Company: BWXT
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001486957-25-000015
Chunk: 34

Company: BWX Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K/A
Chunk 34
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 risk that we or our employees, contractors, suppliers, customers and other partners may be prevented from conducting business activities for an indefinite period of time, including due to shutdowns that may be requested or mandated by governmental authorities. Our business could be materially adversely impacted by employee illness, quarantines, government actions, facility closures, other actions to contain the impact of such diseases and/or potential responses to such actions by our customers, suppliers, contractors and employees. If our operations or the operations of our customers or our suppliers are restricted, we may be unable to perform fully on our contracts and our costs may increase as a result of a public health

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epidemic, pandemic or outbreak. These cost increases may result in unfavorable changes in estimates which may not be fully recoverable or adequately covered by insurance or through government assistance programs.

A public health epidemic, pandemic or outbreak and mitigation measures may also have an adverse impact on global economic conditions, which could have an adverse effect on our business. The extent to which such an epidemic, pandemic or outbreak impacts our business will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information that may emerge concerning the severity of a public health epidemic, pandemic or outbreak and the actions to contain its impact.

We rely on intellectual property law and confidentiality agreements to protect our intellectual property. We also rely on intellectual property we license from third parties. Failure to protect our intellectual property rights, alleged infringement of third-party intellectual property rights or our inability to obtain or renew licenses to use intellectual property of third parties, could adversely affect our business.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our proprietary information and other intellectual property. Our intellectual property could be stolen, challenged, invalidated, circumvented or rendered unenforceable. Furthermore, the increased use of artificial intelligence may raise potential liabilities related to privacy and intellectual property or result in a loss of intellectual property. In addition, effective intellectual property protection may be limited or unavailable in certain jurisdictions where we operate.

Our failure to protect our intellectual property rights may result in the loss of valuable technologies or adversely affect our competitive business position. We rely significantly on proprietary technology, information, processes and know-how that are not subject to patent or copyright protection. We seek to protect this information through trade secret or confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, subcontractors or other parties, as well as through other security measures. These agreements and security measures may be inadequate to deter or prevent misappropriation of our confidential information. In the