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| The efforts that they've put in over the last 18 to 24 months in truly building a resilient supply chain that allows us to pivot when we continue to experience these hiccups is enabling us to continue to deliver for our customers and for our shareholders |
| And what we can bring to the table and negotiating with our suppliers has a real opportunity to drive value for our shareholders |
| So I think that's probably where I feel good about how we've shaped our portfolio specifically in the space arena, a lot of the missions that were normally conducted in the air domain, not all of them, but some of them have been moving to space |
| As we embark on our fifth year since the merger of L3 and Harris, I'm proud of our achievements |
| They've done a fantastic job in renegotiating our employee benefit package, again, leveraging the scale of the new L3Harris portfolio to not only increase our benefits and also save on costs, but we're also going to be holding our employee benefit cost flat to our employees |
| The SAS business also benefited from a couple of accretive contract mods that they were successful and being able to deliver on within the quarter |
| This ultimately benefits our customers and creates long-term value for our shareholders |
| And I think when I look at our portfolio of products, literally products, not necessarily systems or platforms, we've been well positioned, specifically in Ukraine with a quick turn on the radios, night vision goggle, sites, sensors, cameras |
| The business is on solid footing, and we are building operational momentum |
| In the third quarter, we reported 16% top-line growth, the second consecutive quarter of sequential margin improvement and strong cash generation, resulting in more than 100% free cash flow conversion |
| This extends our trend of generating positive free cash flow in each of the quarters since the merger |
| And we're able to close it in seven and a half months, which I think is pretty impressive in this environment |
| It delivered a record op profit in Q3 and 12.5% margins |
| This is our second consecutive quarter of sequential improving margins at 15% and this includes 2 months of Aerojet as part of our portfolio |
| So I feel like we're doing a pretty good job on the bidding discipline |
| So that gives us pretty good visibility and stability into the space side |
| And so, we're most pleased because we're starting to see the efforts of our actions related to our Performance First initiative, which you may remember is really grounded in meeting the commitments of our customers and shareholders, and it's starting to pay dividends now in terms of margin improvement |
| And so overall, I'd say we're feeling like we're in a good place from a comps perspective |
| And we continue to see strong demand internationally as well |
| Yes, thanks for acknowledging the 15%, which I think are industry-leading margins, which we are quite, quite proud of |
| And I think that's pretty good evidence that we're able to meet our commitments relative to cost and schedule notwithstanding all the challenges from the supply chain inflation, attrition and such |
| So this is really creating a win-win opportunity, both from a shareholder perspective, and our employees in terms of better benefits while maintaining the cost that they have to flow back to their families |
| From an Integrated Mission Systems business perspective, this business and along with John Rambo's leadership and the IMS leadership team, saw sequential margin improvement of 180 basis points from Q2 |
| So I think we're well positioned there |
| So we feel pretty good about our Aerospace business, and we've been able to attract new talent, which helps as well |
| We put it all together, I could not be more proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish in the third quarter, we exceeded expectations on revenue, EPS and cash and it's something we're quite proud of |
| I was more than pleased to see the enthusiasm of the workforce, the confidence that they have in being part of L3Harris, the alignment of being a part of a larger company that's focused on defense and national security and space |
| So we're encouraged with the overall margin results within the quarter |
| We also have a very steady, stable business that we've been in for decades from a civil weather perspective |
| So it's a good complement to the other work that's really growing from a DoD perspective |
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| So I felt like L3Harris was kind of at the pointy end of the spear and leading the industry and the supply chain adverse impacts given the fact we couldn't get those parts to deliver our core products and recognize the revenue and profit |
| And I'm concerned that a government shutdown would clearly weaken our national security as does a continuing resolution |
| And that really is the challenge in the munitions and rocket motor business is a couple of levels down |
| It's also having supply chain issues |
| And I think it's highlighting my last point, some of the challenges in the industry |
| But we expect that the worst is behind us in terms of overall programmatic challenges within IMS |
| And so you may remember this is where we've had the most acute EAC programmatic challenges in the first half of the year |
| But I think a lot of the challenges that the industry is having stems from the supply chain, which I'm sure is getting hold hearing that |
| So while there's still supply chain challenges, I think they've shifted |
| The RL10 engine, which is the upper stage is performing flawlessly |
| And we keep talking about that as part of our national defense strategy, but we keep getting distracted by these other conflicts |
| But the challenge there, I believe, is more on inflation and then workmanship that everybody is dealing with those quality challenges |
| And so we anticipated Q3 to be lower margins aligned with a heavier DoD shipment mix from a tactical radio perspective |
| It feels like it's an even more dangerous world than it ever has been |
| And it's not even sure, ever has failed |
| I think the run of successes goes back decades without a failure |
| And I think that's something that this industry doesn't naturally do |
| And so when you look at Q4, there is a step-down as a result of those onetime accretive actions that occurred within Q3 |
| And then just from looking at supply chain specifically, we continue to see hiccups like you're hearing across the industry, but significant complements to our supply chain, our tactical communication business, Sam Mehta, Chris Abley |
| So what we've done is really double down on our bidding discipline, some of the longer-cycle things going back 5 years, probably are making less margin than I would like |
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