| Key Performance Indicators and Non-GAAP Financial Measures |
| Management reviews key performance indicators including revenue, segment operating income and margins, orders growth, and backlog, among other metrics on a regular basis. In addition, we consider certain additional measures to be useful to management and investors evaluating our operating performance for the periods presented, and provide a tool for evaluating our ongoing operations, liquidity and management of assets. This information can assist investors in assessing our financial performance and measures our ability to generate capital for deployment among competing strategic alternatives and initiatives, including, but not limited to, acquisitions and debt repayment. These metrics, however, are not measures of financial performance under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) and should not be considered a substitute for revenue, operating income, income from continuing operations, or net cash from continuing operations as determined in accordance with GAAP. We consider the following non-GAAP measures, which may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies, to be key performance indicators: |
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“Adjusted net income” defined as net income, adjusted to exclude items that include, but are not limited to, significant charges or credits that impact current results, but are not related to our ongoing operations, unusual and infrequent non-operating items and non-operating tax settlements or adjustments. |
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“Segment adjusted operating income” defined as operating income of our two segments, adjusted to exclude items that include, but are not limited to, significant charges or credits that impact current results, but are not related to our ongoing operations, unusual and infrequent non-operating items and non-operating tax settlements or adjustments. |
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“Segment adjusted operating margin” defined as segment adjusted operating income as defined above, divided by revenue. |
| “Free cash flow” defined as GAAP cash provided by operating activities, less capital expenditures plus separation costs related to the spin-off of Mission Systems. This metric does not include dividend payments. |
| “Estimated adjusted net income excluding Vectrus” defined as adjusted net income as defined above adjusted to exclude estimated Vectrus results and give effect to spin-related estimated G&A/tax adjustments. |
| “Estimated adjusted operating income excluding Vectrus" defined as adjusted operating income as defined above adjusted to exclude estimated Vectrus results and give effect to spin-related estimated G&A/tax adjustments. |
| “Estimated adjusted operating margin excluding Vectrus" defined as estimated adjusted operating income as defined above adjusted to exclude estimated Vectrus results and give effect to spin-related estimated G&A/tax adjustments. |
| “Estimated adjusted free cash flow excluding Vectrus" defined as free cash flow as defined above adjusted to exclude estimated Vectrus results and give effect to spin-related estimated G&A/tax adjustments. |
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