Good day, and welcome everyone to the Lockheed Martin Second Quarter 2010 Earnings Results Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Jerry Hercher, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Thank you, Devin, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to our Q2 2010 earnings conference call. Joining me today on the call are Bob Stephens, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer And Bruce Tanner, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Statements made in today's call that are not historical fact are considered forward looking statements and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of federal securities law. Actual results may differ.
Please see today's press release and our SEC filings for a description of some of the factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from anticipated results. We have posted charts on our website today that we plan to address during the call to supplement our comments. Please access our website atwww.lockheedmartin.com and click on the Investor Relations link to view and follow the charts. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Bob. Thanks, Jerry.
Good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us today. I hope this call finds you well and maybe finding some ways to survive the heat of this summer. We have a lot to update you on today and I would like to get right to it. So I'll proceed on the basis that you've had a chance to Read the earnings release and see our updated guidance.
I'd like to start with an operational overview and I'll walk you through the highlights on a business area by business area basis. In aeronautics, there are 3 programs I want to cover. I want to start with the F-thirty 5 program as the Joint Strike Fighter remains our program Greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. And I want to spend a bit more time on some additional detail with you here, so that you have a good feel for where we are on the program. In the quarter, the government completed the non McCurdy recertification process, Finding the F-thirty 5 to be essential to national security and high priority.
Extensive cost assessments and risk Analyses were conducted and evaluated by DoD, highlighting areas requiring additional focus, adding resources to the development program in flight test and in software development, while lowering the near term production ramp rate by 122 airplanes. The program executive officer, that's the senior most government official on the program, That position was elevated from a 2 star billet to a 3 star billet and Admiral Dave Van Lett, a superbly qualified professional with lots of relevant experiences now in this role. And recognizing that there are program uncertainties and risks remaining, DoD called for a series of what will be routine ongoing reviews to monitor performance and to make adjustments And the first of these reviews under Admiral Benoit known as a technical baseline review is now underway and likely to be completed by the end of the year. Let me look at the program now in 2 segments or phases. First, the system development and demonstration phase.
The work here, I regard as the front end of the program where it's essential to get the design, the development of the aircraft And the test of the aircraft and its systems right, I think of this as the non recurring part of the program. It's important to get it right here to assure that our customers get systems that meet their needs. And I think it's critical here to focus on overall performance to assure we get it right. And then I'll talk about the production phase of the program, which includes long term aircraft delivery profiles that we think on the Joint Strike Fighter are likely to extend over decades. In my mind, this is where the majority of the cost resides and this is where affordability will ultimately be determined.
So here it's Critical to focus on costs. We are now at a critical juncture on the program, as I think you all know, of transitioning from the development program more fully into the production program. In the system development and demonstration segment of the program, we're about 80% complete. We have 15 of 19 test articles currently being evaluated and the 4 remaining are in build. This 19 test article total excludes the prospect of an additional carrier variant that was discussed during the non McCurdy recertification process.
Of the 19 aircraft, 13 are flyers in the flight test program and 6 Our structural test articles and all of those 6 structural test articles either are in test or have completed their test. And of the 13 flyers, 9 have now flown. In the quarter, we added the 1st carrier variant to the test fleet and the early reports from this airplane are that it's flying very well. Also on the carrier variant, we completed a successful drop test of the ground test article, which simulates the intensity of carrier landings. Here in Vision dropping the airframe from Progressive heights that go up to about 12 feet.
And in this test program, we noticed no failures or no load exceedances. So that's a very good set of results from this important test, which is essential to demonstrating the structural integrity necessary for carrier operations. In testing the conventional takeoff and landing period, early flights already exceed the 7 gs loading conditions, which is good. Static testing or measuring the ultimate strength of the airframe is complete with no structural failures And we've begun durability testing to verify that the airframe will meet the plane's 8000 hour life. We have 2 airplanes equipped with mission systems, 1 short takeoff and vertical landing and 1 conventional takeoff and landing.
These mission systems aircraft give us early insight as to the performance of advanced avionics like the active electronically scanned array radar, The electronic warfare systems, the communications suite, the advanced targeting system and so forth. The goal here is to get some sense of sensor fusion or the ability to assemble information from different systems to generate greater levels of situational awareness, not Just for the pilot, but for all those who would have information streams linked to the Joint Strike Fighter. And I think all are pleased Let me give you some detail on the status of the flight test program. Year to date through June, we've flown 136 flights against the plan of 118 flights. So overall, We've had a good tempo and we're running ahead in total numbers.
When I break down that total for you by variant, You will see that the conventional takeoff and landing airplane has flown 56 times against the plan of 22 And the carrier variant has fallen 6 times against the plan of 1. So we're getting solid early performance here, Performance on flights that was better than planned and we're getting good feedback from the airplanes and all this is very positive. On the Stovall airplane, we have flown 74 times against a plan of 95 times. Here, we wanted to accomplish more vertical landings, satisfy more test points and get more information sooner, But we've thus far been unable to do so. So the question becomes why are the CTOL and the CV aircraft running ahead of plan as The answer lies in the early reliability of selected components on the Stovall aircraft where we're seeing failure rates that are higher than predicted.
Now I'd describe these components to you as the ones you would probably not view As major systems like the engine, which is working very well, recall we've flown supersonic and we've hovered with the airplane, or the lift fan or the control laws or other such major components. The components that are failing are more of the things that would appear either Smaller or more ordinary like thermal cooling fans, door actuators, selected valves or switches or components of the power So when these components don't work because of their initial low reliability, we don't fly And we don't fly because assuring safety is our uncompromised highest priority. And often the maintenance action to address these components takes longer than you think given the less significant nature of the parts involved. In some cases, we've had to remove the engine to get access to the component. And because we're in the early phases of flight test where we all an abundance of caution.
It's important to perform an additional series of tests when you take the engine out, including ground tests, which consumes a lot of time to get to a more ordinary part like a cooling fan. We are now working with our customers on a variety of actions to address the SOVO flight test pressure. They include identifying the troublesome components and working with suppliers to understand and improve their reliability, Perhaps examining supplier manufacturing processes or examining whether we need to have them change the design of the parts or change the sparing We're provisioning on the program simply to have more parts available. Given what we've seen, both we and our customer subject matter experts believe This component reliability condition can be corrected and the inherent reliability can and will be improved. Together, we're also looking at ways to improve the overall flight test efficiency with the goal of improving tempo.
Here, we'll look at rephasing activities, Adding some selective resources that we have already begun to do, looking at additional aircraft instrumentation And perhaps looking at different concepts of operation, let me give you one example, the family of things we might consider here. We'll look at hot pitting the aircraft, which means That we don't turn the engine off on the airplane. We refuel it with the engine running and we go fly again On the theory that when the aircraft is flying well and when weather conditions are cooperating, we keep flying the airplane as much as possible. This will reduce the turnaround time of the jets and interestingly could create a condition where we have fewer flights Because a flight is actually measured at the end of the vision where we shut the engine off. If we don't shut the engine off To get more data by reducing turnaround time, we have fewer flights, but we can certainly generate more information, which is the essential purpose of the ultimate goal of the flight test program.
So we are working with customers throughout the test community to envision ways to get More utility out of the assets that we have. During my last visit to Pax River, where the Navy is testing the airplane, In going through not only a series of reviews, but walking the facility and the flight line, Talking to the pilots who are flying the airplane and all those working on the aircraft, getting the advice of subject matter experts and meeting with Navy leadership, You just couldn't help being very impressed with the quality of the team and this is a fully integrated test force, which means that the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps personnel are working In conjunction with other government personnel and industry personnel in a completely seamless way, the subject matter experts that are at Pax River are genuinely impressive. They have lots of experience and they have lots of relevant knowledge and they are a first rate team And they're working smart and they're working hard and we have the full and complete engagement of senior Navy and Marine Corps leadership. So I want to take a minute and extend my thanks and appreciation for their professionalism and dedication as they work on this flight test program.
Also in the SDD phase, we're developing software for the Joint Strike Fighter in 5 blocks. The second block of software known as Block 0.5, which is the first mission system software, is now flying on 2 airplanes. This block includes about 5,500,000 lines of code. The early experience here is the software is of very good quality and functionality and importantly it's demonstrating stable performance. So we've been very pleased with the results here.
Although it took a little longer and required more resources than planned to deliver this block into the test program. Block 1.0 is now in development and scheduled to be released later in Q3. This block will add about another 1,000,000 lines of code to the prior software. With this software delivery, the airplane will have more than 80% of its total software. We're going to spend a concentrated effort with our customers over the next Several months during the technical baseline review process that I described earlier, looking at the overall software program, examining stability, quality, complexity, productivity and we'll make adjustments accordingly appropriate Because getting the right software on the program that demonstrates full mission capability is absolutely critical as a component of the SDD phase.
In the production segment, we have 31 airplanes in the first three low rate initial production lots flowing in fabrication or assembly. We previously received long lead authorization for Lot 4 at 32 airplanes. We're now negotiating Lot 4 at present, receiving a very thorough and detailed review by the government customer that we expected. And Lot 4 will likely result in a fixed price incentive type contract when the negotiations conclude. And DoD also authorized $522,000,000 for long lead material associated with the next low rate initial production option, that's LRIP 5 at 42 airplanes.
We continue to see improved cost performance and our learning curve projections including those associated with Lot 4, continue to support long term affordability objectives.
And I think it's fair
to say that The production cost trends overall remain on the favorable side of prior estimates, which is where we all want them to be. As with any accelerating production program, we do have some challenges and our focus here is on retiring risks, Working with the supply chain on phasing and quality and reliability and schedule maintenance, on reducing travel for out of cycle installations that put pressure on aircraft delivery schedule, which we're seeing and working with the government independent manufacturing review team as they continue their assessment in the next regularly scheduled review cycle. On some other Matters we have an agreement on the corrective action plan to improve our EBMS system and appreciate the help we've received to establish a better foundation here And international partners continue to express interest. The Italian Ministry of Defense signed an agreement For a $1,000,000,000 final assembly and checkout facility that will be used for aircraft for Italy and the Netherlands. This is part of our worldwide supply chain Strategy, Canada recently reaffirmed interest in 65 airplanes and Israel continues to look at Joint Strike Fighter as a potential FMS buyer.
Unbalanced and taken as a whole, the Joint Strike Fighter is showing strength in many areas of accomplishment with some areas needing more focus. In Flight Test, the conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, this is the airplane that will be sold in the greatest numbers and the carrier variant are doing well and Stovall needs more attention. In software development, quality, Functionality and stability are good and we need to focus on productivity. And in production, our learning curves support overall cost reduction And affordability objectives and we need to address some schedule pressures. On the C-130J airplane, our production buildup From 16 aircraft last year to 26 this year is on track.
We delivered 6 airplanes in the 2nd quarter and customer interest here remains strong. In the Q2, we received orders from Kuwait and Israel. On the C5 modernization program, we inducted the 3rd airlifter into the line. I think you'll recall overall plans call for 52 airplanes to be modernized by 2016 and we think this approach to life extension provides great value to customers. In electronic systems, let me highlight 2 areas.
In ballistic missile defense, our THAAD program achieved its 7th consecutive successful target intercept demonstrating the ability to destroy a unitary target in the lower earth atmosphere known as an endoatmospheric intercept and this success expands again the operational envelope for this proven and capable system. This system is strongly supported as a DoD priority and offers both domestic and international sales potential. On the Littoral Combat Ship program, our 2nd ship at Fort Worth remains on cost and on schedule With now 55% of the construction completed, our offer for the 10 ship buy has been Submitted and we should learn of the Navy's decision we think sometime in August. We have been listening very careful, carefully to the Navy and their expectations and have fashioned a low risk cost competitive approach to the program on a vessel that we think would also be of interest to international buyers. In Information Systems and Global Solutions on the next generation identification system for the FBI, We've begun to fully develop and deploy a new capability that transforms how law enforcement officials will search a wanted person database.
In one of our Horizon market initiatives, we were pleased the Tech America Foundation named Lockheed Martin's Ironclad The most innovative cybersecurity and authentication technology of the year. IronClad is a new technology that shrinks a laptop's hard drive, Operating system, software applications and files onto a secure USB flash drive. This program is another example of leveraging our overall And we'll take our first question from the line of Chris. Please go ahead. Thank you, Chris.
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We were awarded a contract by DoD to manage the Special Operation Forces support activity, a contract known as SOPSA. This award with a value up to $5,000,000,000 over the next 10 years represents a reinstatement of a contract that we had initially won last year and enables us to move forward to support our nation's special operation forces. As a result of our recent organizational realignment, The SAVSA contract will be managed by electronic systems as we move forward. Finally, our space systems Team continues to demonstrate progress on the Orion program by successfully completing the flight test of the launch abort system. The system pulls the crew module away from the launch vehicle during an emergency and will significantly improve crew safety for future human spaceflight.
Other progress includes the successful completion of Phase 1 safety reviews of NASA's human rating requirements Addressing the design and operational concepts for the capsule. Beyond operations, on May 8, Secretary Gates challenged the Department of Defense to examine its internal cost structure and overhead expenses with a goal to change the way the department does business. Secretary Gates outlined a goal to save more than $100,000,000,000 over 5 years beginning in fiscal 2012 by reducing unnecessary expenses. The objective is to redeploy adequate funds to pay for troops and modernization while sustaining a growing Top line defense budget. On June 28, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Ash Carter, outlined this new focus to acquisition professionals and the defense industry.
The new initiatives are designed to achieve cost Savings in the defense acquisition system to enable funding for warfighter capability to grow at approximately 3% annually, while maintaining a vibrant and financially healthy defense industry. We understand this new reality of escalating demands on our customers and increasing constraints on the resources available to achieve their missions. This new reality requires that we adapt and drive affordability to ensure that we're doing everything possible to make every dollar count. In support of these initiatives, We've implemented a number of actions. First, we've rebalanced our IS and GS portfolio, announcing plans to divest Most of our Enterprise Integration Group and the Pacific Architects and Engineers Unit and there seems to be a good level of interest in these businesses.
We also realigned our readiness and stability operations in our Savvy Technology business from IS and GS to electronic systems. These actions will strengthen our focus and our performance over the long run and help provide the best most affordable solutions to customers. We have implemented a voluntary executive separation program designed to reduce layers of management, improve affordability, tighten reporting relationships and allow for more direct lines of communication both inside and outside the company. We reduced our presence at the Farnborough Air Show by 50 We've cut our advertising budgets and reduced our travel expenses and we're going to continue to work in every aspect of this company with a focus on reducing costs. These actions reflect that new reality and are designed to enable us to continue to deliver the best value to customers while positioning us for financial success for our shareholders.
Even with this changing domestic framework, We continue to see strong alignment of our portfolio with overall program priorities and believe we will grow more than the rate of growth in the base defense budget. And internationally, we see solid and expanding demand for our portfolio of products and Well, with that slightly longer summary for you, I want to turn the call over to Bruce for some additional detail on the Q2 financial results and then we'll open it up for your questions.
Thanks, Bob. As we've done in prior calls, we've included charts on our website to help with this part of the discussion. And at this time, I'd encourage you to open Let's begin with Chart 3, which is just a reminder that all financials in today's web charts reflect the impact of portfolio shaping we announced earlier this quarter. First, Pacific Architects and Engineers was moved from the continuing results of IS and GS into discontinued operations as we have decided to sell that business. As a result of this, we have lowered our sales guidance for the expected level of annual sales, but we were able to offset the earnings impact and our EPS guidance as you'll see in a later chart.
EIG, on the other hand, will remain in continuing operations as we evaluate a sale versus a spin off to our stockholders. Finally, we realigned our Readiness and Stability operations, our RSO business, from IS S and GS into electronic systems where it will be combined with simulation, training and support to form the global training and logistics line of business. If you now turn to Chart 4 and our 2nd quarter sales summary, overall, the corporation grew 3% in the quarter with all four business areas growth above prior year's levels. IS and GS had the highest growth of 6% due primarily to growth in our civil line of business due to work with the census program and other IT work for numerous federal agencies. Electronic Systems generated revenue of 3 point 5 $1,000,000,000 with 4% growth in the quarter.
This was driven primarily by global training and logistics and tactical missiles at Missiles and Fire Control. Aeronautics grew 2% in the quarter, primarily from expansion on how on the F-thirty five low rate initial production contracts and higher C-one hundred and thirty deliveries. Space Systems grew 1% in the quarter due to expansion in government satellites and growth in the Orion crew exploration vehicle work. This was tempered somewhat by the wind down of the external tank fabrication resulting from the upcoming retirement of the shuttle fleet. If we now look at Chart 5 and our cash from operations, again this quarter cash was very strong as we generated in excess of $1,200,000,000 And I'll point out this is after making a cash contribution of $350,000,000 to our pension trust in the quarter.
The $2,900,000,000 through the first half of the year represents $500,000,000 more than at this time last year. And looking forward to the second half of the year, we remain committed to contributing at least $1,050,000,000 additionally to reach our previously announced $1,400,000,000 in discretionary contributions to our pension plans. This remaining contribution to achieve the $1,400,000,000 level will be made entirely in the Q3. Because of the strong cash generation this quarter, we are increasing our full year cash from operations guidance to at least $3,400,000,000 or $100,000,000 above our prior projection of $3,300,000,000 If you now look at Chart 6 For a discussion on our ongoing activities and share repurchases, we increased our share repurchases by almost 50% above 1st quarter levels, repurchasing 9,700,000 shares for $782,000,000 This brings the year to date level to 16,200,000 shares for $1,300,000,000 well above our stated goal to allocate $1,000,000,000 for share repurchases in 20 standing to around $360,000,000 at the end of the quarter, a new low level in the corporation's history. Our next chart, Chart 7 will highlight our debt exchange that took place in the quarter.
This chart shows all of our bond maturities over time, which graphically Shows that there are no debt maturities until 2013, which we've mentioned in the past. The yellow portion of the bars shows the amount of our high coupon bonds that were exchanged for new 30 year debt in 2,040. Coupons ranged from 7.2% to 8.5% versus our new debt with a coupon rating of 5.72%. As the chart says, this extended our maturity while lowering the average coupon of overall portfolio. Moving next to Chart 8 and our earnings per share performance.
2nd quarter earnings per share from continuing operations was 1.96 This reflects a 5% increase from our prior level of $1.87 and the improvements resulted from improved operational performance and lower share count. On the right hand side of the chart, the adjusted EPS of $2.41 per share increased 16% above last year's level, including the discontinued operations items and $0.19 for the FASCAS adjustment. Finally, I'd like to turn to our full year 2010 EPS guidance reconciliation on Chart 9. From what we provided in April, we were able to increase Our guidance by $0.15 to a level of $7.15 to $7.35 per share due to our reduced share count outlook and improved operational performance in Space Systems. This level includes the impact of removing the annual earnings for PAE.
Moving down the chart to our GAAP EPS outlook, including discontinued operations, our outlook is for $7.45 to 7 point $0.65 per share, which includes the PAE earnings removed from continuing operations, plus a tax benefit from the difference between our book and tax basis, which is required to be recognized as we classify PAE as being held for sale. I'll remind you that the values on this chart do not consider the effects from our previously announced voluntary executive separation program and we expect to have the impact that impact quantified during our Q3 earnings call. Overall, the 2nd quarter results were solid and particularly strong in the area of cash from operations. As I look forward to the rest of the year, I think we'll continue to see that second half revenue will have higher growth than the first half with overall margins fairly consistent with what we experienced in the first half. We expect Q3 cash to be down considerably as we make the over $1,000,000,000 investment in the pension plan payments to get to the $1,400,000,000 level we previously discussed.
One final comment before we open for questions. We are revising our prior practice and will now wait until January to provide our initial financial guidance in 2011 for 2011, excuse me. We're still seeing tremendous volatility in both stock market performance and interest rate movement. On top of that, Cash harmonization still remains undecided at this time. So because of that, we believe it makes more sense to wait until we have these numbers at year end rather than provide interim numbers in I also think this aligns us more closely with what our peers are doing in this area.
And with that, I think we're ready for your questions. Devin?
Please return to the queue for any follow-up questions. Our first question comes from Joe Naidal of JPMorgan.
Thanks. Good morning. Bob, thanks for that update on F-thirty 5 on the flight testing and everything you gave. I was wondering if you could give a little more detail on where you are in negotiations on both LRIP IV and the Redo or the update to the SDD contract, any sense as to when this stuff gets concluded and if there are any because we're late now Relative to when we usually sign the contract, usually it's May, now we're in late July. Any color you can give?
Yes, happy to, Joe. Thanks for the question. So I think the most accurate answer on LRIP IV is that we meet Recurringly and are going through great detail on the program. My sense is, I share your view that it's taken a lot longer, Joe, but I think the time that we're investing It's sensible time to make sure that all the details are right. I will tell you from my point of view As we will take a fixed price incentive type contract here, we certainly want to get this right so that we understand the risks and expectations.
I think There is a corollary for the people on the government's team to want to get it right from their point of view. So I don't feel that there is any particular distress here. There is no particular pressure. I just think it's a genuine effort for everybody to want to get it right. My feel is we are weeks a couple of weeks away to finalize it.
As I said, the ongoing discussions are fulsome. They are interactive and we are exchanging views and listening to proposals and counter proposals and options and thoughts and things. So I will tell you it's gone a little longer, but I would not characterize it as getting off track in some way. On redoing the DD contract, I think that's going to take a bit of time and I think that's going to take a bit of time Because as I mentioned to you, there are a couple of reviews that I think we should all begin to internalize as ordinary And even routine on a program of this nature and it might even grow to be routine on other programs that meet a threshold in the Department of Defense. In our case, it's a technical baseline review that's already commenced and I think will be done.
I will tell you October November, I don't And that's how I've phased in my mind, Joe, the likely resolution of matters remaining in the SDD phase of the contract.
Thank you. Our next question comes from George Shapiro of Axis 3.42.
Yes, good morning. A question on Aeronautics, Bruce, this quarter had 11.8% margin. I'm thinking that you probably increased the margin on some programs, maybe the F-thirty five production. So if you could go into that. And then The second half guidance implies that that margin is going to go down to 11% or so When it seems like it should, if anything, get better because you'll have more C-one hundred and thirty deliveries, F-thirty five production will probably be Hi, so if you could explain why you'd expect it to go down in the second half?
Thanks.
Yes. Thank you, George. Maybe just a couple of comments on the quarter itself. As you said, you're right at the 11.8% margin in the quarter. And I kind of think of that as I compare it to last year's 2nd quarter, as we know, we've got much more F-thirty five volume bringing in with it lower margins than the rest of the portfolio.
We also have in the quarter 3 additional C-130s, and those bring with it typically probably higher margin than the overall portfolio. Those are being offset by reductions in both the F-sixteen and F-twenty two, Permian. So that's kind of how we got to the 2nd quarter here. I'll give you just a stat. I just found it kind of interesting as I was looking through some of the data, George, just to put it in perspective.
For the first half of twenty ten, the development program that Bob mentioned for the F-thirty five, the STD contract It's 2 thirds of what it was in the first half of two thousand and nine, while the LRIP contracts, because these are the early production contracts, It's twice what it was in the second in the first half of two thousand and nine. So you see the phenomenon where we're shifting significantly from the STD contract over to the LRIP Contract, it's our contracts, excuse me. As far as why we're seeing some downside in the second half of the year, You're right that there are higher C-one hundred and thirty J sales, both quantity wise and dollar wise in the second half of the year. But at the same time, we're seeing some acceleration in overall F-thirty five activity and of course that brings with it the lower margins in total that the F-thirty five There was you mentioned a profit step up. There was a profit step up in the LRIP contracts in the first half of the year, And we're not seeing likely a step up in the second half of the year, and that's another reason why it will be down in the second half versus the first half.
Our next question comes from Richard Safran, Buckingham Researcher.
Hello, Rich?
Rich, are you there? Hello. Rich? Yes. Can you hear me?
And now. Okay. Don't know what that was. Did not have the mute button on.
Okay.
So just a quick question on the cash. You have a tremendous amount of cash reserves. You're generating record cash. It doesn't really seem like you're interested in a large acquisition. So just a couple of things here.
You bought back a lot of stock in the first half. Does that continue in the second half? Will you be slowing that in the back half? Is there a higher dividend yield likely? Is there a special dividend?
Could you just go over what you think the plans are for cash here? Yes. I'll take a shot at that and Bob can add to it, anything I leave out, Rich. Cash has been strong. As I pointed out, cash was The second quarter even making a $350,000,000 pension payment in the quarter.
I tried to tee up in my comments that the second half of the year will bring with it $1,000,000,000 plus Contribution discretionary contribution to the pension plans And that's we try to characterize that as being at least $1,400,000,000 in total for the year. So, we do have the potential as we always do in the Half of the year, particularly in the Q4 of this year to take a look at where we sit pension wise, funding wise and cash on hand wise and decide if there is additional contributions or not that would be beneficial to make in the latter part of this year. You asked about dividend yield, Rich, and I'll say we always take a look at that in the Q3 timeframe. We'll do that again with the Board of Directors at the September I think we've had some 7 consecutive years of 10% or more increase in our dividend Great. On an annual basis, we'll take a look and see what the Board wants to do in the September timeframe, as I said.
And lastly, I think you mentioned the potential for a special dividend yield. I don't see that happening. That's not under consideration at this time. Okay. Thanks very much.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Myles Walton of Deutsche Bank.
Thanks. I was wondering if you could talk a bit about the moving parts in the space as we move From 10 into 11 and in particular the equity accounting for USA and kind of what you expect there Given the manifest and also what your plan is currently for Orion as you see the authorization and appropriations Kind of fight out and come to some resolution here. Okay. How about Myles, if I take the equity Part of that, maybe I'll ask Bob to comment on the Orion piece overall. Sure.
On the equity, well, let me back up Miles, just to give you kind of an overview of Space in general, Space had a very strong first half, a very strong second quarter. And as I look at the second half of the year, I think that's an area where we potentially have some better performance coming in, even than what we're showing in our guidance numbers there. So, real strong performance coming out of space, particularly on the EBIT side of that. And I think as I teed up, likely I've lost track if I did that in the Q4 call, but I know I did in the Q1 call. I talked about there being a spike in the Q4 in Space Systems margins Primarily because of the cessation of the shuttle program and some profit adjustments we'd make there.
I'll point out that our current guidance Does not include the effects of that adjustment as a result of the fly out of the shuttle. It's kind of right on the bubble as to whether that's going to be a 4th quarter event of 2010 or if it's going to roll over into 2011, but right now, that is not in our planning for the 2010 timeframe. Once that final event has happened for the United Space Alliance and the flight of the shuttle, We would expect to see the equity earnings of that drop fairly dramatically. You should think of it between the 2 of them, I want to say When United Launch Alliance and United Space Alliance,
probably somewhere in the order of $120,000,000 or 2
$200,000,000 worth of equity earnings in total. USA is probably 2 to 3 times the size of Excuse me, United Launch Alliance is 2x to 3x the size of United Space Alliance. So, the impact won't be The full $200,000,000 obviously. We showed that reduction and I gave you guidance I think in the Q3 of last year. We About longer term views of Space's margins, Space segment's margins.
And I still think that even with the reduction in So I don't see a large margin cliff coming going from 2010 to 2011.
And Myles, let me talk a bit about the interactions we're having with not only NASA, but other members of the administration about Exactly what the human spaceflight plan forward ought to look like. I can tell you the members we're talking with are working hard and very focused On developing a balanced approach, balanced with regard to funding, balanced with regard to probabilities of success, certainly Balance with regard to overall risk and there is an interest in leveraging the investments that have been made in Orion and Orion's Performance continues to be rated as very good on a programmatic basis. So we think they're trying to develop A formula that gives them flexibility going forward and we think that Orion will play a role in that flexible approach, Perhaps first as a crew rescue vehicle, which I think we've talked considerably about, Not launching astronauts from the earth, but sending the capsule to the space station such that in an emergency, The crew could evacuate, get on the crew rescue vehicle and return to earth, but also having flexibility in the Orion configuration that over Time it can evolve into a crew exploration or crew transport vehicle that would include lifting astronauts From the earth and of course the capsule discretion in Orion is also unfolding with regard to a variety of propulsion systems, what rocket What type of rockets will be available to Ride Wind.
So there's a pretty comprehensive review right now, but our sense is that we've performed well That individual will see the merit and risk reduction associated with Orion and that there will be a role for the Orion spacecraft in some fashion As the strategy unfolds. And I think we'll learn a lot more about this in the second half.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Heidi Wood of Morgan Stanley.
Thank you. Bob, a question for you on the F 35, when the program was awarded, Pete Aldridge put restrictions on it, insisting that spiro development would be necessary to contain cost growth. And we now read about the Pentagon complaints about cost growth and no discussion about requirements creep, but one presumes they're related. We also know that's the issue that reported has repeatedly hurt or sank programs. So as we look forward, What's the likelihood that we're going to be seeing continued cost growth on the F-thirty 5?
Or put another way, Bob, when can we see that cost growth has peaked? Where are we on the bell shaped curve?
Heidi, that's a broad, pretty sweeping question. Let me give you the best deal I can. I do envision the program as having 2 discrete components as I mentioned in the remarks, the development phase and the production phase. The development phase, while lasting a number of years is the shorter phase. And for me, the criticality there is Invest everything you need to invest to get a fully mission capable system, while focusing in the production program On driving out the costs of recurring production of that fully mission capable system.
So we saw through the non McCurdy Process and we may see in an iteration or 2 in the future some Adaptations or adjustments associated with making sure we're allocating resources in a smart way to get everything we need to have on the program. Now in that development phase, I would say resides at least part of your concern about requirements I will tell you we're not seeing requirements creep or the generation of a lot of new things, let me say, in some significant or major And I attribute a great deal of appreciation to customers who came forward early and who made sure that the airplane would meet their operational needs and focus. And I think Admiral Dave Benlett here is a real strength because he brings an operator's background and he ran the Naval Air Systems Command and he understands how to think in terms operational needs and he works with his colleagues in that way. We will see the manifestation of these developments of how well we're doing demonstrating the performance of the airplane and if there are any additional features. We'll probably see that unfold in the test program where people Mike, under reasonable circumstances, want to see some tests added to demonstrate or assure Some aspect of the overall performance, we may see it in some software, but I pretty much think and has been reinforced by the tests that we've completed.
The hardware is progressively locking into a good configuration and there are no major technical showstoppers to date on the program. We believe that. I believe All in the government who have responsibilities of overseeing the program believe that. So for me, I know The numbers of airplanes are big, the size of the program is large and therefore the cost numbers are significant. But I think within a substantially large Program we're seeing adaptations that we'd expect to see.
But again, I want to disabuse you of any sense you might have that Requirements churn or creep are driving either our performance on the airplane or within the program Or the overall cost of the program because that's really not a source of cost concern at present.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Doug Harned of Sanford Bernstein.
Good morning. On IS and GS, when you look at the performance in the quarter and look at it with the new alignment compared The past quarters, margins really didn't change much in the quarter and backlogs were down, down about 700,000,000 Could you talk about what's happening there? And some of the programs I would assume that you've had issues with, those should be moving behind you, Yes, we haven't really seen the improvement in margin. So could you talk about both those issues, both the backlog and margin there?
Hey, Doug, I'll take a shot at that. I think your starting premise there that the Programs that we discussed in the Q2 of last year that caused the margin pressure last year, that the performance on those programs is largely behind us and I'd say that's true. What we are seeing though is that, if you look take a look at the new newly configured IS and GS, we still operate under the civil, The defense and the intelligence line of businesses, and you should probably think of those businesses as comprising Probably about 40% civil and roughly 30% defense and intelligence. And what we're seeing happening is that the civil piece is growing at a very, very fast clip relative to the other 2. In fact, the other 2 in the second quarter actually Intelligence was fairly flat, defense business was actually slightly down.
And so while we're seeing in the quarter Both defense and the intelligence lines of business doing, I'll say, north of double digit Margins, the growth that we're seeing in Civil, think of that as kind of a high single digit kind of raws business Is offsetting that performance in the Defense and Intelligence resulting in kind of a flattishness in the margins that Relative to the backlog, I think some of it's just the timing of orders. I don't I'll speak to backlog in general for the corporation, not just IS and GS, but we don't truly have a whole lot of large Scale, competitive orders, the largest one of note obviously is the Littoral Combat Ship, which should be decided next month. Most of the rest of our orders across all the business areas, not just IS and GS, you should think of them in the form of firm and follow on orders. And I'll tell you in particularly in NIAS and GS, this year is particularly spiky in the 4th quarter, where A large number it's always high to begin with, but this year seems abnormally high for the number of quarters in the Q4 versus the rest of the year.
I think overall just backlog in general, we ended up a little bit down in the Q2 compared to some of those because of the delays getting the LRIP4 negotiation done out of aeronautics. But I still look forward to the rest of the year for backlog. I think we're going See growth in the Q3 and then growth in the Q4 as well and I would expect that we probably end of the year close to where we started at the beginning of 2010 with.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jason Gerske of Citigroup.
Thanks. Just a quick question on the space systems and Looking out to as far as 2012, I think in the past you've talked about some classified satellites that will come in starting in 2012. Can you Remind us if that's still the case and what the scope of the contract is there for your classified satellites? Yes. Jason, I think it is a classified opportunity.
I think in this world, we can describe it as the next gen Satellite for the U. S. Government, and it is a large opportunity. We still see that as likely occurring in the 2012 time In terms of the, I'll say the quantity orders, we're right now performing some Development work as we speak, we're already under contract for this. And I'll just remind you, this is a contract that was awarded to us Sole source sometime I guess in the beginning of 2009 or late 2008 timeframe.
I think the order you're talking about is more the production order and that's still It's on track for 2012. And the scope of it and the size of it? You should think of that as being Multi 1,000,000,000 of dollars worth of orders and that's about as specific as I guess I want to get here.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Ron Epstein of Bank of America.
Hey, good afternoon, guys. Bob, when you think about F-thirty 5 in Europe and the current push for austerity in Europe, What impact do you think that will have on orders out of that region? And how do you think that could be offset in Asia? Yes. I think that's a great question.
And of course, one of the things we do as you do pretty often run is push back and look at How the global economy is changing and what conditions will likely result as a function of those changes. I note that the architecture of the program is such and the nature of the program design is such that Most nations, I think, pretty soberly look out at a set of risks. The risks haven't really gone away. And one of the considerable risks is the proliferation of surface to air capabilities, think of area denial capabilities. So what might have Appeared more routine with regard to the use of tactical airplanes in the past.
It's going to be anything but routine in the future because of these area denial Circumstances, I think it's human nature that almost everybody doesn't want to think about the circumstances, but some people are forced to think what happens if there is unrest, What happens if there's instability? So I think that's one driver of looking in balancing economic needs and security needs. I think there still is a sense that we need to recapitalize on a security front. I think also the way we've integrated global supply chain here. So many of the discussions that We are all quite familiar with on these types of programs extend beyond security to issues of the Economics and employment and interest and that all makes a great deal of sense to us and I'm sure you as well.
The Joint Strike Fighter In addition to being an interoperable system that shares the design and development on the security capabilities also shares A component of the industrial base and it's very strongly integrated into the fabric of the program. So If you think of it in these terms, there is a bit of offset on the economic viability or vitality front because This generates value economically as well as consuming value economically. I think we have seen Countries like Italy recommit, particularly with the final assembly and checkout of facility they were looking at the range of 131 Airplanes Norway has committed. We know that Denmark is running a competition and they'll make a determination. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are reviewing the program previously.
They have been favorable. And Canada recently committed to 65 just to round it out, Turkey committed to 100 airplanes. But we're also seeing early expressions of Foreign military sales prospects and 3 of those countries in addition to Israel that is thinking about a total of 75 airplanes, 3 of those countries include Singapore, Japan and South Korea. I think very much then in alignment with the framework of your question that Either there will be additional demand from countries like Singapore, Japan, Korea and others in Asia or potentially offsetting demand. And I would think that over time, we would see an additional area of interest emerge and that would The Middle East, where we have very important security cooperation relationships between our government and many governments in the region And probably in a fashion not terribly dissimilar from the Korean Peninsula, there is a region of potential instability or at least concern there, were there also the proliferation of systems and sophistication in area denial that would highlight the advantage of a 5th generation airplane like Joint Strike Fighter.
So we may see some interest a little beyond the scope of our planning right now Emerging from the Middle East, our sense is, if you make the right investments in the development program to get a fully mission capable airplane, If we keep our focus on production, work near term production pressures and make sure that these are affordable airplanes at the acquisition price By driving down the learning curves and assuring just a sufficient level of volume to give us the volume to drive down the curves, Keeping stability in our supply chain will create the most affordable, most capable fighter that still will have interest in Europe, will probably have growing interest in Asia and growing interest in the Middle East. Devin, this is Jerry. I know we had some extended comments at the beginning of the call. So if we could extend the call here At least another 15 minutes, at least 12:15. We want to go ahead and get some more callers out of the queue.
Yes, sir. Our next question comes from Howard Rubel of Jefferies and Company.
Thank you very much. Bob, when you took over leadership of Lockheed, there were a number of things wrong And you said about methodically fixing them and frankly created an enormous amount of shareholder value and trust And you name it and it was done right. Now sort of we've kind of entered into a little bit of a more unsettled period. And You've talked a lot about the F-thirty five and your initiatives to fix that and make I remember when you used to talk about the T-forty six and the shock you had in that program and how that happened and how that just Cause you to think about enterprises and so on. And so maybe going forward, could you sort of outline some of the other things you're thinking about in terms of Where you're not satisfied because it looks like you're starting to move pieces around to make the business better.
Yes. Well, first of all, Howard, I want to thank you very much for reading the intro to your Exactly the way my mother wrote it. She will be very grateful for that. There is I don't find that honestly, Howard, when I was given what for me is a huge privilege and opportunity to Play a leadership role here. The company was all that awful.
There were things we wanted to do better and more of and things We had been doing that we were very proud of and we wanted to continue. And I'll tell you that's my appraisal environment today. There's things that we're doing Enormously well in this company, but we have spoken I think with great clarity about a new reality that we're all facing and Every one of us is going to face a new reality every day and it's going to require us to behave differently. I'm very proud of the workforce here. I think they are first rate.
Their technical skills are high and their commitment is unequal. These are professionals who believe in the mission And we'll do everything and anything they possibly can to be successful. Our job is to create the climate. So I think you can look at the things we're engaged in now. Portfolio reshaping is a careful examination of all of the lines of business and all the activities that we are in And we want to make sure we're tightly aligned.
We're proud of the PA and E business. These individuals in the business do great work around the country, but the customer demand is moving in a way that is progressively moving away from our strategic orientation and we're realistic about that. In the case of EIG, we're enormously proud of a 40 year plus franchise here that we've built, but we recognize that customers want to raise The bar on even the perception of OCI of conflicts of interest and we're going to respond I think professionally and well there. We'll work on cost reduction. On the F-thirty 5, we're going to work on getting it right.
There isn't any human alive Who has even come approximately close to programs like this who don't appreciate the challenges involved. I think I'm grateful that we're working with a customer who understands this, a customer who is committed to getting it right, a customer who will add resources to a development program when they believe that's a prudent investment in the long term viability and I think they should speak in a voice that has expectations of us To be focused on cost and to do all the things we know how to do to get this right. I want to stay focused on attracting The best talent to this company and assuring that we're giving them a high vitality environment to work in because the commitments we're making on the F-thirty 5 today Are not commitments that will be extinguished in 4 quarters. We will be here 4 decades from now. So we do think of the business in terms of generational evolutions And we're focused on that.
I don't see in any way and I know this is in your question, Howard, the velocity of events or the volatility associated with changes diminishing in the near term. I think you and us and everybody involved in this process You're simply going to have to prepare for a more robust set of circumstances and we're working to try to build that robustness in our processes and
in our
strategic The agility with which we adapt to changing circumstances, which we think they're going to continue and they're going to require more agility. Those are the kind of things we're thinking about. You and others will measure how well we're able to do.
Thanks for
the question, Tom.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Rob Spingarn of Credit Suisse.
Good morning. Good morning.
I wanted to ask you, Bob, about this Sizable Canadian F-thirty 5 deal. Could you talk a little bit about if there is any customization of the aircraft or anything different there and to what extent The contract accommodates that or any other elasticity in the price just given the cost situation now and how far out that is? And then just separately, Bruce, How are you sizing softs on an annual basis? What do you think the flow is going forward and how much of that is WER exposed?
Yes. On the F-thirty five, Rod, we have had a partnership relationship with Canada and 8 other countries as well as 3 U. S. Services for quite some time here With the award of the SDB contract in October 2001, there has been a huge amount of collaboration and that collaboration includes the configuration. And I think you will probably hear when we explore opportunities in the future More oriented toward foreign military sales, the discussions about how much flexibility there will be in the configuration, but I'll A considerable amount of flexibility is already built in the configuration to meet the demands that the operational commands in various countries Would have because that was the point of developing the kind of partnership and consortium we have on the F-thirty 5.
So Specifically to your question about Canada, there is very little discussion about some need for extraordinary tailoring of the air vehicle configuration or its mission systems because frankly it's already in there. There will be discussions I think on a country by country basis that make a lot of sense about how those nations and those militaries will best support the airplane. And so there may be some tailoring of support requirements that would include some levels of industrial participation and so forth. I'll tell you that I believe you're not unfamiliar with this and we are certainly not unfamiliar to this, even as we just look back at our F-sixteen experience. There are various ways that we can help to support or enable customers to improve their operational availability, improve their mission capability and so forth.
In the Joint Strike Fighter, at least in the near term, it doesn't look like there'll be a lot of configuration, adaptability as much as there'll be flexibility and approaches for
Rob, you asked, I think your second question concerns soft sell and The level of activity we've got there and perhaps what war exposure there is to the soft start contract. Just a couple of thoughts from my perspective. First off, this is an IDIQ contract and we're in the middle of about, I think it's 120 day transition period To move from the previous prime contractor to ourselves, so we're in the early stages of recognizing Any high level of activity, frankly, on that program. Going forward, on kind of a steady state basis, at least near term, as we look into 2011, I would think from what I know of the contract, we're probably going to expect somewhere in the, I'll say, the $400,000,000 to 500 $1,000,000 a year range in sales. And I thought a lot about your question on the war exposure.
And frankly, my reaction is, I'm not sure I know what the normal is for this activity. I mean, the special operation troops are so engaged all over the world In any event, but I'm not sure how much of that changes as a result of, say, a slowdown in Iraq or Afghanistan, for instance. So That activity has not seen a whole lot of change from what we could tell for a number of years, but I will say all those years included The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, I don't know that I have a very crisp answer for you there other than I'm not really sure what's going to happen there.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Sam Pearlstein of Wells Fargo.
Good morning. I guess, Bob and Bruce, can you talk about the planned voluntary reduction And you've hinted that and I know you don't know the details, but can you at least size some of that? Are we talking about something in the $10,000,000 range to $100,000,000 range or what should that look like in terms of one time costs? And then is that something That is an allowable cost and how should we think about the cost savings in terms
of what you'll be able
to keep versus what the customers might take back in pricing? Yes. Well, I think, this is Bruce. I'll try to answer it, Sam, to begin with. I think Bob characterized it right well to begin with.
This is a further we're offering to essentially Vice Presidents and Director levels across the corporation And we're early into the stage of the voluntary executive severance program. The participants So the eligible people have until September 7 to actually declare. So I don't have a quantification for you at this point in time. I would expect to have that obviously September 7 falls in the Q3. I would expect to have that quantification in time for the Q3.
Our expectation is that this would be allowable cost. We are doing this with the idea of Lowering our cost projections going forward as a result of this, and I'll say we would expect to have some cost reductions in particular as we Do not backfill all these positions, 1st off and second off, perhaps if we backfill at lower levels, we're looking at that as well. So, Yes, from an overall perspective, I would think this would essentially pay for itself in fairly short order and that's the reason I think it is an allowable context.
And Sam,
I'd only add and I must just for clarity and accuracy, I have not had a specific discussion With Secretary Carter about this initiative, but generally as we have all listened to Secretary Gates, Secretary Carter and others about asking not only the Department of Defense, but All of the companies that support them in their mission to take a very serious look, even an innovative look or doing things that may feel a little nontraditional to
get a
better control of overall costs And value that support affordability, even to the extent of talking about ways To support initiatives with additional profitability or incentives or other measures, I'm not trying to put words into Doctor. Carter's But I think spiritually, notionally, this is very much aligned with the kind of Initiatives that we all ought to be thinking about and it is absolutely the right thing to do to tighten up Santa control to improve reporting to lower the cost structure to be effective and efficient in a time where efficiency matters more rather than less. And that would certainly be part of a conversation we would have about whether the costs are allowable because they're very good returns we think for both the customer and we think for ourselves. And the goal of the Secretary Carter's initiatives are to find These areas that work for the government and work for us. So I felt I think Bruce and others here have felt that this is very much In alignment with the general sense of what we ought to be doing and as Bruce said in September we'll know The total level of participation, again, the program is entirely voluntary, and we ought to appropriately Allow individuals time to consider their alternatives and then we'll be better able to report out to you more detail here, Sam.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Cai von Rumohr of Cowen and Company.
Thank you for extending the question period. Two part question, F-thirty five, Bob, you've mentioned the need to maintain supply The ability, you've also said several times, this should be a very affordable plane if you hit the quantities. Could you, A, Give us some color in terms of what is the leverage if the quantities are a little bit shallower, Shallower build at the front end because of funding considerations, what kind of threats that poses? And secondly, Maybe give us what your year to date pension return is separate question?
Yes. I don't often think of the F-thirty five production ramp rate pension in the same I'll ask Bruce to comment on the pension cut. We've talked about some sensitivity. Let's go back a little bit. We look at 122 airplanes have been taken The near term build rate, we're looking at 32 airplanes in Lot 4 that's under negotiation.
We're looking at the likely prospect of having 42 airplanes funded in the next low rate initial production option. The independent manufacturing review team, Kai, which is Not a Lockheed Martin staffed organization, but a government staffed organization. We work Supporting them and in concert with them, they've done a review of the program, they will do another review of the program. I think it's likely they'll continue to review the program. We welcome that review It gives us a lot of insight.
I think they've looked at a multiple of airplanes year over year that History instructs all of us, let me say, with some latitude would more or less be optimal. Now that's not tied down to a Specific aircraft or 2 or maybe 3 depending on volume, but it is a multiplier of about 1 point 5. So if you wanted to hold a number in your head that may be a nominal point of departure, you might think that every This year, you're adding about half again the number to keep that 1.5 multiple. It varies a little on how much automation you have in the factory, How much machine pace versus labor pace learning? I don't want to get into all the gory details unless the audience here does, which I suspect not, but it is a little Sensitive to that.
What's really fundamental to this overall affordability issue in addition to volume, Which is embedded in your question and important is what cost are you starting at and coming down from and what learning curve Is most likely to be able to be fit to those costs and that's the curve against which volume matters. And right now, On the things that are favorable about the program, I know there's more work to do, but on things that look Good on the program with more of the cost being in production, the early learning curve data and the early initial cost positions Look pretty good. And of course, we are going to have to work really hard to hold and sustain that good profile And we're looking to help from the government to help us do that. And we'll be able to give you an update at the completion of The independent manufacturing review team updated assessment that we think is coming up here in the next two quarters And that will probably run concurrently at least in part with the technical baseline review and it will give us all good Sensitivity about where we think we are, where the government thinks we are, where we need to make adaptations.
But so we're not overly Sensitive in the near term to production quantities, but we're mindful that in the long run, you've got to keep the volume Balanced with the overall learning curves, balanced with the overall cost architecture and we'll be working on that.
And Kai, you'd asked about the pension return. I'll just say, first off, I'm pleased to say we have positive results So, year to date on the pension plans returns, we're not quite at the 8.5% level. So, we have some more work to do for the rest of the year. I think maybe the bigger question there is what's happening with the discount rates because we have more liabilities than we have assets in the plan. And as far as the discount rates are concerned, if we were to strike a line in the sand right now because of where we sit from an interest rate perspective, It would probably be down somewhat.
And so as I said
in my opening comments, one of the reasons why we are pushing The guidance for 2011 into the January call instead of October is because of the volatility we're seeing here both on the asset side as well as the interest rate side, frankly.
Devin, this is Jerry. I think we got we're a little past 12:15. Let's do one last call.
Yes, sir. Our final question comes from Troy Larr of Stifel Nichols.
Thanks. Yes, thanks for taking my call here. Just one question. You talked about faster growth out of the Civil IT business. Is that mostly driven by the Since this work and when does that peak?
Is that kind of 2nd quarter or 3rd quarter? Or does that kind of stretch out into the end of this year? Yes. Troy, yes, two things. The really sharp growth we saw in census in the first, I'll say, first half of the year was due really to 2 big main contracts.
The first one was the census contract. And you're right, that will start to slow down in the second half. I believe we've hit peak in the second quarter, I think we start to turn down and that contract essentially phases out by the end of the year. The second piece of the contract or the second piece of the growth that we're seeing in the Civil is really The Department of Energy Hanford site contract that you may recall was under protest and took a while for us to get going. We're now Seeing the growth in revenue coming from that contract and that will stay fairly constant over time, not just this year but into next year as well.
Is that ramping up enough to offset some of the census work in the back part you think? I still think we're going to on that particular contract, The answer is probably no. But we're still expecting to see the same sorts of growth going forward in 2011 that we're seeing in NIES and GS today in its new configuration, but just because of other activity, particularly in the Civil area besides the two contracts I mentioned there. I think with that, Devin, I'd like to turn it over to Bob and let him give his final thoughts before we break up today.
Yes. Just thanks very much I know we went a little longer than we usually do, but we did want you to have a sufficient detail about our business. I thank you for your patience. We'll see you next quarter. Devin, thanks for your help on the call today.
You're welcome, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the