FRA composites are comprised of high-strength aluminum alloys discontinuously reinforced with short ceramic fibers. Given its superior performance characteristics, this technology will facilitate the introduction of many new products for our military, commercial and industrial end markets, which makes it a great fit for the company. CPS is already known as the world leader in advanced metal matrix composites, but adding FRA capabilities will complement our core competencies, broaden the company's target markets and strengthen our mission to accelerate growth going forward. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be working to initiate manufacturing trials of FRA composites here at CPS and begin to engage customers in relevant markets. We think this will be an excellent addition to our product folio.

Second, and also announced earlier this week, we received an award for the Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program known as MMAP, in response to a proposal submitted by the company in the fourth quarter of 2023. This award valued at $20,000 will support the purchase of a 5-axis CNC machine and expand the company's manufacturing capabilities to better serve our clients. This 5-axis machine, our first will pave the way for sales opportunities in hermetic packaging and other products with new and existing customers for which we would otherwise not be cost competitive. These 2 recent developments, the licensing agreement for FRA and the purchase of a new 5-axis machine, enable us to continue to broaden our revenue base and expand avenues of growth with clients in markets that are very familiar to us.

In terms of the business today, among other things, we will continue to fulfill long-term supply agreement announced last year, providing power model components and systems for a variety of rail and other applications to a multinational semiconductor manufacturer. We're on track for the shipment of product under this contract over the course of 2024. At the same time, we are working on our most recent Phase 1 SBIR grant from the Department of Energy and we'll soon be submitting a Phase 2 proposal to extend this program. We continue to invest in innovative next-generation technologies, advancing the company's long-term growth profile and have several other government R&D opportunities in the pipeline. For example, a Phase 2 SBIR proposal for thermal energy storage is under review by the Navy.

We're preparing a Phase 2 STTR proposal for tungsten material for the Army and we're submitting several additional new Phase 1 SBIR proposals with various federal agencies. Overall, we find these externally funded R&D opportunities very productive and rewarding so we will continue pursuing them even as we invest internally to broaden our range of products, expand the company's client base and rapidly respond to changes in industry demand. Our unique metal matrix composite technology brings innovative cost-effective solutions to durability and efficiency problems faced by a host of customers and markets across the globe. For fiscal 2024, however, I want to remind our audience that shipments of our HybridTech Armor panels for Kinetic Protection Navy contract are expected to be complete as of the middle of second quarter.

For the last year or so, these sales have generated, on average, quarterly revenue of just over $2 million. So the completion of our subcontract will have a material effect on near-term revenue. However, we see growth in other product lines mitigating some of this impact, which we estimate will cover roughly half the revenue shortfall. Further out, we expect our other products as well as the potential for the additional armor orders that we are pursuing to enable us to resume and exceed our recent revenue run rate. We're actively pursuing other opportunities for armor products across several military programs. We are hopeful of future contracts to support other ship classes but remain uncertain as to contract timing, particularly given the protracted continuing resolution.

In addition, as previously explained, we're pursuing business on potential ground vehicle applications, but these efforts have been hampered due to testing that did not go as well as anticipated. We continue to work to address the relevant deficiencies, but cannot determine when such initiatives will move forward. Overall, based on current developments and a solid backlog, we remain well positioned for the future. We're pursuing a number of new opportunities and taking steps to expand both the breadth and depth of our product portfolio, which should lay the groundwork for growth acceleration. While headwinds related to armor exist in the near term, we're committed to improving our top line profile, strengthening operating results and, in turn, improving total return for our shareholders.

I'll now turn the call over to Chuck to provide more details about our financial results, after which, we will open it up for questions. Chuck?

Charles Griffith: Thanks, Brian. As mentioned earlier, the company's revenue totaled $6.7 million in the fourth quarter. That's compared with $6.1 million last year, which represents a substantial growth year-over-year. We expect to continue posting solid results in the quarters to come. However, as Brian indicated, the negative impact from the completion of our armor contract outfitting the U.S. carrier fleet will cause a different revenue near term. While our partner Kinetic Protection is cautiously optimistic about additional work for other Navy ships, the length of the impact remains to be seen. Gross profit in the fourth quarter totaled $1.1 million or approximately 17% of sales and that compares with $1.6 million or 27% of sales last year.

The decrease in both profit and gross margin year-over-year was predominantly due to the quality issue with a major customer that we've discussed in the past. Not only did this result -- excuse me, not only did this result in $0.5 million of write-offs and returns, but we've also devoted significant internal engineering hours to investigate and solve this problem. While we're not ready to claim victory yet, we have seen signs of significant improvement and are optimistic that any impact on 2024 will be minimal. Selling, general and administration expense -- administrative expenses totaled $1 million in the fourth quarter versus $1.3 million in the prior year period. We maintained our cost discipline in terms of overhead, and we're happy to do so.

The company generated operating income of $144,000 in the fourth quarter compared with approximately $309,000 last year. Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the year with $8.8 million of cash, up from $8.3 million at the end of 2022. And this increase was in spite of the reduction in deferred revenue by almost $2.5 million during 2023. Trade accounts receivable as of December 31 -- December 30, 2023, totaled $4.4 million versus $3.8 million as of December 31, 2022. Inventories totaled $4.6 million at the end of 2023 versus $4.9 million at the start of the fiscal year. Turning to the liability side. Payrolls and accruals totaled $3.6 million at the end of the fourth quarter versus $2.7 million as of December 31, 2022. Deferred revenue decreased, as I mentioned earlier, $2.3 million from $2.8 million at the end of 2022.

As a reminder, deferred revenue predominantly represents prepayments for large orders to help defray the impact on cash of large inventory purchased for those orders. A number of these shipments in 2023, resulting in recognition -- or resulted in recognition of revenue and thus decreased deferred revenue. So thank you. This concludes my discussion of the financials. So now we will open the call up for questions. Operator?

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