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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-008700"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OPTT"
cik: "0001378140"
company_name: "Ocean Power Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T16:53:30.324309+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ocean Power Technologies awarded contract for multiple WAM-Vs to Allied Forces

## Summary
- Contract for multiple WAM-Vs with integrated sensors and operators as COCO delivery in late Spring 2025.
- Order from an international defense customer (Allied Forces); terms undisclosed due to sensitivity.
- Builds on recent commercial success for autonomous Maritime Domain Awareness and Mine Counter Measure Solutions.
- CEO Philipp Stratmann says agreement is proof of role in future ocean security.
- Company also announced management fireside chat on May 6, 2025, at 11 a.m. ET.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-008700
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OPTT
- cik: 0001378140
- company_name: Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378140/000164117225008700/0001641172-25-008700-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378140/000164117225008700/form8-k.htm

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