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• We sealed the first half of the year with a record quarter,” said Kevin Ford, Calian Chief Executive Officer.
• This represents the highest quarterly revenue in the Company’s history and the first time surpassing the $200 million mark in a single quarter.
• Gross margin reached a record 34.8%, representing its 8th consecutive quarter above 30%.
• “In the second quarter we generated $17.8 million in operating free cash flow1, representing a 69% conversion rate from adjusted EBITDA1,” said Patrick Houston, Calian CFO.

• HOUSTON, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) today announced its first quarter fiscal 2024 financial results.
• "KBR's extraordinary team has yet again surpassed expectations, delivering outstanding first-quarter results," said Stuart Bradie, KBR's President and CEO.
• "Our team's unwavering commitment to our customers has led to year-over-year increases across all key financial metrics, particularly in Adjusted EBITDA2 and operating cash flow.
• Bookings during the quarter were well-aligned with our end markets across energy security, national defense, human performance, and sustainability."

• While hundreds of thousands of British men did, indeed, volunteer to serve in the first flush of jingoistic patriotism in 1914, the manpower well soon began to run dry.
• Despite this, however, some form of conscription does still exist today in most European countries.
• But as the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine come to be better understood, introducing or extending conscription is increasingly being discussed in European Nato states.

• But, over the past few months, political leaders in both countries have been discussing the reintroduction of forms of conscription or national service.
• In other countries in Europe, there has traditionally been a type of “conscription-lite” in operation.
• Sweden, which joined Nato in March, had dropped conscription in 2010 but reintroduced it in 2018 as the country prepared to join Nato.
• Finland, the other Nordic country that has recently joined Nato, could hardly expand its conscription net any further.

Conscription extended in Ukraine

• The country already has conscription for 18-26 year-olds but only those above 27 were actually asked to serve in combat roles (although many volunteers under 27 did as well).
• To replace those lost in the war and to maintain the ability to rotate troops in and out of the front lines, Ukraine needs a larger pool of military manpower.
• But casting the manpower net wider is a toxic issue in Ukraine, and as ever, such conscription is not popular.
• Accordingly, government spokespersons moved quickly to quash any notions that conscription was on any agenda.

Rod Thornton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• EasyVista, a leading provider of end-to-end ITSM solutions, has recently brought on several new key hires in the United Kingdom and North America.
• These new additions are aimed at further solidifying their sales and engineering teams to achieve growth from €50MM ARR to €100MM ARR by 2026.
• Each new hire has experience with competitor ITSM companies—positioning EasyVista as an integral player in the ITSM space.
• Chris Hult, Revenue Operations Director, previously worked at Ivanti, CenturyLink, Hitachi Vantara, and, most recently, RingCentral as the Director of Sales Operations.