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Dec. 31, 2019

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Accounting Estimates

Accounting Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Areas of the financial statements where estimates may have the most significant effect include the provision for claimed indirect costs, valuation and lives of tangible and intangible assets, contingent consideration related to business acquisitions, impairment of long-lived assets, accrued liabilities, revenue recognition, including the accrual of indirect costs, bonus and other incentive compensation, lease incremental borrowing rates, stock-based compensation, reserves for tax benefits and valuation allowances on deferred tax assets, provisions for income taxes, postretirement obligations, certain deferred costs, collectability of receivables, and loss accruals for litigation. Actual results experienced by the Company may differ materially from management's estimates.

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards and Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), to increase transparency and comparability of accounting for lease transactions. The new leasing standard requires lessees to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities on their balance sheet for all leases with a lease term greater than 12 months. Topic 842 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. In July 2018, the FASB provided an alternative transition method of adoption through ASU 2018-11, Targeted Improvements, which permits the recognition of a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings on the date of adoption. 

The Company adopted the standard on April 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition approach provided by ASU 2018-11, and, as a result, did not recast comparative prior period information. In addition, the Company elected certain practical expedients permitted under Topic 842, including the option not to apply lease recognition for short-term leases; an

election to not separate lease from non-lease components; and a package of practical expedients such that, upon the initial adoption of Topic 842, the Company did not reassess whether expired or existing contracts contain leases, nor did the Company reassess the lease classification for expired or existing leases. The Company did not elect the practical expedient to use hindsight in determining the lease term and in assessing impairment of right-of-use (ROU) assets.

In March 2019, the SEC issued Final Rule Release No. 33-10618, FAST Act Modernization and Simplification of Regulation S-K, amending certain disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K, with the intent of improving the readability of filed documents and simplifying registrants' compliance efforts. The Company adopted certain aspects of this final rule in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019 which did not have a material impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements. Other aspects not yet adopted are still being evaluated but are not expected to be material.

In August 2018, the SEC issued Final Rule Release No. 33-10532, Disclosure Update and Simplification, amending certain disclosure requirements that were redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated or superseded. In addition, the amendments expanded the disclosure requirements on the analysis of stockholders' equity for interim financial statements. Under the amendments, an analysis of changes in each caption of stockholders' equity presented in the balance sheet must be provided in a note or separate statement. This analysis should present a reconciliation of the beginning balance to the ending balance of each period for which a statement of comprehensive income is required to be filed. The amendments became effective on November 5, 2018; however the SEC allows the filer’s first presentation of the changes in stockholders’ equity to be included in its Form 10-Q for the quarter that begins after the effective date of the amendments. Accordingly, the Company first presented the condensed consolidated statement of stockholders' equity in the Form 10-Q in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. The Company's adoption of this final rule did not have a material effect on the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract. This guidance requires a customer in a cloud computing arrangement that is a service contract to follow existing internal-use software guidance to determine which implementation costs to defer and recognize as an asset. ASU 2018-15 generally aligns the guidance on capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a cloud computing arrangement that is a service contract with that of implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software, including hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license. ASU 2018-15 is effective for interim reporting periods for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. The standard may be adopted either retrospectively or prospectively. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Other accounting and reporting pronouncements effective after December 31, 2019 and issued through the filing date are not expected to have a material impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.