# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000879911
**File Stem:** 0001213900-25-088705
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 13064
**Document Hash:** e440a7a6b0eb4b85987086a2d6b014f2
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001213900-25-088705.hdr.sgml**: 20250918

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001213900-25-088705

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250915

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250918

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250917

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000879911
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SEARCH, DETECTION, NAVIGATION, GUIDANCE, AERONAUTICAL SYS [3812]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 770262908
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-14015
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251321521

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 9070 S. RITA ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 1500
- **CITY:** TUCSON
- **STATE:** AZ
- **ZIP:** 85747
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 520-628-7415

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 9070 S. RITA ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 1500
- **CITY:** TUCSON
- **STATE:** AZ
- **ZIP:** 85747

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** IONATRON, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20040429

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** US HOME & GARDEN INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19950714

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** NATURAL EARTH TECHNOLOGIES INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19930328

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, DC 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT**

**TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE**

**SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) <u>September 15, 2025</u>

APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

<u>001-14015</u> <u>77-0262908</u> <br> (Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification No.)

<u>9070 S Rita Road, #1500, Tucson, AZ</u> <u>85747</u> <br> (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(520) 628-7415

(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (*see* General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company: ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Common Stock, par value $.001 per share | AERG | OTCQB |

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**Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.**

The 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the company was held virtually via webcast on September 15, 2025. A total of 139,394,852 (or approximately 63%) of the company's shares issued, outstanding and entitled to vote at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting. Set forth below are the final voting results for the proposals voted on at the meeting. For more information about the proposals set forth below, please see the company's definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2025.

1. Election of Directors

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
|  | For | Withhold | Broker Non-Vote |
| Michael Alber (1 year) | 67133288 | 1768588 | 70492976 |
| John Schultz (1 year) | 58161888 | 10739988 | 70492976 |
| Gregory J. Quarles (1 year) | 57678390 | 11223486 | 70492976 |
| Scott Andrews (2 years) | 67135069 | 1766807 | 70492976 |
| Christopher Donaghey (2 years) | 66816656 | 2085220 | 70492976 |
| Bradford T. Adamczyk (3 years) | 65547698 | 3354178 | 70492976 |
| Mary P. O'Hara (3 years) | 65545503 | 3356373 | 70492976 |

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Accordingly, all nominees were elected as recommended by the Board of Directors.

2. To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.

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| | | | |
|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Vote |
| 60609343 | 6852664 | 1439869 | 70492976 |

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Accordingly, proposal 2 was approved by the stockholders, as recommended by the Board of Directors.

3. To approve, on an advisory basis, the frequency with which the Company holds advisory votes regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Three Years | &nbsp;&nbsp;Two Years | &nbsp;&nbsp;One Year | &nbsp;&nbsp;Abstain | &nbsp;&nbsp;Broker Non-Vote |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;55109156 | &nbsp;&nbsp;1169643 | &nbsp;&nbsp;12320838 | &nbsp;&nbsp;302239 | &nbsp;&nbsp;70492976 |

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Accordingly, proposal 3 was approved by the stockholders, as recommended by the Board of Directors.

4. To approve and adopt the Company's 2025 Equity Incentive Plan.

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| | | | |
|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Vote |
| 58537750 | 9362858 | 1001268 | 70492976 |

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Accordingly, proposal 4 was approved by the stockholders, as recommended by the Board of Directors.

5. To ratify the appointment of RBSM LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

<u>For</u> <u>Against</u> <u>Abstain</u> <br> 138,491,020 26,982 876,850

Accordingly, proposal 5 was approved by the stockholders, as recommended by the Board of Directors.

**Item 8.01 – Other Events**

At the Applied Energetics, Inc. 2025 Annual Meeting described in Item 5.07 above, Christopher Donaghey, our President and Chief Executive Officer, delivered a presentation to the stockholders in attendance, a copy of which is attached as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

**Item 9.01 – Exhibits**

99.1 [Presentation of President and Chief Executive Officer](ea025774201ex99-1_applied.htm) <br> 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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|:---|:---|
| APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC. | APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC. |
| By: | /s/ Christopher Donaghey |
|  | Christopher Donaghey |
|  | President and Chief Executive Officer |

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**Date**: September 17, 2025

## Exhibit 99.1

**Exhibit 99.1**

CEO Transcript of Presentation Made at 2025 Annual Shareholders' Meeting

Thank you for attending today's meeting. The meeting is adjourned. I will now spend a few minutes to give you an update on this year's activities to date and what we have planned for the rest of the year.

In the beginning of the year, I made our highest priority for the first half of the year getting multiple lasers into the Applied Energetics Battle Lab to be able to do on-demand demonstrations of our ultrashort pulse laser capability to defeat drone sensors. By the middle of the year, we had two lasers operational – one, a billion-watt peak power ultrashort pulse laser operating in the near infrared and two, a novel doppler lidar capable of picking out the signatures of spinning drone rotors.

As of this week, the billion-watt peak power laser will be able to fire not only in the near infrared, but also in the visible spectrum, the lidar continues to improve from a capability perspective and is in a smaller form factor, and we have a low-power laser now operating through the Kord Firefly gimbal.

A second key priority was to begin the shift from research and development activities into engineering – this priority took center stage after the success of the Ukrainian drone raid, called Operation Spiderweb, on Russian airbases on June first of this year. Two key points of progress on this: one, we started hiring engineers to begin the "productization" of our lasers, and two, we pressed the accelerator on early prototype development of our standalone Pulsed Laser Air Defense system or PLAID. The early version of PLAID includes an even smaller form factor of the laser source and an early-stage software system and gimbal for firing the laser downrange. We are now using that gimbal to hit multiple static targets at the far end of the Battle Lab.

We have continued to build our IP portfolio with the award of three new patents this year: one covering a unique application of an ultraviolet ultrashort pulse laser to identify and kill viruses on surfaces, and two covering new amplification technologies for ultrashort pulse lasers.

We also began a new contracted program to support the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, or LLE. LLE has been awarded a significant new laser development program from a US government customer, and we were selected by LLE to build the laser for that program. We are in the process of concluding Phase 0 of this program and expect to move into Phase I later this year. We anticipate this will be a multi-year program and frankly, the final version of that laser is extremely powerful and borders on frightening!

It has not been all good news this year, however. In the first few months of the year, we were notified by one of our customers that funding was discontinued for two of our programs, likely as a result of DOGE reprioritization. It is important to note that these contracts were small in size and funding was from the earlier stage Applied Research portion of the Research Development Test & Evaluation budget, also referred to as the 6.2 budget – the 6.2 budget only accounts for about 3.5% of the proposed FY26 Research budget and since FY24, the 6.2 portion of the budget has decreased more than 20% when comparing the actual FY24 budget and the proposed FY26 budget, yet the total Research budget is up almost 20% from FY24 to proposed FY26.

What does this mean? It means the current administration has shifted the priorities of the Research budget toward later stages of the development process – these later stages account for roughly 90% of the total Research budget of approximately $180 billion, and while early stage is down 20%, the later stage budget categories are up 26%. In order to tap into these later stages, we need to demonstrate that our technology is at a Technology Readiness Level 5, or TRL 5.

So, now let's talk about the activities for the remainder of the year. Hopefully its clear by this point that the highest priority is demonstrating our technology is at TRL 5. And to do that, we need to demonstrate our technology in a "relevant environment." That means outdoor testing. Our primary objective is to do our first outdoor testing in Q4 of this year with the smaller form factor of the laser source and the early prototype beam director we have built in house. After completion of this test, we expect to see acceleration in our customer and strategic partner engagement.

A second priority is selecting and establishing a relationship with a third-party developer for a production ready beam director.

The next priority to begin the buildout of the Productization team, starting with the hiring of a Chief Product Officer and launching the Systems Integration facility in the same location as our Battle Lab.

The last priority is to complete the development of a new multi-wavelength ultrashort pulse laser that operates in the shortwave infrared and longwave infrared, as well as maturing certain aspects of our vertical integration strategy to build our own components to alleviate supply chain pressures for the longer wavelength version of our lasers.

I would like to thank you all for your support of Applied Energetics and I look forward to providing updates as we move out to execute on our strategy. I'll now open the call to questions, but please note, questions should be germane to the meeting. Questions not related to the meeting will be addressed by our investor relations team following the meeting.