Palladyne AI Corp.
For the period ended Mar 31, 2026. Filed May 5, 2026.
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Mar 31, 2026 · Filed May 5, 2026
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Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2025-09-30; filed 2025-11-12.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2026-03-31; filed 2026-05-05.
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our ability to integrate acquired businesses and achieve the expected benefits of the acquisitions;
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our expected timeline for commercial release of our products and receipt of corresponding revenues;
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our ability to manage and overcome supply chain challenges, including increases in the cost of and an interruption in the supply or shortage of materials;
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our ability to introduce new products that meet our customers’ requirements and to successfully transition to high volume manufacturing of our products by third-party manufacturers or by us;
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our ability to implement contingency plans to further limit operations and reduce costs and/or seek additional financing should revenue not materialize in time or sufficient amount to support our operations;
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We are a U.S.-based technology company developing and offering embodied artificial intelligence ("AI") software and collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAVs"), advanced UAV engineering services and precision-manufactured components for defense and commercial/industrial markets. Our core AI software offerings, Palladyne IQ, SwarmOS and Palladyne Pilot, consist of full-stack, closed-loop autonomy software that is intended to enhance the functionality and operational effectiveness of third-party robotic systems across a range of applications and our proprietary UAVs. These products are designed to be hardware agnostic, enabling integration across a wide range of robotic platforms, whether third-party or our own proprietary platforms, including industrial robots, collaborative robots ("cobots"), UAVs, unmanned ground vehicles ("UGVs"), and remotely operated vehicles ("ROVs") across multiple domains.
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We have modeled our embodied AI architecture after nature to enable machines to filter out irrelevant data, interpret relevant data, quickly make decisions in real time and act in the real world, all at the edge and without centralized decision-making. We refer to this architectural class as Decentralized Embodied Collaborative Autonomy ("DECA"). DECA describes biologically inspired autonomy in which physically embodied agents perceive, decide and act locally while collaborating through decentralized interaction rather than centralized control. AI is the enabling mechanism, but autonomy and execution occur entirely at the edge. Intelligence that must act in the physical world operates under fundamentally different constraints. Machines that move, coordinate and make decisions in real time cannot rely solely on centralized reasoning, constant connectivity or energy intensive computation. They must operate locally, respond in milliseconds, collaborate with other machines and do so within tight limits on power, size and cost. Our AI technology is being built to act, not only think. It is edge-native and decentralized by necessity. It is designed for systems in which each machine operates autonomously while collaborating locally with others, without reliance on continuous centralized control or excessive compute. We have already implemented early versions of a DECA architecture through our Palladyne IQ and SwarmOS platforms, proving the approach in real systems today while remaining at the early edge of a much larger and inevitable opportunity: becoming the intelligence layer for autonomous machines operating beyond the reach of the cloud.
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We are positioning our defense business as a mid-tier U.S. technology prime defense contractor aiming to combine innovative autonomy, practical engineering and American production to bring intelligent systems into active service faster, safer and more cost-effectively than legacy approaches. We seek to harness our advanced, ethical embodied AI to provide cost-effective lethality and precision harm mitigation through rapidly delivering scalable, low-cost, intelligent and collaborative attritable weapons, including by developing proprietary, UAVs incorporating our avionics and AI technologies. We support these efforts and those of other defense contractors and commercial customers through our vertically integrated aircraft engineering design services, enhanced avionics compute hardware and machining and fabrication services. Palladyne SwarmOS is designed for unmanned platforms and includes advanced autonomy and coordination capabilities that enable multiple UAVs to swarm, collaborate and execute complex missions through distributed tasking and edge-native orchestration. Our embodied AI is designed to operate in complex, contested and high-risk environments, enabling distributed tasking, human-on-the-loop oversight, degraded-communications resilience, multi-domain coordination and real-time responsiveness. Our platform-agnostic autonomy stack combines real-time sensor fusion, adaptive AI models, and edge-native orchestration to support autonomous and collaborative systems across air, ground, maritime and industrial domains where performance, resilience, trust and mission assurance are critical to operational outcomes. These capabilities are intended to meet the performance and reliability requirements of military and defense customers, particularly in applications where it is essential to conduct coordinated multi-vehicle operations in contested environments with degraded communications.
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For commercial and industrial customers in particular, Palladyne IQ is designed to enable poly-functional robots, including industrial robots and cobots, to become capable of performing multiple tasks across dynamic real-world industrial environments. Palladyne IQ enables industrial robots and cobots to adapt to variability in tasks, parts, and environments, thereby reducing the need for rigid automation, custom fixtures, and manual intervention. We believe Palladyne IQ has applications across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and other industrial settings where unstructured or semi-structured environments have historically limited the adoption of automation. We also offer Palladyne Pilot, a derivative version of SwarmOS tailored to meet the requirements of public safety and commercial customers by delivering core autonomy capabilities with reduced system complexity and cost. Please see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors for a discussion of the risks related to these activities, in particular those discussed under "Risks Related to our Business".
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Revenue
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We derive revenue from multiple sources, including the sale of both software and hardware products, product development contracts with the Department of War, and engineering services. We accordingly classify our revenue into three primary streams: product revenue, product development contract revenue and engineering services revenue, with product revenue further disaggregated into software and hardware categories. Software product revenue is comprised of the sale of our proprietary AI software products based on our AI Foundational Technology (i.e., Palladyne IQ, SwarmOS and Palladyne Pilot). Hardware product revenue consists of the sale of our hardware products, including our advanced avionics compute hardware (BRAIN) and our UAV products under development (i.e., Gremlin-X and SwarmStrike). We also classify as hardware product revenue sales of our precision machined and fabricated components and structures. Product development contract revenue consists of contracts with customers that support our software and hardware products under development. Engineering services revenue are derived from aerospace and defense customers focused on developing high-performance unmanned systems.
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Strategic Acquisitions
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On November 14, 2025, we acquired GuideTech, LLC an engineering company, MKR Fabrication, LLC (also known as MKR Fabricators), a fabrication company, and Warnke Precision Machining, LLC (also known as Warnke Precision Machining), a precision machining company. Our results presented and discussed below include the operating activity for these acquired companies from the acquisition date through March 31, 2026. Our results for periods prior to the acquisition date do not include the financial information of these acquired companies.
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Product Revenue
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Product revenue was $1.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. All of our product revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2026, was from the sale of precision machined parts and components by our Palladyne Manufacturing business, comprised of Warnke Precision Machining and MKR Fabricators, both of which were acquired in November 2025.
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Product Development Contract Revenue
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Engineering Services Revenue
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Engineering services revenue was $1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. All of our engineering services revenue was from GuideTech which was acquired in November 2025.
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Cost of revenue increased by $2.1 million, or 601%, from $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Cost of revenue increased primarily due to manufacturing costs from revenue generated by our fabrication and machining businesses acquired in November 2025, as well as increased labor and material expenses charged to service contracts during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Intangible Amortization Expense
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Intangible amortization expenses increased to $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. The increase in intangible amortization expense is attributable to the recognition of amortization related to identified intangible assets acquired as part of the acquisitions completed in November 2025.
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Other (Loss) Income
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Net Cash Provided (Used In) by Investing Activities
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our expected timeline and amount of our product revenues;
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the impact of the government shutdown on our business and financial results;
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changes in regulations and customs, tariffs and trade barriers and the potential effects on our business and financial results;
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Our mission is to deliver artificial intelligence software products that enable robotic and unmanned platforms, or robotic systems, in the industrial and defense sectors to perform complex tasks in arbitrary (i.e., unstructured and dynamic) human environments. Our AI/ML Foundational Technology enhances the utility and functionality of third-party stationary and mobile robotic systems by allowing these systems to quickly observe, learn, reason and act in structured and unstructured environments. Our AI/ML Foundational Technology is designed with artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning ("ML") technologies to enable robotic systems to perceive their environment and quickly adapt to changing circumstances by generalizing (i.e., learning) from their past experience using dynamic real-time operations "on the edge" (i.e., on the robotic system and not in the cloud) without extensive programming, training or the latency associated with processing in the cloud. We believe this "human-like" ability to learn, reason and adapt will be a key differentiator in assisting our customers to enhance productivity in dynamic or unstructured environments, where human reasoning has traditionally been required to complete the task. We designed our AI/ML Foundational Technology to be hardware agnostic, meaning that our AI/ML software products are designed so that with a minimal integration effort they will be able to function on a wide variety of industrial robots, cobots, unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAV"), unmanned ground vehicles ("UGV") and other remotely operated vehicles ("ROV").
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Our AI/ML Foundational Technology is the foundational technology for our two software products. The first, Palladyne IQ, has been developed for use with industrial robots and cobots, and the second, Palladyne Pilot, has been developed for use with unmanned platforms with our current focus being Class 1 UAVs. We expect to continue to advance and evolve our technology and products in response to the evolving demands of our customers in the various industries we expect to serve. Palladyne IQ and Palladyne Pilot are in the early stages of commercialization (the process of bringing the product to market, generating sales and deploying the product with customers) and they continue to undergo reliability testing, debugging, and other stabilizing improvements.
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We believe that our initial customer base will be comprised of innovators and early adopters in the industrial manufacturing, defense, infrastructure maintenance, repair and surveillance, energy and aerospace and aviation industries. We believe that if we are successful in demonstrating the value of our products with these early adopters, there will be many potential customers that follow. Palladyne IQ is being offered through a term-based licensing model that would result in a recurring revenue stream, while Palladyne Pilot is offered through a device-based licensing model. We may also offer add-on functionality for an additional license fee. While we plan to charge an upfront fee for the hardware associated with Palladyne IQ, we may choose to embed the cost in the license fee in the future. Based on interaction with dozens of potential customers, we believe that the sales cycle for Palladyne IQ is likely to be between 12 and 18 months, or even longer, while the sales cycle for Palladyne Pilot is unknown. System integrators and potential customers of Palladyne IQ have indicated that recent changes in U.S. trade policy have caused some potential customers to re-evaluate their automation priorities which we believe will delay certain investment decisions in the near term but will overall create greater opportunities for Palladyne IQ deployments in the United States in the medium and long term. We expect to begin generating revenues from commercial customers in the first half of 2026.
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We have U.S. government revenue-generating contracts related to various aspects of our AI/ML Foundational Technology and our Palladyne IQ and Palladyne Pilot products. As scheduled to date, we have timely met all the development milestones associated with these contracts and recognized revenue based on work completed. Please see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors for a discussion of the risks related to these activities, in particular those discussed under "Risks Related to our Business".
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Revenue decreased slightly for the three months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2024.
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Revenue derived from product sales was minimal during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
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Cost of revenue decreased slightly for three months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2024.
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Sales and marketing expense decreased by 11%, from $1.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, to $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. This decrease was driven by decreased labor and labor related expense, partially offset by increased marketing program expenses.
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Asset Write-down and Restructuring
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There were no significant asset write-down and restructuring costs for the three months ended September 30, 2025 or the prior year period.
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Other Income
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Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
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Revenue, Net
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Revenue derived from product sales decreased by $2.7 million, or 100%. The decrease was due to legacy hardware product sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 that did not recur during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
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Operating Expenses
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Cost of Revenue
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Cost of revenue decreased by $1.6 million, or 56%, from $2.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. Cost of revenue decreased primarily due to lower product costs, driven by the decline in product revenue, as well as decreased labor and material expenses charged to product development contracts during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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Research and Development
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General and Administrative
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General and administrative expense decreased by $0.9 million, or 6%, from $13.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $12.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. General and administrative expense decreased primarily due to reduced labor and labor related expenses and reduced business insurance expenses, partially offset by increased stock-based compensation expenses.
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Sales and Marketing
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Asset Write-down and Restructuring
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There were no significant asset write-down and restructuring costs for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 or the prior year period.
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Other Income
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Other income increased by $33.8 million from $0.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $34.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. Other income increased almost entirely as a result of increased mark-to-market gains on our outstanding warrants. Additionally, interest income from our investments in marketable securities increased due to an increase in invested funds.
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Provision for Income Taxes
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On October 31, 2024, we announced that we raised approximately $7 million in gross proceeds from the sale of Common Stock and warrants through a registered offering and two separate private placements. In May 2025, 2,790,700 of the 2024 Warrants were exercised resulting in proceeds of $6.4 million.
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our software product roadmaps, including expected timing of new or enhanced product releases and target markets;
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our product roadmaps, including expected timing of new product releases and target markets;
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changes in the markets for our software products;
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changes in the markets for our products and services;
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Development, Testing and Commercial Launch of our AI/ML Software Products
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Development, Testing and Commercial Launch of our AI/ML Software, Avionics and UAV Products
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We expect to continue commercialization efforts, internal testing and customer trials for both products through the remainder of 2025. Whether we are successful in these efforts depends on many factors, including those discussed under Part II Item 1A Risk Factors. Such risks may result in delay in achieving product revenues, which would adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
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We expect to continue commercialization efforts, internal testing and customer trials for our products throughout 2026. Whether we are successful in these efforts depends on many factors, including those discussed under Part II Item 1A Risk Factors. Such risks may result in delay in achieving product revenues, which would adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
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We intend to use our cash on hand to continue to enhance our software products, conduct product development activities, pursue marketing and sales opportunities and fund operations as we seek to further commercialize and enhance and achieve revenue from our products. The amount and timing of our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including the pace and results of our product commercialization and enhancement efforts, our ability to sell our software products and thereby recognize associated revenue, capital and human capital requirements to develop and sell products prior to receiving payments sufficient to cover our costs and our ability to lower product costs as volumes increase.
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We intend to use our cash on hand to continue to enhance our products, conduct product development activities, pursue marketing and sales opportunities and fund operations as we seek to further commercialize and enhance and achieve revenue from our products and services. The amount and timing of our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including the pace and results of our product commercialization and enhancement efforts, our ability to sell our products and services and thereby recognize associated revenue, capital and human capital requirements to develop and sell products and provide services prior to receiving payments sufficient to cover our costs and our ability to lower costs as volumes increase.
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We have taken and continue to take numerous steps to manage our use of cash. For example, we conducted two workforce reductions during 2023 (the "2023 RIFs") which allowed us to further conserve our cash resources and manage operating expenses. The last cash payments related to the 2023 RIFs were paid during the first quarter of 2024. Additionally, during the fourth quarter of 2024 and the first three quarters of 2025 we raised approximately $61.4 million in gross proceeds from the sale of our Common Stock and warrants. For further information on our financing activities, see "Liquidity and Capital Resources."
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We have taken and continue to take numerous steps to manage our use of cash. For example, in 2023 we suspended our legacy hardware product development efforts and focused our product development efforts on our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related products, and terminated our operations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in early 2024. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024 and through March 31, 2026 we raised approximately $75.6 million in gross proceeds from the sale of our Common Stock and warrants. For further information on our financing activities, see "Liquidity and Capital Resources."
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We believe we have sufficient liquidity to operate for at least the next 12 months without the need to raise additional capital. However, we may decide to seek additional financing during that time to bolster our cash reserves and increase our ability to continue to pursue our business objectives. As a result, we intend to continue monitoring our liquidity, financial and business results and outlook and market conditions, and may be opportunistic and raise capital when we consider market conditions are good or a favorable opportunity exists. Any delays in the sales of our AI/ML software products will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, our profitability, our cash flows, our overall operating performance and our ability to continue operations and may result in the need to raise additional capital. We will continue to carefully evaluate our use of cash and liquidity.
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We believe we have sufficient liquidity to operate for at least the next 12 months without the need to raise additional capital. However, we may decide to seek additional financing during that time to bolster our cash reserves and increase our ability to continue to pursue our business objectives. As a result, we intend to continue monitoring our liquidity, financial and business results and outlook and market conditions, and may be opportunistic and raise capital when we consider market conditions are good or a favorable opportunity exists. Any delays in the sales of our products and services will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, our profitability, our cash flows, our overall operating performance and our ability to continue operations and may result in the need to raise additional capital. We will continue to carefully evaluate our use of cash and liquidity.
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Although demand for AI/ML software products has grown in recent years, the market continues to evolve. The market demand for our software is unproven, and important assumptions about the characteristics of targeted markets, pricing and sales cycles may be inaccurate. Based on interaction with dozens of potential customers, we believe that the sales cycle for Palladyne IQ is likely to be between 12 and 18 months, or even longer, while the sales cycle for Palladyne Pilot is unknown. While we believe that our products will provide significant benefits and return on investment to customers, as it is a new technology, we are dependent on customers who are willing to adopt, purchase and implement new technologies and products. Further, we have U.S. government revenue-generating contracts related to various aspects of our AI/ML Foundational Technology and our Palladyne IQ and Palladyne Pilot products and we have been affected by the current government shutdown. For example, we have experienced delays in our interactions with certain government agencies and these have affected our collection efforts, our ability to consummate new government contracts and may prevent us from maintaining or renewing certain government contracts. The duration of the shutdown could have a compounding effect, and the longer it continues, the more significant the potential adverse impact may be on our anticipated revenues for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. For additional information around the risks associated with our government contracts, see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors "A portion of our revenue is currently and will continue to be generated by contracts with government entities, which makes us subject to a number of uncertainties, challenges and risks." If customer demand does not develop as expected or we do not accurately estimate pricing, adoption rates and sales cycles for our products, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be adversely affected.
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Although demand for AI/ML software products has grown in recent years, the market continues to evolve. The market demand for our software is unproven, and important assumptions about the characteristics of targeted markets, pricing and sales cycles may be inaccurate. Based on interaction with dozens of potential customers, we believe that the sales cycle for Palladyne IQ is likely to be between 12 and 18 months, or even longer, while the sales cycle for Palladyne SwarmOS/Pilot is unknown. While we believe that our products will provide significant benefits and return on investment to customers, as it is a new technology, we are dependent on customers who are willing to adopt, purchase and implement new technologies and products. Further, we have U.S. government revenue-generating contracts related to various aspects of our AI/ML Foundational Technology and our Palladyne IQ and Palladyne SwarmOS/Pilot products and we have been affected by government shutdowns. For example, during the U.S. government shutdown in the fourth quarter of 2025, we experienced delays in our interactions with certain government agencies that affected our collection efforts, our ability to consummate new government contracts and our ability to maintain or renew government contracts in a timely manner. The duration of government shutdowns could have a compounding effect, and the longer they continue or the more frequently they occur, the more significant the potential adverse impact may be on our anticipated revenues. For additional information around the risks associated with our government contracts, see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors "A portion of our revenue is currently and will continue to be generated by contracts with government entities, which makes us subject to a number of uncertainties, challenges and risks." If customer demand does not develop as expected or we do not accurately estimate pricing, adoption rates and sales cycles for our products, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be adversely affected.
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We are a pioneer in the robotic systems industry and benefit from lessons learned over 30-plus years and significant investment in research and development. Through our hardware development efforts over many years, including our related AI-software development efforts, we developed a significant amount of advanced technology that we are leveraging to develop our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related products. We believe our financial performance is dependent on our ability to enhance and update our products. It is important that we continually identify and respond to rapidly evolving customer requirements and competitive threats, develop and introduce innovative products, enhance our products and generate active market demand for and sell our products. If we fail to do this, our market and financial position and revenue may be adversely affected, and our investments in these technologies will not be recovered.
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We are a pioneer in the robotic systems industry and benefit from lessons learned over 30-plus years and significant investment in research and development. Through our hardware development efforts over many years, including our related AI-software development efforts, we developed a significant amount of advanced technology that we are leveraging to develop our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related products. Our recent acquisitions have also brought us additional and new skills and expertise related to the products and services of the acquired companies. We believe our financial performance is dependent on our ability to enhance and update our products. It is important that we continually identify and respond to rapidly evolving customer requirements and competitive threats, develop and introduce innovative products, enhance our products and generate active market demand for and sell our products. If we fail to do this, our market and financial position and revenue may be adversely affected, and our investments in these technologies will not be recovered.
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Geopolitical and macro-economic factors, such as inflation, changes in United States trade policy, including tariffs, interest rates, oil prices, unemployment rates, international conflicts, such as the current wars between Russia and Ukraine and conflict in the middle east, volatility in the stock market and political or social unrest, can have significant impacts on economic activity, which in turn could affect demand for our products or our ability to cost-effectively develop and sell our products. Among other things, these and similar factors can affect our ability to hire or retain qualified personnel, our labor and materials costs, the prices we charge for our software products and the budgets of our customers and their expected return-on-investment from the purchase of a license for our software product. Many of these factors are outside of our control but can have a significant impact on our business success and operating results. If we are unable to manage our business successfully in response to any such factors, our business and results of operations would be adversely affected.
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Geopolitical and macro-economic factors, such as inflation, changes in United States trade policy, including tariffs, interest rates, oil prices, unemployment rates, international conflicts, such as the current wars between Russia and Ukraine and between the United States and Iran, other conflicts in the middle east, volatility in the stock market and political or social unrest, can have significant impacts on economic activity, which in turn could affect demand for our products or our ability to cost-effectively develop and sell our products. Among other things, these and similar factors can affect our ability to hire or retain qualified personnel, our labor and materials costs, the prices we charge for our products and services and the budgets of our customers and their expected return-on-investment from the purchase of our products and services. Many of these factors are outside of our control but can have a significant impact on our business success and operating results. If we are unable to manage our business successfully in response to any such factors, our business and results of operations would be adversely affected.
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Revenue decreased by $3.4 million, or 49%, from $7.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $3.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as explained below.
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Revenue increased by $1.8 million, or 107%, from $1.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $3.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, as explained below.
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Product development contract revenue decreased by $0.8 million, or 18%, from $4.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $3.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. The decrease was primarily due to available funding and the timing of completion of certain milestones within our product development contracts during the current period. We expect future revenue from product development contracts to fluctuate due to the timing of additional development contracts signed and the completion of existing contracts. For the time being, we intend to take on only those development contracts that we believe support and contribute to our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related product development efforts. As a result, there may be fewer opportunities to replace completed contracts.
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Product development contract revenue decreased by $1.6 million, or 96%, from $1.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in remaining available funding on outstanding contracts during the current year compared to the prior year period. We expect future revenue from contracts to fluctuate due to the timing of new contracts signed, contract options being exercised, and the completion of existing contracts. We intend to take on only those product development contracts that we believe support and contribute to our product development efforts. As a result, there may be fewer opportunities to replace completed product development contracts in the future.
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Research and development expenses increased by 22%, from $2.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, to $3.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. Research and development costs during the three months ended September 30, 2025 increased due to labor and labor related expenses associated with product testing, debugging, stabilization and enhancements of our software products.
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Research and development expenses increased by $1.0 million, or 36% from $2.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $3.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Research and development costs during the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased due primarily to labor and labor related expenses associated with product design, testing, debugging, stabilization and enhancements of our software and UAV products in development.
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General and administrative expense increased by 4%, from $4.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, to $4.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. General and administrative expense increased primarily due to increased stock-based compensation expenses.
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General and administrative expense increased by $2.7 million, or 64%, from $4.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $6.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. General and administrative expense increased primarily due to legal, and other administrative expenses related to increased levels of activity driven by the acquisitions completed in November 2025.
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Sales and marketing expense increased by $0.2 million, or 6%, from $3.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $3.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. This increase was driven by increased marketing program costs related to our new software products.
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Sales and marketing expense increased by $0.6 million, or 52%, from $1.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to $1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. This increase was driven by increased marketing program costs for our products and services as we continue our initial sales development and outreach activities.
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Other income increased by $4.1 million from $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, to $4.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. Other income increased almost entirely as a result of increased mark-to-market gains on our outstanding warrants. Additionally, interest income from our investments in marketable securities increased due to an increase in invested funds.
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Other loss increased by $30.4 million from a gain of $29.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to a loss of $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Other loss increased almost entirely as a result of changes in the fair value of our outstanding warrants. Additionally, interest income from our investments in marketable securities decreased primarily due to a decrease in invested funds.
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Our backlog, as of September 30, 2025, was $0.8 million, $0.2 million of which was funded and $0.6 million of which was unfunded. Our backlog is equal to our remaining performance obligations under contracts or the expected value of exercised contracts, both funded and unfunded, less revenue recognized to date. Our total estimated remaining contract value, which combines backlog with estimated remaining potential contract value, including unexercised options from existing firm contracts, was $6.9 million as of September 30, 2025.
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Our backlog, as of March 31, 2026, was $17.3 million, $17.0 million of which was funded and $0.3 million of which was unfunded. Our backlog is equal to our remaining performance obligations under contracts or the expected value of exercised contracts, both funded and unfunded, less revenue recognized to date. Our total estimated contract value, which combines backlog with estimated potential contract value, including unexercised options from existing firm contracts, was $23.4 million as of March 31, 2026.
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Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $57.1 million as of September 30, 2025, compared to $40.1 million as of December 31, 2024. We have incurred losses from operations and negative cash flows from operations since inception and are likely to continue to incur losses from operations and negative cash flows from operations in the near term. As of September 30, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $479.3 million and working capital of $56.0 million.
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Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $43.7 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to $47.1 million as of December 31, 2025. We have incurred losses from operations and negative cash flows from operations since inception and are likely to continue to incur losses from operations and negative cash flows from operations in the near term. As of March 31, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $493.4 million and working capital of $43.9 million.
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On November 13, 2024, we entered into an open market sale agreement (the "Sales Agreement") with Jefferies LLC to sell shares of our Common Stock from time to time through an "at-the-market" equity offering program under which Jefferies is acting as our sales agent and on November 13, 2024, we filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC in connection with the offer and sale of up to $18.0 million of shares of our Common Stock pursuant to the Sales Agreement. As of December 31, 2024, we sold all of the shares offered pursuant to this prospectus supplement consisting of a total of 3,680,543 shares of our Common Stock for gross sales proceeds of approximately $18.0 million, before deducting commission and other expenses. On December 31, 2024 we filed a prospectus supplement in connection with offering for sale an additional $30.0 million of shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, all shares under this prospectus supplement were sold, consisting of a total of 3,134,189 shares of our Common Stock under the Sales Agreement for gross sales proceeds of approximately $30.0 million, before deducting commission and other expenses. On August 6, 2025 we filed a prospectus supplement in connection with offering for sale an additional $50.0 million of shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement (the “August 2025 Prospectus Supplement”). As of September 30, 2025, no shares were sold under the August 2025 Prospectus Supplement. We believe that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities on hand will be sufficient to support operations, working capital and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months from the date of this Report.
Current wording
On November 13, 2024, we entered into an open market sale agreement (the "Sales Agreement") with Jefferies LLC to sell shares of our Common Stock from time to time through an "at-the-market" equity offering program under which Jefferies is acting as our sales agent and on November 13, 2024, we filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC in connection with the offer and sale of up to $18.0 million of shares of our Common Stock pursuant to the Sales Agreement. As of December 31, 2024, we sold all of the shares offered pursuant to this prospectus supplement. On December 31, 2024 we filed a prospectus supplement in connection with offering for sale an additional $30.0 million of shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. During the six months ended June 30, 2025, we sold all of the shares offered pursuant to this prospectus supplement. On August 6, 2025 we filed a prospectus supplement in connection with offering for sale an additional $50.0 million of shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement (the “August 2025 Prospectus Supplement”). As of December 31, 2025, we sold a total of 1,307,852 shares offered pursuant to the August 2025 Prospectus Supplement for gross sales proceeds of approximately $7.5 million. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we sold a total of 889,258 shares offered pursuant to the August 2025 Prospectus Supplement for gross sales proceeds of approximately $6.7 million, before deducting commission and other expenses.
Previous wording
Our primary use of cash is for operations and administrative activities including employee-related expenses and general, operating and overhead expenses. While we do not have any debt, we do have a long-term lease for our facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah. Future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the timing and extent of development efforts, the expansion and results of sales and marketing activities, the sales cycle for our products, customer acquisition and revenues, revenue growth rate, customer retention, the introduction of new and enhanced product offerings and market acceptance of our products.
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Our primary use of cash is for operations and administrative activities including employee-related expenses and general, operating and overhead expenses. While we do not have any significant debt, we do have a long-term lease for our facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah. Future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the timing and extent of development efforts, the expansion and results of sales and marketing activities, the sales cycle for our products, customer acquisition and revenues, revenue growth rate, customer retention, the introduction of new and enhanced product offerings and market acceptance of our products.
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We have taken many steps to reduce our use of cash. For example, we suspended our legacy hardware product development efforts and focused our product development efforts on our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related products, conducted the 2023 RIFs and terminated our operations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We plan to use our existing capital to further commercialize and conduct sales and marketing efforts for Palladyne IQ and Palladyne Pilot, as well as continue product testing, debugging and stabilization efforts and conduct product development efforts for the next versions of our products.
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We have taken many steps to reduce our use of cash. For example, in 2023 we suspended our legacy hardware product development efforts and focused our product development efforts on our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related products, and terminated our operations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in early 2024. We plan to use our existing capital to further commercialize and conduct sales and marketing efforts for our commercially available products and services, as well as continue product testing, debugging and stabilization efforts, conduct product development efforts for initial and updated versions of our products, and to fund purchases for our work-in-process inventory and long lead time components.
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The amount and timing of our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including the pace and results of our product development efforts, our ability to commercialize our products and thereby recognize associated revenue and capital requirements to conduct marketing and sales activities prior to receiving payments sufficient to cover our costs. Any delays in the sales of our software products will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, profitability, overall operating performance and financial condition. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired or needed, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected.
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The amount and timing of our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including the pace and results of our product development efforts, our ability to commercialize our products and thereby recognize associated revenue and capital requirements to conduct marketing and sales activities prior to receiving payments sufficient to cover our costs. Any delays in the sales of our products and services will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, profitability, overall operating performance and financial condition. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired or needed, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected.
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We may enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in businesses, services and technologies, which may require acquisition capital as well as operational capital for these acquisitions or arrangements. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing to facilitate these arrangements. If additional financing is required from outside sources in connection with these arrangements, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us, or at all.
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We may enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in additional businesses, services and technologies, which may require acquisition capital as well as operational capital for these acquisitions or arrangements. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing to facilitate these arrangements. If additional financing is required from outside sources in connection with these arrangements, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us, or at all.
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We currently primarily use cash from equity financings to fund operations and capital expenditures and meet working capital requirements. If additional funds are required to support our working capital requirements, for acquisitions or for other purposes, we may seek to raise funds through additional debt or equity financings or from other sources. We have taken numerous steps to manage our use of cash, including conducting the 2023 RIFs and other related actions. However, we may decide to seek additional financing, and we intend to continue monitoring our liquidity, financial and business results and outlook and market conditions, and may be opportunistic and raise capital when market conditions are good or a favorable opportunity exists including under "at-the-market" equity offering programs. Any delays in the successful further commercialization and sales of our software products will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, our profitability and our overall operating performance and result in the need to raise additional capital sooner than expected. If we raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our equity holders could be significantly diluted and these newly issued securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing equity holders. If we raise additional funds by obtaining loans from third parties, the terms of those financing arrangements may include negative covenants or other restrictions on our business that could impair our operating flexibility and would also require us to incur additional interest expense. Additional financing may not be available at all or, if available, may not be available on terms favorable to us or that we find acceptable. For additional information around the risks associated with our capital needs see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors “Our business plans require a significant amount of capital. We may sell additional equity or debt securities to meet capital needs or as we may otherwise determine to be advisable that may dilute our stockholders or introduce covenants that may restrict our operations or our ability to pay dividends. If we require additional capital and are not able to secure new funding, we may not be able to continue our business operations.”
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We currently primarily use cash from equity financings to fund operations and capital expenditures and meet working capital requirements. If additional funds are required to support our working capital requirements, for acquisitions or for other purposes, we may seek to raise funds through additional debt or equity financings or from other sources. We intend to continue monitoring our liquidity, financial and business results and outlook and market conditions, and may be opportunistic and raise capital when market conditions are good or a favorable opportunity exists including under our "at-the-market" equity offering programs. Any delays in the successful further commercialization and sales of our products and services will negatively impact our ability to generate revenue, our profitability and our overall operating performance and result in the need to raise additional capital sooner than expected. If we raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our equity holders could be significantly diluted and these newly issued securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing equity holders. If we raise additional funds by obtaining loans from third parties, the terms of those financing arrangements may include negative covenants or other restrictions on our business that could impair our operating flexibility and would also require us to incur additional interest expense. Additional financing may not be available at all or, if available, may not be available on terms favorable to us or that we find acceptable. For additional information around the risks associated with our capital needs see Part II Item 1A Risk Factors “Our business plans require a significant amount of capital. We may sell additional equity or debt securities to meet capital needs or as we may otherwise determine to be advisable that may dilute our stockholders or introduce covenants that may restrict our operations or our ability to pay dividends. If we require additional capital and are not able to secure new funding, we may not be able to continue our business operations.”
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Cash flows used in operating activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased by $1.6 million to $19.1 million from $17.5 million during the same period in 2024. The increase to net cash used in operating activities was primarily attributable to changes in operating assets and liabilities.
Current wording
Cash flows used in operating activities during the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by $2.7 million to $10.2 million from $7.5 million during the same period in 2025. The increase to net cash used in operating activities was primarily attributable to changes in net (loss) income, adjusted for non-cash items.
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Our net cash used in investing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased by $36.1 million as compared to the same period in 2024. The increase in cash used in investing activities is almost entirely due to $19.8 million of purchases, net of maturities, of marketable securities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to $16.0 million of maturities of marketable securities during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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Our net cash provided by investing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by $30.9 million as compared to the same period in 2025. The increase in cash provided by investing activities is almost entirely due to $3.2 million of maturities, net of purchases, of marketable securities during the three months ended March 31, 2026, as compared to $27.5 million of purchases of marketable securities during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Our net cash provided by financing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased by $35.7 million as compared to the prior year period. The increase in cash provided by financing activities is almost entirely due to the $35.5 million, after deducting transaction costs, in net proceeds from the sale of our Common Stock and exercise of warrants during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
Current wording
Our net cash provided by financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2026 decreased by $7.4 million as compared to the prior year period. This decrease was primarily attributable to $6.5 million, after deducting transaction costs, in net proceeds from the sale of our Common Stock during the three months ended March 31, 2026, as compared to $13.9 million, after deducting transaction costs, in net proceeds from the sale of our Common Stock during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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We believe that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities on hand will be sufficient to support operations, working capital and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months from the date of this Report.
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Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities
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Product development contract revenue increased by $0.1 million, or 13%, from $0.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, to $0.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. The increase was primarily due to the timing of the completion of certain milestones within our product development contracts during the current period. We expect future revenue from product development contracts to fluctuate due to the timing of additional development contracts signed and the completion of existing contracts. For the time being, we intend to take on only those development contracts that we believe support and contribute to our AI/ML Foundational Technology and related product development efforts. As a result, there may be fewer opportunities to replace completed contracts.
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The following table presents our revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:
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The following table presents our operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:
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Research and development expenses increased by $1.3 million, or 17% from $7.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, to $9.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. Research and development costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased due to labor and labor related expenses associated with product testing, debugging, stabilization and enhancements of our software products.
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The following table presents other income for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:
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We had no significant income tax expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 is based on the Company’s estimated annualized effective tax rate for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s recognized effective tax rate differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate as the Company recorded net taxable losses during the period with a corresponding full valuation allowance on the net deferred tax assets created from the losses.
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Net Cash (Used In) Provided by Investing Activities