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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-028653"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VELO"
cik: "0001825079"
company_name: "Velo3D, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:26:23.619392+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Velo3D wins $32.6M defense contract, cuts FY2025 revenue guidance to $45-55M due to government shutdown

## Summary
- Signed $32.6M OTA contract with DoW Defense Innovation Unit for Project FORGE to resolve manufacturing bottleneck for critical weapon system.
- Revised FY2025 revenue guidance to $45-55M, down from prior range (not disclosed), citing Q4 government shutdown delays.
- Contract includes option to develop largest-format LPBF printer in U.S. via Velo3D's Rapid Production Solution.
- Velo3D to work with DIU, U.S. Navy, and industry prime to prototype and qualify additively manufactured components.
- CEO Arun Jeldi highlights Velo3D as only U.S.-based industrial-scale OEM with domestically developed LPBF technology.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-028653
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VELO
- cik: 0001825079
- company_name: Velo3D, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825079/000149315225028653/0001493152-25-028653-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825079/000149315225028653/form8-k.htm

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