) | (98.87)% |
| Net loss | $(3,785,749) | $(2,060,950) | (1,724,799) | 83.69% |

### Revenue

Revenue decreased by $710,308 to $70,335 for the three months ended June 30, 2025 from $780,643 for the three months ended June 30, 2024. In April 2025, the Company was notified by its customer that two of its active contracts were currently unfunded and remain unfunded as of the date, resulting in a decrease in revenue for the period. Although the contracts remain open, the Company suspended all work until funding is secured in the future. Despite the suspension, the Company continues to advance the underlying technology through its internal research and development efforts. Both the customer and the Company are actively seeking alternative sources of funding, including from within the original contracting agency and other departments of the U.S. Department of Defense.

### Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue decreased by $336,718 to approximately $47,490 for the three months ended June 30, 2025 from $384,208 for the three months ended June 30, 2024. This decrease was primarily attributable to the unavailability of federal funds. The cost of material, supplies and direct labor incurred were expensed to R&D while our programs and work remain active and in place.

### General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses increased by $479,648 to approximately $2,823,159 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $2,343,511 for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher professional fees of $507,253, an increase in non-cash compensation of $242,125, and higher rent of $56,198, partially offset by a decrease in payroll salaries and related expenses of $352,880 and a reduction in insurance costs of $50,951.

### Selling and Marketing

Selling and marketing expenses increased by $576,044 to $649,260 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $76,216 for the three months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due to the development and installation of the Battle Lab for $380,000 as well as $148,000 for labor and the continuation of business development activities through our Master Services Agreement with Westpark Advisors as well as other consultants in this field.

### Research and Development

Research and development expenses increased by $298,255 to $336,178 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $37,923 for the three months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due to an increase in labor costs of $206,700 material costs of $91,500 associated with continued development of our USP laser technologies.

### Net Loss

Our operations for the three months ended June 30, 2025, resulted in a net loss of $3,785,749 an increase of approximately $1,724,799 compared to the $2,060,950 net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due an increase in general and administrative expenses, selling and marketing and research and development expenses.

### Comparison of Operations for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 and 2024:

|  | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Revenue | $280,088 | $914,878 | (634,790) | -69.39% |
| Cost of revenue | (111,404) | (658,640) | 547,236 | -83.09% |
| General and administrative | (5,432,847) | (4,660,410) | (772,437) | 16.57% |
| Selling and marketing | (968,044) | (151,776) | (816,268) | 537.81% |
| Research and development | (659,225) | (118,703) | (540,522) | 455.36% |
| Other income | 17 | 2,322 | (2,305) | -99.27% |
| Net loss | $(6,891,415) | $(4,672,329) | (2,219,086) | 47.49% |

### Revenue

Revenue decreased by $634,790 to $280,088 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 from $914,878 for the six months ended June 30, 2024. In April 2025, the Company was notified by its customer that two of its active contracts were currently unfunded and remain unfunded as of the date, resulting in a decrease in revenue for the period. Although the contracts remain open, the Company suspended all work until funding is secured in the future. Despite the suspension, the Company continues to advance the underlying technology through its internal research and development efforts. Both the customer and the Company are actively seeking alternative sources of funding, including from within the original contracting agency and other departments of the U.S. Department of Defense.

### Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue decreased by $547,236 to $111,404 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 from $658,640 for the six months ended June 30, 2024. This decrease was primarily attributable to the unavailability of federal funds. The cost of material, supplies and direct labor incurred were expensed to R&D while our programs and work remain active and in place.

### General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses increased by $772,437 to $5,432,847 for the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $4,660,410 for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher professional fees of $929,003, an increase in non-cash compensation of $278,190, higher rent of $108,588, and an increase in other general and administrative expenses of $153,700. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in payroll salaries and related expenses of $659,511 and a reduction in insurance costs of $108,588.

### Selling and Marketing

Selling and marketing expenses increased by $816,268 to approximately $968,044 for the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $151,776 for the six months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due to the development and installation of the Battle Lab for $494,000 as well as $289,000 for labor and the continuation of business development activities through our Master Services Agreement with Westpark Advisors as well as other consultants in this field.

### Research and Development

Research and development expenses increased by $540,522 to approximately $659,225 for the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to approximately $118,703 for the six months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due to an increase in labor cost of $354,765 and material cost of $186,000 associated with continued development of our USP laser technologies and programs which remain in place as we continue to work on them.

### Net Loss

Our operations for the six months ended June 30, 2025, resulted in a net loss of approximately $6,891,415 an increase of approximately $2,219,000 compared to the approximately $4,672,329 net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2024, primarily due an increase in general and administrative expenses, research and development expenses and in selling and marketing expenses.

### Liquidity and Capital Resources

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. For the six months ended June 30, 2025, the company incurred a net loss of approximately $6,891,000, had negative cash flows from operations of approximately $4,128,000 and may incur additional future losses due to the possible reduction in government contract activity and the expenses discussed under Results of Operations. In their report accompanying our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, our independent auditors stated that our financial statements were prepared assuming that we would continue as a going concern and that they have substantial doubt as to our ability to do so for one year from the date the financial statements are issued based on our recurring losses from operations and need to raise additional capital. The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability of assets and the amount or classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the company be unable to continue as a going concern.

On June 30, 2025, the company had total current assets of $1,216,555 and total current liabilities of $994,659 resulting in working capital surplus of $221,896. At June 30, 2024, the company had total current assets of $3,301,638 and total current liabilities of $698,232 resulting in a working capital surplus of $2,603,406.

During the first six months of 2025, the net cash outflow from operating activities was $4,127,663. This amount was comprised primarily of our net loss of $6,891,415, offset by non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $2,154,764, depreciation and amortization of $114,203, amortization of ROU assets of $128,834, amortization of prepaid assets of $38,393, and cash used from changes in assets and liabilities of $327,558 from the increase in accounts receivable of $335,839, increase in accounts payable of $124,568 and accrued expenses and compensation of $54,931 off set by the net decrease in prepaids and deposits of $65,141 and operating lease liabilities of $122,639.

During the first six months of 2025, the net cash outflow from investing activities was $1,151,563. This was for the purchase of equipment.

During the first six months of 2025, the net cash inflow from financing activities was $5,980,093. This amount consisted of $6,004,250 in proceeds from stock subscriptions and $41,900 from the exercise of options and warrants, which were offset by $2,733 tax withholdings related to the share settlement of RSUs and $63,325 of Repayment of insurance premium loan.

As of the reporting date, the company has received cash proceeds in the amount of $2,999,997 from investors pursuant to an equity offering. The company has not yet delivered countersigned subscription agreements or conducted a closing of the financing, and the final terms remain subject to change while the financing is open. Accordingly, the company has classified the proceeds as a liability. The company will reclassify the liability to equity upon delivery of countersigned agreements and finalization of the terms.

Based on the company’s current business plan, we believe our cash balance as of the date of this report, along with revenue from our current contracts, will be sufficient to meet the company’s anticipated cash requirements for the near term. However, we cannot be certain that the current business plan will be achievable. In addition, we recently received verbal notice that funding under two of the company’s contracts has been discontinued, as described under Results of Operations and Ongoing Business Activities. Although these contracts are still in effect, receipt of any additional funds under them is highly uncertain, which negatively affects our anticipated cash flows from operating activities.

The company’s existence depends upon management’s ability to develop profitable operations. Management is devoting substantially all of its efforts to developing its business and raising capital, as needed, and cannot be certain that these efforts will be successful. Management’s business development efforts may not result in profitable operations. To fund its research and development and marketing efforts, the company’s management continues to explore possible financing opportunities through discussions with investment bankers and private investors. The company may not be successful in its effort to secure additional financing on terms it considers favorable. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result should the company be unable to continue as a going concern.

## Controls and procedures

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### Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (and principal accounting and financial officer) (“CEO”), has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on such evaluation, our CEO has concluded that as of June 30, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of such date as a result of a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting due to a lack of segregation of duties (resulting from limited personnel) and written policies and procedures with the accounting functions and evidence of control review. Under the direction of our CEO, we are developing a plan to remediate this material weakness, including having hired additional personnel to implement and oversee the required policies and procedures.

### Changes in Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting

There was no change in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this report, which has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.

Filed Aug 13, 2025.
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