L3Harris

L3Harris Technologies is a United States defense and aerospace company headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, formed on 29 June 2019 through the all-stock merger of Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies. At closing, the combined company was described as the sixth-largest US defense contractor and a top-10 defense company worldwide, with roughly $17 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees. Harris Corporation, the surviving legal entity, had itself been headquartered in Melbourne since 1978.

What the company builds

L3Harris is a broad defense and aerospace conglomerate spanning communications and radio systems, space and airborne sensors, electronic warfare, maritime systems and uncrewed aircraft. Its unmanned aircraft line includes the FVR-90, a runway-independent vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) tactical UAS built around the company's Hybrid Quadrotor technology, which L3Harris has demonstrated with the US Air Force Research Laboratory and is developing a heavy-fuel-engine variant of with the US Navy.

Where things stand

L3Harris trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker LHX. William M. Brown led the company as chairman and CEO at its formation; Christopher Kubasik succeeded him as CEO in June 2021. Reported figures put the company's 2024 revenue at roughly $21.3 billion with about 47,000 employees in 2025, though those later figures come from secondary reporting rather than a company filing checked for this page.