K. Stuart Shea
Analyst · Jason Kupferberg, Jefferies
Thanks, John. One of the questions I get asked most often in my new role is to describe what I'm focused on each day. And my answer has consistently been "Everything that matters." As John Jumper and I have transitioned into our new roles over these past few months, he and I have focused a huge amount of our collective energy on a number of key items related to increasing shareholder value. Although some of that energy has been focused around gaining overhead efficiencies and improving program execution, first and foremost, it has been for us to confirm and then accelerate the implementation of our strategy and to drive SAIC through these budgetary headwinds. I can tell you that we are ever more convinced that our strategic focus on our high-growth markets of health, energy, environment and infrastructure, ISR, cybersecurity and logistics, readiness and sustainment is working. Under difficult market conditions this quarter, we've been able to deliver just short of double-digit growth rates in these strategic areas. Our strategic focus is the right one and gaining momentum. Likewise, our emphasis on pursuing and winning larger, $100 million-and-above programs is also working. We've seen a significant increase in the numbers of these large contract wins over the last couple of years, going from just 29 2 years ago to 40 last fiscal year. We currently have over 50 proposals in excess of $100 million that have been submitted and are awaiting award this year. Our ability to bid and win these programs has been the result of our multiyear efforts to leverage the enterprise and trim overhead. The redeployment of reduced overhead and G&A has allowed us to accommodate a 12% year-over-year increase in IR&D and B&P while generally maintaining our profit margins. Finally, our emphasis on the strategic growth areas of health and energy has had the additional impact of yielding a higher percentage of content in both commercial and higher-margin, proprietary products business. We now have almost $1 billion in commercial and non-federal government business, excluding state and local, with approximately 35% of that related to products and associated business. Bottom line, since we began implementation of our strategic focus a little over 2 years ago, we've been able to achieve a series of interlinked accomplishments each quarter that continues to position us for long-term shareholder growth. This quarter is no different with many successes that reinforce our beliefs. To that end, let me share a few observations. First, a view of the market and it an impact on our ISR and cybersecurity business, and then a quick status on our health and energy businesses. Now as our nation evaluates the worldwide threats, an emerging China, a nuclear Iran, insurgencies fought by surrogates, threats on our own southern border, disputes over natural resources and a continuing transnational cyber threat are all driving a growing need for agile, diverse sets of ISR and cybersecurity capabilities. While major platform acquisition spending has been flat and will continue to decline over the coming years, the need for special operations and agile mission requirements has continued to increase, albeit in this challenging budgetary environment. The use of -- or the increased use of commodity platforms integrated with highly specialized equipment for multiple missions is at the heart of SAIC's ISR mission capability integrator strategy. In our ISR business, we have focused on institutionalizing the design, integration and development of quick response, or QRC systems, in all operational regimes of air, land, maritime and space and then migrating these QRC systems to programs of record and eventually to major defense acquisition programs. Our airborne ISR programs have seen steady growth over the past year resulting from outstanding performance. So far this year, in this quarter, we received $100 million of incremental funding on our Saturn Arch Counter-IED system, delivered our first BuckEye LIDAR platform in Africa, added 3 more BuckEye systems to the contract, increasing that contract to over $60 million annually and it expanded our Blue Devil insurgent targeting program as a result of continued operational successes in theater, with incremental funding of approximately $50 million in the first quarter. In total, we've seen over $75 million in airborne ISR business added to our backlog in the past quarter despite the anticipated decline of overseas operations. And notwithstanding this decline, the airborne ISR market is growing. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, are becoming increasingly important for militaries worldwide and have proven critical to intelligence gathering, targeting and situational awareness. The global UAV market is expected to grow from $6.6 billion to $11.4 billion annually over the next 10 years. And one of the key IR&D investments that we're making is to migrate our very successful airborne ISR sensors to unmanned platforms. This is a future growth opportunity for SAIC. Moving now to cybersecurity, last quarter we announced our strategic partnership with McAfee, a world leader in cybersecurity technology. That relationship has resulted in a recent key product release. The sensor-based McAfee Network Threat Response, or NTR solution, is now available with our CloudShield CS-4000 platform, a combination that offers improved network protection against advanced, persistent threats for telecommunications, financial, health care, government and military applications. The unique combination of the CS-4000 and NTR can discover hidden fragments of malware that have infiltrated the network and help security analysts in forensic discovery to isolate, reveal and mitigate these threats. In addition to our cybersecurity product offerings, we also have several classified cybersecurity programs that had been awarded across the intelligence community. In Q1, we've been notified of over $600 million in classified cybersecurity awards. These contract wins have built upon SAIC's ever-increasing leadership in cybersecurity and will be booked in Q2. Moving to our Health business, we continue to invest and best position ourselves to play an important role over the next several years in assisting the veterans administration and the Military Health System transition to a joint electronic health record, or EHR, system. We look to leverage our commercial health footprint through our recent acquisition of Vitalize Consulting Solutions with targeted investments in research and development and future acquisitions to support EHR implementation and optimization in data analytics. Vitalize continues to perform well above plan, delivering over 20% growth in our commercial health business quarter. Although we have observed some delay in our federal health business this quarter, significant new business opportunities have materialized in medical logistics, behavioral health and life sciences. We are especially proud of the research and support we provide for our men and women returning from overseas challenged with traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome. We are also pleased to report that we were recently awarded the National Institute of Health's Chief Information Officer-Solution and Partnership contract, enabling us to continue to provide technical solutions and services throughout the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies. This multiple award, ID/IQ contract has a 10-year period of performance and a total contract value of approximately $20 billion for all awardees. Our energy, environment and infrastructure business continues to be a foundation for SAIC's global security strategy. Demand for energy, water and critical infrastructure will continue to grow. We remain focused on the enduring and interrelated energy market segments of smart grid, transmission and distribution, energy IT, energy infrastructure and energy management services. Our DesignBuild business has been a real catalyst for growth and has expanded at an annual growth rate of over 11% this quarter. Waste-to-energy infrastructure is key to that growth, and we believe demand will continue. In addition, we are focusing on an emerging micro grid market, which integrates a variety of energy sources on a campus-size grid for energy security and efficiency. SAIC's credentials are strong for these opportunities. On the environmental side, our fastest-growing business is in support of U.S. shale energy development and water resource management. We expect continued strengthening of environmental demands on shale energy, driven by both oil and gas industry best practices and regulation. The energy market remains dynamic. As the Federal Government continues to increase their energy focus, the Department of Defense is evaluating new ways to procure and save energy. We remain well positioned to address these needs. One more strategic item I want to share with you is our performance in proprietary products. In fiscal year 2011, we told you that we were investing quite a bit in some of our product areas, including Reveal, VACIS, CloudShield, CounterBomber and other software products. Our proprietary products and related services business at the end of FY '12 was over $350 million at a double-digit profit. This quarter, we saw an accelerated delivery of VACIS ATVs, sold licenses of our next-generation motion imagery exploitation tool, as well as several licenses for our GeoRover geospatial product. Finally, moving now to business development results. Bookings totaled $2.1 billion in the first quarter and produced a book-to-bill ratio of 0.8. We ended this quarter with $17.4 billion in total backlog, $5.7 billion of which is funded. Now this represents a decrease of 4% in total backlog compared with Q1 of last year, but an increase of 40% in funded backlog. We have also continued an outstanding win rate on new business opportunities and achieved 65% total dollar win rate on opportunities awarded in the first quarter. This high win rate is the result of a solid track record of strong program performance and execution, as well as targeted investments in business development. Additionally, our submitted proposals awaiting decision equals $31 billion, and that includes $20 billion on ID/IQ bids and approximately $10 billion definite delivery bids. This is $2.6 billion or roughly 9% higher than Q1 a year ago. Coupled with our strong win rate, we expect that this will produce growth when these procurements are ultimately decided. Finally, focusing our -- on winning our larger opportunities continues to yield positive results as we've won 7 opportunities valued at more than $100 million in the first quarter of FY '13. In addition to the 50 $100 million proposals that I mentioned before, we intend to bid an additional 90 of these $100 million or larger programs that are in our pipeline and should be decided in this fiscal year.We're encouraged by our continuing success here. As an example, we're currently waiting on the results of a number of several large outstanding bids, including the Global Information Grid Services Management-Operations, or GSM-O, effort at DISA and the OMDAC, Operations, Maintenance and Defense of the Army Communications -- Southwest Asia and Central ASIA, or OMDAC-SWACA program, as well as a few, large, classified programs that we cannot specifically identify. And with that, let me pass the call over to Mark Sopp who will cover the detailed financials.