Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures: We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms. Our disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our CEO and CFO as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective disclosure controls and procedures can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives, and management necessarily is required to use its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, as of December 29, 2023, we carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. This evaluation was carried out under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our CEO and our CFO. Based on this work and other evaluation procedures, our management, including our CEO and our CFO, has concluded that as of December 29, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

(b) Changes in Internal Control: We periodically review our internal control over financial reporting (“ICFR”) as part of our efforts to ensure compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In addition, we routinely review our system of ICFR to identify potential changes to our processes and systems that may improve controls and increase efficiency, while ensuring that we maintain an effective internal control environment. Changes may include such activities as implementing new, more efficient systems, consolidating the activities of business units, migrating certain processes to our shared services organizations, formalizing policies and procedures, improving segregation of duties and increasing monitoring controls. In addition, when we acquire new businesses, we incorporate our controls and procedures into the acquired business as part of our integration

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activities. As part of our acquisition of AJRD, we are in the process of incorporating our controls and procedures with respect to AJRD’s operations, and we will include internal controls with respect to AJRD’s operations in our assessment of the effectiveness of our ICFR as of the end of fiscal 2024. Other than changes related to incorporating our controls and procedures with respect to AJRD operations, there have been no changes in our ICFR that occurred during the quarter ended December 29, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our ICFR.

(c) Evaluation of ICFR: Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate ICFR. Our management, with the participation of our CEO and our CFO, assessed the effectiveness of our ICFR as of December 29, 2023. In making this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013 framework). Our management excluded from its assessment of effectiveness of ICFR the internal controls of AJRD, which we acquired on July 28, 2023, and whose financial statements represent 5% of our total assets, excluding the preliminary value of goodwill and other intangible assets, as of December 29, 2023, and 5% of our total revenue for our fiscal year then ended. Our management will include the internal controls of AJRD in its assessment of the effectiveness of our ICFR as of the end of fiscal 2024. Based on our management’s assessment and those criteria, our management concluded that our ICFR was effective as of December 29, 2023. “Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” is included within “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Report. The effectiveness of our ICFR was audited by Ernst & Young LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, whose unqualified report is included within “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Report.