secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HawkEye 360, Inc. (HAWK)
CIK:        0001750704
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-11-10T21:19:17+00:00
Accession:  0001750704-26-000029
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

HawkEye 360 adds former CIA Director William J. Burns to board as Class II director
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- Board appointed Ambassador William J. Burns effective November 10, 2026; he serves as Class II director with term expiring at the 2028 annual meeting.
- Burns was CIA Director from 2021 to January 2025, the first career diplomat to lead the agency; Deputy Secretary of State 2011-2014; U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2005-2008.
- He is currently Senior Advisor for Global Affairs at Evercore (since June 2025) and was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2015 to 2021.
- Compensation: $50,000 annual cash retainer plus a one-time RSU grant worth $400,000 vesting in equal annual installments over three years under the 2026 Equity Incentive Plan.
- CEO John Serafini said Burns' expertise will support integrating signals-intelligence data into operational workflows for U.S. and allied defense customers.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750704/000175070426000029/0001750704-26-000029-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750704/000175070426000029/hawk-20261110.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001750704-26-000029

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