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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation and Principle of Consolidation
Basis of Presentation and Principle of Consolidation
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Telos and its subsidiaries (see Note 1 – Organization), all of whose issued and outstanding share capital is wholly owned directly and indirectly by Telos Corporation. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Basis of Accounting
The unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP"), and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
Use of Estimates
Use of Estimates
The preparation of these unaudited consolidated financial statements, in conformity with U.S. GAAP, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. The Company regularly assesses these estimates; however, actual results could differ from those estimates. We base our estimates on historical experience, currently available information, and various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances.
Management evaluates these estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis, including those relating to revenue recognition on cost estimation on certain contracts, allowance for credit losses, inventory obsolescence, valuation allowance for deferred tax assets, income taxes, certain assumptions related to stock-based compensation, valuation of intangible assets and goodwill, restructuring expenses accruals, and contingencies. Actual results could differ from these estimates. The impact of changes in estimates is recorded in the period in which they become known
Deferred Program Expenses
Deferred Program Expenses
Deferred program expenses include direct contract costs identifiable with or allocable to a specific contract. These costs are capitalized as deferred program expenses when the costs are expected to be recovered over a period of time. These costs are amortized using the straight-line method over the expected contract period of performance or recognized upon delivery of the performance obligation. If the contract period of performance is beyond twelve months, we classify the cost as long-term and is included within "Other assets" on the unaudited consolidated balance sheets.
Income Taxes
Income Taxes
The period for which tax years are open, 2021 to 2024, has not been extended beyond the applicable statute of limitations. In September 2024, we were advised by the Internal Revenue Services ("IRS") regarding an audit of our 2021 federal income tax return. In April 2025, the IRS notified us that they completed their examination of our 2021 federal income tax return with no changes to our reported tax.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was enacted into law, which includes significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. The OBBBA imposes various changes to U.S. federal income tax regulations, such as restoring bonus depreciation, and removing the requirement to capitalize and amortize domestic research and development expenditures. The OBBBA also included certain modifications to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, including the repeal or acceleration of the sunset of certain tax credits and elimination of certain penalties for violations of certain regulatory credit programs. The legislation has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. We are currently evaluating the potential impact of these provisions on our unaudited consolidated financial statements.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
The Company adopted all applicable standards effective as of December 31, 2024, within these unaudited consolidated financial statements, with no material impact as a result of the adoption.
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU No. 2023-09, "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosure," which requires public entities, on an annual basis, (1) to disclosure specific categories in the rate reconciliation, and (2) to provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold (if the effect of those reconciling items is equal to or greater than 5% of the amount computed by multiplying pretax income (loss) by the applicable statutory income tax rate). This ASU will be effective, for public entities, for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. We are currently assessing the impact of the adoption of this ASU on our unaudited consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, "Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosure (Topic 220): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses." This standard requires additional disclosure of certain amounts included in the expense captions presented on the statements of operations, as well as disclosures about selling expenses. This ASU is effective on a prospective basis, with the option for retrospective application. All public entities are required to adopt the guidance in annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. We are in the process of assessing the impact of the adoption of this ASU on our unaudited consolidated financial statements.
In addition, from time to time, new accounting standards are issued by the FASB or other standard-setting bodies and are adopted by the Company as of the specified accounting date. Unless otherwise discussed, the Company believes that issued standards not yet effective will not have a material effect on its financial statements.
Revenue Recognition
We account for revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers." The unit of account in ASC 606 is a performance obligation, which is a promise in a contract with a customer to transfer a good or service to the customer.
The majority of our revenue is recognized over time, as control is transferred continuously to our customers, who receive and consume benefits as we perform. Revenue transferred to customers over time accounted for 68% and 73% of our revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and 84% and 82% of our revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. All of our business groups earn services revenue under a variety of contract types, including time and materials, firm-fixed price, firm-fixed price level of effort, and cost-plus fixed fee, which may include variable consideration. On the other hand, for performance obligations in which control does not continuously transfer to the customer, we recognize revenue at the point in time when each performance obligation is fully satisfied. This coincides with the point in time the customer obtains control of the product or service, which typically occurs upon customer acceptance or receipt of the product or service, given that we maintain control of the product or service until that point. Revenue transferred to customers at a point in time accounted for 32% and 27% of our revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and 16% and 18% of our revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. The change in revenue mix for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, as compared to the prior periods, was primarily driven by an increase in product sales volume.
Orders for the sale of software licenses may contain multiple performance obligations, such as maintenance, training, or consulting services, which are typically delivered over time, consistent with the transfer of control disclosed above for the provision of services. When an order contains multiple performance obligations, we allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations based on the standalone selling price of the product or service underlying each performance obligation. The standalone selling price represents the amount we would sell the product or service to a customer on a standalone basis.
For certain performance obligations where we are not primarily responsible for fulfilling the promise to provide the goods or services to the customer, do not have inventory risk and have limited discretion in establishing the price for the goods or services, we recognize revenue on a net basis.
Our contracts may include various types of variable considerations and may include estimated amounts in the transaction price, based on all of the information available to us, and to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when any uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved. We evaluate and include these estimated amounts of variable consideration in the transaction price and as performance on these contracts is complete, we adjust our revenue, when deemed necessary. No revenue adjustments were recorded during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, and 2024.
We provide for anticipated losses on contracts during the period when the loss is determined by recording an expense for the total expected costs that exceeds the total estimated revenue for a performance obligation. No contract loss was recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2025, and 2024. We recorded an immaterial contract loss during the six months ended June 30, 2025, and 2024.