Bio Details

On July 21, 2026, the Company appointed Rear Admiral Joseph A. “Digger” DiGuardo Jr. to the Board of Directors as Acting Chairman, effective immediately. He previously served as an advisory board member since 2024. There were no arrangements or understandings between Mr. DiGuardo and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as a director, and there have been no transactions since the beginning of the Company’s last two fiscal years, nor are there any currently proposed transactions, regarding Mr. DiGuardo that are required to be disclosed by Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. In addition, there are no family relationships between Mr. DiGuardo and any other director or executive officer. Mr. DiGuardo will also serve on the Board’s Quality Health and Safety Committee.

Mr. DiGuardo, age 58, is a highly accomplished senior executive leader with over three decades of distinguished service in national security, counterterrorism, and counter-proliferation. As a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Mr. DiGuardo culminated his military career leading the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), overseeing 20,000 active and reserve personnel and a budget of $2.1B annually. His leadership spanned complex, high-risk operations, including special operations to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) mission, Counter Terrorism, Navy Expeditionary Operations and Fleet support worldwide. Prior to that he was the Director, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM J10) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Directorate and the DoD CWMD Coordinating Authority with responsibility to plan, assess, and recommend global CWMD priorities aligned to National Defense Strategy and coordinate with U.S. Government and Foreign Agencies to disrupt state and non- state proliferation and terrorism.

Currently, Mr. DiGuardo is the Principal of DiggerWorks Consulting, where he advises clients and Boards of Directors on National Security Strategy and Policy, Unmanned Systems, Technology Integration, Counter WMD, Counter Proliferation/Non Proliferation and U.S. Government priorities. He is an Executive Director at the Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS), a National Laboratory under the Department of Energy. He also serves as a Fellow at the American College of National Security Leaders (ACNSL), responding to questions directly from the National Security Council (NSC) and is the Warfare Chair of the Undersea Warfare Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School, further contributing to national security thought leadership and academia.