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Operational Risks
−Removed: We face various risks related to health epidemics, pandemics and similar outbreaks, which could adversely affect our business.
−Removed: We face a wide variety of risks related to health epidemics, pandemics, and similar outbreaks.
−Removed: These events have adversely affected, and may continue to adversely affect, our operations, supply chains and distribution systems.
−Removed: Public health crises pose a risk that we or our employees, customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and other partners may be prevented from conducting business activities for an indefinite period of time, including due to the spread of the disease or shutdowns requested or mandated by governmental authorities.
−Removed: The extent to which public health crises may have a material adverse effect on our future business, financial condition and results of operations will depend on many factors that are not within our control, including but not limited to the path and effect of epidemics, pandemics, crises or public health concerns, including factors like new variants, vaccinations, potential supply chain disruptions, and inflation, which can impact our key markets.
+Added: Our success is highly dependent on the performance of the aviation aftermarket, which could be impacted by lower demand for business aviation and commercial air travel or airline fleet changes causing lower demand for our goods and services.
+Added: General global industry and economic conditions that affect the aviation industry may also affect our business.
+Added: We are subject to macroeconomic cycles, and when recessions occur, we may experience reduced orders, payment delays, supply chain disruptions or other factors as a result of the economic challenges faced by our customers, prospective customers and suppliers.
+Added: Further, the aviation industry has historically, from time to time, been subject to downward cycles which reduce the overall demand for jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts and repair and overhaul services, and such downward cycles result in lower sales and greater credit risk.
+Added: Demand for commercial air travel can be influenced by airline industry profitability, world trade policies, government-to-government relations, terrorism, political unrest, war (including the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and Middle East conflicts), disease outbreaks, environmental constraints imposed upon aircraft operations, technological changes, price, and other competitive factors.
+Added: These global industry and economic conditions may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Global economic conditions and political factors could adversely affect our revenues.
+Added: Revenues for work performed in or products delivered to foreign countries are subject to economic conditions in these countries and to political risks posed by ongoing foreign conflicts, including the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and Middle East conflicts, and potential terrorist activity.
+Added: Significant domestic and political unrest in client countries can constrain our ability to maintain consistent staffing levels, resulting in a fluctuating level of services performed by our employees.
+Added: We cannot predict when these conditions will occur or the effect it will have on our revenues.
+Added: Regime changes in these countries can result in government restrictions upon the continuation of ongoing work.
+Added: Economic conditions in both the United States and foreign countries, and global prices and availability of oil and other commodities could potentially have an adverse effect on the demand for some of our services, including our aviation services.
Supply chain delays, disruptions, and potential geopolitical uncertainty could adversely affect our business operations and expenses.
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In instances where we may not be able to mitigate these consequences, our ability to perform on our contracts may be impacted, which could result in reduced revenues and profits.
−Removed: Certain customers comprise a material portion of our revenue.
−Removed: Our work on large government fleets present a risk to revenue growth and sustainability and profit margins.
−Removed: The loss of or disruption of revenues on a single customer may reduce our revenues and profits.
−Removed: Our USPS managed inventory program constitutes a material portion of our revenues and profits.
−Removed: This concentration of our revenue subjects us to the risk of material adverse revenue disruptions if customer operational decisions, government contract matters, or other issues prevent or delay the fulfillment of work requirements associated with these key customer fleets.
−Removed: Variations in volume and types of parts purchased by the USPS in recent years have caused changes in our profit margins.
−Removed: The USPS has initiated a fleet replacement program for the next generation of the delivery vehicle fleet.
−Removed: The timing of the new vehicle deployment and the retirement of existing vehicles could potentially have a significant impact on our future revenues and profits.
+Added: Competition from existing and new competitors may harm our business.
+Added: The aviation and vehicle parts industries are highly fragmented, have several highly visible leading companies, and are characterized by intense competition.
+Added: Some of our original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") competitors have greater name recognition than VSE or our subsidiaries, as well as complementary lines of business and financial, marketing and other resources that we do not have.
+Added: In addition, OEMs, aircraft maintenance providers, leasing companies and U.S.
+Added: FAA certificated repair facilities may attempt to bundle their services and product offerings in the supply industry, thereby significantly increasing industry competition.
+Added: Investments in inventory and facilities could cause losses if certain work is disrupted or discontinued.
+Added: We have made investments in inventory, facilities, and lease commitments to support specific business programs, work requirements, and service offerings.
+Added: A slowing or disruption of these business programs, work requirements, or service offerings that results in operating below intended levels could cause us to suffer financial losses.
+Added: Our business could be adversely affected by incidents that could cause an interruption in our operations or impose a significant financial liability on us.
+Added: Disruption of our operations due to internal or external system or service failures, accidents or incidents involving employees or third parties working in high-risk locations, or other crises could adversely affect our financial performance and condition.
+Added: A fire, flood, earthquake, other natural disaster, or other crisis at or affecting physical facilities, procurement systems, or contractual deliveries could potentially interrupt the revenues from our operations.
+Added: The nature of our operations and work performed by our employees presents certain challenges related to workforce management.
+Added: Our financial performance is heavily dependent on the abilities of our operating and administrative staff with respect to technical skills, operating performance, pricing, cost management, safety, and administrative and compliance efforts.
+Added: A wide diversity of contract types, nature of work, work locations, and legal and regulatory complexities challenge our administrative staff and skill sets.
+Added: We also face challenges associated with our quality of workforce, quality of work, safety, and labor relations compliance.
+Added: Our current and projected work in foreign countries exposes us to challenges associated with export and ethics compliance, local laws and customs, workforce issues, extended supply chain, political unrest, and war zone threats.
+Added: Failure to attract or retain an adequately skilled workforce, lack of knowledge or training in critical functions, or inadequate staffing levels, can result in lost work, reduced profit margins, losses from cost overruns, performance deficiencies, workplace accidents, and regulatory noncompliance.
Acquisitions, which are a part of our business strategy, present certain risks.
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We may not be able to successfully execute our acquisition strategy, and the failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: Circumstances associated with divestitures could adversely affect the Company's results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We may periodically divest or seek to divest certain businesses, including remaining assets in our former Federal and Defense segment that are no longer a part of our ongoing strategic plan and are held for sale.
−Removed: A decision to divest or discontinue assets, businesses, or product lines may result in asset impairments, including those related to goodwill and other intangible assets, and losses upon disposition, both of which could have adverse effects on our results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, we may encounter difficulty in finding buyers or executing alternative exit strategies at acceptable prices and terms in a timely manner and prospective buyers may have difficulty obtaining financing.
−Removed: These divestitures may require a significant investment of time and resources and may disrupt our business, distract management from other responsibilities, and may involve the retention of certain current or future liabilities in order to induce a buyer to complete a divestiture or may otherwise result in losses on disposal or continued financial involvement in the divested business, including through indemnification or other arrangements, for a period of time following the transaction, which could adversely affect our financial results.
−Removed: We may not be successful in managing these or any other significant risks that we may encounter in divesting or discontinuing a business or product line, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: We are dependent on access to and the performance of third-party package delivery companies.
+Added: Our ability to provide efficient distribution of the products we sell to our customers is an integral component of our overall business strategy, both domestic and international.
+Added: We do not maintain our own delivery networks, and instead rely on third‑party package delivery companies.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that we will always be able to ensure access to preferred shipping and delivery companies or that these companies will continue to meet our needs or provide reasonable pricing terms.
+Added: In addition, if the package delivery companies on which we rely experience delays resulting from inclement weather or other disruptions, we may be unable to maintain appropriate stock of inventory or deliver products to our customers on a timely basis, which may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Prolonged periods of inflation where we do not have adequate inflation protections in our customer contracts may adversely affect us by increasing costs beyond what we can recover through price increases.
+Added: Inflation can adversely affect us by increasing the costs of labor, material and other costs.
+Added: In addition, inflation is often accompanied by higher interest rates, which increases the cost associated with our variable rate outstanding debt obligations and could increase rates for any new debt obligations that we incur.
+Added: In an inflationary environment, depending on economic conditions, we may be unable to raise prices enough to keep up with the rate of inflation, which would reduce our profit margins.
+Added: We have experienced, and continue to experience, increases in the prices of labor, materials, and other costs of providing service.
+Added: Continued inflationary pressures could impact our profitability.
Changes in future business conditions could cause business investments, recorded goodwill, and/or purchased intangible assets to become impaired, resulting in substantial losses and write-downs that would reduce our operating income.
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In such events, we may be required to write down our carrying value of the related goodwill and/or purchased intangible assets.
−Removed: In addition, declines in the trading price of our common stock or the market as a whole can result in goodwill and/or purchased intangible asset impairment charges associated with our existing businesses.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, goodwill and intangible assets, net of amortization, accounted for 28% and 9%, respectively, of our total assets (excluding assets held for sale).
+Added: In addition, declines in the trading price of our common stock or the market as a whole could result in goodwill and/or purchased intangible asset impairment charges associated with our existing businesses.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, goodwill and intangible assets, net of amortization, accounted for 28% and 11%, respectively, of our total assets.
We test our goodwill for impairment annually in the fourth quarter or when evidence of potential impairment exists.
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Any such impairments that result in us recording goodwill or intangible asset impairment charges could have a material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.
−Removed: Competition from existing and new competitors may harm our business.
−Removed: The aviation and vehicle parts industries are highly fragmented, have several highly visible leading companies, and are characterized by intense competition.
−Removed: Some of our original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") competitors have greater name recognition than VSE or our subsidiaries, as well as complementary lines of business and financial, marketing and other resources that we do not have.
−Removed: In addition, OEMs, aircraft maintenance providers, leasing companies and U.S.
−Removed: Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") certificated repair facilities may attempt to bundle their services and product offerings in the supply industry, thereby significantly increasing industry competition.
−Removed: Our success is highly dependent on the performance of the aviation aftermarket, which could be impacted by lower demand for business aviation and commercial air travel or airline fleet changes causing lower demand for our goods and services.
−Removed: General global industry and economic conditions that affect the aviation industry may also affect our business.
−Removed: We are subject to macroeconomic cycles, and when recessions occur, we may experience reduced orders, payment delays, supply chain disruptions or other factors as a result of the economic challenges faced by our customers, prospective customers and suppliers.
−Removed: Further, the aviation industry has historically, from time to time, been subject to downward cycles which reduce the overall demand for jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts and repair and overhaul services, and such downward cycles
−Removed: result in lower sales and greater credit risk.
−Removed: Demand for commercial air travel can be influenced by airline industry profitability, world trade policies, government-to-government relations, terrorism, disease outbreaks, environmental constraints imposed upon aircraft operations, technological changes, price, and other competitive factors.
−Removed: These global industry and economic conditions may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: Global economic conditions and political factors could adversely affect our revenues.
−Removed: Revenues for work performed in or products delivered to foreign countries are subject to economic conditions in these countries and to political risks posed by ongoing foreign conflicts and potential terrorist activity.
−Removed: Significant domestic and political unrest in client countries can constrain our ability to maintain consistent staffing levels, resulting in a fluctuating level of services performed by our employees.
−Removed: We cannot predict when these conditions will occur or the effect it will have on our revenues.
−Removed: Regime changes in these countries can result in government restrictions upon the continuation of ongoing work.
−Removed: Economic conditions in both the United States and foreign countries, and global prices and availability of oil and other commodities could potentially have an adverse effect on the demand for some of our services, including our aviation services.
−Removed: Prolonged periods of inflation where we do not have adequate inflation protections in our customer contracts may adversely affect us by increasing costs beyond what we can recover through price increases.
−Removed: Inflation can adversely affect us by increasing the costs of labor, material and other costs.
−Removed: In addition, inflation is often accompanied by higher interest rates, which increases the cost associated with our variable rate outstanding debt obligations and could increase rates for any new debt obligations that we incur.
−Removed: In an inflationary environment, depending on economic conditions, we may be unable to raise prices enough to keep up with the rate of inflation, which would reduce our profit margins.
−Removed: We have experienced, and continue to experience, increases in the prices of labor, materials, and other costs of providing service.
−Removed: Continued inflationary pressures could impact our profitability.
−Removed: The nature of our operations and work performed by our employees presents certain challenges related to workforce management.
−Removed: Our financial performance is heavily dependent on the abilities of our operating and administrative staff with respect to technical skills, operating performance, pricing, cost management, safety, and administrative and compliance efforts.
−Removed: A wide diversity of contract types, nature of work, work locations, and legal and regulatory complexities challenge our administrative staff and skill sets.
−Removed: We also face challenges associated with our quality of workforce, quality of work, safety, and labor relations compliance.
−Removed: Our current and projected work in foreign countries exposes us to challenges associated with export and ethics compliance, local laws and customs, workforce issues, extended supply chain, political unrest, and war zone threats.
−Removed: Failure to attract or retain an adequately skilled workforce, lack of knowledge or training in critical functions, or inadequate staffing levels, can result in lost work, reduced profit margins, losses from cost overruns, performance deficiencies, workplace accidents, and regulatory noncompliance.
−Removed: Our business could be adversely affected by incidents that could cause an interruption in our operations or impose a significant financial liability on us.
−Removed: Disruption of our operations due to internal or external system or service failures, accidents or incidents involving employees or third parties working in high-risk locations, or other crises could adversely affect our financial performance and condition.
−Removed: A fire, flood, earthquake, other natural disaster, or other crisis at or affecting physical facilities, procurement systems, or contractual deliveries could potentially interrupt the revenues from our operations.
−Removed: Investments in inventory and facilities could cause losses if certain work is disrupted or discontinued.
−Removed: We have made investments in inventory, facilities, and lease commitments to support specific business programs, work requirements, and service offerings.
−Removed: A slowing or disruption of these business programs, work requirements, or service offerings that results in operating below intended levels could cause us to suffer financial losses.
−Removed: We are dependent on access to and the performance of third-party package delivery companies.
−Removed: Our ability to provide efficient distribution of the products we sell to our customers is an integral component of our overall business strategy, both domestic and international.
−Removed: We do not maintain our own delivery networks, and instead rely on third‑party package delivery companies.
−Removed: We cannot guarantee that we will always be able to ensure access to preferred shipping and delivery companies or that these companies will continue to meet our needs or provide reasonable pricing terms.
−Removed: addition, if the package delivery companies on which we rely on experience delays resulting from inclement weather or other disruptions, we may be unable to maintain appropriate stock of inventory or deliver products to our customers on a timely basis, which may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Circumstances associated with divestitures could adversely affect the Company's results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We may periodically divest or seek to divest certain businesses that are no longer a part of our ongoing strategic plan.
+Added: A decision to divest or discontinue assets, businesses, or product lines may result in asset impairments, including those related to goodwill and other intangible assets, and losses upon disposition, both of which could have adverse effects on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, we may encounter difficulty in finding buyers or executing alternative exit strategies at acceptable prices and terms in a timely manner and prospective buyers may have difficulty obtaining financing.
+Added: These divestitures may require a significant investment of time and resources and may disrupt our business, distract management from other responsibilities, and may involve the retention of certain current or future liabilities in order to induce a buyer to complete a divestiture or may otherwise result in losses on disposal or continued financial involvement in the divested business, including through indemnification or other arrangements, for a period of time following the transaction, which could adversely affect our financial results.
+Added: We may not be successful in managing these or any other significant risks that we may encounter in divesting or discontinuing a business or product line, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: Certain customers comprise a material portion of our revenue.
+Added: Our work on large government fleets present a risk to revenue growth and sustainability and profit margins.
+Added: The loss of or disruption of revenues on a single customer may reduce our revenues and profits.
+Added: Our USPS managed inventory program constitutes a material portion of our revenues and profits.
+Added: This concentration of our revenue subjects us to the risk of material adverse revenue disruptions if customer operational decisions, government contract matters, or other issues prevent or delay the fulfillment of work requirements associated with these key customer fleets.
+Added: Variations in volume and types of parts purchased by the USPS in recent years have caused changes in our profit margins.
+Added: The USPS has initiated a fleet replacement program for the next generation of the delivery vehicle fleet.
+Added: The timing of the new vehicle deployment and the retirement of existing vehicles could potentially have a significant impact on our future revenues and profits.
+Added: We face various risks related to health epidemics, pandemics and similar outbreaks, which could adversely affect our business.
+Added: We face a wide variety of risks related to health epidemics, pandemics, and similar outbreaks.
+Added: These events have adversely affected, and may continue to adversely affect, our operations, supply chains and distribution systems.
+Added: Public health crises pose a risk that we or our employees, customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and other partners may be prevented from conducting
+Added: business activities for an indefinite period of time, including due to the spread of the disease or shutdowns requested or mandated by governmental authorities.
+Added: The extent to which public health crises may have a material adverse effect on our future business, financial condition and results of operations will depend on many factors that are not within our control, including but not limited to the path and effect of epidemics, pandemics, crises or public health concerns, including factors like new variants, vaccinations, potential supply chain disruptions, and inflation, which can impact our key markets.
Legal and Regulatory Risks
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New and more stringent regulations may be adopted in the future that could have an adverse effect on us.
−Removed: Lastly, border tariffs and new trade deals could have significant effects on our customers and, in turn, on our suppliers, which may impact our business.
+Added: Additionally, border tariffs and new trade deals, of which new border tariffs and trade deals may be introduced domestically as indicated by the new presidential administration, could have significant effects on our customers and, in turn, on our suppliers, which may impact our business.
Due to the nature of our work, we could potentially be exposed to legal actions arising from our operations.
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Technology Risks
−Removed: Technology and cybersecurity threats and risks could potentially impact our financial results.
+Added: Technology and cybersecurity threats, risks, and incidents could potentially impact our financial results.
We face cybersecurity risk related to our computer systems and data, which may include unauthorized access, acts by computer hackers, computer viruses, malicious code, organized cybersecurity attacks and other security problems and system disruptions, including possible unauthorized access to our and our customers' information.
+Added: Cybersecurity incidents and similar attacks vary in their form and can include the deployment of harmful malware or ransomware, denial-of-services attacks, and other attacks, which may affect business continuity and threaten the availability, confidentiality and integrity of our systems and data.
+Added: Cybersecurity incidents can also include employee or personnel failures, fraud, phishing or other social engineering attempts or other methods to cause confidential information, payments, account access or access credentials, or other data to be transmitted to an unintended recipient.
+Added: Cybersecurity threat actors also may attempt to exploit vulnerabilities through software including that is software commonly used by companies in cloud-based services and bundled software.
We also rely on third-parties to host certain enterprise systems and manage and host our data and that of our customers.
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Despite these efforts, we can make no assurances that we will be able to mitigate, detect, prevent, timely and adequately respond, or fully recover from the negative effects of cybersecurity incidents or other cybersecurity compromises, and such cybersecurity incidents, depending on their nature and scope, could potentially result in the misappropriation, destruction, corruption, or unavailability of personal information, critical data and confidential or proprietary information (our own or that of third parties) and the disruption of business operations.
−Removed: The potential consequences of a material cybersecurity incident include financial loss, reputational damage, damage to our IT systems, data loss, litigation with third parties, theft of intellectual property, fines, customer attrition, diminution in the value of our investment in research and development, and increased cybersecurity protection and remediation costs due to the increasing sophistication and proliferation of threats, which in turn could adversely affect our competitiveness and results of operations.
+Added: Additionally, sophistication of cybersecurity threats, including through the use of artificial intelligence, continues to increase, and the controls and preventative actions we take to reduce the risk of cybersecurity incidents and protect our systems, including the regular testing of our incident response plan, may be insufficient.
+Added: The potential consequences of a material cybersecurity incident include financial loss, reputational damage, damage to our IT systems, data loss, litigation with third parties, theft of intellectual property, fines, customer attrition, diminution in the value of our investment in research and development, costs related to remediation or the payment of ransom, and increased cybersecurity protection and remediation costs due to the increasing sophistication and proliferation of threats, which in turn could adversely affect our competitiveness and results of operations.
Any imposition of liability, particularly liability that is not covered by insurance or is in excess of insurance coverage, could materially harm our operating results and financial condition.
Financial Risks
−Removed: There can be no assurance we will continue to pay dividends at current levels or in the future.
−Removed: The payment of cash dividends and repurchases of our common stock are subject to limitations under applicable law and our credit agreement, and to the discretion of our board of directors, considered in the context of then current conditions, including our earnings, other operating results, and capital requirements.
−Removed: Declines in asset values or increases in liabilities, including liabilities associated with benefit plans and assets and liabilities associated with taxes, can reduce stockholders’ equity.
−Removed: A deficit in stockholders’ equity could limit our ability under Delaware law to pay dividends.
Our debt exposes us to certain risks.
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The occurrence of any or all of these events may adversely affect our ability to fund our operations, meet contractual commitments, make future investments or desirable acquisitions, or respond to competitive challenges.
+Added: There can be no assurance we will continue to pay dividends at current levels or in the future.
+Added: The payment of cash dividends and repurchases of our common stock are subject to limitations under applicable law and our credit agreement, and to the discretion of our board of directors, considered in the context of then current conditions, including our earnings, other operating results, and capital requirements.
+Added: Declines in asset values or increases in liabilities, including liabilities associated with benefit plans and assets and liabilities associated with taxes, can reduce stockholders’ equity.
+Added: A deficit in stockholders’ equity could limit our ability under Delaware law to pay dividends.
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