COHORT PLC (CHRT) — Investor Presentation

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Good morning and welcome to the Cohort PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted anytime just by using the Q and A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives in the meeting itself. However, the company can view all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd now like to hand you to chief chief executive, Andy Thomas. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, and thank you very much, Alessandro. Yeah. As as Alessandro mentioned, I'm Andy Thomas. I'm the chief executive at COHORT PLC. It's great to have this opportunity to talk you through who we are, what we do, and I'll also cover our most recent set of results, which are for the half year that ended on the thirty first of October last year. So to begin, who are we, and how do we provide value for investors? COHORT's a group of seven businesses providing technology based defense products and services to The UK and to its allies around the world. We are especially focused on maritime and land systems, but we also do do some work in the airborne field. The business model aims to maximize the autonomy and independence of our businesses, consistent with good financial and regulatory governance. And that means that decisions can be taken quickly and, very importantly, close to the customer. The model maximizes agility and innovation. And at the same time, we support our businesses with a strong balance sheet and the market reach that we have as a wider group. And we have no layer of overhead betw...