---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-029664"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRS"
cik: "0001833756"
company_name: "Leonardo DRS, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T22:39:52.399618+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Leonardo DRS shareholders approve removal of supermajority voting requirements

## Summary
- Amendment eliminates 66 2/3% supermajority requirement in charter and bylaws, effective June 5, 2025.
- All eight director nominees elected, each with >250M votes for and <4M withheld.
- Say-on-pay advisory resolution passed with 252.5M for, 0.5M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025 approved with 258.3M for.
- Charter amendment to remove pop-up provision approved with 250.9M for, 2.1M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-029664
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRS
- cik: 0001833756
- company_name: Leonardo DRS, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833756/000162828025029664/0001628280-25-029664-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833756/000162828025029664/drs-20250604.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Leonardo DRS, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to remove a 'pop-up' supermajority requirement to amend, alter, or repeal the bylaws, consistent with the charter amendment (effective 2025-06-05).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-05
  source text: The Bylaws were amended and restated to remove a “pop-up” supermajority requirement to amend, alter, or repeal the Bylaws consistent with the provisions in the Amendment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833756/000162828025029664/0001628280-25-029664-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Leonardo DRS, Inc.: Removed certain 'pop-up' supermajority voting requirements in Article Twelfth of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, changing approval thresholds from 66 2/3% to a majority vote for certain amendments (effective 2025-06-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-05
  source text: The Amendment calls for the elimination of requirements in Article Twelfth that currently provide that under certain circumstances, certain provisions of the Charter may only be altered, amended, or repealed and any provisions inconsistent therewith be adopted or added if such alteration, amendment, repeal, adoption or addition is approved by 66 2⁄3% of the voting power of the outstanding common stock then entitled to vote at any annual meeting or special meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833756/000162828025029664/0001628280-25-029664-index.htm

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