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Costs and Estimated Earnings in Excess of Billings (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Apr. 26, 2014
Contractors [Abstract] |
Costs and Estimated Earnings in Excess of Billings, Net | Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings ("CIEB") includes revenue for services from contracts based both on the units-of-delivery and the cost-to-cost measures of the percentage of completion method and consists of the following:
| April 26, 2014 |  | July 27, 2013
| (Dollars in thousands)
Costs incurred on contracts in progress | $ | 197,659 |  |  | $ | 208,250 |
Estimated to date earnings | 45,831 |  |  | 49,150 |
Total costs and estimated earnings | 243,490 |  |  | 257,400 |
Less: billings to date | (58,310 | ) |  | (66,839 | )
| $ | 185,180 |  |  | $ | 190,561 |
Included in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets under the captions: |  |  |  |  |
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings | $ | 198,581 |  |  | $ | 204,349 |
Billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings | (13,401 | ) |  | (13,788 | )
| $ | 185,180 |  |  | $ | 190,561 |

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