Disclosures About Defined Pension Benefit Obligations

9 Months Ended

Jun. 26, 2015

Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Defined Benefit Postretirement Plans Disclosure [Abstract]

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 nine months ended June 26, 2015 and June 27, 2014 (in thousands):



	For the Three Months Ended						For the Nine Months Ended
Component:	June 26, 2015			June 27, 2014			June 26, 2015			June 27, 2014
Service cost	$	9,988		$	10,529		$	26,824		$	31,401
Interest cost	19,245			20,270			52,006			60,221
Expected return on plan assets	(24,195		)	(22,712		)	(65,610		)	(67,552		)
Amortization of previously unrecognized items	6,362			4,941			16,798			14,617
Settlement loss	111			142			270			422
Net periodic benefit cost	$	11,511		$	13,170		$	30,288		$	39,109

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 June 26, 2015. Net periodic pension costs for this pension plan for the three and nine months ended June 26, 2015 were $1.5 million and $4.4 million, respectively, and three and nine months ended June 27, 2014 were $1.9 million and $5.8 million, respectively.

The following table presents certain information regarding Company cash contributions to our pension plans for fiscal 2015 (in thousands):



Cash contributions made during the first nine months of fiscal 2015	$	34,645
Cash contributions we expect to make during the remainder of fiscal 2015	9,967
Total	$	44,612