Disclosures About Defined Pension Benefit Obligations

3 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 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 December 30, 2016 and January 1, 2016 (in thousands):

	For the Three Months Ended
	December 30, 2016			January 1, 2016
Component:
Service cost	$	2,216		$	8,676
Interest cost		8,728			15,702
Expected return on plan assets		(15,588	)		(19,507	)
Amortization of previously unrecognized items		3,556			5,733
Settlement (gain) loss		43			(163	)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	(1,045	)	$	10,441

The decrease in periodic benefit costs for the three months ended December 30, 2016 as compared to the corresponding period last year was primarily due to the curtailment of our U.K. plans and the de-recognition of the U.S. pension plan for participating employees of which are assigned to, and worked exclusively on, a specific operating contract with the U.S. federal government. While these costs were fully reimbursed by the U.S. federal government pursuant to applicable cost accounting standards, net periodic pension costs of $3.4 million are included in our net periodic benefit costs table for the period ended January 1, 2016.

The following table presents certain information regarding the Company’s cash contributions to our pension plans for fiscal 2017 (in thousands):

Cash contributions made during the first three months of

fiscal 2017

4,256

Cash contributions we expect to make during the remainder

of fiscal 2017

13,954

Total

18,210