Gen. Hyten has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2024, and served as an advisor to the Company from May 2022 to October 2024. Gen. Hyten served as the 11th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retiring in November 2021, after a distinguished 40-year career in the United States Air Force. In this role, he served as the nation s second highest ranking military officer. Gen. Hyten previously led Air Force Space Command from 2014 to 2016 and U.S. Strategic Command from 2016 to 2019. Among many other assignments, he was deployed to Southwest Asia as the Director of Space Forces for operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He attended Harvard University on an Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship, graduating with a bachelor s degree in engineering and applied sciences. Gen. Hyten also holds his MBA from Auburn University at Montgomery and is a distinguished graduate from Squadron Officer School as well as Air Command and Staff College. He was also a National Defense Fellow at the University of Illinois. We believe Gen. Hyten is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his significant executive management and leadership experience in the federal government, defense, and intelligence sectors.