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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-086879"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "XTIA"
cik: "0001529113"
company_name: "XTI Aerospace, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:52:31.671688+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# XTI Aerospace appoints Michael A. Tapp COO; base salary $600K, 1.6M options

## Summary
- Michael A. Tapp appointed COO effective Sept 1, 2025; employment agreement includes $600K base salary and performance bonuses up to 100% of base.
- Initial stock option grant of 1,613,000 shares at $2.00 exercise price; one-third vested immediately, rest quarterly over 2 years.
- Options also awarded to CEO Scott Pomeroy (2,621,100), CFO Brooke Turk (1,512,200), CSO Tobin Arthur (1,512,200), and RTLS CEO Soumya Das (78,000).
- Side letter requires company to relocate headquarters to Dallas-Fort Worth Executive Office Area by March 31, 2026, or face breach of contract.
- Discloses $475,000 in consulting fees paid to Tapp's entity Ancora Management Services and 50,000 prior stock options for consulting services.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-086879
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: XTIA
- cik: 0001529113
- company_name: XTI Aerospace, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529113/000121390025086879/0001213900-25-086879-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529113/000121390025086879/ea0257061-8ka1_xtiaero.htm

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