Item 4 — Purpose of Transaction
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented as follows: Merger Agreement On January 20, 2025, Issuer entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") with Edge Autonomy Ultimate Holdings, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Edge Autonomy Intermediate Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with its subsidiaries, "Edge Autonomy"), Echelon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Issuer and Echelon Purchaser, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Issuer, pursuant to which Issuer will, via the mergers set forth in the Merger Agreement, acquire Edge Autonomy, a leading provider of field-proven uncrewed airborne system technology. The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit A and is incorporated by reference herein. Voting Agreement On January 20, 2025, entities affiliated with AEI, Genesis Park Holdings (though its affiliate Genesis Park II LP) and BCCM (through its affiliate BCCR) have each entered into a voting and support agreement (collectively, the "Voting Agreements") with the Issuer in which each have agreed, among other things, to, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, vote in favor of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement at the stockholders meeting to be called for such purpose. Pursuant to BCCR's Voting Agreement, from and after the date of such Voting Agreement and until the earliest to occur of (i) 180 days following the date of execution of the Merger Agreement, (ii) the day following the record date for such stockholders meeting and (iii) the termination of such Voting Agreement, BCCR may not, among other things, directly or indirectly, voluntarily transfer, sell (including short sell), assign, gift, hedge, pledge, grant a participation interest in, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any derivative arrangement with respect to, any of the shares of the Issuer subject to such Voting Agreement. The foregoing description of the BCCR's Voting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such Voting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit B and is incorporated herein by reference.