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Retirement Benefits, (As Restated for fiscal 2014 and 2013) | Retirement Benefits a. Plan Descriptions Pension Benefits The Company's defined benefit pension plan future benefit accrual was discontinued in fiscal 2009. As of December 31, 2016, the assets, projected benefit obligations, and unfunded pension obligation for the tax-qualified pension plans were approximately $925.1 million, $1,492.1 million, and $548.2 million, respectively. The Company expects to make cash contributions of approximately $72.0 million to its tax-qualified defined benefit pension plan in fiscal 2017. The Company is generally able to recover these contributions related to its tax-qualified defined benefit pension plan as allowable costs on its U.S. government contracts, but there is a lag between when the Company contributes cash to its tax-qualified defined benefit pension plan under pension funding rules and recovers the cash under the U.S. government Cost Accounting Standards. During fiscal 2016, the Company made cash contributions of $32.8 million to its tax-qualified defined benefit pension plan of which $27.5 million was recoverable in the Company's U.S. government contracts in fiscal 2016 with the remaining $5.3 million being potentially recoverable in the Company's U.S. government contracts in the future. The funded status of the Company's tax-qualified pension plan may be adversely affected by the investment experience of the plan's assets, by any changes in U.S. law and by changes in the statutory interest rates used by tax-qualified pension plans in the U.S. to calculate funding requirements. Accordingly, if the performance of the Company’s plan's assets does not meet assumptions, if there are changes to the Internal Revenue Service regulations or other applicable law or if other actuarial assumptions are modified, future contributions to the underfunded pension plans could be higher than the Company expects. Medical and Life Insurance Benefits The Company provides medical and life insurance benefits to certain eligible retired employees, with varied coverage by employee group. Generally, employees hired after January 1, 1997 are not eligible for retiree medical and life insurance benefits. The medical benefit plan provides for cost sharing between the Company and its retirees in the form of retiree contributions, deductibles, and coinsurance. Medical and life insurance benefit obligations are unfunded. Medical and life insurance benefit cash payments for eligible retired employees are recoverable under the Company’s U.S. government contracts. Defined Contribution 401(k) Benefits The Company sponsors a defined contribution 401(k) plan and participation in the plan is available to all employees. The Company makes matching contributions in cash equal to 100% of the first 3% of the participants’ compensation contributed and 50% of the next 3% of the compensation contributed. The cost of the 401(k) plan was $20.7 million, $24.9 million, $24.4 million, and $1.3 million in fiscal 2016, fiscal 2015, fiscal 2014, and the one month ended December 31, 2015, respectively. b. Plan Results Summarized below is the balance sheet impact of the Company’s pension benefits and medical and life insurance benefits. Pension benefits include the consolidated tax-qualified plan and the unfunded non-qualified plan for benefits provided to employees beyond those provided by the Company’s tax-qualified plan. Assets, benefit obligations, and the funded status of the plans were determined at December 31, 2016 and 2015.
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(3) Reflects activity for the one month ended December 31, 2015. The accumulated benefit obligation for the defined benefit pension plans was $1,492.1 million and $1,530.9 million as of the December 31, 2016 and 2015 measurement dates, respectively. Components of retirement benefit expense (income) were:
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Market conditions and interest rates significantly affect assets and liabilities of the pension plans. Pension accounting permits market gains and losses to be deferred and recognized over a period of years. This “smoothing” results in the creation of other accumulated income or loss which will be amortized to pension costs in future years. The accounting method the Company utilizes recognizes one-fifth of the unamortized gains and losses in the market-related value of pension assets and all other gains and losses including changes in the discount rate used to calculate benefit costs each year. Investment gains or losses for this purpose are the difference between the expected return and the actual return on the market-related value of assets which smoothes asset values over three years. Although the smoothing period mitigates some volatility in the calculation of annual retirement benefit expense, future expenses are impacted by changes in the market value of assets and changes in interest rates. c. Plan Assumptions The Company used the following assumptions, calculated based on a weighted-average, to determine the benefit obligations:
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The Company used the following assumptions, calculated based on a weighted-average, to determine the retirement benefit expense (income):
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Certain actuarial assumptions, such as assumed discount rate, long-term rate of return, and assumed healthcare cost trend rates can have a significant effect on amounts reported for periodic cost of pension benefits and medical and life insurance benefits, as well as respective benefit obligation amounts. The assumed discount rate represents the market rate available for investments in high-quality fixed income instruments with maturities matched to the expected benefit payments for pension and medical and life insurance benefit plans. The expected long-term rate of return on assets represents the rate of earnings expected in the funds invested, and funds to be invested, to provide for anticipated benefit payments to plan participants. The Company evaluated historical investment performance, current and expected asset allocation, and, with input from the Company’s external advisors, developed best estimates of future investment performance. Based on this analysis, the Company decided to change the long-term expected rate of return on assets from 8.0% to 7.0% effective December 1, 2015. The Company reviews external data and its own historical trends for healthcare costs to determine the healthcare cost trend rates for the medical benefit plans. For fiscal 2016 medical benefit obligations, the Company assumed a 7.0% annual rate of increase for pre and post 65 participants in the per capita cost of covered healthcare claims with the rate decreasing over four years until reaching 5.0%. A one percentage point change in the key assumptions would have the following effects on the projected benefit obligations as of December 31, 2016 and on retirement benefit expense for fiscal 2016:
d. Plan Assets and Investment Policy The Company’s investment policy is to maximize the total rate of return with a view toward long-term funding objectives to ensure that funds are available to meet benefit obligations when due. The assets are diversified to the extent necessary to minimize risk and to achieve an optimal balance between risk and return. This return seeking strategy focuses on higher return seeking investments in actively managed investment vehicles and allows for diversification as to the type of assets, tactical trades, and number of investment managers used to carry out this strategy. This strategy is achieved using diversified asset types, which may include cash, equities, fixed income, real estate, private equity holdings, and derivatives. Allocations between these asset types may change as a result of changing market conditions and tactical investment opportunities. While the Company does not target specific investment allocations, the Company monitors asset allocations to provide diversification by investment type and investment managers to meet the Company’s objective of maximizing the total rate of return while ensuring sufficient liquidity to meet required benefit payments. The Company’s asset allocations by asset category were as follows:
The fair value by asset category and by level were as follows:
Below is a description of the significant investment strategies and valuation methodologies used for the investments measured at fair value, including the general classification of such investments pursuant to the valuation hierarchy. There have been no changes in the methodologies used at December 31, 2016 and 2015. Cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents are held in money market accounts or invested in Short-Term Investment Funds (“STIFs”). Cash and cash equivalents held in money market accounts are classified as Level 1 investments. STIFs are measured at NAV and included in CCTs as a reconciling item to the fair value tables above. Equity securities Equity securities are invested broadly in U.S. and non-U.S. companies in a variety of sectors and market capitalizations. These investments are comprised of common stocks, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), CCTs, derivatives and other investment vehicles. Common stocks and ETFs are stated at fair value as quoted on a recognized securities exchange and are valued at the last reported sales price on the last business day of the fiscal year and are classified as Level 1 investments. Derivatives include call and put options on common stocks or ETFs, which are all listed on an exchange and active market and classified as Level 1 investments. Short sales are short equity positions which are all listed on an exchange and active market and classified as Level 1 investments. Equity securities that are invested in common stock of private companies are priced using unobservable inputs and classified as Level 3 investments. CCTs invested in equity securities are measured at NAV and included as a reconciling item to the fair value tables above. Fixed income securities Fixed income securities are invested in a variety of instruments, including, but not limited to, corporate debt securities, CCTs, asset-backed securities, and other investment vehicles. Corporate debt securities are invested in corporate bonds or ETFs. ETFs are traded in an exchange and active market and classified as Level 1 investments. Corporate bonds that are valued at bid evaluations using observable and market-based inputs are classified as Level 2 investments. Corporate bonds that are priced by brokers using unobservable inputs are classified as Level 3 investments. Asset-backed securities, including government-backed mortgage securities, non-government-backed collateralized mortgage obligations, asset-backed securities, and commercial mortgage-backed securities, are valued at bid evaluations and are classified as Level 2 investments. Short sales are short fixed income positions which are classified as Level 1 investments if they are listed on an exchange and active market, and are classified as Level 2 investments if they are valued at bid evaluation using observable and market-based inputs. CCTs invested in fixed income securities are measured at NAV and included as a reconciling item to the fair value tables above. Real estate investments Real estate investments include residential and commercial lots located in Benicia, California and are classified as Level 3 investments. Private assets Private assets are primarily limited partnerships and fund-of-funds that mainly invest in U.S. and non-U.S. leveraged buyout, venture capital and special situation strategies. Generally, the individual investments within the partnerships or funds are valued at public market, private market, or appraised value. Private assets are valued at total market value or NAV, which are estimated by investment managers using unobservable inputs such as extrapolated data, proprietary data, or indicative quotes and are included as a reconciling item to the fair value tables above. Valuations of certain assets were based on the NAV or total market value three months prior to the fiscal year-end. The Company made adjustments amounting to an increase of $11.3 million for fiscal 2016 and a decrease of $8.6 million for fiscal 2015 to account for changes since the valuation date. Hedge funds Hedge funds primarily consist of multi-strategy hedge funds that invest across a range of equity and debt securities in a variety of industry sectors. Hedge funds are valued at NAV calculated by investment managers using unobservable inputs such as extrapolated data, proprietary data, or indicative quotes and are included as a reconciling item to the fair value tables above. Changes in the fair value of the Level 3 investments were as follows:
e. Benefit Payments The following table presents estimated future benefit payments:
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