Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation

Good morning. Thank you for standing by and welcome to Booz Allen Hamilton's earnings call covering second quarter fiscal year 2024 results. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Later, there will be an opportunity for questions. I'd now like to turn the call over to Mr. Nathan Rutledge.

Thank you. Good morning and thank you for joining us for Booz Allen's second quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings call. We hope you've had an opportunity to read the press release we issued earlier this morning. We have also provided presentation slides on our website and are now on slide two. With me today to talk about our business and financial results are Horacio Rozanski, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Matt Calderon, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As shown in the disclaimer on slide three, please keep in mind that some of the items we will discuss this morning are forward-looking and may relate to future events or future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from forecasted results discussed in our SEC filings and on this call. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by foregoing cautionary statements and speak only as of the date made. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. During today's call, we will also discuss some non-GAAP financial measures and other metrics, which we believe provide useful information for investors. We include an explanation of adjustments and other reconciliations of our non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures in our second quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings release and slides. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to our CEO and President, Horatio Rozanski. We are now on slide four.

Thank you, Nathan. And good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining the call. Today, Matt and I have the privilege of discussing with you another quarter of Booz Allen's market leading performance. But before we get to that, I would like to open this call, as I have done several times in the past, by putting our work in the context of world events. On October 7th, the world was shocked by a murderous terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas on the people of Israel. We at Booz Allen stand in mourning and solidarity with Israel, the victims, and their families. We pray for the safe return of all the hostages and would stand side by side with the US government in condemnation of Hamas, in support of Israel's defense, and in the protection of all civilians. In the intervening weeks, Booz Allen has done what we do best. We have conducted listening sessions, creating spaces to support our colleagues in mourning or afraid for both our Israeli and Palestinian loved ones living in the region. We have launched a match giving campaign. And importantly, we have supported our U.S. clients' missions. Because this is personal for me too, I have felt the warm embrace of the entire Booz Allen community. I am so proud. and so grateful to each one of my colleagues for showing the best of Booz Allen at a time of crisis and loss. This morning I felt it was important to share this with you for two reasons. First, because these horrendous events remind us of the urgency of our work, bringing leading-edge technology to critical missions. in the hope of preventing and deterring things like this from ever happening. And second, because our internal response is yet another reminder of the unique culture and people of Booz Allen. They are the unshakable foundation for our exceptional performance decade after decade.