Applied Energetics, Inc. (AERG) Discusses Directed Energy Advancements and Counter-UAS Applications in Defense Transcript

Unknown Attendee

Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. And before we kick this off, I do want to point out to the audience that we welcome audience questions. Please post them in the Q&A section at the bottom of your screen. Type in the questions as they come to you, and we will get to those questions at the end.

So I’d now like to turn this over to Steven Saltzstein, Force Family Office’s CEO.

Unknown Attendee

Thank you, Kelly, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today. We greatly appreciate you taking time out of your day to be with us. I’m honored to have Chris Donaghey, CEO of Applied Energetics. What they’re doing in defense is the very definition of cutting edge. And to begin with, Chris is going to give kind of a synopsis of what’s going on with the company, and then we’ll have Q&A afterwards.

So Chris, the floor is yours. Please take it away.

Christopher Donaghey
President, CEO, Principal Financial Officer & Director

Thanks, Steve, and thanks for hosting us. Welcome, everybody. So as Steve said, I think I’ll start with a 20 to 30-minute presentation. I know many of you have seen the presentation. Some of you are new to this. It’s been about a year since we did the first Force Family Office video. So in the slides, I’ll go through kind of what we’ve done over the last year and then what our plans are for 2026.

So let me pull up the slides. Okay. So I’d like to — well, so obviously, the safe harbor statement, obligatory in nature. But I