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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-004436"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DPLS"
cik: "0000866439"
company_name: "DarkPulse, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T11:58:10.292709+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DarkPulse signs contract with Kraken International Security for border security services

## Summary
- Contract with Kraken International and founder Boone Smith, former Executive Director at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- Boone Smith brings 24+ years of DHS, CBP, and Border Patrol leadership to DarkPulse's border sensor deployment.
- CEO Dennis O'Leary states Kraken's expertise will assist DarkPulse's national border security technology efforts.
- Collaboration aims to enhance real-time surveillance and threat detection for U.S. borders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-004436
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DPLS
- cik: 0000866439
- company_name: DarkPulse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316825004436/0001683168-25-004436-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316825004436/darkpulse_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-004436.txt

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