Disclosures About Defined Pension Benefit Obligations

3 Months Ended

Jan. 01, 2016

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 months ended January 1, 2016 and December 26, 2014 (in thousands):



	For the Three Months Ended
Component:	January 1, 2016			December 26, 2014
Service cost	$	8,676		$	8,576
Interest cost	15,702			16,658
Expected return on plan assets	(19,507		)	(21,049		)
Amortization of previously unrecognized items	5,733			5,410
Settlement (gain) loss	(163		)	59
Net periodic benefit cost	$	10,441		$	9,654

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 January 1, 2016. Net periodic pension costs for this pension plan for the three months ended January 1, 2016 were $3.4 million and for the three months ended December 26, 2014 were $1.5 million.

The following table presents certain information regarding Company cash contributions to our pension plans for fiscal 2016 (in thousands):



Cash contributions made during the first three months of fiscal 2016	$	7,379
Cash contributions we expect to make during the remainder of fiscal 2016	35,037
Total	$	42,416