L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) reported double-digit revenue growth in the fourth quarter and full-year 2023 and gave financial guidance for 2024, including revenue growth, free cash flow and dividend payout. “We delivered on our 2023 financial commitments and reported record backlog of $33 billion,” Christopher Kubasik, chair and CEO...
Christopher Kubasik, chair and CEO of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), said the company plans to discontinue its merger and acquisition activity for the “foreseeable future” to strengthen its balance sheet and return all excess capital to shareholders. At the company’s investor day on Tuesday, Kubasik stated that the Melbourne, Florida-b...
Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been elected to serve as chair of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2024. Colbert, who also serves as an executive vice president at Boeing, succeeds Tom Gentile as chairman and will serve on the association’s exe...
An affiliate of private equity firm TJC has agreed to acquire the commercial aviation solutions business of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for approximately $800 million. L3Harris said Monday it expects the transaction to conclude in the first half of 2024, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. “Today’s annou...
The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) posted $4.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period, driven by sales growth across its three business segments. The company said Thursday profit for the quarter was $339 million, compared to the $475 million a year ago and earnings were $1.76 per...
Shareholders at Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) have approved a proposed agreement to sell the company to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and both parties expect the transaction to close in 2023, pending receipt of regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Aerojet said Thursday 99.7 percent of the votes cast at...
Edward Rice, Jr., a retired U.S. Air Force general who was a commander of its Air Education and Training Command, has joined the board of directors of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX). The company said Friday it looks to leverage Rice’s extensive military and national security background in developing products to address existing and future t...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) recorded $4.6 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022, up 5 percent from the prior-year period and 6 percent on an organic basis, and attributed the growth to the company’s communications systems and space and airborne systems segments. The Melbourne, Florida-based defense contractor said Thursday its fu...
In 2022, the GovCon landscape saw announcements and completions of merger-and-acquisition deals at privately held, publicly traded and private equity backed companies that sought to expand what they could offer to their federal customers. Continuing reading below for Executive Mosaic editorial team’s rundown of transactions and insights from i...
