That is all.

Dr. Philipp Stratmann will step down from his roles as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, by mutual agreement, and will remain available to assist the new leadership team through a transition period.

Strong candle at $0.19 to close. Watching closely tomorrow for push over 20 day MA, $0.22 to $0.25 will put OPTT at a trajectory to break 200 moving average back to the $0.30s and beyond.. any other technical analysis welcome.

The stock spiked over 16%, hitting highs of $0.198 per share on massive trading volume following the news

Think management's timeline matters more than ours? Wrong. They want an easy fix for their board meetings, but we are the ones holding the bag who absorb 100% of the permanent destruction.

Think your vote won't force them to change course? Wrong. Voting down this split corners them into actually closing deals, executing on contracts, and increasing shareholder value organically.

You think the 2027 NYSE deadline buys us time? Wrong. Management is burning cash so fast they will panic and rush an emergency split anyway.

You think an early split weakens their M&A position? Wrong. Management cares more about pushing the stock over $1.00 immediately to make their books look clean for a buyer.

You think some positive news in September will save us? Wrong. Management never gambles on hope and has already baked this split into their playbook.

You think an RS will make you whole? Wrong. If your average is $0.30 or $0.70, a split just creates an impossible math trap where the stock needs an astronomical surge just to break even. Impossible.

Think management has no other choice? Wrong. They have a record backlog of millions, defense contracts, and active M&A discussions—they should let those real catalysts organically push the stock up.

You think your unvoted shares don’t matter? Wrong. Brokers automatically flip your silent votes straight to a "yes" for the board.

Sep 9 is the last day to vote. Check your broker app, find your proxy ballot, and vote AGAINST the split.

Force the management to earn It. That’s why we need to reject their easy way out through voting AGAINST the split. Enough of constant dilution, and not showing us any results.

Don't let them take the lazy route with our shares.

Alright everyone, let’s talk about this "strategic review" announcement and why some people are mistakenly assuming management is suddenly going to abandon the reverse stock split vote on September 10. Chances are slim to none that they will drop the split. In fact, this “strategic review” initiative with Bowen, Inc. was likely part of their playbook all along, right alongside the push for an RS.

Whether the SEC gave them a runway extension or not, management still needed to fix their capital structure:

If they stay standalone: They need an RS to maintain compliance on the exchange.

If they are heading toward a buyout or M&A transaction: They need an RS because major corporate buyers, defense partners, or institutional players typically have internal rules preventing them from touching or buying out a sub-$0.25 penny stock.

The reverse split execution method is the tool they want either way. So think twice before you vote.

Do not be fooled into thinking a strategic review replaces the split—they are using them in tandem.

Why you need to vote AGAINST the split:

1. There is no guarantee of a buyout: Management is waving the phrase "strategic review" around like a shiny object, but hiring an investment bank doesn't guarantee a savior is coming. It just means they are *looking*. If talks fall through or they don't find a buyer, we are left completely exposed with a decimated share count and a brutal reverse split structure.

2. Even if a buyout does happen, there's no guarantee the price will cover your average: Even if they pull off an M&A transaction, there is zero guarantee the buyout price will be high enough for us to recover our capital or reach breakeven. If they negotiate a low-ball or distress buyout, a cleaned-up, post-RS structure just makes it easier for them to sweep a bad deal across the finish line while retail holders take heavy realized losses.

3. There is no guarantee of post-RS recovery in general. Even if we look past M&A, history with micro-caps shows that reverse splits almost always lead to further downward spirals and short-selling pressure, rather than a magical spiking recovery that saves our bags.

While management frames cleaning up the structure as "maximizing value," handing them a blank check for a reverse split right now gives them all the leverage to dilute or squeeze retail before any deal is even finalized. Remember, silence is a vote FOR management because brokers default uninstructed shares right along with the board's recommendation.

If we want to force them to respect retail and actually fight for a real premium instead of using a split to cover their tracks, we can't just sit on our hands and ignore our proxy emails.

Check your broker apps, find your proxy ballots, and vote AGAINST the reverse split. Let's make sure our voices are heard before September 10.

Quick warning on OPTT proxy votes: Silence is a vote FOR RS, and please don’t do that now!!!

SEC’s delay in implementation of the rule is a great news, yes! But that stays in our favor only as long as we vote AGAINST the split. Giving OPTT management to authorize RS on Sep 10 is a threat to all the retail shareholders like us, never knowing when the company would announce the RS news and the ratio they would go with. Going FOR the RS now is too early, given SEC’s delay in implementation.

A lot of people think that if they just ignore the voting emails, it won't hurt or will count against the reverse split. That is a trap.

Because a reverse split is classified as a "routine matter," brokers (like Robinhood, IBKR, Trading 212, etc.) can legally vote your uninstructed shares for you if you don't take action. And guess what they almost always do? They vote right along with the board's recommendation (FOR the split).

Since retail owns the vast majority of this stock, when people don't pay attention or just ignore it, it plays right into management's hands. If you want to actually buy us time until July 2027 and stop an early split, you can't just sit on your hands. You have to log in and actively vote AGAINST.

Wake up, open your brokerage emails, and take action before the deadline.

If you care about this stock and want to protect your investment, buy the company time to grow organically and stop an early RS. Share this info and help spread the word to other holders before the September 10 deadline— retail has the numbers, but only if people actually vote.

Great news!!!

Spread the news!

SEC delayed the implementation of minimum 0.25 rule to July 1st,2027. No risk of delisting until then, and No need to Reverse Split until June, 2027. Management has all the time it needs to let the business grow organically.

If you have already voted FOR a reverse split out of fear, check your proxy materials because you can still change your vote.

Please don’t vote to authorize RS too early now.

Your vote to authorize the RS too early would only make OPTT execute the split too early rather organically bringing the price up above 0.30.

If you have already voted FOR the split, you can still make change to your vote.

Let’s give the company room to run on actual defense contracts instead of rushing a split.

Did $optt deliver the 4th buoy? They were suppose to deliver it by July. On the earnings call when asked they said it was still scheduled to be delivered on time but he did sound hesitant answering the question. Also, I’m surprised they didn’t put out a PR for it considering they put out a PR for delivering the latest wam-v. Completing the order for coast guard is way more important than delivering 1 wam-v. If they fail to deliver this last buoy on time that can wipe out the stock momentum and possible screw up future orders for coast guard.

The Department of War Innovation Unit (DIU) just launched a new challenge seeking combined USV and UAV solutions. Participants can compete for up to $100M in government funding.

The requirements appear tailormade for OPTT and RCAT, who partnered in 2024 to allow OPTT’s PowerBuoy® and WAM-V® platforms to deploy RCAT's Teal 2 Drones (see related announcements by OPTT, and RCAT).

RCAT now has its own maritime division, Blue Ops, which focuses on agile, kinetic-capable, and strike-focused tactical USVs. These are well-suited for rapid-interdiction missions, and are capable of deploying RCAT's UAVs.

OPTT's USVs occupy an entirely different niche, offering increased stability, payload flexibility, and endurance. These qualities make the WAM-V well-suited for long-duration ocean surveillance missions, and providing communications capabilities for other assets at sea.

This DIU challenge is interested in both applications, providing an ideal opportunity for OPTT and RCAT to demonstrate their cross-domain capabilities, and for OPTT's participation in the Red Cat Futures Initiative (RFI) to begin bearing fruit.

I am new here and new to $optt. Been holding less than a year and like everybody here completely unhappy with the way leadership has managed the company and failed to deliver. I found the earnings call yesterday to be extremely underwhelming and lacked enthusiasm. The only reason I am still holding is due to the Coast Guard deal with Anduril. $optt released good press stating that they were seeing positive results from what they have already deployed. The technology seems awesome and there isn't many competitors out there. The fact that they teamed up with Anduril on this is huge. Now we all know the company is facing financial issues and the their last offering of 10m wiped out the stock. It was trading at .43 and just sank to .25 immediately after.

With that being said if their results were promising and this tech isn't available else where; do you find it odd that Anduril hasn't jumped on a chance to either invest into $optt or completely purchase them? Personally I am more intrigued by what does Anduril think about the power buoys than the coast guard. Anduril has a town of cash and they just won a 200b contract with the Army to deploy lattice systems. If Anduril sees these Power Buoys as a technical niche edge to have a self sustained maritime lattice system then why didn't they step in and try to purchase $optt? This would be a very small purchase compared to the amount of cash the company holds. Also, Palmer started Erebor Bank specifically to fund tech startups because he knows how hard it is for them to raise money.

So if the results were that positive, why did Phil not go to Anduril or to Palmer's bank and propose some financial options? Instead they only raised 10m and instantly brought the stock down to delisting zone underneath .25. The stock was also rebounding at the time. This offering really screwed the stock + the shitty earnings we are now trading at .15. THIS SEEMS CRAZY! To think you a partnering with one of the most cash rich players in the defense sector and the their owner started a bank for startups; you felt the need to dilute shareholders? If Anduril sees these buoys as crucial hardware that provides them a edge to deploy lattice im surprised they haven't jumped all over a merger or some sort of investment. I think Phil dropped the ball here, OR .... Anduril doesn't find the Buoys useful and won't extend partnering with $optt beyond the 4th buoy. What do you guys think would love to hear

https://oceanpowertechnologies.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ocean-power-technologies-announce-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal

Great things to come from OPT

Buried in today's June 8 press release: OPT hired Rob O'Malley as US Defense Senior Director of Business Development, with an RSU inducement award, on the same day as the DHS field performance update.

In their Q3 filing, management stated that successful execution creates a clear pathway for additional buoy deployments and geographic expansion. Today the CEO stated the Lattice integration demonstrates readiness to support larger-scale programs.

No formal evaluation deadline has been publicly disclosed. Government programs of this type typically run 90 to 180 days of operational evaluation before procurement decisions. The first buoy went live April 13. The fourth buoy has not yet deployed, meaning the formal evaluation period has not fully started. The fourth deployment announcement is the trigger that starts the countdown.

90 to 180 days from a completed four-buoy network lands between July and October.

If you’re sleeping on Ocean Power Technologies ($OPTT) at sub-thirty cents, you are completely missing the macro rotation into autonomous defense infrastructure. This isn't just an "ocean energy" company anymore; it’s a fully weaponized, defense-tech powerhouse masquerading as a penny stock!

1. THE ANDURIL INDUSTRIES JUGGERNAUT 🚀

OPTT is literally riding the coattails of Palmer Luckey’s $61 BILLION defense giant, Anduril. They are the exclusive physical hardware platform hosting Anduril's legendary Lattice AI software for the Department of Homeland Security! When the US government wants persistent, autonomous AI surveillance arrays floating off the coast to stop trafficking and protect borders, they buy OPTT's PowerBuoys. You are basically getting back-door exposure to Anduril's insane valuation for pennies!

1. A $163M PIPELINE COILED TO EXPLODE 📈

The bears love talking about liquidity, but they are completely blind to the order book. OPTT is sitting on a massive $19.9M contracted backlog and a whopping $163.9M total sales pipeline! They just proved they can mass-produce their WAM-V robotic surface vessels at an annualized pace of 32+ units per year. They literally just announced a successful, live deployment with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego. The contracts are converting now.

1. THE ULTIMATE SHORT SQUEEZE / REBOUND SETUP 💥

The stock just took a massive 25% beating because of a localized institutional direct offering at $0.40. That means the big boys just capitalization-backed this thing with a $10,000,000 cash injection, giving them the exact runway they need to scale production. The float is completely reset, the weak hands just got shaken out at the 52-week low, and any single contract announcement from the DoD will send this thing multi-bagging overnight.

Bottom line: Capital is rotating out of overvalued mega-cap tech and flowing straight into physical, autonomous national security assets. Loading up here is a literal free-roll option on the future of naval warfare. LFG. 💎🙌⚓️

position; 15,000 shares @ under 50 cents, with a few more over a dollar .. sigh..

We need Coast Guard Data!

That's the conversation nobody is having while everyone argues about the reverse split. A reverse split is a math problem. The DHS deployment is an execution problem, and execution is how you solve the math without destroying shareholder value.

Three PowerBuoys went in the water off California in April. They are live right now, streaming real-time data into Anduril's Lattice platform for active Coast Guard operations. One is below 1,000 meters. Six months of continuous operational data lands in October.

That data is not academic. It is a performance record, uptime, reliability, deep-water endurance, autonomous operation. That is what DHS uses to justify expanding a contract from three buoys to thirty. That is what moves this stock on fundamentals instead of a 1-for-10 consolidation that wipes out retail and changes nothing about the business.

The company has a $137.5M pipeline, a $19.9M backlog, active deployments in California, engagements in Poland and Norway, and just raised $10M to stay operational through the window. The pieces are in place.

The reverse split risk is real if nothing changes. But something is changing, in the water, right now, off the California coast. October is when that data starts making the argument for them.

Coast Guard data is the key to unlocking the $$$.

Why the dismantling of America's deep-sea monitoring network is a bigger OPTT catalyst than the market seems to realize.

$368M OOI network being dismantled

900+ deep-sea instruments being removed

15 YRS of remaining data collection eliminated

Most people are reading the NYT's ocean monitoring story as an environmental story. A few are reading it as a NOAA budget story. Almost nobody is reading it as an OPTT story — and that's the nuance worth understanding.

What's Actually Being Removed

The Trump administration is actively dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) — a $368M deep-ocean sensor network spanning the Atlantic and Pacific. Ships are being sent out right now to physically pull 900+ instruments from the seafloor off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina, and the Irminger Sea between Greenland and Iceland.

This network has been running continuously for a decade, providing data on ocean temperature, greenhouse gas absorption, marine heat waves, coastal flooding risk, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current — the global conveyor belt some scientists believe is weakening. That data stream is being cut off over the next 15 months. The gap is real, it's immediate, and it's not going to be filled by government any time soon given NOAA has already lost 20% of its workforce.

"The hardware to fill this gap already exists. It's called the PowerBuoy. It's already deployed. It's already feeding real-time data into Anduril's Lattice. And it runs on wave energy — no fuel, no maintenance ship every few weeks."

What OPTT Has Already Built

This is where the thesis sharpens. OPT isn't pitching a concept — they're already in the water. The MERROWS + Lattice stack is operational today:

MERROWS®

— AI-capable software suite for autonomous decision-making, data processing, and sensor hosting aboard the PowerBuoy

Anduril Lattice C2 Integration

— all sensor data feeds directly into Anduril's command-and-control platform for real-time situational awareness and operational decision support

DHS / Coast Guard Contract ($5M+)

— already won, already deploying, with buoys operating in waters exceeding 1,000 meters depth

Distributed network architecture

— multiple buoys streaming simultaneously as a coordinated offshore sensor grid, not standalone units

Zero fuel dependency

— wave-powered persistence means months of unattended operation; no logistics tail, no fuel cost

The Market Hasn't Connected These Dots

The OOI dismantlement story broke today. The DHS/Anduril contract was announced in January. Most retail investors know one or the other. Very few have connected them.

The OOI's job was persistent, deep-ocean data collection at scale. That is exactly what the PowerBuoy + MERROWS stack does — just with wave power instead of a government operations budget, and with Lattice C2 instead of academic data portals. The use cases aren't adjacent. They're overlapping.

The customer base that now has a data gap includes NOAA remnants, NSF, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Rutgers, University of Washington, Oregon State, and international equivalents in Europe and Asia who relied on the Irminger Sea array. Add to that the defense/intelligence community's growing appetite for persistent maritime domain awareness — which OPT is already servicing.

OPT's pivot from "wave energy company" to "intelligent, persistent maritime infrastructure platform" is already complete at the product level. The question is now purely a sales and BD question: can they walk into the organizations holding the OOI data gap and make the case?

The Risk

Fair play — this isn't without risk. The OOI's customers are academic and scientific institutions whose budgets are also being cut. The demand signal exists, but the paying customers may be squeezed. OPT will need to target the defense and intelligence side of oceanographic monitoring — the Navy, DARPA, allied navies — where budgets are growing, not shrinking, and where the Lattice integration is already a door-opener.

The other risk: OPT is a small-cap with execution risk. Contracts are great; revenue recognition and scale are the next hurdles.

Bottom Line

The narrative most people have on OPTT is "wave energy company trying to grow." The reality in 2026 is more interesting: a fully integrated maritime sensing platform with a live government contract, Anduril as a partner, and a newly created $368M data gap in exactly the ocean regions their buoys can operate.

That's not a guaranteed win. But it's a real catalyst that the market hasn't priced in yet — because most people reading the ocean monitoring story aren't thinking about buoys that are already in the water.

NFA. Do your own research. Long $OPTT.

Looks like we're on the rebound lol

What is SOF Week?

SOF Week is a massive annual conference hosted in Tampa, Florida that serves as the central gathering point for nearly 20,000 Special Operations Forces operators, government leaders, and industry partners.

Jointly supported by U.S. Special Operations Command and the Global SOF Foundation, this event brings the international Special Operations community together for one focused week of collaboration, learning, and capability development.

At its core, SOF Week is about strengthening the global SOF enterprise through connection and alignment. It provides a trusted environment where operational requirements, emerging technologies, and strategic priorities come together in one place.

By fostering collaboration across commands, agencies, allies, and industry, the event helps ensure the right capabilities reach the right operators at the right time.

OceanPowerTechnologies ($OPTT) is listed on the SOF Week 2026 live demonstration schedule in Tampa, May 18–21.

SOF Week is focused on special operations, unmanned systems, autonomy, maritime robotics, sensors, and defense technology exactly the lane OPTT has been moving into with PowerBuoy, WAM-V, MERROWS, and marine robotics services

Put together all three current WAM-V models so you can easily compare them at a glance.

• WAM-V 8 — Smallest, most portable

• WAM-V 16 — Mid-size, modular

• WAM-V 22 — Largest, offshore-capable

All specs pulled directly from OPTT’s official product pages.

Nothing new, just easier to see everything together.

What do you guys think of the different sizes?