Customer and Geographic Information

6 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2015

Geographic Areas, Revenues from External Customers [Abstract]

Sales by geography and customer type, as a percentage of consolidated net sales, are as follows:



	Three months ended January 31,				Six months ended January 31,
	2015		2014		2015		2014
United States
U.S. government	27.5	%	31.2	%	26.2	%	28.4	%
Commercial	11.7	%	11.3	%	12.8	%	14.3	%
Total United States	39.2	%	42.5	%	39.0	%	42.7	%

International
North African country	15.0	%	13.7	%	14.8	%	13.1	%
Other international	45.8	%	43.8	%	46.2	%	44.2	%
Total International	60.8	%	57.5	%	61.0	%	57.3	%

Sales to U.S. government end customers include the Department of Defense ("DoD") and intelligence and civilian agencies, as well as sales directly to or through prime contractors.

International sales for the three months ended January 31, 2015 and 2014 (which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers) were $49,768,000 and $49,144,000, respectively. International sales for the six months ended January 31, 2015 and 2014 (which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers) were $96,524,000 and $96,684,000, respectively.

Sales to a U.S. prime contractor customer represented approximately 14.4% of consolidated net sales for both the three and six months ended January 31, 2015 and 13.5% and 13.0% for the three and six months ended January 31, 2014, respectively. Almost all of these sales related to our North African country end-customer.

For the three and six months ended January 31, 2015 and 2014, no other customer or individual country (including sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to a foreign country) represented more than 10% of consolidated net sales.