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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001849820-26-000094"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KITT"
cik: "0001849820"
company_name: "Nauticus Robotics, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-27T20:27:03+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T20:29:58.971939+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nauticus Robotics shareholders elect directors, authorize reverse split, fail to increase authorized shares

## Summary
- Elected Dr. Jim Bellingham and Dr. Adam Sharkawy as Class I directors with 2.58M and 2.56M votes for, respectively.
- Ratified WithumSmith+Brown as independent accounting firm for 2026 with 10.82M votes for.
- Authorized reverse stock split at ratio between 1:5 and 1:250, with 8.26M votes for.
- Approved amendment to 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan increasing available shares to 6 million.
- Proposal to increase authorized shares from 625M to 1.5B failed; 8.26M for but not majority of 34.9M outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001849820-26-000094
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KITT
- cik: 0001849820
- company_name: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-27T20:27:03+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982026000094/0001849820-26-000094-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982026000094/kitt-05x27x20268xk.htm

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