Mr. Jason Nichols reports

EDGE TOTAL INTELLIGENCE TO EXPAND ITS U.S. NAVY PRESENCE: WITH U$1.2 MILLION AUSTAL USA CONTRACTS

Edge Total Intelligence Inc. (edgeTI) has won $1.2-million in contracts with Austal USA to enhance operational visibility, system integration, data brokerage and industrial base adoption of Digital Secure Exchange for Additive Platform (Digital SEA), Austal USA's additive manufacturing marketplace for the U.S. Navy. The initiatives will use edgeTI's edgeCore digital twin solution to support real-time situational awareness, secure integration and decision advantage across additive manufacturing (AM) operations.

This award represents edgeCore's first deployment inside the U.S. Navy's Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) located in Danville, Va., and operated by Austal USA. In the view of management, this award demonstrates edgeTI's growing relationship across Austal's business units to include Austal USA.

Building AM production capacity in the maritime industrial base

According to the U.S. Navy, Digital SEA is a secure, compliant cloud and software platform developed by Austal USA designed to safely share 3-D printing and additive manufacturing data across the U.S. Navy's submarine and maritime industrial base.

The platform's core functionality and stated purpose emphasize:

• Secure data sharing: Digital SEA specifies a trusted platform for the navy, equipment OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), and certified AM suppliers to collaborate on highly specialized and sensitive part specifications.
• End-to-end traceability: Digital SEA will build a digital thread from the initial design phase through production, tracking and validating parts so they meet strict fleet safety and performance standards.
• Supply chain efficiency: By bridging the gap between digital manufacturing information and physical logistics, Digital SEA aims to enable non-traditional defence suppliers to participate, accelerating production and reducing lead times.

Digital SEA plays an integral role to the U.S. Navy's AM CoE. The AM CoE explores advanced production modalities including laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), while Digital SEA supports the integration of printed hardware into navy inventory and quality management systems.

"We are excited to expand our partnership with edgeTI to accelerate commercial adoption of Digital SEA," said Don Hairston, vice-president of advanced technologies at Austal USA. "Digital SEA was created to securely connect the navy, OEMs, shipbuilders and qualified additive manufacturing suppliers through a common digital ecosystem that accelerates adoption of additive manufacturing across the maritime industrial base. As that ecosystem grows, the ability to seamlessly connect data, systems, workflows and stakeholders becomes increasingly important. We've positioned edgeTI's edgeCore platform to serve as the integration and data brokerage layer that enables Digital SEA to securely exchange information across multiple systems while providing users with greater visibility into production, qualification, supply chain and operational activities. This partnership strengthens the digital foundation needed to scale additive manufacturing, improve supply chain resilience, and expand industrial base capacity in support of the U.S. Navy."

The next phase of work will focus on delivering a seamless, real-time operational digital twin for Digital SEA users, including part buyers, suppliers and program administrators. By applying edgeCore to complex production and supply workflows, stakeholders intend to move from fragmented data and delayed insights to enabling a unified, action-oriented decision advantage.

Elevating mission operations through real-time visibility

Central to Digital SEA is a transformation in how users experience and act on operational data. By deploying edgeCore as a digital twin of the organization, edgeTI aims to deliver:

• A single, intuitive interface that replaces manual co-ordination across fragmented systems;
• Real-time access to production status, delivery timelines and operational performance;
• Role-based experiences tailored to executives, operators, engineers, suppliers and external stakeholders;
• Immediate insight into disruptions, delays, dependencies and optimization opportunities.

From data fragmentation to a unified customer-centric platform

Traditional environments often require users to navigate multiple disconnected systems, limiting visibility and slowing execution. edgeTI's selection and use are based on minimizing this friction by delivering a single point of control (SPoC) through the secure fusion of data and systems into one integrated application experience.

This SPoC aims to:

• Eliminate and reduce delays caused by data silos and manual reconciliation;
• Gain new contextual, end-to-end view of operations, dependencies and production status;
• Interact with live data instead of static reports;
• Take immediate action within the same interface.

By reducing complexity, edgeCore enhances user productivity, confidence and decision quality. edgeTI's management believes this in turn will support the broader adoption of Digital SEA across the additive manufacturing ecosystem.

"We are pleased to expand our work with Austal USA," said Jason Nichols, chief executive officer of edgeTI. "These contract awards represent an additional step in the company's work supporting Digital SEA-related initiatives and further application of edgeCore in defence-oriented operating environments."

Growing momentum for defence solutions

edgeTI's maritime and defence momentum has accelerated over the past year. Following its July, 2025, partnership with Austal Australia and the January, 2026, acquisition of Austal's advanced digital technology assets, edgeTI's Western Australia unit (edgeTI WA) booked approximately $3.96-million (Australian) in defence contracts supporting the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force.

According to the edgeTI's management's discussion and analysis for three months ended March 31, 2026, the acquisition helped drive revenue growth from $764,222 (U.S.) in the same period 2025 to $1,685,848 (U.S.), an increase of 121 per cent. From the perspective of sequential quarters, revenue grew from $541,742 (U.S.) in fourth quarter to $1,685,848 (U.S.), an increase of 211 per cent. Meanwhile, expenses including cost of goods sold increased by 64 per cent to $2,931,250 versus $1,791,040 during the same period in 2025.

With this momentum, edgeTI continues its stated focus of pursuing these defence technology opportunities while it continues its preparatory work toward filing a potential U.S. exchange (Nasdaq Stock Market) uplisting this year -- intending to broaden U.S. institutional and retail investors access.

About Edge Total Intelligence Inc.

edgeTI empowers defence, service providers and enterprises to operate with real-time clarity in complex, mission-critical environments -- delivering integrated capability across the full life cycle of operations. With the inclusion of edgeTI WA and an expanded portfolio of sovereign, defence-aligned technologies, combined with the edgeCore digital twin, edgeTI enables the orchestration of real-time actions and the achievement of targeted mission outcomes -- driving faster, more effective decision making across defence, industrial and life-cycle operations in continuously evolving environments.

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