Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000115
Chunk: 26

Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 26
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 Plan is attached to this Proxy Statement as Annex A.

#### Purpose of the Plan
The purpose of the Plan is to assist us in (i) attracting and retaining the best available personnel for positions of substantial responsibility, (ii) motivating personnel by providing additional incentives to employees, non-employee directors, and individual consultants, including providing financial incentives for individual performance, and (iii) promoting the success of the Company’s business interests.

#### Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table summarizes equity compensation plan information regarding equity securities authorized for issuance under the Plan as of April 11, 2025:

| Plan Category                                       |     |         |     | Full Value Awards |         |     | Numbers of Shares Available |
| Nauticus Robotics, Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan |     | 484,648 |     |                   | 323,097 |     |                             |

#### Usage of Shares for Awards
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During 2023, 2024 and 2025, the grants of shares under the Plans are shown in the table below. All grants are reported taking into account the reverse stock split that took place on July 18, 2024.

| Grant Year |     |      | Options |     | Time-Based Restricted Stock |     | Performance Based Awards |     | Total Full-Value Awards |
|            |     | 2023 | —       |     |                      32,936 |     | —                        |     |                  32,936 |
|            |     | 2024 | —       |     |                     235,556 |     | —                        |     |                 235,556 |
|            |     | 2025 | —       |     |                     252,798 |     | —                        |     |                 252,798 |

During the period from 2023 to 2025, awards representing 135,441 shares were forfeited.

The recipients of the grants under the Plans were as follows:

|                          |     |   2023 |     |            |     |    2024 |     |            |     |    2025 |     |            |
| Participant              |     | Shares |     | %          |     |  Shares |     | %          |     |  Shares |     | %          |
| Named Executive Officers |     | 13,012 |     | 40    %    |     | 126,432 |     | 39