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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-071167"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AERG"
cik: "0000879911"
company_name: "APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:15:58.304675+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Energetics awarded $1.99M, two-year contract from Navy ONR for ultra-short pulse optical system development.

## Summary
- $1.99 million contract from U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) for a two-year development effort.
- Project to develop high-peak and high-average power ultra-short pulse (USP) optical system compatible with multiple Navy platforms.
- CEO Greg Quarles states the award continues collaboration with ONR and advances USP directed energy for national security.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-071167
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AERG
- cik: 0000879911
- company_name: APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023071167/0001213900-23-071167-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023071167/ea184294-8k_appliedenerg.htm

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