Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Virtual Annual Meeting of Stockholders of KBR, Inc. I will now turn the call over to Stuart Bradie, Chair of the Board.
Good morning, thank you. I would like to call to order the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of KBR, Inc. I am Stuart Bradie, Chair of the Board, President, and CEO of KBR, Inc. Thank you for attending our meeting. I'd now like to introduce the other members of our Board, the Board of Directors who have joined us on the call. Joseph Dominguez, Lynn Dugle, Nchacha Etta, Sir John Manzoni, Lieutenant General Wendy Masiello, Jack Moore, Ann Pickard, Carlos Sabater, Huibert Vigeveno, and Lou Von Thaer. I would like to introduce Sonia Galindo, KBR's General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, who is acting as the Secretary of this meeting. Ms. Galindo, please submit proper evidence that notice of this meeting was given to our stockholders.
Mr. Bradie, notice was mailed commencing on March 30, 2026. An affidavit to that effect will be filed with the records of the meeting.
Finally, I would like to introduce Marcella Murray and Landon Smith of KPMG LLP, our independent accountants, and Ann Sidmartin of Carl T. Hagberg & Associates, who has been appointed the Inspector of Election of this meeting and has signed the Oath of Office, which will become a part of the records of the meeting. Broadridge has furnished a certificate that holders of more than a majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote are present in person or by proxy. We therefore have a quorum. That certificate will be placed in the records. As you all know, this is a virtual-only stockholders meeting. If you're a stockholder as of the record date of March 17, 2026, you may vote during the meeting today by online ballot.
Only the matters listed in our proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will be entertained at this meeting. It is now 9:02 A.M. Central Time on May 14th, 2026, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now open. The first item of business is to vote upon each of our Director nominees named in our proxy statement to serve on the KBR Board of Directors until the annual stockholders meeting to be held in 2027 and until their successor have been elected and qualified. Second is to approve by advisory vote the compensation of KBR's named Executive Officers. Third is to ratify the appointment of the audit committee of the KBR Board of Directors of KPMG LLP as KBR's independent public accountants for the fiscal year ending January the 1st, 2027.
We did not receive any stockholder-submitted questions regarding the proposals to be voted on at the meeting. We will now proceed to vote upon these proposals. Each common share is entitled to one vote on each of the Director nominees as well as on the other proposals I mentioned. I will now ask the Inspector of Election to canvass the vote. I am sure that most of you have already signed and submitted a proxy. If you have voted online or by telephone or have submitted a signed proxy in advance of the meeting, your vote on the matters presented here will be cast by the proxy committee in accordance with your instructions, and you need not vote now. We will keep the polls open for a short while. It is now 9:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time, and the polls are declared closed.
The Inspector has tabulated the votes, and here is a preliminary report on the voting results. The proposal to elect Stuart Bradie, Joseph Dominguez, Lynn Dugle, Nchacha Etta, Sir John Manzoni, Lieutenant General Wendy Masiello, Jack Moore, Ann Pickard, Carlos Sabater, Huibert Vigeveno, and Lou Von Thaer to the KBR Board of Directors each received the affirmative vote of more than the majority of the total common shares voted at the meeting, with each of the Director nominees receiving over 92% of the votes cast in their favor. I therefore declare that these individuals have been duly elected to the KBR Board of Directors.
The proposal to approve by advisory vote the compensation of KBR's named Executive Officers received the affirmative vote of more than a majority of the total shares present at the meeting in person or represented by proxy, with over 96% of the votes cast in favor of the proposal. I therefore declare the proposal adopted. The proposal to ratify KPMG LLP as KBR's independent public accountants for the fiscal year ending January 1st, 2027 received the affirmative vote of more than a majority of the total shares present at the meeting in person or represented by proxy, with over 96% of the votes cast in favor of the proposal. I therefore declare this proposal adopted. The results of voting, including any ballots or proxies recorded during this meeting, will be set forth in the final report of the Inspector of Election.
I ask Ms. Galindo to submit the final report and file it with the records of the meeting.
Yes, Mr. Bradie. The nominees whose names are printed on the ballot have been duly elected to serve as directors. The compensation of KBR's named executive officers and the ratification of KPMG LLP's appointment were both approved.
Thank you, Ms. Galindo. The results will be included in a current report on a Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC. All business properly brought before this meeting in accordance with KBR's bylaws is now concluded. There being no further business to be brought before the meeting, I hereby declare the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of KBR, Inc. adjourned. Thank you.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.