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Customer and Geographic Information | 9 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2016
Geographic Areas, Revenues from External Customers [Abstract] |
Customer and Geographic Information | Customer and Geographic Information Sales by geography and customer type, as a percentage of consolidated net sales, are as follows:
|  | Three months ended April 30, |  | Nine months ended April 30,
|  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
United States |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. government |  | 41.9 | % |  | 37.5 | % |  | 41.8 | % |  | 29.7 | %
Domestic |  | 35.2 | % |  | 11.9 | % |  | 26.0 | % |  | 12.5 | %
Total United States |  | 77.1 | % |  | 49.4 | % |  | 67.8 | % |  | 42.2 | %
International |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North African country |  | 0.9 | % |  | 17.3 | % |  | 2.6 | % |  | 15.6 | %
Other international |  | 22.0 | % |  | 33.3 | % |  | 29.6 | % |  | 42.2 | %
Total International |  | 22.9 | % |  | 50.6 | % |  | 32.2 | % |  | 57.8 | %
Sales to U.S. government 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 April 30, 2016 and 2015 (which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers) were $28,417,000 and $36,243,000, respectively. International sales for the nine months ended April 30, 2016 and 2015 (which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers) were $83,401,000 and $132,767,000, respectively. For the three and nine months ended April 30, 2016, except for the U.S. government, 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. For the three and nine months ended April 30, 2015, sales to a U.S. prime contractor represented approximately 17.0% and 15.2% of total net sales, respectively. Almost all of these sales relate to our North African country end-customer.

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- Definition Disclosure about revenues from external customers (1) attributed to the entity's country of domicile and (2) attributed to all foreign countries in total from which the entity derives revenues. If revenues from external customers attributed to an individual foreign country are material, those revenues must be disclosed separately. An entity must disclose the basis for attributing revenues from external customers to individual countries. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries. + References No definition available. + Details
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