Committee Discretion Binding. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, all designations, determinations, interpretations, and other decisions under or with respect to the Plan or any Award shall be within the sole discretion of the Committee, may be made at any time and shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all Persons, including any Employer, any Participant, any holder or beneficiary of any Award, any Employee, and any Non-Employee Director.

Discretion to Adjust. The Board shall have full discretion to adjust the determinations of the degree of attainment of the performance goals or to alter the governing Business Criteria applicable to any Award at any time.

Employer Exercises Discretion. Dividends on Stock credited to Participants’ Accounts which are received by the Trustee in the form of cash shall, at the direction of the Employer paying the dividends, either # be credited to the Accounts in accordance with Section 8.4(iii) and invested as part of the Investment Fund, # be distributed immediately to the Participants in proportion with the Participants’ Stock Fund Account balance # be distributed to the Participants within 90 days of the close of the Plan Year in which paid in proportion with the Participants’ Stock Fund Account balance or # be used to make payments on the Exempt Loan. If dividends on Stock allocated to a Participant’s Account are used to repay the Exempt Loan, Stock with a fair market value at least equal to the dividends so used must be allocated to such Participant’s Account in lieu of the dividends.

Compensation Committee Discretion. In the event that applicable tax and/or securities laws change to permit Compensation Committee discretion to alter the governing Performance Measures without obtaining shareholder approval of such changes, the Compensation Committee shall have sole discretion to make such changes without obtaining shareholder approval. In addition, the payment or vesting of an Award that is designated as Performance-Based Compensation may be based on Performance Measures in addition to or other than those set forth in Section 11.1.

Discretion of Committee. The Committee shall have the discretion, subject to the limitations described herein, to, among other actions, # determine the Plan Participants; # determine the measurement period; # determine Performance Criterion, Performance Goals and Target Awards for each Year or other measurement period; # determine how Performance Criteria will be calculated and/or adjusted; # establish an Award Schedule; # establish performance thresholds for the payment of any Awards; # determine whether and to what extent the Performance Goals have been met or exceeded; # pay discretionary Awards, including awards from an exceptional performance fund, as may be appropriate in order to assure the proper motivation and retention of personnel and attainment of business goals; # make adjustments to Performance Goals and thresholds; and (10) determine the total amount of funds available for payment of Awards with respect to each Year or other measurement period.

Discretion to Accept. The Committee shall have complete authority and discretion, but no obligation, to establish an Account for a Rollover Participant and credit the Account with the amount transferred from the Rollover Participant's account in a Rollover Plan, except that the Committee shall establish an Account for a Rollover Participant for whom benefits and liabilities have been transferred to this Plan from the EBP. Amounts credited to such Accounts are fully subject to the provisions of this Plan; provided, however, that a Rollover Participant from the EBP shall be deemed to have elected to invest his Account in the Stable Value Fund if such Rollover Participant fails to make an investment election. Reference in the Plan to such a crediting as a “rollover” or “transfer” from a Rollover Plan or the EBP is nominal in nature, and confers no additional rights upon a Rollover Participant other than those specifically set forth in the Plan.

Discretion to Modify Awards. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Plan, the Committee may, in its sole discretion and at any time, # increase, reduce or eliminate a Participant’s Actual Award, and/or # increase, reduce or eliminate the amount allocated to the Bonus Pool. The Actual Award may be below, at or above the Target Award, in the Committee’s discretion. The Committee may determine the amount of any increase, reduction or elimination on the basis of such factors as it deems relevant, and will not be required to establish any allocation or weighting with respect to the factors it considers.

Discretion to Determine Criteria. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Plan, the Committee will, in its sole discretion, determine the performance goals (if any) applicable to any Target Award (or portion thereof) which may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, billings, bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, contract awards or backlog, customer-related measures, customer retention rates, business unit or division, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, earnings before taxes and net earnings), earnings per share, employee retention, employee mobility, expenses, geographic expansion, gross margin, growth in stockholder value relative to the moving average of the S&P 500 Index or another index, hiring targets, internal rate of return, inventory turns, inventory levels, market share, milestone achievements, net billings, net income, net profit, net revenue margin, net sales, new customers, new product development, new product invention or innovation, number of customers, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, origination volume, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product development, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales efficiency, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, units sold (total and new), working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews or other subjective or objective criteria. As determined by the Committee, the performance goals may be based on generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) or Non-GAAP results and any actual results may be adjusted by the Committee for one-time items, unbudgeted or unexpected items and/or payments of Actual Awards under the Plan when determining whether the performance goals have been met. The goals may be on the basis of any factors the Committee determines relevant, and may be on an individual, divisional, business unit, segment or Company-wide basis. Any criteria used may be measured on such basis as the Committee determines, including but not limited to, as applicable, # in absolute terms, # in combination with another performance goal or goals (for example, but not by way of limitation, as a ratio or matrix), # in relative terms (including, but not limited to, results for other periods, passage of time and/or against another company or companies or an index or indices), # on a per-share basis, # against the performance of the Company as a whole or a segment of the Company and/or # on a pre-tax or after-tax basis. The performance goals may differ from Participant to Participant and from award to award. Failure to meet the goals will result in a failure to earn the Target Award, except as provided in Section 3(d). The Committee also may determine that a Target Award (or portion thereof) will not have a performance goal associated with it but instead will be granted (if at all) in the sole discretion of the Committee.

Discretion of the Corporation, Board of Directors and the Committee. Any decision made or action taken by the Corporation or by the Board of Directors of the Corporation or by the Committee arising out of or in connection with the construction, administration, interpretation and effect of this Award shall be within the absolute discretion of the Corporation, the Board of Directors of the Corporation or the Committee, as the case may be, and shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons.

Reservation of Committee Discretion to Accelerate Lapse of Forfeiture Restrictions. The Committee reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to accelerate the lapsing of the Forfeiture Restrictions under circumstances not otherwise covered by the foregoing provisions of this Section 3. The Committee is under no obligation to exercise any such discretion and may or may not exercise such discretion on a case-by-case basis.