NUBURU Defense Unveils Italian Plan, Strengthens Strategic Team

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NUBURU, Inc., the next-generation dual-use Defense & Security integrated platform company focused on non-kinetic effects and directed-energy technologies, electronic warfare and defense mobility programs, software-orchestrated defense systems, and advanced manufacturing, presented the NUBURU Defense Italian plan following the recent Golden Power notification submitted in connection with NUBURU's planned acquisition of a controlling 70% ownership stake in Tekne S.p.A.. The plan is expected to be supported by senior strategic advisers Prof. Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffè and Gen. Pietro Serino.

The NUBURU Defense Italian plan reflects the industrial, technology and governance framework included in the Golden Power notification package and in materials provided to NYSE American. NUBURU believes the plan provides the market with a clearer view of the scale and credibility of the Company's Italy-centered Defense & Security strategy, including projected plan revenue, the expected quality of the Italian operating team, the role of senior advisers, the protection of Italian IP and the platform rationale behind recent and pending acquisitions.

NUBURU's platform vision is software-driven. The Italian plan is intended to combine industrial assets, photonics, electronic warfare, special vehicles and operational-resilience software into a common architecture in which fielded systems can become governed mission nodes, produce validated data, support human authorization, generate audit-ready records and integrate with authorized customer workflows.

Based on Company plan materials prepared in support of NUBURU's NYSE American compliance updates, NUBURU calculates that the NUBURU Defense Italian plan revenue metric represents approximately US$336.3 million of cumulative 2026-2029 projected gross revenue. The yearly figures for the NUBURU Defense Italian plan are approximately US$13.1 million in 2026, US$74.4 million in 2027, US$105.7 million in 2028 and US$143.1 million in 2029.

For clarity, the NUBURU Defense Italian plan revenue metric excludes any U.S. go-to-market initiative. This includes the current Maddox Defense joint venture, any potential U.S. commercialization of Tekne's current solutions, and the broader future NUBURU Defense & Security platform offering in the United States. Any such U.S. opportunities, if pursued, would be separate from the Italian plan metric and would be subject to applicable Italian, U.S. and other export-control, import-control, intellectual-property, end-use, security and regulatory requirements and approvals.

This calculation is intended to isolate the Italian defense platform plan within the Company plan materials. It does not represent a separate audited reporting segment, a forecast of consolidated revenues, or an ownership-adjusted amount. The metric is presented before ownership, consolidation, customer-conversion, transaction-completion, Golden Power authorization, U.S. GAAP reconciliation and other accounting or operational adjustments, and actual results may differ materially from the projections. References to materials provided to NYSE American are included solely to identify the Company plan materials used for this calculation and do not imply review, approval or endorsement of the projections by NYSE American.

Defense & Security Platform Rationale and Software-Driven Vision

This platform rationale is central to the acquisition strategy. Tekne gives NUBURU a fieldable Italian industrial base and EW/CEMA capability. Lyocon S.r.l. (“Lyocon”) gives NUBURU photonics and blue-laser engineering capacity. Orbit S.r.l. (“Orbit”) gives the software, workflow and evidence layer that can make dual-use applications scalable and auditable. SunCubes S.r.l. (“Suncubes”), if approved and completed, could add longer-term optical communications and power pathways. Together, these layers are intended to create an Italian platform capable of serving defense, security and critical-infrastructure customers where authorized.

NUBURU believes software is crucial to the dual-use strategy because software is the layer that can convert hardware and industrial capabilities into repeatable mission packages. The software layer is expected to ingest events, normalize and validate data, support decision workflows, preserve human authorization, generate audit-ready records, expose approved information to authorized systems through governed APIs and connect sustainment workflows back to customer readiness.

Orbit is expected to be the connective software layer that turns Tekne vehicles, EW/CEMA systems, Lyocon optical modules, sensor nodes, towers, sustainment assets and authorized third-party systems into coordinated, auditable mission nodes. NUBURU expects this software-first architecture to improve customer workflow integration, support evidence-based procurement and training, and create recurring software and systems-integration value around hardware deployments.

The intended operating loop is governance-led and non-operational: sense, validate, decide, authorize, act, report, sustain and learn. NUBURU does not intend this layer to replace classified tactical C2 or fire-control systems. Rather, the Company expects it to complement incumbent architectures as an integration, evidence, resilience and workflow-governance layer, subject to customer requirements, cybersecurity accreditation, export controls and applicable approvals.