Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Mercury Systems Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time for opening remarks and introductions, I'd like to turn the call over to the company's, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Ruppert. Please go ahead sir.

Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. With me today is our President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Aslett. If you've not received a copy of the earnings press release we issued earlier this afternoon, you can find it on our website at mrcy.com. The slide presentation that Mark and I will be referring to is posted on the Investor Relations section of the website under Events and Presentations. Please turn to Slide 2 in the presentation. Before we get started, I would like to remind you that today's presentation includes forward-looking statements, including information regarding Mercury's financial outlook, future plans, objectives, business prospects and anticipated financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to future risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results or performance to differ materially. All forward-looking statements should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements on Slide 2 in the earnings press release and the risk factors included in Mercury's SEC filings. I'd also like to mention that in addition to reporting financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP, during our call, we will also discuss several non-GAAP financial measures, specifically, adjusted income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, organic revenue and acquired revenue. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP metrics is included as an appendix to today's slide presentation and in the earnings press release. I'll now turn the call over to Mercury's President and CEO, Mark Aslett. Please turn to Slide 3.

Thanks, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone and thanks for joining us. I'll begin with the business update. Mike will review the financials and guidance and then we'll open it up to your questions. Mercury continued to perform well in Q3, delivering strong results across the board. As expected, it was a challenging quarter due to order delays as well as supply chain and labor market constraints but our team continues to successfully manage these headwinds. It was a record quarter for bookings leading to a 1.17 book-to-bill and record backlog. As a result, we expect to deliver a strong Q4, positioning Mercury for a return to organic growth in fiscal 2023. This organic growth coupled with margin expansion driven by our 1MPACT initiatives as well as our M&A program should lead to strong performance overall next year. Looking ahead longer term, our five-year plan continues to target high single-digit to low double-digit organic revenue growth over time coupled with margin expansion and M&A. We're on track to achieve these goals. We just made by the unprovoked attack and humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Ukraine and hope for a speedy resolution. Our confidence in our longer-term growth outlook has increased since the invasion given the broader implications for Europe. We believe that over the course of the next 10 years we'll see substantial growth in incremental defense spending both domestically and internationally We don't anticipate an impact on our revenues in the short term due to the nature of the military assistance provided to Ukraine. However, we do expect to see an increase in bid and proposal activity resulting in higher bookings in the mid-term and over the next five years. Turning to our Q3 results on Slide 4. We saw substantial bookings growth in the third quarter. Bookings increased 41% year-over-year…

Thank you, Mark and good afternoon again everyone. As Mark discussed, we delivered record bookings and backlog in Q3. While we have updated our fiscal '22 guidance as a result of the current macro environment, we are still expecting record financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year. Looking further ahead to fiscal '23, we anticipate continued strong bookings and a return to organic revenue growth. Together, with improved operating leverage and our 1MPACT initiatives, we expect this growth to result in margin expansion and increased adjusted EBITDA versus fiscal '22. Turning to our results on slide 9. Q3 was a record quarter for bookings, which were up 41% compared to Q3, 2021 and up 25% from last quarter. Our book-to-bill was a strong 1.17%. Year-to-date, our book-to-bill is 1.05 and bookings are up 18%. We finished Q3 with record backlog of $996 million, up 4% compared to Q2. Our 12-month backlog was $638 million, up 17% year-over-year and 11% sequentially, providing improved revenue visibility into the next 12 months. Although we experienced supply chain-related program delays during the quarter, the team did a great job, actively managing resources to progress other programs, thereby minimizing top and bottom line impacts. As a result, Q3 revenue came in at the high end of our guidance at $253 million. Organic revenue was $234 million, down 9% year-over-year and slightly better than our expectations coming into the quarter. Acquired revenue, which included Pentek, Avalex and Atlanta Micro was $19.3 million. Our POC acquisition which we closed in December of 2020 is considered organic revenue in Q3. Gross margins were 39.4% compared to 41.1% in Q3 fiscal 2021, primarily related to program mix, including higher engineering content, associated with programs in the quarter. Operating expenses were up 7% compared to Q3 last…

Thanks, Mike. Turning now to Slide 14. Mercury enters the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 with strong backlog and bookings momentum. We believe this will set the stage for a strong fiscal 2023, as we return to our organic growth continue to manage the industry challenges and expand margins through 1MPACT. Looking ahead longer-term, our model sitting at the intersection of the high-tech industry and defense positions us well for a period in which the U.S. and allies are likely to make substantially increased investments in national security. We believe that our strategy in investments in secure processing, trusted microelectronics and open mission systems will continue to drive growth in our business. Mercury is well-positioned to continue to benefit from the ongoing effects of supply chain delayering and reshoring as well as increased outsourcing at the subsystem level by our customers. Our strategy is to improve margins while growing the business organically supplemented with disciplined M&A and full integration. By executing on this strategy we've created significant value for our shareholders for nearly a decade and we expect to continue doing so. In closing, I'd like to extend my appreciation to the entire Mercury team for the outstanding work they've done during this challenging time. Our focus continues to be executing our strategic plan and driving value for all our shareholders. The purpose of today's call is to discuss our third quarter earnings results and outlook and we ask that you please keep your questions focused on those topics. With that, operator, please proceed with the Q&A.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Your first question today comes from the line of Seth Seifman with JPMorgan. Your line is open.

Thanks very much guys and good afternoon.

Hi Seth.

So, Mike I appreciate all the color on the free cash flow outlook. And I guess if you can give us maybe a little bit more on the working capital build you expect in the fourth quarter given kind of all the EBITDA that's coming in and why that's not converting? And maybe where working capital goes over time because it’s a pretty high level at Mercury and Mike as you do more work on a percentage of completion basis, should there be more milestone payments that aren't necessarily associated with delivery so that the advance balance grows in a way that's more kind of commensurate with the unbilled so that working capital isn't such a huge percentage of sales relative to the larger companies?

Yes. So a couple of questions in there Seth so let me try to hit on them. First of all, in terms of cash flow and as we look at Q4 and what happened in Q3 in terms of working capital as you said the biggest use of cash was unbilled receivables because of supply chain delays. And as we look at Q4, we actually expect a similar impact to what we saw in Q3. So, while we expect some of the unbilled to come down in Q3, we have other programs where we're seeing supply chain decommits and we actually think unbilled are going to be up at the end of Q4 due to program timing and milestones. When you look at inventory, we expect it to be relatively flat as we continue to deal with the supply chain and then you mentioned we do have a big Q4. As a result of that at the end of the quarter, we expect billed receivables to be up due to the timing of deliveries on the heels of that large revenue quarter. So, from a working capital perspective in Q4, we do continue to expect it to be a use of cash. Now, we expect that to normalize as we go into fiscal 2023 with unbilled coming down to more normal levels. We look at unbilled as a percentage of our overtime revenue. And we do think that that's going to come down over time and a lot of the reasons that you discussed. We're working with our customers on milestone payments, negotiating better milestones around those contracts, especially in this environment. And then we also expect inventory turns to increase as we get into fiscal 2023 as the supply chain -- the pressures of the supply chain abate because as you know we've been pre-purchasing inventory as a result of that. So, I think that in answer to your question our business model is different than the primes and some of our customers, so we are going to have more working capital in general. That having been said, I think there's opportunities as we go into fiscal 2023 for that to by unbilled reduction in inventory terms increasing.

Great. Thank you very much.

Your next question comes from the line of Peter Arment with Baird. Your line is now open

Hi, good afternoon Mark and Mike. Hi Mark, it's maybe an unrealistic question but just given all the supply chain challenges I mean just when you think about your business model getting back to kind of high single digit or low double-digit growth is it unrealistic to think that that's back in play for fiscal 2023 just given the industry-wide challenges that you guys are caught up in?

So I think overall Peter, I think the opportunity for us continue the model we have right at high single digit low double digit, yes we feel good about it over time. We're not going to guide right now on fiscal year 2023. But if you think about, what we said in the prepared remarks and what we expect to have happen in the fourth quarter, we are expecting bookings to actually accelerate over the 41% growth that we had year-over-year in Q3 resulting in substantial growth at the year level, as well as a huge increase in terms of backlog as well. So I think it positions us well for a return to organic growth next fiscal year. But as I say, I'm not going to guide specifically 2023. We'll hold up for the next call.

Appreciate it. Thanks.

Your next question comes from the line of Pete Skibitski with Alembic Global. Your line is open.

Hi, good evening, guys. Can we drill down more Michael into gross margin? I feel like there's a couple of things going on there. One is some of the acquisitions you guys have wanted time to improve kind of fundamental margins there. And also you talked about mix a little bit also. I'm wondering as you head into 4Q, do you expect those two items to move in the right direction for you in the fourth quarter into 2023 in terms but in terms of mix are you fundamentally kind of changing to a more production-focused mix, or is it a little volatile? And are we heading out to greater than 40% kind of from here on out? I was just wondering if you could clarify that. Thanks

Yes. So when you look back at the gross margins over the last couple of years Pete, we have seen a lot of moving parts. Fiscal 2020 kind of pre our Physical Optics acquisition, we were closer to 45% gross margins of 44.8%. In fiscal 2021, we were 41.7%. What you saw there was the Physical Optics acquisition which has a different business model than ours was slightly dilutive to gross margins. It had 110 basis point impact on gross margins and we only owned it for half of the year. 2021 we also had 100 basis points from COVID expenses, because as we invested in testing to make sure we had business continuity during the pandemic. And then we also in fiscal 2021, we had a good mix of new program starts. So if you look at fiscal 2022, and we don't guide gross margins you're going to see that the Physical Optics Corp. is acquisition. We've now had it for a whole year. So that's going to be dilutive to gross margins probably around 200 basis points for the year. And then we're seeing some pressure due to the supply chain in terms of inflation, although we have been able to pass most of that through. But the biggest movement in fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 is program mix. And it's related to a lot of new program starts that we have that are in development that are going to transition into production going into fiscal 2023 and beyond. So as we look into fiscal 2023, we do see gross margin expanding as more of those programs transition to production. And as we look forward beyond that a lot of the things that we're doing around 1MPACT are focused on gross margin expansion as well. So we see a lot of opportunity. And then just quickly on Q4, yes, we do in Q4 expect to see gross margin expansion from where it's been year-to-date. Because in Q4 we've got, more production programs and some licensing fees and that's what you're seeing driving some of the EBITDA margin expansion in our Q4 guidance.

Okay. That's great color. And last one related to that is guys as you look at the kind of the two new budgets 2022 and 2023, is there any reason to think development mix a year out could switch dramatically, because obviously you will have things like LTAM and whatnot and hopefully F-35 go into product those are big. Once you got lot of new R&D spend also. So I'm just wondering how you thinking about broad opportunity for mix changes going forward?

Yeah. I think we won a lot of early stage programs, right. We 1MPACT, that we've had, it was continue decline, both this year as well as last. And we do see, generally up-pickup in certain programs next fiscal year. And I think as you know, right, this year – or last year, sorry, we saw substantial decline in booking in the F-35 that impacted the business. We’ve clearly seen the rebound. Similarly on other programs, Filthy Buzzard was also impacted that's in production. We are expecting not to rebound as well as CWIP, the whole naval modernization franchise is impacted as part of COVID and 1MPACT should go out. So I do think that, we are – the amount of business that we have in production will continue to grow, that said, when you look at the 2023 budget, while procurement is flat, the amount of R&D increase by – over 9% to an all time. So I think you’re seeing some shift in the budget towards, new technologies and capabilities inline with the emerging threats in particular the peer threats, which I think bodes well for Mercury and its business model. So we’ve got some good programs, I think our business model is aligned and it literally does come down to mix.

Okay. Thanks for the color, guys.

You next question comes from the line of Jonathan Ho with William Blair. Your line is now open.

Hi. Good afternoon. Just wanted to maybe drill down a little bit around some of the ability for you to pass-through pricing from your customers, I think your comment was that you could pass some through, but some you could not. Can you just give us sense of – how we should think about sort of those pricing pass-throughs and the ability to execute that? Thank you.

Sure. So let me, take crack at it and maybe throw it over to Mike, at the end. So I think if you look at the majority of our revenue today is fixed price and we're largely operating on the commercial terms this year with POC, we estimate that roughly $40 million is cost plus reimbursable. The cost-plus type contracts still allow you to pass on higher cost to the customer where fixed price contracts typically do not. So the effects to our margin, Jonathan, really in the short term depends upon what's in backlog and when those increased costs flow through. Unlike many of our customers, who have multiyear backlogs that can help buffer the near-term 1MPACT. That being said, we do have typically shorter production cycles, which does allow us to potentially more frequently pass on the price increases either as a next program tech insertion or during the next production run and it really depends upon the circumstances. So in addition to that the passing on the inflationary costs really also depends upon the contractual terms. In most cases that was down to actual inflation escalation causes. So we've actually been doing a ton of work on that associated with 1MPACT. We've actually been reviewing every contract as it comes up for renewal. And looking as part of our other 1MPACT work streams in particular procurement and pricing ways in which we can manage the inflationary pressures that we're seeing.

Your next question comes from the line of Ken Herbert with RBC. Your line is now open.

Hey, good afternoon, Mark and Mike. I wondered –

Hi, Ken.

Mark, I wondered if you can address 1MPACT a little bit. I mean, it looks like from your slide you expect by the end of this fiscal year you're at sort of a $25 million – or $27 million benefit of the $30 million to $50 million you targeted by 2025. So it seems like you're pretty well along the way. My question would be is there the opportunity to expand this as you think about sort of, what you've achieved so far? But then on the flip side has -- what's happened in Eastern Europe changed your thinking at all around how you're spending this money and how you're looking at this restructuring.

Sure. So it’s a good question. So I think we're pretty pleased Ken with the progress that we're making around 1MPACT. The -- we started off really looking at the organizational structure things like spans and layers. And we got through that the majority of that organizational efforts pretty early on. And that was the majority of the $27 million. Right now we're focused really on other what we believe to be drivers of margin expansion going forward. So we talked a little about pricing. We're in the process of developing a pricing center of excellence to leverage best practices in both pricing and cost estimating across the business. We've had a tremendous amount of work going on in the procurement side of things. In particular, we're ramping up several initiatives to better drive economies of scale and enhanced demand management, whilst also reducing the complexity of the supply chain. And in Q3, we implemented a new AI-based tool which will enable much greater automation and analytics in the procurement process, which should allow us to harvest much better insights over time into the supply base. So pretty happy with what's going on there. Another big one is around footprint and operational excellence. We -- in the Q3, we completed the consolidation of our San Jose and Fremont facilities. But we've got more to do there. And when you are looking at facilities optimization, you know, it takes time and tremendous amount of planning. And so we've got a detailed set of work underway looking at that as well. The final one is around R&D investment efficiency and ROI. And investing in R&D is a critical area that's driven really the growth in Mercury's business historically. And we always I think invest above the industry average just given the fact that we're sitting at the intersection of tech and defense. As we look at Ukraine, I think, in the short-term just given the nature of the capabilities that have been requested as part of the military assistance there's probably another tremendous amount of short-term upside. As I've said we do think that over the next two to three years we are going to likely benefit with sales from new or upgraded F-16 in Eastern Europe. I think clearly there's going to be additional F-35 sold to both Western Europe and potentially Canada. I think there's opportunities in various precision munitions. And then very clearly air and missile defense system. So we're on Patriot. We're on [indiscernible]. We're on LTMs, Aegis, the Shore Aegis. And so I think there's really good upside potential just given the substantial increase in defense spending that we expect across Europe over the course the next decade.

Okay, that's helpful. And if I could just real quick Mike, I know, you're not talking about fiscal 2023 in detail yet. But when you refer to cash flows returning to normal levels how should we think about sort of normal maybe on an EBITDA or a conversion basis, or is that something you're prepared to provide at this point?

Yes. I mean we'll provide more guidance when we get to fiscal 2023 as we see how things play out in terms of supply chain and some of the other headwinds that we've seen. Historically, Ken we've set a target of 50% free cash flow to adjusted EBITDA. And I think that's still a good target going forward.

Perfect. Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Michael Ciarmoli with Truth Securities. Your line is now open.

Hi. Good evening, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Mark or Mike just to play maybe devil's advocate a bit. I mean, you've got -- you're calling for a five-year view, calling for margin expansion. We've seen some of the challenges over the past couple of years. I mean, I think at one point the deal target was 45% to 50% gross margins. I mean, I know you're talking right now about general mix and some of these new start programs. But it seems like we're going to be in an environment here of the continuous RDT&E and new start programs. I mean, you've got the savings from 1MPACT, which if we just run the model maybe you get to 24% EBITDA margins. I guess what can you tell us in terms of the confidence level in expanding these margins on a go forward basis versus what we saw over the trailing three to five years?

So I think, yes, our confidence level is high, Mike. I think we have won a bunch of programs. I think those programs are expected to go into production over time. The major drivers from a margin expansion perspective as it relates to 1MPACT are the pricing initiatives I just went through some of the things that were done there. Procurement both direct and indirect, which we think is a significant opportunity. And then over time leveraging and managing our footprint as well as driving operational excellence. So we've already got a tremendous amount of work underway with the analysis and the work stream to basically drive those. So -- but I think we are going to see margin expansion. And it's likely above the number that you threw out on the call there Mike. I don't know if you want to comment at all from your office side.

Yes. No, that's spot on. I'd just reiterate, I think, we have a lot of confidence in it over the next five years. And Mike, if you look at a lot of our programs right now, they are -- and as we look at the five-year plan, we've got visibility into those transitioning into production. That's things like T-45, B22 other programs like that that are in development now that are going to transition to production. So I think we're going to see gross margin expansion based on our contract mix over the next five years. We're also going to see R&D leverage as we take the investments we've made over the last couple of years and put them across our whole portfolio. And then SG&A, I think we're going to see operating leverage as well as we grow revenues faster than we grow expenses. And then on top of that is the 1MPACT initiatives that Mark discussed. So I would just reiterate I think we have a lot of confidence that we'll be able to expand margins over the next five years supported by the current product or the current program with -- as well as 1MPACT.

Got it. Those programs, I mean, looking forward do you see licensing revenues becoming more of a prominent driver, or is that -- just thinking about the high margin kind of drop-through from those types of revenues. Is that in the mix going forward?

We do have some licensing revenues Mike going forward. That's part of our business model. But the bigger expansion that we're going to see is these new development programs that have lower margins moving into full rate production.

Got it.

Yes, as we look out over the longer-term, Mike, the other area that we think is pretty important is the trusted microelectronics business, right? So if you remember way back when the Genesis that strategy was when we acquired the microelectronics assets from Microsemi. We since, obviously, built that business out and are focused on in 2.5D and 3D microelectronics capability. And as you know a tremendous amount of focus there. So as that continues to ramp and to build and we're at a very early stage today. And it's actually -- it's dilutive to margins in the trusted microelectronics piece that will also be a driver of margin expansion.

Got it. Perfect. Thanks guys.

Yes.

Your next question comes from the line of Austin Moeller with Canaccord. Your line is now open.

Good afternoon Mark and Mike. Just my first question here can you talk or delineate some of the key programs that drove the 17% year-over-year increase in inventory build in the quarter? I know you had mentioned an FMS program.

Yeah. So Austin, I think there was a couple of things that drove the working capital balance. Inventory was one and the other was unbilled receivables. We've had a variety of programs that drove the unbilled receivable balance up and have quite a few examples of situations where we were working on the program, we got 80% complete. Milestones were based on final delivery and that would delay because of supply chain disruption. And so, that's really what's been driving the working capital inventory. There's not specific programs. I mean we are buying parts for specific programs, but it's more around those parts that we use in a lot of our products. And one thing to remember is that we are an electronics company. We're a computer company. And from a direct material perspective, nearly 40% of our direct materials are related to semiconductors. And from an inventory perspective, that's one of the areas we've been focused in terms of pre-buying those capabilities because that’s where we’re seeing the longest delay and supplier decommits.

Okay. That's helpful. And then just a follow-up. Do you expect electronic warfare to sort of be the key driver of foreign military sales for the company over the coming years? Just given you look at the Ukraine conflict, Russia's extensive use of the Cresuca four [ph] system, and China is almost certainly certain to use it in the Asia Pacific region if they're going to threaten like Taiwan or the Sincacu Islands.

Yeah. I would say, right now based on what we see, probably the biggest driver for Mercury is in the radar domain associated with aero missile defense. But we're also leveraged to EW as well. And so, there's clearly going to be opportunities there also.

Okay, great. Thank you for details.

Yes.

Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Rieger with Berenberg. Your line is now open.

Hi, guys. Good evening. I'd like to ask about R&D, which over the past quarter was about 10% of sales a bit light relative to your historical average, but -- you kind of addressed in your prepared remarks. But could you please sort of talk about out what your current R&D spending priorities are? And perhaps how these may have perhaps changed over the past several months, particularly in light of 1MPACT-related efficiency initiatives and what has transpired on the geopolitical stage. I know you've kind of touched on it a little bit, but any further color there would be appreciated. Thanks.

Yeah. So I don't think the -- our priorities and focus areas have changed too much. I think we've got a strong belief that the investments that we're making in our focus areas around secure processing, open mission systems, C2I processing as well as trust and microelectronics is very, very well aligned with the national defense strategy and clearly aligns with the shifts that we've seen as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. So, the areas that we're focused on are literally those open mission systems, secure sensor processing, trusted microelectronics and really job C2. It's what we've really built the company around and our R&D is heavily focused on that.

Thanks. Appreciate it.

Yeah.

Your next question comes from the line of Sheila Kahyaoglu with Jefferies LLC. Your line is open.

Good afternoon, guys. Thank you.

Hey, Sheila.

Maybe I have some other questions. Can you square away what's going on with cash flow and your supply chain commentary with regards to expected revenues? The revenue decline is much less than what we're seeing in the margin contraction and the cash impact. So, maybe can you talk about those dynamics and what makes them normalize?

Yeah. So Sheila, on the guidance, you're right from a revenue and margin perspective, the revenue was down. We’re just brought the top end of the range down by $10 million. So the midpoint was reduced by $5 million. We brought EBITDA down guidance by $10 million. That was really associated with program mix and the timing of production getting pushed into next year on some key programs. So that's the majority of the change from a revenue and margin perspective. So from a cash flow perspective in Q3, we saw more as I talked about supplier component decommits and extended lead times which delayed the final shipment milestones associated with a lot of our programs. That resulted in lower in-quarter collections than expected which drove our cash flow down. Now we had expected unbilled and inventory reductions to normalize in Q4. But as we look at the current quarter, we look at the programs and we're still dealing with the supply chain, we think we're going to see a similar dynamic in Q4. So, it's really the supply chain that is pushing the cash into fiscal '23. And we think as we get into fiscal '23, we expect that to normalize.

So, Sheila let me just jump in there a little bit and give you a little bit more color, right? When you look at the $5 million lowering of the revenue guidance, it was really two programs that moved. One was the F-18. We experienced some contracting delays in Q3 that pushed the expected award into Q4. But based upon the timing or the delay in Q3 and the timing of the award into Q4, it lowered the amount of in-quarter book and ship revenue that we previously anticipated. The second was T45. Here we had some supply delays that impacted some of the ongoing development efforts. That program we were expecting the initial production award. We're now expecting that in fiscal year '23. And those combined were way more than actual $5 million drop in revenue. So, we were able to recover some of the shortfall or the delays that we saw. The other thing is that from a margin perspective, we did have at least one high-margin license that moved into next year as well. And that was clearly one of the biggest drivers on the EBITDA side.

Okay. Thank you for that color. And then maybe one more. I think you guys mentioned CH-53K, MH-60 programs I have heard you talk about in CDS, I don't -- I'm not sure what that one is. But how big of contributors are they and how should we think about them going forward?

Yes. So, they came to us through the acquisition of our Physical Optics business. As you know we have been focused on building out a next-generation avionics and mission computing business. And we've in essence hand selected six or so businesses that fit together really, really well that plays into the delayering trends. So, with that business came a host of some great programs CH-53, MH-60 additional work on F-16 additional work on F-18, additional work on the F-15EX, T45 a host of different programs. So - and actually this past quarter we just won two new design wins on the CH-53. So there -- I wouldn't say they're in the -- they're not in the top five programs but they are in the top 20 going forward. So important programs for us and are expected to grow overtime.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Mr. Aslett, it appears there are no further questions, therefore I would like to turn the call back over to you for any closing remarks.

Okay. Well thank you very much everyone for listening. We look forward to speaking to you again next quarter. Take care. Thank you.

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