Disclosures About Defined Pension Benefit Obligations

The following table presents the components of net periodic benefit cost recognized in earnings during each of the three and six months ended March 28, 2014 and March 29, 2013 (in thousands):



	For the Three Months Ended						For the Six Months Ended
Component:	March 28, 2014			March 29, 2013			March 28, 2014			March 29, 2013
Service cost	$	10,459		$	10,964		$	20,872		$	22,019
Interest cost	20,059			17,376			39,952			35,089
Expected return on plan assets	(22,500		)	(20,060		)	(44,840		)	(40,457		)
Amortization of previously unrecognized items	4,872			5,254			9,675			10,627
Settlement Loss	141			199			280			400
Net periodic benefit cost	$	13,031		$	13,733		$	25,939		$	27,678

Included in the above table are amounts relating to a U.S. pension plan, the participating employees of which are assigned to, and work exclusively on, a specific operating contract with the U.S. federal government. It is the expectation of the parties to this contract that the cost of this pension plan will be fully reimbursed by the U.S. federal government pursuant to applicable cost accounting standards. The underfunded amount for this pension plan is included in "Other Noncurrent Assets" in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets at March 28, 2014. Net periodic pension costs for this pension plan for the three and six months ended March 28, 2014 were $1.9 million and $3.8 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 29, 2013 were $3.5 million and $7.0 million, respectively. Amounts related to the amortization of previously unrecognized items for this pension plan for the three and six months ended March 28, 2014 were approximately zero and $0.1 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 29, 2013 were $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively.

The following table presents certain information regarding Company cash contributions to our pension plans for fiscal 2014 (in thousands):



Cash contributions made during the first six months of fiscal 2014	$	33,342
Cash contributions we expect to make during the remainder of fiscal 2014	22,284
Total	$	55,626