EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1565228
Filing Year: 2021
Filename: 1565228_10-K_2021_0001493152-21-008926.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
Overview
Vislink, incorporated in 2006, is a global technology business specializing in collecting, delivering, and managing high-quality, live video and associated data from the scene of the action to the viewing screen. Vislink provides solutions for the collection of live news, sports, and entertainment events for the broadcast markets. Vislink also furnishes the surveillance and defense markets with real-time video intelligence solutions using various tailored transmission products. The Vislink team also provides professional and technical services utilizing a staff of technology experts with decades of applied knowledge and real-world experience in terrestrial microwave, satellite, fiber optic, surveillance, and wireless communications systems delivering a broad spectrum of customer solutions.
LIVE BROADCAST:
Vislink delivers an extensive portfolio of solutions for live news, sports, and entertainment industries. These solutions encompass the video collection, transmission, management, and distribution of content, via microwave, satellite, cellular, I.P., and MESH networks. With over 50 years in operation, Vislink has the expertise and technology portfolio to deliver fully integrated, seamless, end-to-end solutions.
Industry-wide contributors acknowledge Vislink’s live broadcast solutions. The transmission of a vast majority of all outside wireless broadcast video content uses our equipment, with over 200,000 systems installed worldwide. We work closely with the majority of the world’s broadcasters. Vislink wireless cameras and ultra-compact encoders help bring many of the world’s most prestigious sporting and entertainment events to life. Recent examples include globally watched international sporting contests, award shows, racing events, and annual music and cultural events.
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT:
Building on our knowledge of live video delivery, Vislink has developed high-quality solutions to meet the operational and industry challenges of surveillance and defense markets. Vislink solutions are specifically designed with interagency cooperation in mind, utilizing a standard international protocol, I.P., platform, and a web interface for video delivery. Vislink provides comprehensive video, audio, and data communications solutions to the law enforcement and public safety community, including Airborne, Unmanned Systems, Maritime, and Tactical Mobile Command Posts. These solutions may include airborne downlinks, terrestrial point-to-point, tactical mobile command, maritime, UAV, and personal portable products that meet the demands of field operations, command centers, and central receiving sites. Short-range and long-range solutions are available in areas that include established infrastructure and exceptionally remote regions, making valuable video intelligence available regardless of location. Vislink public safety and surveillance solutions are deployed worldwide, including throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, at the local, regional, and federal levels of operation, a criminal investigation, crisis management, mobile command posts, and field operations.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS:
Over 30 years of technical expertise supports Vislink’s satellite solutions. These solutions aim to ensure robust, secure communications while delivering low transmission costs for any organization that needs high-quality, reliable satellite transmission. We offer turnkey solutions that begin with state-of-the-art coding, compression, engine modulation and end with our robust, lightweight antenna systems. Vislink Satellite solutions focus heavily on being the smallest, lightest, and most efficient in their categories, making transportation and ease of use a key driver in the customer experience. Vislink offers an extensive range of satellite designs that allow customers to optimize bit rate, size, weight, and total cost. Our satellite systems are used extensively globally, with over 2,000 systems deployed by governments, militaries, and broadcasters alike.
Cost Reduction Initiatives
The Company began taking liquidity preservation actions in late March 2020 and early April 2020, including:
● Implementation of proactive spending reductions to improve liquidity, including a partial workforce reduction, the furlough of employees, reduced discretionary spending, resulting in a projected annual savings of approximately $5.0 million.
● Effective May 1, 2020, the Company entered into new lease arrangements at two recent locations in Hackettstown, NJ, on a 90-day cycle for each site, effectively lowering rental fees by approximately 81%.
In November 2020, the Company implemented further reductions to its workforce and other operating expenditures. Management believes these efforts will improve the Company’s current financial position and enhance its ability to meet future working capital requirements. Additional other cost-cutting measures are as follows:
● elimination of inventory related to discontinued product lines, and
● the reduced usage and or the closure of individual facilities.
Our Strategy
Our participation in the Live Production, Mil/Gov, and Satellite sectors allow us to offer a broad array of end-to-end, high-reliability, high-data-rate, long-range wireless video transmission solutions.
Applications in growing market segments, including in-game sports, video mobile feeds, real-time capture and display of footage from drones and other aerial platforms, and rapid-response electronic newsgathering operations, use our solutions.
We have incorporated the following key sector strategies to expand various markets for miniature wireless video products, including the educational sector, videographers, and video service providers. Additionally, introducing comprehensive end-to-end I.P. technology into traditional broadcast and media markets provides complete end-to-end solutions for the video surveillance market and turnkey satellite communications solutions to address the need for communications in challenging environments.
The successful integration of the IMT and Vislink product lines and subsequent rebranding as a single entity has allowed the Company to leverage its traditional strengths. We can now offer an expanded suite of products and services in the worldwide markets we operate. Integrating the IMT and Vislink product lines has enabled the Company to take advantage of the limited overlap in previous product offerings, sales channels, and market coverage between the two brands. For example, there was a substantial Vislink client base in international markets where IMT products had a limited presence. The IMT product portfolio, which was very strong among U.S. federal law enforcement and high-end sports broadcasting customers, has been augmented with additional solutions based on enhanced product configurations. Finally, Vislink has traditionally focused on licensed spectrum solutions where IMT has pioneered non-licensed spectrum for many applications. Combining Vislink Technologies’ shared spectrum and interference mitigation intellectual property with the expanded product lineup may provide an opening into new customer bases that currently do not have access to licensed spectrum.
Market Overview and Outlook
Our services and product offerings broadly address three markets: Live Production, Mil/Gov, and Satellite.
The general focus on applying more agile wireless video systems is through the Live Production market’s sports and entertainment sector. Drivers in this market include small, lightweight, easy-to-use equipment, low-latency video systems, reliability of the wireless links, and the ability to use licensed and unlicensed bands. Current trends within the market reduce the size further and improve the wireless video systems’ agility as users are demanding higher link reliabilities at longer ranges. There is also an increased desire to provide audiences with new views and camera angles to enhance the viewing experience. The Company addresses this need through its solutions incorporating 4K, HDR, and other emerging video technologies. Among the new subsections of the sports and entertainment market, the Company has identified the burgeoning e-sports live streaming applications markets as ones where our solutions have applicability.
The Live Production market’s broadcast news sector looks to improve operational efficiencies in gathering, producing, and transmitting wireless content. Recent trends in the market include a movement towards I.P. connectivity over point-to-point links for infrastructure, high-definition upgrades of remote newsgathering vehicles, and continued pressure to reduce expenses by improving operational efficiencies. Vislink focuses on the specific ways these customers create and gather content wirelessly. As the wireless communications industry begins transitioning to fifth-generation (5G) networks, the speed increases they will usher in, expecting to augment the availability of on-demand live streaming, where Vislink equipment is already in use.
The Mil/Gov market consists of key segments, including state and local law enforcement agencies, federal agencies, and military system integrators. The market looks to improve video content’s reliability and quality without adding complexity, omitting technical intervention while operating the video systems. State and local agencies benefit from the Department of Homeland Security grant programs to improve overall security. Recent trends within these segments include improved interoperability within agencies and demand for fully integrated systems, including robust microwave combined with ubiquitous I.P. networks. As the wireless video systems are becoming more reliable and straightforward to deploy, the wireless systems’ option rate is increasing. Customers within this market include state police forces, sheriff’s departments, fire departments, first responders, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The drive to experience more and better visual communication systems impacts the Satellite market. Live T.V. broadcasting over satellite, and other connectivity types continue to be driven by cost per bit economics. Uplink operators are keen to reduce their OPEX costs by investing in greater transmission efficiency via compression and modulation approaches. There is also an interest in products offering high-rate I.P. connectivity and the desire for fully integrated solutions that enable remote live content capture, production, broadcast, and distribution.
Our Products and Solutions: Overview
We offer a full spectrum of wireless video products that are built around providing complete solutions. We have traditionally focused on developing core product technologies that have the potential for application in final assembled products that cross-market segments. Such technology focus areas include R.F., Live Streaming and microwave component development spanning the frequency range from D.C. to 18GHz, waveform modulation, advanced video encoding (HEVC) and decoding, 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition) camera systems, and digital signal processing. Through these products, we are positioned with significant technology I.P. and an established reputation for rapidly and economically delivering complex, bespoke engineering products and solutions to customers that are expertly managed to tight deadlines. Production of these products can quickly be scaled to respond to changes in market demand.
Live Production Products and Solutions
Vislink Live Production Solutions include high-definition communication links that reliably capture, transmit, and manage live event footage. We offer a line of high-margin wireless camera transmitter and receiver products that may be interconnected over I.P. networks, expanding and simplifying their widespread use and significantly reducing deployment cost. HCAM is a 4K Ultra HD-capable on-camera wireless system designed to cover significant events among our transmitter products. MicroLite 3 is a compact wireless H.D. transmitter designed for midmarket applications and smaller event coverage. It enables broadcast news operators to eliminate the use of coaxial cables in their remote news operations. This significantly reduces labor costs in operations and increases the cameramen’s speed and agility to capture engaging content. IMTDragonFly is an ultra-compact H.D. solution designed for body-worn applications, including live-action sports. Our Flagship receiver product is the newly released (Q1 2021) Quantum. The Quantum is ultra-low latency, waveform agnostic central receiver that is the Vislink premier receiver in all market verticals, including MilGov. Features include HEVC quad signal decode, seamless geographical coverage, and an I.P. stream engine with cloud integration possibilities, OTT, and social media platforms. Other essential receiver products include the ViewBack, CRx6, and CIRAS-X6. ViewBack is a lightweight, low power, low latency, dual-channel diversity receiver-decoder that enables quicker production, more efficient editing, and more effective collaboration between camera operators and studio teams. We also offer ultra-compact onboard solutions that integrate our MDR (Multi-Channel Diversity Receive System) technology with ruggedized support components designed to capture video from high-speed motorsports.
Quantum
MicroLite
Mil/Gov Products and Solutions
In the Mil/Gov sector, Vislink has focused on supplying miniature transmitters and handheld receivers for tactical surveillance and benefits from limited competition in this area. We design the IMTDragonFly transmitter to capture real-time, high-quality video from UAV/UGV/Body Cams/Concealments and other covert surveillance applications for display on fixed or mobile receive applications. The HHT3 and Mobile Commander are handheld receivers/monitors designed for tactical situations.
The Airborne Video Downlink System (AVDS) is a comprehensive aerial-based video transmission solution that delivers real-time surveillance to enhance law enforcement, emergency, and critical infrastructure operations. It includes an integrated suite of downlink transmitters, receivers, and antennas that capture real-time, reliable high-definition video from drones, helicopters, and other aircraft for display at command centers, mobile units, and video management systems. AVDS allows an unlimited number of observers to view the video over any network connection, including wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, I.P. satellite, and I.P. cellular.
HHT3
Satellite Products and Solutions
The Vislink Satellite product line features terminals that range from 65cm man-portable systems to 2.4m flyaway and driveaway systems, with all being available in multiple satellite band configurations. The essential product is MSAT, a highly portable tri-band satellite antenna system designed for rapid deployment in challenging environments. Other Vislink Satellite products include the DVE5100 encoder and IRD6200 decoder electronics units that complement our satellite terminals. They support 4k UHD transmissions and deliver significant bandwidth efficiencies to satellite communications.
MSAT
Competition and Competitive Positioning
Vislink’s primary competitors are Domo Tactical Communications (formerly a division of Cobham), Silvus Technologies, Persistent Systems, Troll Systems, and several smaller market-specific businesses.
The union of the legacy IMT and Vislink brands, we believe, created one of the market share leaders in the professional broadcast and media video transmission sector. We believe that our products solve a growing market need for regular, high-definition, wireless video communications. We have successfully leveraged our history of broadcast industry leadership, reputation for advanced technology, and the ability to provide end-to-end solutions to maintain and increase our customer base and continue delivering highly competitive offerings. Our product offerings address applications in growing market segments, including in-game sports-video mobile feeds, real-time capture and display of footage from drones and other aerial platforms, and rapid-response electronic newsgathering operations.
Our advantage grew by completing the global rebranding of our solutions under the single Vislink entity. We believe we now offer an expanded range of product offerings, additional services, and enhanced capabilities. We believe this expansion of product offerings will position us for continued growth in Live Production markets, and we expect near-term growth in the Mil/Gov and Satellite markets. As we continue to refine our production processes, we hope to improve margins and better control product quality and competitive agility.
Sales and Marketing
Our sales team comprises sales managers responsible for defined regional areas, inside sales personnel, and business development representatives focused on targeted sectors and or regions, supported by solution engineers trained in technical sales with a given market focus. The sales team focuses on helping our current customers and nurturing relationships with prospective customers in key domestic and international markets. We employ a combination of sales channels, including direct-to-end customer sales, network group sales, reseller/integrators, and Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) sales channels to use the most efficient means of reaching customers depending on the market segment. Marketing and public relations activities, digital and print marketing initiatives, the creation of support materials, trade shows, and other event appearances support our sales efforts.
As of December 31, 2020, our business development, sales, and marketing team consisted of 26 (a) full-time employees and (b) contractors.
Customers
Vislink has developed a significant following based on our product offerings’ reputation for performance, reliability, and advanced technology use. We have developed a diverse and stable customer base for repeat product purchases from blue-chip, tier-1 clients in Live Production markets, as well as among high-profile agencies and organizations in Mil/Gov and Satellite markets.
Manufacturing and Suppliers
We utilize a combination of external contract manufacturers and internal resources to manufacture, test, assure the quality of, and ship our products, providing us the opportunity to develop optimal supply chains tailored to our needs on a per-product and per-solution basis. As we advance, we anticipate that we will focus on our core strengths: innovation and technology design and the development and creation and exploitation of our intellectual property.
We may continue to rely upon, particularly in the short term, third-party components and technology to build our products, as we procure components, subassemblies, and products necessary to manufacture our products based upon our design, development, and production needs. While parts and supplies are generally available from various sources, we currently depend on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components for our products. We rely on purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with our suppliers. We do not currently stockpile enough parts to mitigate any potential supply disruption if required to re-engineer our products to use alternative components.
Intellectual Property
We have developed a broad portfolio of intellectual property that covers wired and wireless communications systems. As of December 31, 2020, we have 36 patents granted in the U.S., no patent applications pending, no provisional applications pending, and one disclosure. Internationally, we have 12 patents granted, no patent applications pending, and no Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications.
Areas of our development activities that have culminated in filings and/or awarded patents include:
● Self-Organizing Networks;
● R.F. Modulation;
● Compression (protocols, payload, signaling, etc.);
● Modulators/Demodulators;
● Antennas/Shielding;
● Wired and Wireless Networks;
● Media Access Control Protocols;
● Interference Mitigation;
● Cognition enabling over the air protocols (MAC layer);
● Wireless data compression;
● Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA);
● Quality of Service; and
● Digital Broadcasting over Microwave Links.
We protect our intellectual property rights by relying on federal, state, and common law rights, as well as contractual restrictions. We control access to our proprietary technology by entering into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and contractors and confidentiality agreements with third parties. We also actively engage in monitoring activities concerning infringing uses of our intellectual property by third parties.
In addition to these contractual arrangements, we also rely on a combination of the trade secret, copyright, trademark, trade dress, domain name, and patents to protect our products and other intellectual property. We own a substantial portion of the copyright interests in the software code used in connection with our products, as well as the brand or title name trademark under our marketed products. We pursue our domain names, trademarks, and service marks in the United States and locations outside the United States. Our registered trademarks in the United States include “xG,” “IMT,” “Vislink,” and the names of our products, among others.
Circumstances outside our control could pose a threat to our intellectual property rights. For example, adequate intellectual property protection may not be available in the United States or other countries where our products are sold or distributed. Also, the efforts we have taken to protect our proprietary rights may not be enough or adequate. Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights could harm our business or our ability to compete. Also, protecting our intellectual property rights is costly and time-consuming. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of our intellectual property could make it more expensive to do business, thereby harming our operating results.
Companies in mobile wireless communications technology and other industries may own large numbers of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. They may frequently request license agreements, threaten litigation, or file suit against us based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. We may face third-party claims, including our competitors and non-practicing entities, that we have infringed their trademarks, copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property rights. As our business grows, we might face more claims of infringement.
Company Information
Effective February 11, 2019, xG Technology, Inc. changed its name to Vislink Technologies, Inc. Our executive offices’ location is 101 Bilby Rd., Suite 15, Bldg. 2, Hackettstown, NJ 07840, and (908) 852-3700 is the telephone number. Our website address is www.vislink.com. Our website’s information does not form part of the report and is for informational purposes only.
Human Capital
Overall
As of December 31, 2020, we employed 109 full-time employees, contractors, or consultants, including 18 in development, two officers, 15 in general and administrative, 3 in business development, 45 in operations, and 26 in sales and marketing. Our business results depend in part on our ability to successfully manage our human capital resources, including attracting, identifying, and retaining key talent. As a global industrial technology company, many of our employees are engineers or trained trade or technical workers focusing on advanced manufacturing, and many of them possess advanced college degrees. No labor union represented our employees at any of our worldwide facilities as of December 31, 2020.
The Company emphasizes several measures and objectives in managing its human capital assets, including, among others, employee safety and wellness, talent acquisition and retention, employee engagement, development and training, diversity and inclusion, and compensation. These targeted ideals vary by country/region, and may include annual bonuses, stock-based compensation awards, a 401(k) plan with employee matching opportunities, healthcare, and insurance benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid time off, family leave, family care resources, employee assistance programs, and tuition assistance. We also provide our employees with access to various innovative, flexible, and convenient health and wellness programs. We designed these programs to support employees’ physical and mental health by providing tools and resources to improve or maintain their health status and encourage engagement in healthy behaviors.
We consider our employee relations to be rewarding.
Covid-19
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we implemented significant changes that we determined were in our employees’ best interest and comply with government orders in all the states and countries. We have implemented several health-related measures to keep our employees safe and maintain operations during the pandemic. The Company has established procedures adopting the following policies:
● wear face-masks at all times while on company property,
● implemented temperature taking protocols,
● increased hygiene, cleaning, and sanitizing procedures at all locations,
● implemented social-distancing,
● implemented restrictions on visitors to our facilities,
● and limiting in-person meetings and other gatherings.
The safety of our employees is a paramount value for us. Further, the health and wellness of our employees are critical to our success. We provide our employees with access to various innovative, flexible, and convenient health and wellness programs. We designed these programs to support employees’ physical and mental health by providing tools and resources to improve or maintain their health status and encourage engagement in healthy behaviors.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors
In addition to the other information in this Form 10-K, readers should carefully consider the following essential factors. These factors, among others, in some cases, have affected, and in the future could affect, our financial condition and results of operations and could cause our future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements that appear in this Form 10-K or that we have made or will make elsewhere.
Risk Factor Summary
The following summarizes certain essential factors that may make an investment in our Company speculative or risky. You should carefully consider the full risk factor disclosure outlined in this Annual Report, in addition to the other information herein, including the section of this Report titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and related notes.
● Our financial statements included a disclosure regarding our liquidity and financial condition due to our recurring operating losses and cash used from operations.
● If we cannot comply with Nasdaq’s applicable continued listing requirements or standards, Nasdaq could delist our Common Stock.
● We face risks related to COVID-19, which could significantly disrupt our operations and have a material adverse impact on us and our business.
● At several of our annual stockholder meetings, including our 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, we failed to obtain ratification by our stockholders of specific proposals submitted for approval of our stockholders at prior annual meetings, which could be deemed to be defective corporate acts.
● We may require additional capital in the future to develop and market new products. If we do not obtain any such additional financing, our business prospects, financial condition, and operating results will be adversely affected if required.
● Our industry is highly competitive, and we may not be able to compete effectively.
● Defects or errors in our products and services or products made by our suppliers could harm our brand and relations with our customers and expose us to liability. If we experience product recalls, we may incur significant expenses and experience decreased demand for our products.
● We acknowledge material weaknesses in the controls and procedures of our financial reporting. We may identify additional material weaknesses in the future that may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, including timeliness, or result in material misstatements of our financial statements.
● We rely on key executive officers, and their knowledge of our business and technical expertise would be difficult to replace.
● We purchase some components, subassemblies, and products from a limited number of suppliers. The loss of any of these suppliers may substantially disrupt our ability to obtain orders and fulfill sales as we design and qualify new components.
● Our intellectual property protections may be insufficient to safeguard our technology appropriately.
● We may be subject to claims of intellectual property infringement or invalidity. Expenses incurred concerning monitoring, protecting, and defending our intellectual property rights could adversely affect our business.
● Enforcement of our intellectual property rights abroad, particularly in China, is limited, and it is often difficult to protect and enforce such rights.
● The intellectual property rights of others may prevent us from developing new products or entering new markets.
● We may be subject to infringement claims in the future.
● If our technology did not work and planned or are unsuccessful in developing and selling new products or penetrating new markets, our business and operating results would suffer.
● Demand for our defense-related products and products for emergency response services depends on government spending.
● Regulation of the telecommunications industry could harm our operating results and impending prospects.
● New regulations or standards or changes in existing laws or standards in the United States or internationally related to our products may result in unanticipated costs or liabilities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and future sales, and could place additional burdens on the operations of our business.
● Our industry is subject to rapid technological change, and we must make substantial investments in new products, services, and technologies to compete successfully.
Risks Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has unfavorably affected the Company’s business, financial condition, and operating results and could affect the Company’s liquidity. We cannot predict, with any certainty, how future events may affect our operations in the near and long-term in the COVID-19 pandemic environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the continued measures engaged globally to reduce its spread have negatively impacted the global economy, disrupted consumer/customer demand and global supply chains, and created significant volatility and financial markets disruption. These measures and the continued volatility of the worldwide economy adversely affected our results of operations for 2020.
The extent to which COVID-19 will impact our business remains uncertain and will depend on various changing factors on a day-to-day basis. We may not be able to predict such items accurately as:
● the duration and scope of the pandemic,
● the disruption of the national and global economy,
● the span of the economic downturn,
● the laws, programs, and actions governments will enact or take,
● the possibility to which our clients’ businesses contract or fail,
● the applicability to which new regulations intended to help small and medium-sized businesses,
● the extent to which our operations are impacted by facility closures, remote work and/or infections,
● and how quickly and to what time normal economic and operating conditions can resume.
Any of these factors could exacerbate the risks and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Company fully implemented a strategic initiative plan during the first quarter of 2020. We executed spending reductions to improve liquidity, a partial workforce reduction, the furlough of employees, and discretionary spending reduction. The Company continued its focus in November 2020, further reducing the workforce, eliminating inventory related to discontinued product lines, reducing individual facilities usage, and reducing operations expenditures.
Risks Related to the Company and Our Business
Our financial statements have included disclosures regarding our liquidity and financial condition due to our recurring operating losses and cash used from operations.
The Company incurred a loss from operations of approximately $17.9 million and cash used in operating activities of $14.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The Company had $7.7 million in working capital, $270.1 million in accumulated deficits, and $5.2 million of cash on hand as of December 31, 2020. Additionally, as of April 14, 2021, our cash on hand is approximately $59.3 million.
We prepare our consolidated financial statements assuming we can continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations by realizing assets and settling liabilities in the ordinary course of business. Notwithstanding the receipt of the proceeds from previous capital raises, reduction of debt, and our cost-reduction initiatives, we may lack adequate financial resources to generate cash from operations because, among other reasons, our ability to recognize revenue and ultimately cash receipts is contingent upon, but not limited to, acceptable performance of the delivered equipment and services.
If we cannot comply with Nasdaq’s applicable continued listing requirements or standards, Nasdaq could delist our Common Stock.
We currently list our Common Stock on Nasdaq. To maintain such a listing, we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards, including those regarding director independence and independent committee requirements, minimum stockholders’ equity, minimum share price, and specific corporate governance requirements.
As previously disclosed in our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with SEC on March 5, 2020, we received a letter from the Staff on March 4, 2020, notifying us that the Staff has determined that we did not comply with Listing Rule 5635(d) because our February 2020 offering did not meet the Nasdaq definition of a public offering under Listing Rule IM-5635-3. The Staff’s determination was based on (i) the extent of the offering’s distribution, (ii) the existence of a prior relationship between the investors in such offering and us, and (iii) the significant discount to the minimum price, as defined in Nasdaq rules. On March 18, 2020, we submitted a plan to regain compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635. On April 30, 2020, we received another letter from the Staff notifying us that the Staff has determined not to delist our Common Stock for such non-compliance and that the Staff has closed this matter by issuing us a letter of reprimand under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(4).
There can be no assurances that we will be able to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing standards, or if we do later regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing standards, we will be able to continue to comply with the applicable listing standards. Also, there can be no assurance that, if and when we regain compliance with such listing standards, we may, again, in the future, fall out of compliance with such standards, and there can be no assurance that any proposed offering that we conduct will comply with Nasdaq’s listing standards. If we cannot maintain compliance with these Nasdaq requirements, our Common Stock will be delisted from Nasdaq.
We face risks related to COVID-19, which could significantly disrupt our operations and have a material adverse impact on us and our business.
The extent to which COVID-19 continues to impact the Company’s operations, results of operations, liquidity, and financial condition will depend on future developments. With the current Presidential administration working towards “herd immunity,” a target date is unpredictable with any confidence. The timing and efficacy of the vaccination programs in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates, and the actions implemented to contain the impact of COVID-19 by Federal and local governments, limit determining the foreseeable resulting economic effects with any level of predictability.
At several of our annual stockholder meetings, including our 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, we failed to obtain ratification by our stockholders of specific proposals submitted for approval of our stockholders at prior annual meetings, which could be deemed to be defective corporate acts.
At our 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, our Board submitted to our stockholders for their approval (i) a proposal to approve our 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and (ii) a proposal to approve our 2015 Incentive Compensation Plan. At our 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, our Board submitted to our stockholders for their approval (i) a proposal to approve our 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and (ii) a proposal to approve our 2016 Incentive Compensation Plan. At our 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, our Board submitted to our stockholders, for their approval, (i) a proposal to approve an amendment to our 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for sale under such plan; (ii) a proposal to approve an amendment to our 2016 Incentive Compensation Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for sale under such plan; and (iii) a proposal to approve our 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan.
At each of these annual meetings, our inspector of elections determined that the applicable proposal received the requisite stockholder approval under our amended and restated bylaws (“Bylaws”) and certified that the proposal passed, which was subsequently disclosed in an applicable Current Report on Form 8-K. Questions have been raised about whether the votes on such proposals were tabulated following our Bylaws’ provisions and whether the requisite number of votes were obtained to approve each of these proposals.
According to the provisions of Section 204 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”) and to continue to remain in compliance with Nasdaq’s Listing Rules, we submitted all of these proposals, again, to our stockholders at our 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for ratification to resolve any defects in the corporate acts relating to the approval of these proposals by our stockholders at the prior meetings. We were unable to obtain ratification by our stockholders for any of these proposals submitted to them at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Although we intend to resubmit these proposals to our stockholders for ratification, there can be no assurance that any of these proposals will be ratified. Suppose we cannot secure such ratifications secured or are not deemed adequate, among other consequences. In that case, this could result in a determination that none of the shares issued by us under these plans were duly authorized and validly issued, which could create accounting issues, affect our liquidity and capital structure, and expose us to claims from recipients of any stock awards granted according to such plans, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
We may require additional capital in the future to develop and market new products. If we do not obtain any such additional financing, our business prospects, financial condition, and results of operations will be adversely affected if required.
We may require additional capital in the future to develop new products. We may not be able to secure adequate additional financing when needed on acceptable terms or at all. To execute our business strategy, we may issue additional equity securities in public or private offerings, potentially at discounts to the current or future market price of our Common Stock. If we cannot secure sufficient additional funding, we may be forced to forego strategic opportunities or delay, scale back and eliminate future product development.
Our industry is highly competitive, and we may not be able to compete effectively.
The communications industry is highly competitive, rapidly evolving, and subject to constant technological change. We expect that new competitors are likely to join existing competitors. Many of our competitors may be larger and have more excellent financial, technical, operational, marketing, and other resources and experience than we do. If a competitor expends significant resources, we may not be able to compete successfully. Also, the pace of technological change makes it impossible for us to predict whether we will face new competitors using different technologies to provide products. If our competitors were to offer better and more cost-effective products than our products, we might not be able to capture any significant market share.
Defects or errors in our products and services or products made by our suppliers could harm our brand and relations with our customers and expose us to liability. If we experience product recalls, we may incur significant expenses and experience decreased demand for our products.
Our products are inherently complex and may contain defects and errors that are only detectable when the products are in use. Because our products are used for personal and business purposes, such faults or errors could have a severe impact on our end customers, damaging our reputation, harming our customer relationships, and exposing us to liability. Defects or impurities in our components, materials or software, equipment failures, or other difficulties could adversely affect our ability and that of our customers, ship products on a timely basis, and customer or licensee demand for our products. Any such shipment delays or declines in demand could reduce our revenues and harm our ability to achieve or sustain desired levels of profitability. Our customers may also experience component or software failures or defects that could require significant product recalls, rework, and/or repairs that are not covered by warranty reserves.
According to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”), our loan could be audited by U.S. regulatory authorities. An adverse finding thereunder could require us to return the full amount of the loan and potentially subject us to fines and penalties.
In April 2020, we concluded in good faith that the economic uncertainty and negative impact on us and the economy as a whole due to the COVID-19 pandemic made an application for a loan under the PPP, under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), necessary for the support of our ongoing operations in the current economic environment.
On April 5, 2020, we entered into a PPP loan with Texas Security Bank in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $1.2 million. The lack of clarity regarding loan eligibility under the Paycheck Protection Program has resulted in significant media coverage and controversy concerning public companies applying for and receiving loans. On April 23, 2020, the Small Business Administration, or SBA, issued new guidance that questioned whether a public company with substantial market value and access to capital markets would qualify to participate in the PPP. Subsequently, on April 28, 2020, the Secretary of the Treasury and SBA announced that the government would review all PPP loans above $2 million in principal for which the borrower applies for forgiveness. On May 13, 2020, the SBA issued further guidance relating to the required necessity certification, which provides a limited safe harbor for companies that received PPP loans having less than $2 million in principal to the effect that they will be deemed to have made the required certification concerning the necessity of the loan request in good faith.
Nonetheless, should we be audited or reviewed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury due to applying for forgiveness or otherwise, such audit or review could result in the diversion of management’s time and attention and legal and reputational costs. If we were to be audited and receive an adverse finding in such audit, we could be required to return the full amount of the PPP loan and pay interest at a higher rate than 1.000% per annum, reducing our liquidity and potentially subject us to fines and penalties. Official guidance and interpretations of the program’s requirements have been limited and have been changing over time. Despite our good-faith belief that we properly satisfied all eligibility requirements for the PPP loan and the recently published, limited safe-harbor, there has been increasing scrutiny of public companies that received loans. There can be no assurance that we will not become subject to regulatory or another scrutiny by the SBA, the Department of the Treasury, or any other regulatory, administrative, legislative, or governmental authority, including a request or requirement for repayment of some or all of the loan, or otherwise incur adverse publicity and damage to our reputation.
Under the terms of the CARES Act, PPP loan recipients can be granted forgiveness for all or a portion of the loan, with such forgiveness to be determined, subject to limitations, based on the use of the loan proceeds for payment of qualifying expenses and the Company maintaining its payroll levels over certain required thresholds. Although we intend to apply for forgiveness of the PPP loan, no assurance can be provided that we will obtain such forgiveness in whole or in part.
We acknowledge material weaknesses in the controls and procedures of our financial reporting. We may identify additional material weaknesses in the future that may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, including timeliness, or result in material misstatements of our financial statements. If we continue to fail to remediate our material weaknesses or fail to implement effective controls and procedures for our financial reporting, our ability to accurately and timely report our financial results could be adversely affected, which would likely adversely affect the value of our Common Stock.
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal controls over financial reporting. Internal Control Over Financial Reporting is a process designed by and under the supervision of the Company’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by the Company’s Board, management, and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes under generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:
1. Pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
2. Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements following generally accepted accounting principles and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only by authorizations of its management and Board; and
3. Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on its financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting is not intended to provide absolute assurance that a misstatement of our consolidated financial statements would be prevented or detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risks that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Our management, including our principal executive officer and our chief financial officer, has not completed an effective assessment of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on the 2013 Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) framework. Management has concluded that as of December 31, 2020, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective in detecting U.S. GAAP’s inappropriate application.
Management identified the following material weaknesses set forth below in our internal control over financial reporting:
1. We did not perform an effective risk assessment or monitor internal controls over financial reporting.
2. With the acquisitions of IMT and Vislink, there are risks related to the timing and accuracy of integrating information from various accounting and ERP systems. The Company has experienced delays in receiving information promptly from its subsidiaries.
3. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed integrating the accounting and finance functions, enacted workforce reduction, and resulted in the limitation of essential accounting personal.
The Company remains committed to addressing this issue despite the effects on the worldwide economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To mitigate the current circumstances, we rely heavily on direct management oversight of transactions, along with the use of highly experienced external legal and accounting professionals, including our limited number of essential accounting personnel, who continue to work from home. The Company expects to implement adequate segregation of duties within the internal control framework as the Company grows.
Until we can remediate this situation, there are no assurances that the material weaknesses in our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting will not result in errors in our financial statements, which could lead to a restatement of those financial statements. The Company expects improvements, as resources permit, on the integration of information issues in the fiscal year 2020 and 2021 as we plan to move towards a more unified accounting and enterprise resource planning system.
The Company is continuing to remediate further the material weakness identified above as its resources permit. Despite the existence of these material weaknesses, the Company believes that the consolidated financial statements included in the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
This report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. According to the SEC’s rules, the management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm that permits the Company to provide only the management’s report in this Report.
Our charter documents and Delaware law could prevent a takeover that stockholders consider favorable and could also reduce the market price of our Common Stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, as amended (“Certificate of Incorporation”), and our Bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in our Company’s control. These provisions could also make it more difficult for stockholders to elect directors and take other corporate actions. These provisions include:
● authorizing the Board to issue, without stockholder approval, preferred stock with rights senior to those of our Common Stock;
● limiting the persons who may call special meetings of stockholders; and
● requiring advance notification of stockholder nominations and proposals.
Also, the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL govern us. These provisions may prohibit large stockholders, particularly those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or combining with us for a specific time without our Board’s consent. These and other provisions in our Certificate of Incorporation and our Bylaws and under Delaware law could discourage potential takeover attempts, reduce the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our Common Stock and result in the market price of our Common Stock being lower than it would be without these provisions.
Although our products may not cause users technical issues, our business and reputation may be harmed if users perceive our solutions as the cause of a slow or unreliable network connection or a high-profile network failure.
We expect that our products will be in many different locations and user environments and can provide transmission of video, mobile broadband connectivity, and interference mitigation, among other applications. Our products’ ability to operate effectively can be negatively impacted by many different elements unrelated to our products. Although our products may not cause users technical issues, users often may perceive the underlying cause of our technology’s poor performance. This perception, even if incorrect, could harm our business and reputation. Similarly, a high-profile network failure may be caused by improper operation of the network or failure of a network component that we did not supply. Still, other service providers may perceive that our products were implicated, which, even if incorrect, could harm our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Our ability to sell our products will be highly dependent on the quality of our support and service offerings, and our failure to offer high-quality support and services would have a material adverse effect on our sales and results of operations.
Once our products are deployed, our channel partners and end-customers will depend on our support organization to resolve any issues relating to our products. A high level of support will be necessary for the successful marketing and sale of our products. In many cases, our channel partners will likely provide support directly to our end-customers. We will not have complete control over the quality of the support supplied by our channel partners. These channel partners may also support other third-party products, potentially distracting resources from support for our products. If our channel partners and we do not effectively assist our end-customers in deploying our products, succeed in helping our end-customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues or provide adequate ongoing support, our ability to sell our products to existing end-customers could be adversely affected, and our reputation with potential end-customers could be harmed. In some cases, we guarantee a certain performance level to our channel partners and end-customers, which could prove resource-intensive and expensive for us to fulfill if unforeseen technical problems were to arise.
We may fail to recruit and retain qualified personnel.
We expect to rapidly expand our operations and grow our sales, development, and administrative functions. This expansion is expected to place a significant strain on our management and require hiring a considerable quantity of qualified personnel. Accordingly, recruiting and retaining such personnel in the future will be critical to our success. There is intense competition from other companies for qualified personnel in the areas of our activities. Suppose we fail to identify, attract, retain and motivate this highly skilled personnel. In that case, we may be unable to continue our marketing and development activities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and future prospects.
We rely on key executive officers, and their knowledge of our business and technical expertise would be difficult to replace.
We are highly dependent on our executive officers because of their expertise and experience in the telecommunications industry. We have agreements with our executive officers containing customary non-disclosure, non-compete, confidentiality, and assignment of inventions provisions. We do not have “key person” life insurance policies for any of our officers. The loss of the technical knowledge and management and industry expertise of any of our key personnel could result in delays in product development, loss of customers and sales, and diversion of management resources, which could adversely affect our operating results.
We purchase some components, subassemblies, and products from a limited number of suppliers. The loss of any of these suppliers may substantially disrupt our ability to obtain orders and fulfill sales as we design and qualify new components.
We sometimes rely on third-party components and technology to build and operate our products, and, until full integration with IMT and VCS, we may rely on our contract manufacturers to obtain the components, subassemblies, and products necessary for the manufacture of our products. Shortages in components that we use in our products are possible, and our ability to predict such components’ availability is limited. While components and supplies are generally available from various sources, our contract manufacturers and we currently depend on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components for our products. If our suppliers of these components or technology were to enter into exclusive relationships with other providers of wireless networking equipment or were to discontinue providing such components and technology to us, and we were unable to replace them cost-effectively, or at all, our ability to provide our products would be impaired. Our contract manufacturers and we generally rely on purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with these suppliers. As a result, even if available, our contract manufacturers and we may not secure sufficient components at reasonable prices or acceptable quality to build our products on time. Therefore, we may be unable to meet customer demand for our products, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
We do not have long-term contracts with our existing contract manufacturers. The loss of any of our current contract manufacturers could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
We do not have long-term contracts with our existing contract manufacturers. If any of our current contract manufacturers are unable or unwilling to manufacture our products in the future, the loss of such contract manufacturers could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Our intellectual property protections may be insufficient to safeguard our technology adequately.
Our success and ability to compete effectively are, in large part, dependent upon proprietary technology that we have developed internally. Given the rapid pace of innovation and technological change within the wireless and broadband industries, our personnel, consultants, and contractors’ technical and creative skill and ability to develop, enhance, and market new products and upgrades to existing products are critical to continued success. We rely primarily on patent laws to protect our proprietary rights. As of March 1, 2021, in the United States, we have 36 patents granted, no patent applications pending, and no provisional applications pending. Internationally, we have 12 patents granted and no patent applications pending. There can be no assurance that patents awaiting, or future patent applications will be issued or that we would have the resources to protect any such issued patent from infringement if issued.
Further, we cannot patent much of the technology that is important to our business. To date, we have relied on copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality procedures, non-compete and/or work for hire invention assignment agreements, and licensing arrangements with our employees, consultants, contractors, customers, and vendors, to establish and protect our rights to this technology and, to the best extent possible, control the access to and distribution of our technology, software, documentation, and other proprietary information. Despite these precautions, it may be possible for a third party to copy or otherwise obtain and use this technology without authorization. Policing unauthorized use of this technology is challenging. There can be no assurance that the steps we take will prevent misappropriation of or prevent unauthorized third parties from obtaining or using the technology we rely upon. Also, adequate protection may be unavailable or limited in some jurisdictions. Litigation may be necessary for the future to enforce or protect our rights.
We may be subject to claims of intellectual property infringement or invalidity. Expenses incurred for monitoring, protecting, and defending our intellectual property rights could adversely affect our business.
Competitors and others may infringe on our intellectual property rights or allege that we have infringed on theirs. Monitoring infringement and misappropriation of intellectual property can be difficult and expensive, and we may not be able to detect infringement or misappropriation of our proprietary rights. We may also incur significant litigation expenses in protecting our intellectual property or defending our use of intellectual property, reducing our ability to fund product initiatives. These expenses could hurt our future cash flows and results of operations. If we are found to infringe on others’ rights, we could be required to discontinue offering certain products or systems, pay damages, or purchase a license to use the intellectual property in question from its owner. Litigation can also distract management from the day-to-day operations of the business.
Enforcement of our intellectual property rights abroad, particularly in China, is limited, and it is often difficult to protect and enforce such rights.
Patent protection outside the United States is generally not as comprehensive as in the United States and may not protect our intellectual property in some countries where our products are sold or may be sold in the future. Even if patents are granted outside the United States, effective enforcement in those countries may not be available. Many companies have encountered substantial intellectual property infringement in countries where we sell, or intend to sell, products or have our products manufactured.
In particular, the legal regime relating to China’s intellectual property rights is limited, and it is often difficult to protect and enforce such rights. The regulatory scheme for implementing China’s intellectual property laws may not be as developed as other countries’ regulatory schemes. Any advancement of an intellectual property enforcement claim through China’s regulatory system may require an extensive amount of time, allowing intellectual property infringers to continue mostly unimpeded, to our commercial detriment in the Chinese and other export markets. Also, rules of evidence may be unclear, inconsistent, or difficult to comply with, making it difficult to prove infringement of our intellectual property rights. As a result, enforcement cases involving technology, such as copyright infringement of software code, or unauthorized manufacture or sale of products containing patented inventions, may be difficult or not possible to sustain.
These factors may make it increasingly complicated for us to enforce our intellectual property rights against parties misappropriating or copying our technology or products without our authorization, allowing competing enterprises to harm our business in the Chinese or other export markets by affecting the pricing for our products, reducing our sales and diluting our brand or product quality reputation.
The intellectual property rights of others may prevent us from developing new products or entering new markets.
The telecommunications industry is characterized by the rapid development of new technologies, which requires us to continuously introduce new products and expand into new markets that may be created. Therefore, our success depends on our ability to continually adapt our products and systems to incorporate new technologies and expand into markets that new technologies may create. If technologies are protected by others’ intellectual property rights, including our competitors, we may be prevented from introducing new products or expanding into new markets created by these technologies. If others’ intellectual property rights prevent us from taking advantage of innovative technologies, our financial condition, operating results, or prospects may be harmed.
We may be subject to infringement claims in the future.
We may be unaware of filed patent applications and issued patents that could include claims covering our products. Parties making claims of infringement may be able to obtain injunctive or other equitable relief that could effectively block our ability to sell or supply our products or license our technology and could cause us to pay substantial royalties, licensing fees, or damages. The defense of any lawsuit could divert management’s efforts and attention from ordinary business operations and result in time-consuming and expensive litigation, regardless of the merits of such claims. These outcomes may (i) require us to stop selling products or using technology that contains the allegedly infringing intellectual property; (ii) need us to redesign those products that have the allegedly infringing intellectual property; (iii) require us to pay substantial damages to the party whose intellectual property rights we may be found to be infringing; (iv) result in the loss of existing customers or prohibit the acquisition of new customers; (v) cause us to attempt to obtain a license to the relevant intellectual property from third parties, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all; (vi) materially and adversely affect our brand in the market place and cause a substantial loss of goodwill; (vii) cause our stock price to decline significantly; (viii) materially and adversely affect our liquidity, including our ability to pay debts and other obligations as they become due; or (ix) lead to our bankruptcy or liquidation.
We rely on the availability of third-party licenses. If these licenses are available to us only on less favorable terms or not at all in the future, our business and operating results would be harmed.
We have incorporated third-party licensed technology into our products. It may be necessary to renew licenses relating to various aspects of these products or seek additional licenses for existing or new products. There can be no assurance that the required licenses will be available on acceptable terms or at all. The inability to obtain specific licenses or other rights, or to obtain those licenses or rights on favorable terms, or the need to engage in litigation regarding these matters, could result in delays in product releases until such time, if ever, as equivalent technology could be identified, licensed or developed and integrated into our products and might have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Moreover, the inclusion in our products of intellectual property licensed from third parties on a nonexclusive basis could limit our ability to protect our proprietary rights in our products.
Our customers could also become the target of litigation relating to others’ patents and other intellectual property rights.
Any litigation relating to others’ intellectual property rights could trigger technical support and indemnification obligations in-licenses or customer agreements that we may enter. These obligations could result in substantial expenses, including the payment by us of costs and damages relating to intellectual property infringement claims. In addition to the time and expense required for us to provide support or indemnification to our customers, any such litigation could disrupt our customers’ businesses, which could hurt our relationships with such customers and cause the sale of our products to decrease. No assurance can be given that indemnification claims will not be made or that if made, such claims would not have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, or financial conditions.
We expect to base our inventory purchasing decisions on our forecasts of customers’ demand, and if our forecasts are inaccurate, our operating results could be materially harmed.
As our customer base increases, we expect to place orders with our contract manufacturers based on our customers’ demand forecasts. Our forecasts will be based on multiple assumptions, each of which may cause our estimates to be inaccurate, affecting our ability to provide products to our customers. When demand for our products increases significantly, we may not be able to meet demand on a timely basis, and we may need to expend a significant amount of time working with our customers to allocate limited supply and maintain positive customer relations, or we may incur additional costs to rush the manufacture and delivery of other products. If we underestimate customers’ demand, we may forego revenue opportunities, lose market share and damage our customer relationships. Conversely, if we overestimate customer demand, we may purchase more inventory than we can sell at any given time or at all. Also, we grant our distributors stock rotation rights, which require us to accept stock back from a distributor’s inventory, including obsolete inventory. As a result of our failure to correctly estimate the demand for our products, we could have excess or obsolete inventory, resulting in a decline in our inventory value, which would increase our costs of revenues and reduce our liquidity. Our failure to accurately manage inventory relative to demand would adversely affect our operating results.
If our technology did not work and planned or are unsuccessful in developing and selling new products or penetrating new markets, our business and operating results would suffer.
Our success and ability to compete depend on technology that we have developed or may develop in the future. There is a risk that the technology that we have developed or may develop may not work as intended or that the marketing of the technology may not be as successful as anticipated. Further, the markets in which our customers and we compete or plan to compete are characterized by regularly and rapidly changing technologies and technological obsolescence. Our ability to compete successfully depends on our ability to design, develop, manufacture, assemble, test, market, and support new products and enhancements on a timely and cost-effective basis to keep pace with market needs and satisfy customers’ demands. A fundamental shift in technologies in any of our target markets could harm our competitive position within these markets. Our failure to anticipate these shifts, develop new technologies, or react to changes in existing technologies could materially delay our development of new products, resulting in product obsolescence, decreased revenue, and a loss of customer wins to our competitors. New technologies and products generally require substantial investment and require long development and testing periods before they are commercially viable. We intend to continue to make significant investments in developing new technologies and products, and it is possible that we may not successfully be able to build or acquire new products or product enhancements that compete effectively within our target markets or differentiate our products based on functionality, performance or cost and that our latest technologies and products will not result in meaningful revenue. Any delays in developing and releasing new or enhanced products could cause us to lose revenue opportunities and customers. Any technical flaws in product releases could diminish our products’ innovative impact and harm customer adoption and our reputation. If we fail to introduce new products that meet our customers’ demands or target markets or do not achieve market acceptance, or fail to penetrate new markets, our revenue will not increase over time, and our operating results and competitive position would suffer.
Computer malware, viruses, hacking, and phishing attacks could harm our business and operations results.
Computer malware, viruses, computer hacking, and phishing attacks have become more prevalent in our industry and may occur in our future systems. Though it is difficult to determine what, if any, harm may directly result from any specific interruption or attack, any failure to maintain performance, reliability, security, and availability of our products and technical infrastructure to the satisfaction of our users may harm our reputation and our ability to attract and retain customers.
If we do not effectively manage our business changes, these changes could significantly strain our management and operations.
Our ability to grow successfully requires an effective planning and management process. Our business’s expansion and growth could significantly strain our management systems, infrastructure, and other resources. To manage our growth successfully, we must continue improving and expanding our systems and infrastructure quickly and efficiently. Our controls, systems, procedures, and resources may not be adequate to support a changing and growing company. If our management fails to respond effectively to changes and growth in our business, including acquisitions, this could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and future prospects.
Our exposure to our customers’ credit risks may make it difficult to collect accounts receivable and could adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.
We may encounter difficulty collecting accounts receivable in our sales to customers and could be exposed to risks associated with uncollectible accounts receivable. Economic conditions may impact some of our customers’ ability to pay their accounts payable. While we will attempt to monitor these situations carefully and try to take appropriate measures to collect accounts receivable balances, we have written down accounts receivable and written off doubtful accounts in prior periods and may be unable to avoid accounts receivable write-downs or write-offs of doubtful accounts in the future. Such write-downs or write-offs could negatively affect our operating results for the period in which they occur.
Demand for our defense-related products and products for emergency response services depends on government spending.
The U.S. military market is mainly dependent upon government budgets, particularly the defense budget. The funding of government programs is subject to Congressional appropriation. Although multi-year contracts may be authorized in connection with significant procurements, Congress generally appropriates funds on a fiscal year basis even though a program may be expected to continue for several years. Consequently, programs are often only partially funded, and additional funds are committed as Congress makes further appropriations. No assurance can be given that an increase in defense spending will be allocated to programs that would benefit our business. A decrease in levels of defense spending or the government’s termination of, or failure to fully fund, one or more of the contracts for which our products may be utilized could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
Our products’ sale to local municipalities for emergency response services depends on government spending allocated to such areas. There can be no assurance that government spending will be assigned to emergency response services at a level that would benefit our business. A decrease in levels of government spending for emergency response services, or the government’s termination of, or failure to fully fund, one or more of the contracts for which our products may be utilized concerning emergency response services, could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
Our failure to obtain and maintain required certifications could impair our ability to bid on defense contracts.
To participate in specific government programs, we could be required to obtain and maintain quality certification and specific standards for Department of Defense wireless security, such as certification by the Joint Interoperability and Test Command and meet production standards to be eligible to bid on government contracts. If we fail to maintain these certifications or any additional certification that may be required, we will be ineligible to bid for contracts that may impair our financial operations and, consequently, our ability to continue the business.
Regulation of the telecommunications industry could harm our operating results and future prospects.
The traditional telecommunications industry is highly regulated, and our business and financial condition could be adversely affected by changes in regulations relating to the Internet telecommunications industry. Currently, there are few laws or regulations that apply directly to access to or commerce on intellectual property networks, but future regulations could include sales taxes and tariffs in previously unregulated areas and provider access charges. We could be adversely affected by regulation of intellectual property networks and commerce in any country where we market equipment and services to service or content providers. Rules governing the range of services and business models that service providers or content providers can offer could adversely affect those customers’ needs for products designed to enable a wide range of such services or business models. For instance, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has issued regulations governing aspects of fixed broadband networks and wireless networks. These regulations might impact service provider and content provider business models and providers’ needs for Internet telecommunications equipment and services. Also, many jurisdictions are evaluating or implementing regulations relating to cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection, which could affect the market and requirements for networking and security equipment.
Environmental regulations relevant to electronic equipment manufacturing or operations may adversely impact our business and financial condition. For instance, the European Union has adopted electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or waste electrical and electronic equipment, Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances and Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals. Furthermore, some governments have regulations prohibiting government entities from purchasing security products that do not meet specified indigenous certification criteria even though those criteria may conflict with accepted international standards. Similar regulations are in effect or under consideration in several jurisdictions where we do business.
The adoption and implementation of such regulations could decrease demand for our products, increase the cost of building and selling our products and impact our ability to ship products into affected areas, and recognize revenue on time. Any of these impacts could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Risks Related to Our Industry
Our industry is subject to rapid technological change, and we must make substantial investments in new products, services, and technologies to compete successfully.
New technological innovations generally require a substantial investment before they are commercially viable. We intend to continue to make significant investments in developing new products and technologies, and it is possible that our development efforts will not be successful and that our new technologies will not result in meaningful revenues. Our future success will depend on our ability to continue developing and introducing new products, technologies, and enhancements on a timely basis. Our future success will also depend on our ability to keep pace with technological developments, protect our intellectual property, satisfy customer requirements, meet customer expectations, price our products and services competitively, and achieve market acceptance. The introduction of products embodying new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards could render our existing products and technologies, and products and technologies currently under development, obsolete and unmarketable. If we fail to anticipate or respond adequately to technological developments or customer requirements or experience any significant delays in development, introduction, or shipment of our products and technologies in commercial quantities, demand for our products and our customers’ and licensees’ products that use our technologies could decrease, and our competitive position could be damaged.
Our stock price may be volatile, and you may not be able to resell shares of our Common Stock at or above the price you paid.
Our Common Stock trading price could be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, including factors beyond our control. These factors include those discussed in the other “Risk Factors” section of this Report on Form 10-K.
Also, the stock markets in general and the markets for telecommunication stocks have experienced volatility. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price or liquidity of our Common Stock. In the past, when the market price of a stock has been volatile, holders of that stock have sometimes instituted securities class action litigation against the issuer. If any of our stockholders were to bring such a lawsuit against us, we could incur substantial costs defending the case, and the attention of our management would be diverted from the operation of our business, which could seriously harm our financial position. Any adverse determination in litigation could also subject us to significant liabilities.
New regulations or standards or changes in existing laws or standards in the United States or internationally related to our products may result in unanticipated costs or liabilities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and future sales, and could place additional burdens on the operations of our business.
Our products may be subject to governmental regulations in a variety of jurisdictions. To achieve and maintain market acceptance, our technology and products will have to comply with these regulations and a significant number of industry standards. In the United States, our technology and products will have to comply with various FCC rules and others. We may also have to comply with similar international regulations. For example, our wireless communication products operate through the transmission of radio signals, and radio emissions are subject to regulation in the United States and other countries in which we intend to do business. In the United States, various federal agencies, including the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the Food and Drug Administration, the FCC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and various state agencies, have promulgated regulations that concern the use of radio/electromagnetic emissions standards. Member countries of the European Union have enacted similar standards concerning electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility and emissions and chemical substances and use standards.
As these regulations and standards evolve, and if new regulations or standards are implemented, we may be required to modify our technology or products or develop and support new versions of our technology or products. Our compliance with these regulations and standards may become more burdensome. The failure of technology or our products to comply, or delays in compliance, with the various existing and evolving industry regulations and standards could prevent or delay the introduction of our technology or products, which could harm our business. End-customer uncertainty regarding future policies may also affect demand for communications products, including our products. Moreover, channel partners or end-customers may require us, or we may otherwise deem it necessary or advisable, to alter our technology or products to address actual or anticipated changes in the regulatory environment. Our inability to change our technology or products to address these requirements and any regulatory changes may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) services is developing and therefore uncertain, and future legislative, regulatory or judicial actions could adversely affect our business.
VoIP services have developed in an environment mostly free from government regulation. However, the United States and other countries have begun to assert regulatory authority over VoIP and evaluate how VoIP will be regulated in the future. Both the application of existing rules to us and our prospective customers and the effects of future regulatory developments are uncertain. Future legislative, judicial or other regulatory actions could hurt our business. Also, future regulatory developments could increase our cost of doing business and limit its growth.
Compliance with environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations, including new regulations requiring higher standards, may increase our costs, limit our ability to utilize supply chains, and force design changes to our products.
Our operations are subject to various environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations and equivalent local, state, and regulatory agencies in each jurisdiction we currently operate or may operate in the future. Our products’ manufacturing uses substances regulated under various federal, state, local laws and regulations governing the environment and worker health and safety. If we, including any contract manufacturers that we may employ, do not comply with these laws, including any new regulations, such non-compliance could reduce our products’ net realizable value, which would result in an immediate charge to our income statements. Our non-compliance with such laws could also negatively impact our operations and financial position as a result of fines, penalties that may be imposed on us, and increase the cost of mandated remediation or delays to any contract manufacturers we may utilize; thus, we may suffer a loss of revenues, be unable to sell our products in specific markets and/or countries, be subject to penalties and enforced fees and/or suffer a competitive disadvantage. Costs to comply with current laws and regulations and/or similar future laws and regulations, if applicable, could include costs associated with modifying our products, recycling and other waste processing costs, legal and regulatory costs, and insurance costs. We cannot assure you that the costs to comply with these new laws or with current and future environmental and worker health and safety laws will not have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Governmental regulations affecting the import or export of products or affecting products containing encryption capabilities could negatively affect our revenues.
The United States and various foreign governments have imposed controls, export license requirements, and restrictions on the import or export some technologies, especially encryption technology. Also, governmental agencies have proposed additional regulation of encryption technology from time to time, such as requiring certification, notifications, review of source code, or the escrow and governmental recovery of private encryption keys. For example, Russia and China recently have implemented new requirements relating to products containing encryption, and India has imposed special warranties and other obligations associated with technology deemed critical. Governmental regulation of encryption or IP networking technology and regulation of imports or exports, or our failure to obtain required import or export approval for our products, could harm our international and domestic sales prospects and adversely affect our revenue expectation. Failure to comply with such regulations could result in penalties, costs, and restrictions on import or export privileges or adversely affect sales to government agencies or government-funded projects.
If wireless devices pose safety risks, we may be subject to new regulations, and demand for our products and our licensees and customers may decrease.
Concerns over the effects of radiofrequency emissions, even if unfounded, may have the effect of discouraging the use of wireless devices, which may decrease demand for our products and those of our licensees and customers. In recent years, the FCC and foreign regulatory agencies have updated the guidelines and methods they use for evaluating radiofrequency emissions from radio equipment, including wireless phones and other wireless devices. Interest groups have also requested that the FCC investigate claims that wireless communication technologies pose health concerns and cause interference with airbags, hearing aids, and medical devices. Concerns have also been expressed over the possibility of safety risks due to a lack of attention associated with wireless devices while driving. Any legislation that may be adopted in response to these expressions of concern could reduce demand for our products and those of our licensees and customers in the United States and foreign countries.
General Risk Factors
We may fail to meet publicly announced financial guidance or other expectations about our business, which would cause our Common Stock to decline in value.
From time to time, we provide preliminary financial results or forward-looking financial guidance to our investors. Such statements are based on our current views, expectations, and assumptions. They involve known, unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, performance, achievements, or share prices to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements, or share prices expressed or implied by such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, changes to the assumptions used to forecast or calculate such guidance or expectations or the occurrence of risks related to our performance and our business, including those discussed in these risk factors, among others. Any failure to meet any financial guidance or expectations regarding our future performance could harm our reputation and cause our stock price to decline.
The requirements of being a U.S. public company may strain our resources and divert management’s attention.
As a U.S. public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the listing requirements of Nasdaq, and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming, or costly, and increase demand on our systems and resources. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual and current reports concerning our business and operating results.
As a result of the disclosure of information filing, our business and financial condition is more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and operating results could be harmed, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to fix them, could divert resources of our management and harm our business and operating results.
If our Common Stock is delisted from Nasdaq, U.S. broker-dealers may be discouraged from effecting transactions in shares of our Common Stock because they may be considered penny stocks and thus be subject to the penny stock rules.
The SEC has adopted several rules to regulate “penny stock” that restrict transactions involving stock deemed penny stock. Such rules include Rules 3a51-1, 15g-1, 15g-2, 15g-3, 15g-4, 15g-5, 15g-6, 15g-7, and 15g-9 under the Exchange Act. These rules may have the effect of reducing the liquidity of penny stocks. “Penny stocks” generally are equity securities with a price of less than $5.00 per share (other than securities registered on certain national securities exchanges or quoted on Nasdaq if the exchange or system provides current price and volume information concerning transactions in such securities). Our shares of Common Stock have in the past constituted, and may again in the future constitute, “penny stock” within the meaning of the rules. The additional sales practice and disclosure requirements imposed upon U.S. broker-dealers may discourage such broker-dealers from effecting transactions in shares of our Common Stock, which could severely limit the market liquidity of such shares of Common Stock and impede their sale in the secondary market.
A U.S. broker-dealer selling penny stock to anyone other than an established customer or “accredited investor” (generally, an individual with a net worth above $1,000,000 or an annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with his or her spouse) must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and must receive the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction before a sale unless the broker-dealer or the transaction is otherwise exempt. Also, the “penny stock” regulations require the U.S. broker-dealer to deliver, before any transaction involving a “penny stock,” a disclosure schedule prepared under SEC standards relating to the “penny stock” market, unless the broker-dealer or the transaction is otherwise exempt. A U.S. broker-dealer is also required to disclose commissions payable to the U.S. broker-dealer and the registered representative and current quotations for the securities. Finally, a U.S. broker-dealer is required to submit monthly statements disclosing recent price information concerning the “penny stock” held in a customer’s account and information for the limited market in “penny stocks.”
Stockholders should be aware that, according to the SEC, the market for “penny stocks” has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such practices include (i) control of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer; (ii) manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases; (iii) “boiler room” practices involving high-pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced salespersons; (iv) excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differentials and markups by selling broker-dealers; and (v) the wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to the desired level, resulting in investor losses. Our management is aware of the abuses that have occurred historically in the penny stock market. Although we do not expect to dictate the market’s behavior or broker-dealers who participate in the market, management will strive within the confines of practical limitations to prevent the described patterns from being established concerning our securities.
If securities or industry analysts do not publish or cease publishing research or reports about us, our business, or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our Common Stock adversely, our share price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our shares of Common Stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts may publish about us, our business, our market, or our competitors. If any of the analysts who may cover us change their recommendation regarding our Common Stock adversely or provide more favorable relative recommendations about our competitors, our share price would likely decline. If any analyst who may cover us were to cease coverage of our Company or fail to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our Common Stock price or trading volume to decline.
Future impairment charges could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
We are required to test our finite-lived intangible assets for impairment if events occur, or circumstances change that would indicate the remaining net book value of the finite-lived intangible assets might not be recoverable. These events or circumstances could include a significant change in the business climate, including a significant, sustained decline in an entity’s market value, legal factors, operating performance indicators, competition, sale or disposition of a considerable portion of our business, potential government actions and other factors. If our finite-lived intangible assets’ fair value is less than their book value in the future, we could be required to record impairment charges. The amount of any future impairment could be significant and could have a material adverse effect on our reported financial results for the period in which the charge is taken.
If our estimates relating to our critical accounting policies are based on assumptions or judgments that change or prove incorrect, our operating results could fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires our management to make estimates, assumptions, and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Our operating results may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our operating results to fall below the expectations of financial analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price. Management makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates and assumptions include reserves and write-downs related to receivables and inventories, the recoverability of long-lived assets, the valuation allowance relating to the Company’s deferred tax assets, valuation of equity and derivative instruments, and debt discounts, and the valuation of the assets and liabilities acquired by us.
Future sales and issuances of our Common Stock or rights to purchase our Common Stock, stock incentive plans and upon the exercise of outstanding securities exercisable for shares of our Common Stock, could result in substantial additional dilution of our stockholders, cause our stock price to fall and adversely affect our ability to raise capital.
We will require additional capital to continue to execute our business plan and advance our research and development efforts. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the issuance of additional equity securities and the exercise of outstanding warrants, our stockholders may experience substantial dilution. We may sell shares of preferred stock or Common Stock in one or more transactions at prices that may be at a discount to the then-current market value of our Common Stock and on such other terms and conditions as we may determine from time to time. Any such transaction could result in substantial dilution of our existing stockholders. If we sell shares of our Common Stock in more than one transaction, stockholders who purchase our Common Stock may be materially diluted by subsequent sales. Such sales could also cause a drop in the market price of our Common Stock. The issuance of shares of our Common Stock in connection with public or private financing, in connection with our compensation programs, and upon exercise of outstanding warrants will have a dilutive impact on our other stockholders, and the issuance, or even potential issuance, of such shares, could hurt the market price of our Common Stock.
The exercise of stock options, warrants, and other securities could also cause our stockholders to experience substantial dilution. In addition to warrants issued in 2018, 2019, and 2020, in February 2021, we issued warrants to purchase up to 9,090,910 shares of our common stock. Moreover, holders of our stock options and warrants are likely to exercise them, if ever, at a time when we otherwise could obtain a price for the sale of our securities that is higher than the exercise price per security of the options or warrants. Such exercises, or the possibility of such exercises, may impede our efforts to obtain additional financing by selling additional securities or making such financing more costly. It may also reduce the price of our Common Stock.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Not applicable.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
Hackettstown, New Jersey
The location of our headquarters is in Hackettstown, New Jersey. On April 28, 2020, the Company negotiated two new leases for office and storage space, which expired on April 29, 2020. We negotiated the previous multi-year lease agreement to a one-year term with the new lease agreement’s effective date stated as May 1, 2020, expiring on April 30, 2021. The total annual rent under these leases is approximately $239,000.
Billerica, MA
On January 20, 2020, the Company terminated its former lease agreement. On January 24, 2020, the Company negotiated a new lease agreement with the landlord at our Billerica location, decreasing square footage required to 8,204 from 39,327 square feet or approximately 79%. The new lease agreement’s effective date is on March 24, 2020, expiring on December 31, 2026. The total annual rent under this lease is approximately $95,000.
Singapore
On July 3, 2020, the Company negotiated a new lease agreement with the landlord, maintaining 950 square feet. The new lease agreement’s effective date is August 10, 2020, expiring on August 9, 2023. The total annual rent under this lease is approximately $30,500.
Hemel, United Kingdom
Under the original lease agreement dated April 28, 2017, a “break clause” signifying a “break date” of October 28, 2020, sighted the following: the Company may terminate this lease on the “break date” by giving the landlord such notice within six months of the “break date.” At the lease’s commencement, it was not reasonably sure if the Company will exercise its right by the break clause’s date. These measures upheld the determination of the lease’s noncancellable period upon the adoption of ASC 842 on January 1, 2019. The remaining lease term of 22 months helped facilitate calculating the remaining lease payments’ net present value assigned to the right-of-use asset and operating lease liability upon the adoption date. Neither party exercised their unilateral termination rights by the “break date,” triggering a lease extension. Both parties’ inaction creates new enforceable rights and obligations in the extended period ending on the lease agreement term of October 27, 2023. The total annual rent under this lease is approximately $175,000.
Colchester, UK
The original lease agreement was assigned to the Company on February 2, 2017, for 16,000 square feet, with the initial lease commencing on March 25, 2007, and expiring on March 24, 2025. The total annual rent under this lease is approximately $275,000.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are not currently a party to any material litigation, nor are we aware of any pending or threatened litigation against us that we believe would materially affect our business, operating results, financial condition, or cash flows. Our industry’s characterization faces frequent claims and litigation, including securities litigation, claims regarding patent and other intellectual property rights, and other liability claims. As a result, we may be involved in various legal proceedings from time to time in the future.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
The listing of our common stock shares is on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “VISL.”
Holders
As of March 29, 2021, there were 45,652,249 shares of common stock outstanding and approximately 39 shareholders of record.
The number of beneficial holders of our shares is substantially larger than the number of stockholders of record. The common stock shares held by depositories, brokers, and other nominees substantially exceed the number of stockholders of record. The Company’s transfer agent and registrar are Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 17 Battery Place, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10004.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our common stock. We intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
Reference is made to “Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters-Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans” for the information required by this item.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, and to date in the current fiscal year, we sold the following unregistered securities:
Issuances
# Of Shares
Date
Grant of time-based options to Carleton M. Miller, made outside of the Company’s existing equity compensation plans, in connection with his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Company
359,247
(upon exercise of options)
January 22, 2020
Grant of performance-based options to Carleton M. Miller, made outside of the Company’s existing equity compensation plans, in connection with his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Company
250,000
(upon exercise of options)
January 22, 2020
Grant of time-based options to Michael Bond, made outside of the Company’s existing equity compensation plans, in connection with his appointment as Chief Financial Officer of the Company
135,168
(upon exercise of options)
February 27, 2020
Grant of restricted stock performance-based units to Michael Bond, made pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Long-Term Incentive Plan
368,715
(upon exercise of units)
December 31, 2020
Grant of restricted stock time-based/performance-based units to Carleton M. Miller, made pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Long-Term Incentive Plan
1,497,330
(upon exercise of units)
March 3, 2021
No underwriters were involved in the foregoing sales of securities. The issuances of the securities described above were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act. The recipients of securities in such transactions represented their intention to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof and appropriate legends were affixed to the stock certificates and option agreements issued in such transactions. All recipients had adequate access, through their relationships with us, to information about us.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. Selected Financial Data
There is no requirement to include the disclosures required under Item 6 as a smaller reporting company.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current plans, expectations, and beliefs that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to various factors, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and those other factors discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” and in other parts of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our fiscal year-end is December 31.
Overview
Vislink is a global technology business specializing in collecting, delivering, and managing high-quality, live video and associated data from the scene of the action to the viewing screen. Vislink provides solutions for the collection of live news, sports, and entertainment events for the broadcast markets. Vislink also furnishes the surveillance and defense markets with real-time video intelligence solutions using various tailored transmission products. The Vislink team also provides professional and technical services utilizing a staff of technology experts with decades of applied knowledge and real-world experience in terrestrial microwave, satellite, fiber optic, surveillance, and wireless communications systems delivering a broad spectrum of customer solutions.
LIVE BROADCAST:
Vislink delivers an extensive portfolio of solutions for live news, sports, and entertainment industries. These solutions encompass the video collection, transmission, management, and distribution of content, via microwave, satellite, cellular, IP, and MESH networks. With over 50 years in operation, Vislink has the expertise and technology portfolio to deliver fully integrated, seamless, end-to-end solutions.
Industry-wide contributors acknowledge Vislink’s live broadcast solutions. The transmission of a vast majority of all outside wireless broadcast video content uses our equipment, with over 200,000 systems installed worldwide. We work closely with the majority of the world’s broadcasters. Vislink wireless cameras and ultra-compact encoders help bring many of the world’s most prestigious sporting and entertainment events to life. Recent examples include globally watched international sporting contests, award shows, racing events, and annual music and cultural events.
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT:
Building on our knowledge of live video delivery, Vislink has developed high-quality solutions to meet the operational and industry challenges of surveillance and defense markets. Vislink solutions are specifically designed with interagency cooperation in mind, utilizing a standard international protocol, I.P., platform, and a web interface for video delivery. Vislink provides comprehensive video, audio, and data communications solutions to the law enforcement and public safety community, including Airborne, Unmanned Systems, Maritime, and Tactical Mobile Command Posts. These solutions may include airborne downlinks, terrestrial point-to-point, tactical mobile command, maritime, UAV, and personal portable products that meet the demands of field operations, command centers, and central receiving sites. Short-range and long-range solutions are available in areas that include established infrastructure and exceptionally remote regions, making valuable video intelligence available regardless of location. Vislink public safety and surveillance solutions are deployed worldwide, including throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, at the local, regional, and federal levels of operation, a criminal investigation, crisis management, mobile command posts, and field operations.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS:
Over 30 years of technical expertise supports Vislink’s satellite solutions. These solutions aim to ensure robust, secure communications while delivering low transmission costs for any organization that needs high-quality, reliable satellite transmission. We offer turnkey solutions that begin with state-of-the-art coding, compression, engine modulation and end with our robust, lightweight antenna systems. Vislink Satellite solutions focus heavily on being the smallest, lightest, and most efficient in their categories, making transportation and ease of use a key driver in the customer experience. Vislink offers an extensive range of satellite designs that allow customers to optimize bit rate, size, weight, and total cost. Our satellite systems are used extensively globally, with over 2,000 systems deployed by governments, militaries, and broadcasters alike.
COVID-19 Update
In early March 2020, COVID-19, a disease caused by a novel strain of the coronavirus, was characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Since December 2019, COVID-19 has spread rapidly, reaching nearly all countries and territories worldwide with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in addition to a high concentration of cases in the United States and many other countries in which we and our customers, vendors, and partners operate. Also, in early 2021, new potentially more contagious variants of the virus have emerged. The rapid spread of the virus and the new variants has given rise to authorities worldwide periodically implementing and relaxing several measures to contain the virus, such as travel restrictions and bans, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders, and mandated business closures. These containment actions have been in effect from time to time in various countries and territories. Prospects are that a substantial negative impact on businesses around the world and global, regional, and national economies will endure.
We are carefully monitoring the influence of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on all aspects of our business. In conjunction with the ongoing impact of pre-pandemic vendor supply chain constraints and liquidity issues, we believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has an adverse effect on our business and operations, financial condition, and cash flow, which management has attempted to mitigate through its strategic initiative plan as described elsewhere in this Report. However, the progression of the pandemic is uncertain, rapidly changing, and hard to predict. For example, after the pandemic’s initial spread during the spring of 2020, many countries began loosening containment measures in the summer. Still, the rapid escalation of infection rates, as well as the discovery of new variants of the virus, in North America, Europe, South Africa, and other regions during the fall and winter of 2020 and early 2021, has led and is expected to continue to lead, to an increase in containment measures in certain of those countries and territories. As a result, the broader implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations and our financial results continue to be uncertain. The extent and sternness of the economic dip from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may undesirably affect our business and operations, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows.
To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our employees, our network, and our customers in several ways, and this impact could worsen if and to the extent the pandemic continues or becomes more severe.
● Our Employees. Our top priority during the COVID-19 pandemic is protecting our employees’ health and safety around the world. As the COVID-19 pandemic expanded globally during the spring of 2020, we activated our strategic initiative plan and transitioned a significant number of our employees to a fully remote working environment in nearly all of our locations worldwide and restricted almost all business travel. Throughout the pandemic, our goal has been to ensure that our employees feel safe and secure while having the flexibility and resources necessary to perform their jobs effectively. These efforts have included providing additional equipment to employees for working remotely and providing various benefits to promote our employees’ physical and mental well-being. We believe our employees have been able to remain productive during the COVID-19 pandemic and that our operations have not been materially impacted by our employees primarily working on a remote basis. Still, the continuation of the pandemic will place strains on our employees. As the pandemic’s progression continues, we will continue to monitor and follow guidance from authorities and health officials in the locations where we operate and modify our working environments around the world appropriately. Our financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely affected, decrease productivity, harm our company cultures, or negatively affect our business, to the extent of current or future actions.
● Our Network. The change in everyday behavior caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during the year ended December 31, 2020, has resulted in an increased reliance on the Internet, increased Internet traffic, and a geographic migration of Internet traffic from office-focused areas (like city centers and business parks) to more residential areas (like suburbs and outlying towns). We believe that traffic on the Internet and on our network that we use to provide our products to our customers worldwide will remain elevated while the isolation mandates across the globe stay in place or where significantly greater numbers of workers continue remote work than was the case before the pandemic. The periodically lifting of isolation mandates impose an uncertainty about the impact on Internet traffic levels and work locations as more workers begin to return to working in office environments instead of remotely.
● Our Customers. The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by governments worldwide to contain the spread of COVID-19 are materially and adversely impacting many of our current and potential customers. This impact has negatively impacted our business operations, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows. Depending on the pandemic’s future progression, we may experience a future slowing in our collections of outstanding accounts receivables from some of our customers. We will work harmoniously with our existing customer base to ameliorate any negative impacts. The concentration of our sales efforts on industries that are more insulated from the fiscal impact is an option of our marketing strategy. However, there can be no assurance that these efforts will be successful.
For further discussion of the challenges and risks we confront related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and otherwise, please refer to Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth the items in the consolidated statements of operations of the financial statements included herewith for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 (in thousands).
For the Years Ended
December 31,
Revenue $ 22,882 $ 28,942
Cost of revenue and operating expenses
Cost of components and personnel 13,867 15,741
Inventory valuation adjustments 4,705
General and administrative expenses 17,024 20,099
Gain on lease termination (21 ) -
Research and development 2,698 3,232
Loss on abandonment of property and equipment -
Impairment of inventory 3,801 -
Impairment of right-of-use assets -
Amortization and depreciation 1,411 2,365
Total cost of revenue and operating expenses 40,770 46,142
Loss from operations (17,888 ) (17,200 )
Other income (expenses)
Changes in fair value of derivative liabilities 1,064
Gain (loss) on conversion of debentures - (33 )
Gain on settlement of related party obligations -
Gain on settlement of debt -
Other income -
Interest expense, net (121 ) (1,878 )
Total other income (expenses) (847 )
Net loss $ (17,575 ) $ (18,047 )
Revenue
The revenues ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $22.9 million and $28.9 million, respectively, representing a $6.0 million or 21% decrease. The Company experienced a decline in revenue of approximately $3.9 million in North America, $2.2 million in Asia, and $0.3 million in South America. Revenue increased approximately $0.2 million for Europe and $0.2 million for the rest of the world market, respectively, offsetting these declines.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, we witnessed a slide in sales due to our customer’s experiencing the consequences in the international marketplace because of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as “shelter-in-place” mandates, school closures, consumer behavior changes (like social distancing), and other government intervention. These conditions could have a sustaining undesirable influence on an entity’s financial condition and results.
Cost of Revenue and Operating Expenses
Cost of Components and Personnel
The cost of components and personnel for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $13.9 million and $15.7 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $1.8 million or 12%. The decline is in correlation with the reduction of revenue. Anticipated results in 2021, under the Company’s product rationalization program, should minimize volatility.
Inventory Valuation Adjustments
Inventory valuation adjustments are tools used to determine inventory measurement at lower-of-cost-or-market or lower-of-cost-and-net realizable value. For the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 inventory valuation adjustments amounted to $0.4 million and $4.7 million, representing a decrease of $4.3 million or 92%. The decline is attributable discontinuance of specific product lines under the Company’s strategic initiative plan.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses are costs incurred in operating the business daily and include salary and benefit expenses, including stock-based compensation and payroll taxes, as well as the costs of trade shows, marketing programs, promotional materials, professional services, facilities, general liability insurance, travel and expenses associated with being a public company.
For the years ended, general and administrative expenses ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $17.0 million and $20.1 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $3.1 million or 15%.
The reduction is primarily attributable to a decline of $1.8 million of salaries and benefits, $1.5 million of stock-based compensation, and $0.5 million each for rent and utilities, travel and management, and management fees. An increase of $0.6 million in miscellaneous expenses, $0.5 million in legal fees, and $0.5 million in costs in maintaining a publicly held company offset the reduction.
We executed a strategic initiative in early 2020 in mitigation of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program included proactive spending reductions to improve liquidity, including a partial workforce reduction, the furlough of employees, reduced discretionary spending, revealing notable savings in the Company’s general and administrative expenses illustrated above.
We remain uncertain of the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic’s future impact on our operations or whether it will result in business disruptions and the possible severity. It is indeterminable to assess the duration or lasting impact the pandemic will have on the economy. With vaccinations underway, new vaccines receive emergency approval from the FDA, emphasizing workforce safety and security, cost management, and enterprise agility will continue.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of salary and benefit expenses, including stock-based compensation and payroll taxes and prototypes, facilities, and travel costs.
For the years ended, research and development expenses ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $2.7 million and $3.2 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $0.5 million or 16%. The reduction is primarily attributable to a reduction of $0.7 million in salaries and benefits, offset by an increase of $0.2 of miscellaneous research costs.
We executed a strategic initiative in early 2020 in mitigation of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program included proactive spending reductions to improve liquidity, including a partial workforce reduction, the furlough of employees, reduced discretionary spending, revealing notable savings in the Company’s research and development expenses illustrated above.
We remain uncertain of the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic’s future impact on our operations or whether it will result in business disruptions and the possible severity. It is indeterminable to assess the duration or lasting impact the pandemic will have on the economy. With vaccinations underway, new vaccines receive emergency approval from the FDA, emphasizing workforce safety and security, cost management, and enterprise agility will continue.
Impairment
The Company recorded impairments related to inventory and right-of-use assets operating leases in the amounts of $3.8 million and $0.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, and none for inventory and right-of-use assets operating leases each for the year ended December 31, 2019, respectively. It included discontinuing product lines and evaluating existing leased facilities selecting to vacate and fuse specific sites.
Amortization and Depreciation
Amortization and depreciation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $1.4 million and $2.4 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $1.0 million or 42%. The reduction is primarily due to Company assets being impaired or fully depreciated in current and prior years.
Loss on the abandonment of property and equipment
The loss on property and equipment abandonment for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $0.7 million and $-0-, respectively, representing an increase of $0.7 million or 100%. The increase is primarily due to management’s strategic initiative plan of vacating and consolidating specific facilities.
Other (Expense) Income
Significant Other (Expense) Income items for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019, respectively, were:
Changes in Fair Value of Derivative Liabilities
The measurement of the change in fair value of derivative liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $-0- million and $1.1 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $1.1 million or 100%. This fluctuation is mainly a lower quantity of outstanding warrants and the volatility of our stock price.
Interest expense
Interest expense for years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $0.1 million and $1.9 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $1.8 million or 95%. The decline is attributable to the payoff of approximately $6.3 million of convertible promissory notes in the fiscal year 2019.
Net Loss
Net losses for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 were $17.6 million and $18.0 million, respectively, representing a decrease of $0.4 million or 2%.
The reduction in the Company’s net loss has been due in part to the Company’s implementation of cost-saving strategic initiatives in response to uncertainties of the economic climate brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with vaccinations underway, new vaccine development, and approval, management is uncertain about the predictability of future events caused by the pandemic. The Company will continue to attempt to mitigate unexpected conditions brought by the future influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, domestically and worldwide.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company incurred a loss from operations of approximately $17.9 million and cash used in operating activities of $14.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The Company had $7.7 million in working capital, $270.1 million in accumulated deficits, and $5.2 million of cash on hand as of December 31, 2020. Additionally, as of April 14, 2021, our cash on hand is approximately $59.3 million.
The COVID-19 pandemic and interrelated economic uncertainties continue to create significant volatility. To mitigate any concern that the Company may not have the ability to continue as a going concern, the Company activated liquidity preservation arrangements intended to alleviate uncertainty about our potential to fund operations.
Strategic Initiatives
The Company activated liquidity preservation actions in late March and early April of the fiscal year 2020, including:
● Implementation of proactive spending reductions to improve liquidity, including a partial workforce reduction, the furlough of employees, reduced discretionary spending, resulting in a projected annual savings of approximately $5.0 million.
● Effective May 1, 2020, the Company entered into new lease arrangements at two recent locations in Hackettstown, NJ, on a 90-day cycle for each site, effectively lowering rental fees by approximately 81%.
Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and Liquidity
Further, we benefited from the support afforded to us under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), which provided temporary relief related to maintaining payroll and some overhead expenses through the period of emergency. The stated goal is to keep workers paid and employed during the period of the crisis. The Company received approximately $1.2 million on April 10, 2020, under the PPP sponsorship, in the form of a promissory note, as discussed further in Note 10.
Capital-raising events
The Company has been able to raise funds as follows successfully:
● On February 14, 2020, the Company closed on an equity financing and received gross proceeds of approximately $5,998,000, less offering costs of $712,000 for net proceeds of $5,286,000. The Company issued 2,074,167 shares of common stock, 2,074,167 warrants to purchase 1,555,625 shares of Common Stock, 2,471,200 pre-funded warrants with each pre-funded warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock, together with 2,471,200 Warrants to purchase 1,853,400 shares of Common Stock.
● On May 5, 2020, the Company filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and declared effective on May 13, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company’s access to the shelf registration features effected the issuance of 6,508,860 shares of common stock, receiving gross proceeds of approximately $12,548,000, less offering costs of $488,000 for net proceeds of $12,060,000.
● As described in Note 20 (Subsequent Events), the Company raised approximately $12,663,000, less offering costs of 392,000 for net proceeds of $12,271,000 between January 1, 2021, and April 14, 2021 under the May 5, 2020 shelf registration. Furthermore, on February 8, 2021, the Company closed on an equity financing and received gross proceeds of approximately $50,000,000, less offering costs of $3,180,000 for net proceeds of $46,820,000. The Company issued 18,181,120 shares of common stock, supplemented by 9,090,910 five-year warrants with an exercise price of $3.25 per share exercisable for one share each of common stock.
Together, with the capital raises, the PPP loan, and the Company-wide protocols invoked as a result of the worldwide consequences encountered from the COVID-19 health emergency and based on forward-looking estimates of our business operations and outcome, we believe we will have sufficient funds to continue our operations for at least twelve months from the date of these financial statements. The ability to recognize revenue and cash receipts is contingent upon, but not limited to, acceptable performance of the delivered equipment and services. The extent to which COVID-19 continues to impact the Company’s operations, results of operations, liquidity, and financial condition will depend on future developments. The timing and efficacy of the vaccination programs in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates, and the actions implemented to contain the impact of COVID-19 by Federal and local governments, limit determining the foreseeable resulting economic effects with any level of predictability.
Our operations primarily have been funded through cash generated by debt and equity financing. Cash consists of cash on hand and demand deposits. Our cash balances were as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended
December 31, 2020 Year Ended
December 31, 2019
Cash $ 5,190 $ 1,737
Cash Flows
The following table sets forth the major components of our consolidated statements of cash flows data for the periods presented (in thousands).
Year Ended
December 31, 2020 Year Ended
December 31, 2019
Net cash used in operating activities $ (14,354 ) $ (8,355 )
Net cash used provided by in investment activities (258 ) (425 )
Net cash provided by financing activities 17,998 8,519
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash (7 )
Net increase (decrease) in cash $ 3,453 $ (268 )
Operating Activities
Net cash used in operating activities of approximately $14.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2020, was principally attributable to our net loss of $17.6 million, a decrease of $2.7 million of accounts payable, a decrease of $1.9 million in deferred revenue and customer deposits, a decrease of $1.3 million of inventory, partially offset by an increase of $1.5 million of accounts receivable, and $1.4 million of depreciation and amortization.
Net cash used in operating activities of approximately $8.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2019, was primarily attributable to our net loss of $18.0 million, a change in the fair value of derivative liabilities of $1.1 million, a decrease of accounts receivable and operating lease liabilities of $0.9 million each, a decrease of accounts payable of $0.6 million, partially offset by stock-based compensation of $2.1 million, depreciation and amortization of $2.4 million, inventory valuation adjustments of $4.7 million, an increase in deferred revenue and customer deposits of $1.2 million, and an increase in inventory of $0.8 million.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities of $0.3 million during the year ended December 31, 2020, was primarily due to equipment purchases.
Net cash used in investing activities of $0.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2019, was primarily due to equipment purchases.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities of $18.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2020, was primarily due to the net proceeds received from an equity financing of $18.5 million, principally offset by principal payments made on convertible promissory notes of $0.5 million.
Net cash provided by financing activities of $8.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2019, was primarily due to the net proceeds received from an equity financing of $14.4 million, principally offset by principal payments made on convertible promissory notes of $6.0 million.
Nasdaq Compliance
On August 17, 2020, the Company received a letter from the staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Nasdaq staff determined that the Company regained compliance with the Nasdaq Capital Market minimum bid price requirement for continued listing outlined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2).
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of December 31, 2020, and 2019, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements.
Critical Accounting Policies, Estimates, and Judgments
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared under the United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”), which require us to make estimates and assumptions. Specific critical accounting policies affect the more significant accounts, particularly those that involve judgments, assessments, and assumptions used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements. Our management has determined the development and selection of these critical accounting policies. We have reviewed our critical accounting policies and estimates with the audit committee of our board of directors. Due to the significant judgment involved in selecting certain of the assumptions used in these policies, other parties may choose different assumptions and reach different conclusions. We consider our policies relating to the following matters to be critical accounting policies.
Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America or (“U.S. GAAP”) as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”), the Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the rules and regulations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, IMT and Vislink. We have eliminated all intercompany accounts and transactions upon the consolidation of our subsidiaries.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements. These estimates also affect the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include the useful lives of property, plant, and equipment, the useful lives of right-of-use assets, impairment of long-lived assets, allowance for accounts receivable doubtful accounts, allowance for inventory obsolescence reserve, allowance for deferred tax assets, valuation of warranty reserves, contingent consideration liabilities, and the accrual of potential liabilities. Actual results could differ from estimates, and any such differences may be material to our financial statements.
Risks and Uncertainties
The Company’s operations will be subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including financial, operational, regulatory, and other risks associated, including the potential risk of business failure. The COVID-19 pandemic and related economic repercussions have created significant uncertainty. The extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business is highly uncertain and difficult to predict, as the response to the pandemic and information continues to evolve. Policymakers worldwide have responded with fiscal policy actions to support their industries and economies, but the magnitude and overall effectiveness of these interventions remain uncertain. Although capital markets and economies worldwide improved during the second and third quarters from the initial negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains uncertainty around the strength and timing of global economic recoveries, which could cause a local or global economic recession. Such economic disruption could have a material adverse effect on our business.
The severity of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business will depend on several factors. The duration and severity of the pandemic and identical concerns on the Company’s customers are a few factors. All of which is not all-inclusive or predictable. The delay in payments of outstanding receivable amounts beyond standard payment terms, uncertain demands, implementation of Company-wide initiatives or programs addressing financial and operational functions can unfavorably impact our customers, influencing the Company’s future operations and liquidity. Any economic disruption could have a disadvantageous material effect on our business and reduce our capital resources and access to capital, with possible ominous ramifications on our financial condition and operating results. As of the date of issuance of these Consolidated Financial Statements, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may materially impact the Company’s financial condition, liquidity, or operating results remains uncertain.
Segment Reporting
The Company identifies operating segments as components of an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the operating decision-makers, or decision-making group, in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company’s decision-making group is the senior executive management team. The Company and the decision-making group view the Company’s operations and manage its business as one operating segment with different product offerings. All long-lived assets of the Company reside in the U.S. and U.K.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The Company extends credit to its customers in the ordinary course of business. Further, the Company regularly reviews outstanding receivables and provides for estimated losses through an allowance for doubtful accounts. In evaluating the level of established loss reserves, the Company makes judgments regarding its customer’s ability to make required payments, prevailing economic conditions, previous experience, and other factors. As these factors’ financial situation changes, circumstances develop, or additional information becomes available, adjustments to the allowance for doubtful accounts may be required. The Company maintains reserves for credit losses, and losses have been within its expectations.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are presented at cost at the date of acquisition less depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over estimated useful asset lives, ranging from 1 to 14 years. The costs of the day-to-day servicing of property and equipment and repairs and maintenance are recognized in expenses as incurred.
Intangible Assets
Patents and licenses:
Patents and licenses, measured initially at purchase cost, are included in intangible assets on the Company’s balance sheet and are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of 18.5 to 20 years. Amortization totaled $671,000 and $669,000 for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Other intangible assets:
The Company’s remaining intangible assets include the trade names, technology, and customer lists acquired in its acquisition of IMT and Vislink. A third-party appraiser determined the value of these acquired assets for these business combinations. Absent an indication of fair value from a potential buyer or similar specific transactions; we have determined using the methods employed provided a reasonable estimate in reporting the values assigned.
The Company amortizes intangible asset costs over their useful lives of 3 to 15 years with its net book value reported on the balance sheet. Amortization totaled 330,000 and $1,100,000 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue when we satisfy a performance obligation by transferring control of the promised goods or services to a customer in an amount that reflects the consideration that we expect to receive in exchange for those services. The Company determines revenue recognition through the five (5) steps identified in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company accounts for stock compensation with persons classified as employees for accounting purposes under ASC 718 “Compensation-Stock Compensation,” which recognizes awards at fair value on the date of grant and recognition of compensation over the service period for awards expected to vest. The fair value of stock options is determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model. The fair value of common stock issued for services is determined based on the Company’s stock price on the issuance date.
The expansion of Topic 718 fell under ASU 2018-07 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees. The measurement date for equity-classified nonemployee share-based payment awards is no longer at the earlier date at which a commitment for performance by the counterparty is reached or the date at which the counterparty’s performance is complete. Instead, the grant date is now considered the measurement date. Under today’s guidance, the measurement of nonemployee share-based payment awards with performance conditions is at the lowest aggregate fair value, often resulting in a zero value. The new ASU aligns the accounting for nonemployee share-based payment awards with performance conditions with accounting for employee share-based payment awards under Topic 718 by requiring entities to consider the probability of satisfying performance conditions. Current guidance requires entities to use the contractual term for the measurement of the nonemployee share-based payment awards. The new ASU allows entities to make an award-by-award election to use either the expected duration (consistent with employee share-based payment awards) or the contractual term for nonemployee awards.
Impairment of inventory
Under the Company’s strategic initiative plan, management recognized certain items were not moving due to the diminishing consumer demand and lack of profitability. As part of our product rationalization program, a decision to eliminate specific product lines resulted in recognizing an impairment loss of approximately $3.8 million and $-0- for the years ending December 31, 2020, and 2019.
Impairment of long-lived assets
Management reviews long-lived assets, including property, plant, equipment, other intangible assets with definite lives, and right-of-use operating lease assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset’s carrying amount may not be recoverable. We conduct the Company’s long-lived asset impairment analyses under ASC 360-10-15, “Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.” ASC 360-10-15 requires the Company to group assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities and evaluate the asset group against the sum of the undiscounted future cash flows. The contemplation of measuring an impairment charge occurs if the undiscounted cash flows do not indicate the asset’s carrying amount is recoverable by which the asset group’s carrying amount exceeds its fair value based on discounted cash flow analysis appraisals. Under Topic 360, consideration is given to asset impairment, for intangible assets with definite lives continue to be amortized over their estimated useful lives and are subject to impairment testing as part of their asset group if and when events or changes in circumstances indicate. In the performance of the impairment tests, management utilizes a considerable amount of judgment and assumptions.
As part of the Company’s strategic initiative plan, including the consolidation and elimination of specific facilities, it was determined specific property and equipment were no longer useful, concluding they held no future economic benefit. We abandoned approximately $1.7 million of property and equipment. For the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019, the Company recognized a loss on property and equipment abandonment of approximately $0.7 million and $-0-respectively.
Right-of-use operating lease abandonment
As part of the Company’s consolidating effort, management decided to vacate specific locations and scaled-down square footage usage on another. The economic environment of these locations precluded the action of sub-letting unused sites and determining them abandoned. Under ASC 360, leased space abandonment is an impairment indicator, and the Company assessed the lease ROU assets for impairment. The Company considered approximately $1.05 million of right-of-use operating assets impaired. For the years ending December 31, 2020, and 2019, we recognized a loss on impairment of right-of-use assets of approximately $0.9 million and $-0-.
Common Stock Purchase Warrants and Other Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company classifies common stock purchase warrants and other freestanding financial instruments as equity if the contracts (i) require physical settlement or net-share settlement in common stock or (ii) give the Company a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in common stock (physical settlement or net-share settlement). The Company classifies the following contracts as either an asset or a liability: contracts that (i) require net-cash settlement (including a requirement to net cash settle the contract if an event occurs and if that event is outside the control of the Company), (ii) give the counterparty a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in common stock (physical settlement or net-share settlement) or (iii) contain reset provisions. The Company assesses the classification of its freestanding derivatives at each reporting date to determine whether a change in classification between assets and liabilities is required.
Commitments and Contingencies
Except as otherwise disclosed in this Report, we have no material commitments or contingent liabilities.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
For a description of recently announced accounting standards, including the expected dates of adoption and estimated effects, if any, on our consolidated financial statements, see “Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements” in Note 3 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included below in Item 8.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
There is no requirement to include the disclosures required under this Item 7A as a smaller reporting company.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The Company’s audited financial statements and notes that appear in this report begin on page.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our Chief Executive Officer, and our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing the effectiveness of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Evaluation Date”), our management has not completed an adequate assessment of the Company’s design and operation of our disclosure controls. In light of this fact, we performed additional analysis and other post-closing procedures to ensure our financial statements included in this annual report have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Additionally, we engaged accounting consultants to assist in the preparation of our financial statements. Accordingly, management believes that the financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP.
It is mindful to note that any system of controls, however well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, and not absolute, assurance that the system’s objectives are met. Also, any control system’s design is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events. We anticipate that management’s assessment of the Company’s design and operation of disclosure controls will begin in the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021.
(b) Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the Company’s financial statements for external purposes under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (US GAAP).
Management recognizes inherent limitations in the effectiveness of any internal control system, and accordingly, even adequate internal controls can provide only reasonable assurance concerning financial statement preparation and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, efficient internal controls at a point in time may become ineffective in future periods because of changes in conditions or due to deterioration in the degree of compliance with our established policies and procedures.
In connection with the assessment described above, management identified the following control deficiencies that represent material weaknesses on December 31, 2020, and 2019:
● Due to our size and limited resources, we currently do not employ the appropriate number accounting personnel to ensure (a) we maintain proper segregation of duties, (b) conduct a tolerable risk assessment; and
● Due to our size and limited resources, we have not adequately documented a complete assessment of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our internal control over financial reporting.
Management believes that the material weaknesses set forth above did not affect the Company’s financial reporting in 2020 and 2019. During the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K, we have not been able to remediate the material weaknesses identified above. To remediate such weaknesses, we could (i) appoint additional qualified personnel to address inadequate segregation of duties and ineffective risk management; and (ii) adopt sufficient written policies and procedures for accounting and financial reporting. The remediation efforts set out in (i) and (ii) are primarily dependent as resources permit and navigating towards a more unified accounting system. The Company expects to implement adequate segregation of duties within the internal control framework as the Company grows and financial resources allow.
c) Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
Our management is committed to improving the internal controls over financial reporting and will undertake consistent improvements or enhancements on an ongoing basis. There has been no change to our internal control over financial reporting during our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected or is reasonably likely materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
d) Auditor’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
This annual report does not include our registered public accounting firm’s attestation report regarding internal control over financial reporting. There have not been any changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the year ended December 31, 2020, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to affect, our internal control over financial reporting materially.
Management identified the following material weaknesses set forth below in our internal control over financial reporting:
1. We did not perform an effective risk assessment or monitor internal controls over financial reporting.
2. With the acquisitions of IMT and Vislink, there are risks related to the timing and accuracy of integrating information from various accounting and ERP systems. The Company has experienced delays in receiving information promptly from its subsidiaries.
3. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed integrating the accounting and finance functions, enacted workforce reduction, and resulted in the limitation of essential accounting personal.
The Company remains committed to addressing this issue despite the effects on the worldwide economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To mitigate the current circumstances, we rely heavily on direct management oversight of transactions, along with the use of highly experienced external legal and accounting professionals, including our limited number of essential accounting personnel, who continue to work from home. The Company expects to implement adequate segregation of duties within the internal control framework as the Company grows.
Until we can remediate this situation, there are no assurances that the material weaknesses in our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting will not result in errors in our financial statements, which could lead to a restatement of those financial statements. The Company expects improvements, as resources permit, on the integration of information issues in the fiscal year 2020 and 2021 as we plan to move towards a more unified accounting and enterprise resource planning system.
The Company is continuing to remediate further the material weakness identified above as its resources permit. Despite the existence of these material weaknesses, the Company believes that the consolidated financial statements included in the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
This report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm according to the SEC’s rules that permit the Company to provide only the management’s report in this Report.
c) Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
The management is committed to improving the internal controls over financial reporting and will undertake consistent improvements or enhancements on an ongoing basis. There has been no change to our internal control over financial reporting during our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected or is reasonably likely materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information
None.
PART III

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this Item 11 is incorporated into this Report by reference to the information that will be contained in our proxy statement related to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or an amendment to this Annual Report, which we intend to file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of our fiscal year.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
The information required by Item 12 is incorporated into this Report by reference to the information that will be contained in our proxy statement related to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or an amendment to this Annual Report, which we intend to file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of our fiscal year.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this Item 13 is incorporated into this Report by reference to the information that will be contained in our proxy statement related to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or an amendment to this Annual Report, which we intend to file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of our fiscal year.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
The information required by this Item 14 is incorporated into this Report by reference to the information that will be contained in our proxy statement related to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or an amendment to this Annual Report, which we intend to file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of our fiscal year.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Report:
(1) Financial Statements:
The audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2020, and 2019, the related statements of operations and comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2020, the footnotes thereto, and the report of Marcum LLP, independent registered public accountants, are filed herewith.
(2) Financial Schedules:
None.
Financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are either not applicable or the required information is included in the financial statements or notes thereto.
(3) Exhibits:
The exhibits listed in the accompanying index to exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Report.
(b) The following are exhibits to this Report and, if incorporated by reference, we have indicated the document previously filed with the SEC in which the exhibit was included.
Certain of the agreements filed as exhibits to this Report contains representations and warranties by the parties to the agreements made solely for the parties’ benefit to the agreement. These representations and warranties:
● may have been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other parties in connection with the negotiation of the agreements, which disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the agreements;
● may apply standards of materiality that differ from those of a reasonable investor; and
● were made only as of specified dates in the agreements and subject to subsequent developments and changed circumstances.
Accordingly, these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date that these representations and warranties were made or at any other time. Investors should not rely on them as statements of fact.
Exhibit
Number
Description of Exhibit
1.1
Sales Agreement, dated May 5, 2020, by and between Vislink Technologies, Inc. and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners(1)
3.1(i)
Amended & Restated Certificate of Incorporation (2)
3.1(i)(a)
Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation filed June 11, 2014 (3)
3.1 (i)(b)
Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation filed July 10, 2015 (26)
3.1(i)(c)
Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (17)
3.1(i)(d)
Certificate of Designation of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (13)
3.1(i)(e)
Certificate of Designation of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (18)
3.1(i)(f)
Certificate of Elimination for Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (17)
3.1(i)(g)
Certificate of Elimination for Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (24)
3.1(i)(h)
Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation filed June 10, 2016 (21)
3.1(i)(i)
Certificate of Designation of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (25)
3.1(i)(j)
Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 11, 2019(41)
3.1(i)(h)
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July 31, 2020(39)
3.1(ii)
Second Amended & Restated Bylaws (4)
4.1
Form of Common Stock Certificate of the Registrant (5)
4.2
Form of Warrant Agreement by and between the Registrant and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and Form of Warrant Certificate for the offering closed July 24, 2013 and August 19, 2013 (6)
4.3
Form of Underwriters’ Warrant for the offering closed July 24, 2013 (2)
4.4
Form of Underwriters’ Warrant for the offering closed November 18, 2013 (7)
4.5
Form of Warrant issued in December 30, 2014 Offering (11)
4.6
Form of Warrant issued in February 11, 2015 Offering (12)
4.7
Form of Warrant issued in February 24, 2015 Offering (13)
4.8
Form of 8% Convertible Note (14)
4.9
Form of Series A Warrant for the August 2015 Offering (15)
4.10
Form of Pre-funded Series B Warrant for the August 2015 Offering (15)
4.11
Form of Series C Warrant for the August 2015 Offering (15)
4.12
Form of Series D Warrant for the August 2015 Offering (15)
4.13
Form of 5% Convertible Note (16)
4.14
Form of Amendment, dated April 29, 2016, to Series A Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of xG Technology, Inc., dated August 19, 2015(19)
4.15
Form of Amendment, dated April 29, 2016, to Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of xG Technology, Inc., dated February 29, 2016 (19)
4.16
Form of Warrant (20)
4.17
Form of Vislink Promissory Note (28)
4.18
Form of Underwriters’ Warrant for February 2017 Offering (29)
4.19
Form of Warrant for August 2017 Offering (32)
4.20
Form of 6% Senior Secured Convertible Debenture(37)
4.21
Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant(37)
4.22
Form of Amended and Restated 6% Senior Secured Debenture(38)
4.23
Form of Second Amended and Restated 6% Senior Secured Debenture(40)
4.24
Form of 10% Senior Secured Convertible Debenture(40)
4.25
Warrant Agreement, including Form of Common Warrant and Form of Pre-Funded Warrant from July 2019 Offering(42)
4.26
Form of Warrant Agreement, including Form of Common Warrant and Form of Pre-Funded Warrant from November 2019 Offering(43)
4.27
Form of Warrant Agreement, including Form of Common Warrant and Form of Pre-Funded Warrant from February 2020 Offering(44)
4.28*
Description of Registrant’s Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
10.1
Long Term Incentive Plan (8)
10.2
Forms of Agreement Under 2013 Long Term Incentive Plan (8)
10.3
Option Plan (8)
10.4
Option Plan (8)
10.5
Option Plan (8)
10.6
Option Plan (8)
10.7
Option Plan (8)
10.8
Forms of Award Documents under 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009 Option Plans (8)
10.9
Sunrise Office Lease (8)
10.10
Care21 Agreement (8)
10.11
Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 22, 2014, by and between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC. (9)
10.12
Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2014, by and between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC. (9)
10.13
Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2014, by and between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC. (9)
10.14
Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 25, 2014, by and between the Company, LPC, Affiliate Purchasers, and the Other Investors (10)
10.15
Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2014, by and between the Company and 31 Group, LLC. (11)
10.16
Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 11, 2015, by and between the Company and 31 Group, LLC. (12)
10.17
Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 24, 2014, by and between the Company and 31 Group, LLC. (13)
10.18
Form of Purchase Agreement dated as of June 11, 2015 (14)
10.19
Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated as of June 11, 2015 (26)
10.20
Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 29, 2016, by and between the Company and Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (16)
10.21
Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (16)
10.22
$1,500,000 Initial Payment Note from the Company to IMT (16)
10.23
Form of Subscription Agreement, dated May 12, 2016, between the Company and the Purchasers thereto (20)
10.24
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (22)
10.25
Incentive Compensation Plan (22)
10.26
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (23)
10.27
Incentive Compensation Plan (23)
10.28
Deed of Variation to Business Purchase Agreement by and between the Company, Vislink PLC, Vislink International Limited and Vislink Inc., dated January 13, 2017 (27)
10.29
Settlement Agreement between the Company and the Holders thereto, dated January 13, 2017 (27)
10.30
Security Agreement, dated February 2, 2017, between the Company and the Vislink Sellers (28)
10.31
Service Agreement between James Walton and Vislink International Limited, dated October 19, 2015 (30)
10.32
Purchase Agreement, dated May 19, 2017, between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (31)
10.33
Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 19, 2017, between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (31)
10.34
Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 15, 2017, between the Company and the Purchasers thereto (32)
10.35
Amendment to 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan(34)
10.36
Amendment to 2016 Incentive Compensation Plan(35)
10.37
Incentive Compensation Plan(36)
10.38
Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 29, 2018, by and among the Company and the purchaser signatories thereto(37)
10.39
Form of Security Agreement, dated Mya 29, 2018, by and among the Company and each of the secured parties thereto(37)
10.40
Form of Subsidiary Guarantee, dated May 29, 2018, by and among the Company, the purchasers under the Securities Purchase Agreement, and each of the Company’s subsidiaries(37)
10.41
Form of Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 29, 2018, by and among the Company and the purchasers under the Securities Purchase Agreement(37)
10.43
Form of Voting Agreement, each dated May 29, 2018, between the Company and each purchaser under the Securities Purchase Agreement (37)
10.44
Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 3, 2018, by and among the Company and the purchaser signatories thereto(40)
10.45
Form of Security Agreement, dated December 3, 2018, by and among the Company and each of the secured parties thereto(40)
10.46
Form of Subsidiary Guarantee, dated December 3, 2018 executed by each of the Company’s subsidiaries(40)
10.47
Form of Registration Rights Agreement, dated December 3, 2018, by and among the Company and the purchasers under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 3, 2018(40)
10.48
Form of Voting Agreement, each dated December 3, 2018, executed by each purchaser under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 3, 2018(40)
10.49
Employment Agreement by and between the Company and Carleton Miller, dated as of January 22, 2020(45)
10.50
Notice of Grant of Stock Option for Time-Vested Options and Stock Option Agreement by and between the Company and Carleton Miller, dated as of January 22, 2020(45)
10.51
Notice of Grant of Stock Option for Performance-Vested Options and Stock Option Agreement by and between the Company and Carleton Miller, dated as of January 22, 2020(45)
10.52
Form of Separation Agreement to be executed by the Company and John Payne upon the conclusion of John Payne’s employment(46)
10.53
Employment Agreement by and between the Company and Michael Bond, dated as of February 27, 2020(47)
10.54
Form of Separation Agreement to be executed by the Company and Roger G. Branton upon the conclusion of Roger G. Branton’s employment(47)
10.55
Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between the Company and its officers and directors(51)
10.56
Loan Agreement, dated April 5, 2020, by and between Texas Security Bank and Integrated Microwave Technology, LLC(48)
10.57
Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy(49)
10.58
Form of Non-Employee Director Restricted Shares Agreement(49)
14.1
Code of Ethics(33)
21.1
Subsidiaries of the Registrant(50)
23.1*
Consent of Marcum LLP
31.1*
Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2*
Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1*
Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2*
Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
101.INS
XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Schema
101.CAL
XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase
101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase
101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase
101.PRE
XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase
In accordance with SEC Release 33-8238, Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 are being furnished and not filed.
*
Filed herewith
(1)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on May 5, 2020.
(2)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1 with the SEC on October 23, 2013.
(3)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on June 13, 2014.
(4)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on November 13, 2020.
(5)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1/A with the SEC on May 21, 2013.
(6)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report to Form 8-K with the SEC on August 19, 2013.
(7)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1/A with the SEC on November 6, 2013.
(8)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1 with the SEC on March 7, 2013.
(9)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on September 24, 2014.
(10)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on November 26, 2014.
(11)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on December 31, 2014.
(12)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 13, 2015.
(13)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 26, 2015.
(14)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on June 12, 2015.
(15)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on August 20, 2015.
(16)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 3, 2016.
(17)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 10, 2016.
(18)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on April 27, 2016
(19)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on May 2, 2016
(20)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on May 13, 2016.
(21)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on June 20, 2016.
(22)
Filed as an Exhibit on Annual Report on Form 10-K with the SEC on April 14, 2016.
(23)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1 with the SEC on June 27, 2016
(24)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on December 7, 2016.
(25)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on From 8-K with the SEC on December 27, 2016.
(26)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on From 8-K with the SEC on July 20, 2015.
(27)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on January 19, 2017.
(28)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 6, 2017.
(29)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 10, 2017.
(30)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 23, 2017.
(31)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on May 23, 2017.
(32)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on August 16, 2017.
(33)
Filed as an Exhibit on Annual Report on Form 10-K with the SEC on March 6, 2014.
(34)
Filed as Appendix D on Definitive Schedule 14A with the SEC on May 22, 2017
(35)
Filed as Appendix E on Definitive Schedule 14A with the SEC on May 22, 2017
(36)
Filed as Appendix F on Definitive Schedule 14A with the SEC on May 22, 2017
(37)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on May 29, 2018.
(38)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on October 11, 2018.
(39)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on August 5, 2020.
(40)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on December 4, 2018.
(41)
Filed an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 26, 2019.
(42)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on July 16, 2019.
(43)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1/A with the SEC on November 22, 2019.
(44)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1/A with the SEC on February 3, 2020.
(45)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K/A with the SEC on January 24, 2020.
(46)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 27, 2020.
(47)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on February 28, 2020.
(48)
Filed as an Exhibit on Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on April 23, 2020.
(49)
Filed as an Exhibit on Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the SEC on November 12, 2020.
(50)
Filed as an Exhibit on Form S-1/A with the SEC on October 30, 2019.
(51)
Filed as an Exhibit on Annual Report on Form 10-K with the SEC on April 1, 2020.