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M&A Announcement

May 28, 2025

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for holding. Today's call is being recorded. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time. The presentation is posted on the Motorola Solutions Investor Relations website. In addition, a webcast replay of this call will be available on our website within three hours after the conclusion of this call. The website address is www.motorolasolutions.com/investor. All participants have been placed in listen-only mode. You will have an opportunity to ask questions after today's presentation. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star 5 on your telephone keypad to be placed into the queue. You may also press Star 5 again to remove yourself from the queue. I would now like to introduce Mr. Tim Yocum, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Yocum, you may begin your conference.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

Good morning, and thank you for joining us today to discuss our potential acquisition of Silvus Technologies. With me today are Greg Brown, Chairman and CEO; Jason Winkler, Executive Vice President and CFO; Jack Molloy, Executive Vice President and COO; and Mahesh Saptharishi, Executive Vice President and CTO. Greg and Jason will provide some color on the strategic rationale and financial structure of the transaction, and Jack and Mahesh will join for Q&A. We posted a presentation and news release at motorolasolutions.com/investor for your review. Additionally, a number of forward-looking statements will be made during this presentation and during the Q&A portion of the call. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements.

Information about factors that could cause such differences can be found in the risk factor section of our 2024 annual report on Form 10-K or any quarterly report on Form 10-Q and in our other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements. With that, I will turn it over to Greg.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thanks, Tim, and good morning, and thanks, everybody, for joining us. As you saw in yesterday's news release, we've entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Silvus Technologies. Silvus designs and produces software-defined high-speed mobile ad hoc network, or MANET, technology that enables highly secure data, video, and voice communications without any need for fixed infrastructure. Their solutions are designed to support frontline operations in the most challenging and contested environments around the world, creating large, scalable mobile networks that enable communication for bandwidth-intensive technologies like video, sensors, and drones. Since engaging with Silvus, we've been incredibly impressed with the technology and the rapid growth they've achieved.

Their software-defined communications platform is proven to deliver in mission-critical environments, resilient against efforts to jam, detect, and intercept, and I'm thrilled that we were able to come to terms on an agreement, and we expect the deal to close sometime in either Q3 or Q4 of this year. From a strategic standpoint, this acquisition will broaden our portfolio of offerings in mission-critical communication, adding new capabilities such as high bandwidth, secure mobile data, and video that complement our existing expertise in mission-critical voice. It also provides us exposure to fast-evolving new technology verticals, particularly in autonomous systems and defense. As the rapid adoption of unmanned systems, particularly drones, transforms safety, security, and defense operations around the world, Silvus's industry-leading self-healing networks play a critical role in enabling seamless, decentralized communication for enhanced coordination and real-time data sharing. U.S.

and allied militaries rely on Silvus's rapidly deployable mesh networks to command and control both manned and unmanned aerial, ground, and naval systems. Along borders, Silvus connects video and other sensors on remote surveillance towers with security operation centers. Firefighters battling wildfires rely on Silvus to transmit high-definition aerial video and mapping data. At major public events, leading law enforcement agencies use Silvus to create dynamic tactical bubbles to share video and data. I'm excited for the opportunity to combine Silvus's world-class engineering and software talent and their market-leading battle-proven technologies with Motorola Solutions' long history in mission-critical communications. I look forward to sharing more with you once the transaction is closed, and at this point, I'll turn it over to Jason.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

Thanks, Greg. As Greg mentioned, we've been engaged with Silvus for some time and have been impressed by their growth and their financial performance. Silvus Technologies is finding compelling use cases in defense, law enforcement, and enterprise verticals driven by new bandwidth-intensive technologies such as unmanned platforms and AI. Silvus's 2025 revenue is expected to be approximately $475 million, with approximately 45% adjusted EBITDA margins. We anticipate the transaction to be accretive to our non-GAAP EPS within the first 12 months following close. The upfront consideration for the deal is $4.4 billion, which we plan to fund through the combination of new bank loans and long-term notes, as well as cash on hand. In addition, if the business performance significantly exceeds expectations, there is a potential earnout of up to $150 million due in 2027 and up to $450 million due in 2028.

Our financing plan for the transaction, together with our strong balance sheet and robust cash flow expectations this year, positions us well to maintain sufficient capacity for opportunistic capital allocation, including share repurchases or acquisitions. As Greg mentioned, we expect the transaction to close in Q3 or Q4 of this year following regulatory approvals. With that, we'll turn it back over to Tim to open it up for questions.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

Before we begin taking questions, I'd like to remind callers to limit themselves to one question and one follow-up so we can accommodate as many participants as possible. Operator, you can now provide our callers with instructions on how to ask a question.

Operator

The floor is now open for questions. If you have a question or comment, please press Star 5 on your telephone keypad. If for any reason you would like to remove yourself from the queue, please press Star 5 once again. We do ask that while you pose your question, please pick up your handset to provide optimal sound quality. Thank you. The first question is from Joseph Cardoso with JPMorgan. Your line is now open.

Joseph Cardoso
Analyst, JPMorgan

Hey, good morning, everyone, and thanks for the question here. Maybe just starting off, can you help us better understand the current revenue mix of Silvus across a couple of vectors like software/hardware, customer vertical, or application and international exposure? Is there any meaningful customer concentration today? I have a quick follow-up.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Morning, Joe. It's about a third international, and the international is concentrated primarily in EMEA. It is hardware/software, but it is primarily a hardware business as well. As we talked about, the use cases are around unmanned and border security, law enforcement, defense, as well as critical infrastructure.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

Hey, can you bring up the cell phone line back?

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

Who has the dial-in from yesterday? The phone?

Please stand by. We will be live in just a moment.

He said something.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

He said something there.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

Can you hear me?

Joseph Cardoso
Analyst, JPMorgan

Hey, Greg, yep.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Joe, that was a bit of a longer answer than I anticipated. Just kidding.

Can you hear me clearly?

Joseph Cardoso
Analyst, JPMorgan

Yes, you're loud and clear on my end.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Okay. Sorry about that, technical difficulties. What I was saying is, from a vertical standpoint, about a third of their revenue is international and two-thirds North America. While it is, you would think of it traditionally as a hardware business per se, what we're most excited about is the main differentiator in this entire solution is the software. Of course, software that they've developed and the co-creation and iteration that they do with their key high-demanding customers that is representative of more off-the-shelf defense-deployed technologies and less custom orientation. The proving ground for this technology and the inflection point was their dramatic success over an extended period of time in Ukraine.

Joseph Cardoso
Analyst, JPMorgan

Got it. Maybe just quick clarification at the end. Is there any meaningful customer concentration today? As a part of my second question, obviously, there's been public disclosures going back to 2022, I think, of revenue, which implies a double-digit figure through the 2025 targets that you guys kind of laid out or revenue expectations that you laid out. Curious if you could help us think about how sustainable that growth trajectory is going forward and maybe what's underpinning your expectations. Tying it maybe into my first question here, do you expect any meaningful changes in the mix going forward as you think about the opportunity?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

I think the good news about this, look, we view this as a clearly, and we spent a lot of rigorous diligence on this acquisition. We were engaged for over a year with them on this. We looked at this organization cradle to grave. We plan on, upon successful close, having it report directly to Jack Molloy, the COO. We're going to leave the Silvus organization intact. It is additive and a new area to us. We believe we can help the growth profile by investing in R&D, investing in go-to-market. We do not see any unnecessarily or unweighted customer concentration. We feel good about that. The estimated revenues for this year, and it is an estimate, is about $475 million. If you look at growth over last year, it is probably about 20% year -over- year. That is an estimate. We will see what it actually comes in at.

They have a broad presence in DOD. We view the unmanned systems as an accelerant to the growth of this asset. I think they and we will be well-positioned in EMEA with allies as well.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

The only thing I'd add, you mentioned there was a marker out there for about $100 million in 2022. It was actually a bit north of there on a calendar-year basis. Regardless, it's been tremendous growth.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Good point.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

As their technology has been widely adopted in the customer set that Greg mentioned, getting to the $475 million estimated this year-end is quite an accomplishment. We think with the investments and opportunities that we can bring, together we can continue to be successful.

Joseph Cardoso
Analyst, JPMorgan

Yeah. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thanks, Joe.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Tim Long with Barclays. Your line is now open.

Tim Long
Managing Director, Barclays

Thank you. Yeah, two for me as well. Maybe, Greg, for you, just touch a little bit on this is obviously you guys have been very acquisitive over the years and been very successful at it, mostly a little bit smaller and a little bit more in the core public safety area. Can you just touch on kind of why a bigger deal now and kind of what you're thinking about or risks or potential opportunities being in new markets plus with a larger-sized acquisition? Secondly, just curious if in your due diligence, you've touched on, talked to your customers, any synergies with that core market. Could this technology be implemented more with your core public safety and market customers? That would be great. Thank you. Yeah. We, as I mentioned, Tim, we've been engaged with this company for well over a year.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

The diligence, the consideration, the thought around, is this the right asset? What's the opportunity cost of capital? Is it culturally compatible? Do they have market leadership? Is it consistent with our safety and security ecosystem? What we love about it is it's not voice. It's not a voice acquisition. You know our position in LMR Mission Critical Voice. You know what we do in terms of push-to-talk over cellular with Kodiak. You know what we do in push-to-talk LMR in critical infrastructure and enterprise. This is something new, number one. Number two, it's a market leader. It doesn't require fixed infrastructure. It can be rapidly deployed in security, in border control, in safety, in defense. It has highly scalable, very reliable technology that we don't see in the market anywhere else. That was attractive to us, very attractive to us.

Obviously, they have an RF orientation. We think the engineering organization is world-class. As we buy organizations, larger or smaller, is it strategic? Can we improve the growth profile? Can they use the Motorola brand? Is it a common sales go-to-market engine? If we put more capital into it, can we further extend their differentiation? All of those came up positive. By the way, we've looked at organizations and assets similar to this size. We passed on one over a year ago. We've looked at others. This is the first one, and in our opinion, in my opinion, the most exciting one. We feel quite good about it. Great. Just any customer discussions or anything like that that you can share with us on how the industry might be thinking about this combination?

I think we obviously did our homework on the use cases and the customers using this technology, got feedback, overwhelmingly positive feedback. While it is in some newer areas in unmanned aerial, ground, and in water for us, autonomous systems and command and control, this is all about high-bandwidth secure video and data, high-bandwidth secure video and data. We do the mission-critical narrowband voice. This was very attractive as an adjacency and something new. We think, as we mentioned in some of the use cases, in addition to defense and military, it has application in law enforcement. It has application in firefighting in terms of spectrum monitoring. It has more widespread application in law enforcement. In terms of some of the core markets we serve around public safety and critical infrastructure, we view it as a natural extension.

Tim Long
Managing Director, Barclays

Okay. Thank you.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thank you.

Operator

The next question is from Amit Daryanani with Evercore ISI. Your line is now open.

Amit Daryanani
Analyst, Evercore ISI

Yep. Thanks. Good morning, everyone. I have two as well. I guess maybe to start with, 45% EBITDA margin seems extremely impressive. I'm just wondering, can you just talk about what the gross operating margin profile for that asset looks like? And are there any cost synergies that you can think about as you integrate the deal going forward? As you would imagine, the gross margin profile is healthy. When we justified and reviewed with the board the financial returns, this is not about cost synergies. This is about top-line revenue growth, extending differentiation, hitting adjacent markets, putting more capital in. This is not a buy company A and slash cost. We're not looking at cost synergies. We're looking at top-line growth. That was the other nice thing about this.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Since they're specialized and have been so successful over the last few years, we think the combination will be quite accretive and quite additive.

Amit Daryanani
Analyst, Evercore ISI

Got it. If I could just follow up, the revenue that Silvus have gone from a little over $100 million to $475 million for this year. Clearly, you've had some really strong growth in this asset. I think the fear folks may have is, are you essentially paying a very high valuation at potentially peak growth? Maybe could you just touch on what do you think the growth profile looks like for this asset beyond 2025? When you look at the internal metrics they had, what are some of the growth rates you folks are thinking this asset could do over the next few years? That would just be helpful because the valuation does seem high given the growth trajectory the asset has been on.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

We do not think the valuation is high. In fact, we think the price we are paying when you look at EBITDA multiples is generally in line. In addition, as Jason said, the $100 million that some folks referenced, the actual revenue was a little higher than that. The $475 million estimate is exactly that for this year. It is an estimate. If it comes in around that, we think that growth year over year would be about 20% plus or minus. The other thing we liked about it is the significant opportunities that are in the funnel and the pipeline of opportunities. Amit, we do not think, obviously, that we are overpaying or leaned in in an irresponsible way. When we look at this through a couple of different vectors, we feel quite good about the deployment of capital and its commensurate returns going forward.

Obviously, one of the most exciting things is this is great technology. It's a market leader. We think we can accelerate it. It has strong margin and growth profile. With capital in our brand and our market coverage internationally, we think we can assist it. Thanks, Amit.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Louie DiPalma with William Blair. Your line is now open.

Louie DiPalma
Analyst, William Blair

Hi. Good morning, Greg, Jason, Jack, Mahesh, and Tim. Congrats on signing the deal.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

Thanks, Louis.

Louie DiPalma
Analyst, William Blair

The U.S. Department of Defense is working on several new drone projects, including Replicator and CCA. Silvus, they've announced partnerships with some of the leading drone OEMs. How do you believe Silvus is positioned to capture the video and command and control links for some of these opportunities? Separately, do you also think that Silvus could potentially play a role in Golden Dome as they've previously announced a partnership with the Army's Integrated Battlefield Command System for missile defense?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

I mean, overall, we think this asset is in the sweet spot of attractiveness in terms of what the U.S. Department of Defense is looking at as they look to, first of all, in the House bill, and ultimately, if they get legislation passed, there will be more money for defense, number one. Number two, the more money being increased in defense has the orientation and characteristics around what this does. Off-the-shelf, not a heavy platform, not a custom orientation, quick to deploy, market-leading, proven ground technology, light theaters in Ukraine and otherwise. In terms of Golden Dome, let's see how the attributes and characteristics play out in the requirements of that ultimately. At this point, I think the Trump administration has talked about it conceptually. There's a lot of blanks to be filled in.

Do I think this technology can clearly protect our borders and for utilization of unmanned systems, be defense and protectionist in orientation? Absolutely.

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

The only thing I would add to that, Louis, is that when you think about how Silvus has proven itself in Ukraine, the key factor there was jamming and interference. With drones specifically, that was a very big deal. Silvus Technologies have really proven themselves out there. As Greg said, there is also this significant factor with Silvus Technologies being software-based in that it does not require any custom hardware. It can easily adapt to multiple different platforms, which becomes quite important, I think, in the context of drones and autonomous systems in general.

Lastly, as we see more and more drone solutions going towards not just singular drones being deployed, but swarms of drones being deployed, the fact that Silvus scales up to 550-plus nodes without significant degradation in bandwidth and with the resilience and low probability of intercept, low probability of detection capability coming into play, we believe that it's a critical technology. I think multiple drone vendors have already adopted it.

Louie DiPalma
Analyst, William Blair

Excellent. Thanks, Mahesh. Thanks, Greg and Jason. I look forward to hearing more about this in the future.

Thank you.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thank you.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Houssam with Northcoast Research. Your line is now open.

Keith Housum
Analyst, Northcoast Research

Good morning. Congratulations, guys. I'm a hard work here. I understand it's a market leader in this space. Greg, is there anyone else that's competitive in this space as well that perhaps we should keep our eye on?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

There are some other specialized players: TrellisWare, Persistent Systems, DTC. I think we've done a pretty good job comprehensively looking at the competitive landscape. We were impressed significantly by the differentiation, technology, talent, scale, especially what Mahesh just referenced, over 500-plus nodes in a highly secure, no-requirement fixed infrastructure environment. We were most attracted to this asset. We love the composition financially, strategically, culturally, and technically.

Operator

Okay. The next question is from the line of Adam Tendler with Raymond James. Your line is now open.

Adam Tendler
Analyst, Raymond James

Okay. Thanks. Good morning. Greg, I just want to start back on the financials here because I know we'll get questions on this. So the $475 million in 2025 in revenue, I understand that's a projection based on 20% year-over-year growth. If I did the math right, we were implying just around $400 million of revenue in 2024. The first part of the question would be, I understand 2022 number was 100 and change, let's call it. That time period from 2022 to 2024 to go from 100 and change to just under 400 is just a big jump. I wonder if you could provide a little bit more color on what drove that level of growth during that time period. The second part of the question would be once we go from 2024 to 2025, you're calling for 20% growth.

Why would that trajectory slow down so much in terms of growth? Obviously, 20% still healthy, but relative to where that was. I have a follow-up.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Yeah. So a couple of things. I mean, it's the law of large numbers to some degree. Also, as they ramped, remember in the three-year-plus Ukrainian-Russian conflict, they were in heavy deployment. So Ukrainian revenue was disproportionately higher in the previous periods. We believe, as we've looked pro forma, we've taken a responsible look on what those revenue projections could be going forward. We've obviously moderated that back. If you put that off to the side and decompose the revenue construct that's being derived from other customers, this is still a very good growth business that we feel good about. Again, the 20% is an estimate. The $475 million is an estimate. We'll see where it shakes out. We'll update you post-close. I think, Adam, the lumpiness and higher growth a few years ago was Ukraine deployment.

Adam Tendler
Analyst, Raymond James

Is there anything about that that's one-time that does not repeat or if the conflict resolves itself, goes away?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Look, we modeled a whole host of scenarios. I think that there's more intensity in the middle of battlefield and conflict. There is still a continuity, we believe, of technology from a defensive standpoint, from a protection standpoint, from a security of the border standpoint, irrespective if "conflict goes away." We also have looked at other newer programs that are coming into the forefront, both at DOD and EMEA. We feel reasonably comfortable about this asset and its ability to grow substantially. I mean, it's going to grow obviously higher than what LMR would grow in terms of low to mid-single digits. This is obviously growing faster vis-à-vis the estimate of 20%. Anything beyond, we'll update you post-close. We'll give you color on 2026. That is a ways out. I appreciate the question.

Adam Tendler
Analyst, Raymond James

Okay. Maybe just a quick follow-up for Jason then. When we back into this deal from an EBITDA multiple basis, it looks really attractive, almost at parity with doing a buyback. And you're getting higher growth here. It seems to make a ton of sense from a financial standpoint. I wonder, during this time period, we've got this very strong growth. What was the EBITDA margin trajectory like during that time? Or if you could maybe just give us a sense of the 2024 EBITDA margin. I understand we've got the revenue growth. What did the EBITDA margin look like relative to this 45% that you're projecting for 2025? Thanks.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

Their EBITDA margins have been solid along that growth pattern and the rapid growth that they've experienced. They run not only a high-growth company but also a very profitable company. Our expectations are that we would continue to make some investments and enter into areas in our theaters where we can expand the use cases. Having an asset that we agree with you is growing fast, is highly profitable by looking at our own multiple or even multiples in similar spaces, we feel good about the value that we've deployed here and the opportunities it represents for us going forward.

Operator

Okay. Once again, if you have a question, you may press star 5 on your telephone keypad. The next question is from the line of Matthew Niknam with Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.

Matthew Niknam
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Hey, guys. Thanks so much for taking the question. Congrats on the deal. Just two, if I could. First off, you mentioned you've been engaged with the team for some time. I'm just curious if there was a specific catalyst that really got the process going and ultimately got the deal over the goal line. Secondly, in terms of integration plans, curious if you're looking to maintain Silvus's brand, is the management team there sticking around? What sorts of incremental investment do you envision making post-acquisition close? Thank you.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

The investments we're planning to make are in research and development and go-to-market that we think would be additive to their growth profile. Long process of engagement. We've done, I don't know, 40-plus acquisitions since MSI, maybe even 50 of various sizes. We had some starts and stops along the way that I think would be normal in any large engagement. I think that probably the beginning of this calendar year, more engagement with me and my counterpart at TJC, along with the great work done by Jack and Jason and Raj and Mahesh and Michael Ennis, communications began to be a little bit more frequent and fully aligned. We kept our board informed along the way. I just think that the other thing is their continued performance. We looked last year we were engaged. We thought they would do X. They did better.

We looked at it midterm. We thought they would do Y. They did better. One of the other inflection points is their continued outperformance, their growing pipeline of opportunities, the extended and expanded traction that they got all lend itself well to this was the right time to do this. To the point made by Adam, we think it's a fair price for both parties. We think it's accretive. Obviously, it's accretive within the first 12 months on a non-GAAP basis. These do not come along very often. We thought the time to move was now.

Matthew Niknam
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Thank you.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thank you.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Tomer Zilberman with Bank of America. Your line is now open.

Tomer Zilberman
Analyst, Bank of America

Hi, guys. Maybe just a quick point of clarification. Do you expect to roll Silvus under your LMR segment?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Too early. We want to get it closed first. LMR is a different business. This is a newer business. Our segments we anticipate will be unchanged with product and SI and software and services. We'll see ultimately when we close where this goes up. I don't think it goes in command center or video. We're going to sort through exactly from a technology standpoint where it makes the most sense from a description standpoint and a category standpoint. Our segments, product and SI and software and services will be unchanged.

Tomer Zilberman
Analyst, Bank of America

Got it. Maybe just to ask a similar question along the lines of the revenue growth trajectory, but ask it in a different way. Assuming that it goes into LMR, if we look at the historical growth profile of that market, it's kind of low single digits. You guided to low to mid-single digits this year. Do you expect that with Silvus, you can sustain that higher growth on a go-forward basis? As a follow-up, talking about new use cases such as unmanned and maybe new opportunities within the DOD, how are you thinking about go-to-market, any changes you need to make there?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

We're not going to guide growth profile beyond what we've said for this year, which is, to your point, Tomer, low to mid-single digit revenue growth for LMR and depending upon where they land in revenue, plus or minus 20% for this year. Obviously, we're attracted to this asset in part because the growth profile is significantly larger. Actually, at 20%, it's larger than any of the three technologies. How we guide that and what that growth profile is in 2026 and 2027 and beyond, stay tuned for post-close and how we see we finish the year. We also think that we'll put additional coals on the fire for Jack Molloy's international go-to-market and some of the people that Silvus has on their international team under Bevek and Jimmy, who runs global sales.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

I think Greg mentioned internally that we would continue to run Silvus as a standalone org. That's important to continue their growth and complemented by some of the investments that Molloy will make to offer the product across more of our traditional customer set. That's important for both continued trajectory. There's also an earnout associated with 2027 and 2028 and the opportunities that that presents for both of us. Measuring it and monitoring it internally in one org is also going to be important.

Tomer Zilberman
Analyst, Bank of America

Got it. Thank you.

Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and CFO, Motorola Solutions

Just one other thing there. I think the other just two other things. We think there's additional opportunity to expand not only within DOD, but within DHS. I think that's also critically important as you think about the borders that Greg made reference to. The second thing is we look at their process. One of the areas where I think Motorola can come in and add value is from a lobbying, from an appropriation standpoint at multiple levels, not only within the DOD, but on the Hill as well, as well as international government relations. We think that's an area that there'll be some synergy on our end. Thanks.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Ben Bowen with Cleveland Research. Your line is now open.

Ben Bowen
Analyst, Cleveland Research

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking the question. Greg, can you remind us in the past, you've talked a little bit about how much cash you need on hand to run the business. Where does that figure stand today? Any thoughts on what the kind of approximate mix might look like for cash allocated versus debt and notes used to fund this transaction?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

This upfront consideration is $4.4 billion. If you think about high-level $4 billion of debt, half of that would be more fixed long-term debt in nature. The other half will be temporary notes and things that we would pay back sooner. If you layer in what we're paying plus the balance sheet and cash on hand, this will increase a little less than one turn of our adjusted debt to EBITDA leverage. We still have capacity and room going forward.

Ben Bowen
Analyst, Cleveland Research

Okay. Then as a follow-up, within the first 12 months, talking about achieving non-GAAP EPS accretion, we made a $4.75 and some basic assumptions. Obviously, currently, it looks like it would be dilutive. How do you get to that accretion in that subsequent 12-month period? Is there an assumption on revenue growth? You've talked about investing in the business. Just how do you get through that? Help us bridge that. Thanks.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Sure. On a non-GAAP basis, the 12-month window for which we think it'll be accretive is based on the growth expectations, a strong EBITDA. On a non-GAAP basis, it will take longer to be accretive. Excuse me, on a GAAP basis, because you incorporate interest and the likes. On the clarity of the P&L that we're assuming, it's definitely accretive on a non-GAAP basis within 12 months.

Ben Bowen
Analyst, Cleveland Research

Thanks, guys.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thanks, Ben.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Meta Marshall with Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

Hey, morning, everyone. This is Jamie on for Meta. Just two quick questions. A lot of talk about unmanned systems. Are you able to give a high-level sense as to sort of what that incremental TAM could be for MSI?

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

I think it's a couple of billion in the short term. Over the next few years, we think it's several billion. Because obviously, the need for unmanned is growing exponentially. While it might be a couple of billion now, we expect it to be several billion over the next few years.

Great. Thanks. And then just real quick, are there any sort of regulatory considerations we should keep in mind as you approach the close?

Tim Yocum
VP of Investor Relations, Motorola Solutions

We think it should close relatively earlier. That would be our expectation, which we said either Q3 or Q4. Since we do not compete in this business today and it is new, new technology and very different than what we do today, we expect that we would go through the normal process approvals in the U.S. and Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and the like. We do not anticipate any regulatory issues because we think this is pretty straightforward and something very new and different than what we do today.

Great. Thank you so much.

Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions

Thank you.

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