Richard Danforth
Analyst · Capital Market
Thank you, Kim and welcome, everybody. I will open today's call with an update on the business. Following my opening remarks, Dennis will provide a recap of the fiscal third quarter and 9 months 2021 financial results. Following my closing remarks, we will open the call for questions. Robust revenues and bookings and the acquisition of fast-growing emergency management and public safety software provider, Zonehaven, highlighted a very strong fiscal third quarter. Fiscal third quarter bookings were a record $44.3 million, the largest fiscal quarter in the company's history. For the first 9 months of fiscal 2021, we have booked $59.8 million, exceeding any prior fiscal year total. Addressable 12-month backlog at June 30, 2021, was $37.7 million, a 43% increase over the same period last year. Total fiscal year backlog at June 30, 2021, was $49.7 million. The company continues to generate operating cash. Over our prior 2 fiscal years, we generated $18 million in positive operating cash. And in our third quarter, we added another $8 million to that. On calls earlier this year, I said we expected record fiscal 2021 bookings, backlog and revenue. Through our third quarter, we have achieved record bookings and are in a strong position to achieve record fiscal year backlog and revenue and another year of record revenue in fiscal 2022. In our first quarter, we acquired Amika Mobile and in June, we completed the acquisition of Zonehaven. Both acquisitions are serving as a catalyst to produce significant GEM enterprise software and Integrated Mass Notification Systems hardware and software business opportunities. Zonehaven software-as-a-Service empowers public safety agencies with essential evacuation and repopulation management tools that help protect the people they serve. Zonehaven provides planning, training, drills, alerting and a comprehensive Know Your Zone community outreach program to bridge the gap between first responders and the public. By continuing to offer Zonehaven software as is, and integrating it with the GEM enterprise software and as a layer in our Integrated Mass Notification System, Genasys will have 3 key competitive advantages for securing local, regional and national emergency management and warning contracts. Our combined systems and solutions are expected to increase software sales, grow recurring revenues and enhance profit margins. As discussed on our last call, European Union public warning system RFPs are increasing. Earlier this month, France selected a French company to implement its public warning system. The country of Estonia made an award. Although Genasys was rated number 1 technically, we were second at price and the award went to the lowest price bidder. The dynamics of each country's decision-making process are varied and complex. The timeline for contracts awards has taken longer than originally anticipated, mainly due to ongoing COVID-related issues in the EU. Our business development and engineering teams in Europe are participating in European Union government customers and 18 mobile network operators. Multichannel flexible and customizable Genasys NEWS features industry-leading location-based SMS and advanced cell-broadcast technology, all engineered, built and supported by Genasys European-based team. With more than 180 million Genasys-powered mobile alerts sent and delivered to Australians endangered by disasters over the last 8 years, we are confident in competing for and winning EU and other countries public warning system awards. Last quarter, we completed and commissioned a citywide Genasys Integrated Mass Notification early warning system for Laguna Beach, California. Featuring solar power and satellite connectivity, our industry-leading voice acoustic arrays continue to operate when power and telecommunication infrastructure fails or is turned off by utilities, public safety power shutoffs or PSPS events. GEM software enables multiple activation and warning options to deliver geo-specific emergency alerts and life-saving notification via SMS, voice calls, e-mails, desktop alerts, social media, common alert protocol, the U.S.'s [iPause] and more. In addition to other large Integrated Mass Notification System projects expected to be finalized and announced this year, the combination of Zonehaven evacuation management software and Genasys Emergency Management software is rapidly filling up business pipeline for integrated systems with opportunities from California and the Western United States. The ongoing regional drought, wind, hot weather, tender dry conditions, lightning strikes and human carelessness have created a perfect storm for mega fires capable of creating their own weather. In these conditions, wildfires are capable of moving at 100 yards per second or more. Because of the increasing speed intensity of wildfires, local firefighter's roles is shifting towards better coordination with law enforcement on planning, training and alerting to successfully manage evacuations and help protect and keep people safe. As the only provider of public safety warning systems that unifies sensor inputs, evacuation management and multichannel alerting solutions, we anticipate substantial U.S. and international growth in our integrated mass notification systems and Zonehaven segments in fiscal 2022 and beyond. Our Genasys enterprise software business is gaining momentum throughout North America. We continue to enhance our software feature sets to meet customers' needs and continue to grow our internal software sales teams and adding U.S. and international software resellers. The expansion of our software services contract with a global automaker to its facilities outside North America is close to being finalized. GEM enterprise software service contracts with other major corporations are also expected this fiscal and calendar year. U.S. and international government opportunities with cities, counties and departments are part of a robust and growing GEM enterprise business pipeline. In addition to the large army program of record and mobile mass notification system orders received last quarter, we completed the Phase 1 of the U.S. Navy SBIR research and development project announced last December. The project is focusing on developing next-generation technologies to make acoustic devices smaller, lighter and louder. Our Phase 2 proposal has been submitted and we anticipate an award decision this calendar year. New and follow-on U.S. and international defense business is expected this year and in fiscal 2022. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dennis.