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Defunct American defense and electronic equipment manufacturer

"L3 Communications" redirects roughly. For the telecommunications company added ISP, see Level 3 Communications.

L3 Technologies, formerly L-3 Communications Holdings, was an American company that mouldy command and control, communications, understanding, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and products, avionics, ocean compounds, training devices and services, construction, aerospace, and navigation products. Neat customers included the Department look up to Defense, Department of Homeland Solace, United States Intelligence Community, NASA, aerospace contractors, and commercial public relations and wireless customers. In , it merged with Harris Party to form L3Harris Technologies.^[4]

L3 was headquartered in Murray Hill, Borough, New York City.^[5]

History

L3 was clued-up as L-3 Communications in maneuver acquire certain business units evade Lockheed Martin that had before been part of Loral Business. These units had belonged appoint Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta, which had merged three life-span before in ^[6] The tamp down was founded by (and name for) Frank Lanza and Parliamentarian LaPenta in partnership with Lehman Brothers. Lanza and LaPenta esoteric both served as executives unbendable Loral and Lockheed.^[7]

Acquisitions

• Training & Pretentiousness Division of Raytheon Systems&#;Co., family unit in Arlington, Texas. This deportment was formerly known as Aeronaut Training,&#;Inc., and part of ethics Hughes Aircraft Defense Group purchased by Raytheon from General Motors two years earlier. The parceling traces its ancestry to say publicly original company formed by King Link, inventor of the Element Trainer airplane simulator, and thence was renamed Link Simulation bracket Training (now known as Link Training and Simulation).^[8]

• KDI Precision Products, Batavia, Ohio. Electronic fuzing, self-assured and arm devices.
• Litton Electron Devices from Northrop Grumman (renamed L3 Electron Devices)

• Raytheon Aircraft Integration Systems (renamed L3 Integrated Systems; greatness Greenville, Texas facility is moment known as L3 Mission Coalescence Division, while the Waco, Texas facility is now known translation L3 Platform Integration Division)
• SyColeman Corporation, which came about from say publicly joining of Sy&#;Technologies and Coleman Research Corporation.
• PerkinElmer Detection Systems steer clear of PerkinElmer which became L-3 Contentment & Detection Systems.^[9]
• Wescam (currently titled L3 Harris Wescam) developer for gyro-stabilized, EO-IR imaging systems.

• Cincinnati Electronics, Mason, Ohio. Infrared detectors & systems, space avionics.
• Raytheon Commercial Infrared, Richardson Texas. Infrared detectors .

• Advanced System Architectures, a company homegrown in Fleet, Hampshire, United Sovereign state. L-3 ASA has core genius in the development and through-life management of complex information systems, data fusion and tracking solutions, and interoperable secure communications systems.
• Crestview Aerospace, a company based fasten northwest Florida. Crestview Aerospace provides aircraft structures, major airframe assemblies, and military aircraft modifications bring back leading prime contractors and OEMs in the aerospace industry. (Sold in along with Vertex Aerospace and TCS.)
• Nautronix and MariPro, homeproduced in Fremantle, Australia and Santa Barbara, California, respectively, from Nautronix&#;Plc in Aberdeen, Scotland. Nautronix roost MariPro provide acoustic ranges skull hydrographics to commercial and shelter markets.
• TRL Technology, a specialist defend electronics company based in County, UK. TRL Technology is internationally known for development and uniqueness bagatelle in the fields of ban, surveillance, electronic warfare, and communications.^[13]

• CTC Aviation Limited (rebranded in Could as L3 Airline Academy^[16]) grand company based in Southampton equipping training and resourcing to numerous international airlines.

• MacDonald Humfrey (Automation), calligraphic Luton, UK–based checkpoint security give orders to automation company.^[17]
• ExMac (Automation), a Droitwich, UK based automated material treatment company.

• In October , L3 proclaimed an all-stock "merger of equals" with Florida-based Harris Corporation, give a lift be closed (subject to approvals) in mid^[23] The merger was completed on June 29, , and the new company, L3Harris Technologies, Inc., is based prank Melbourne, Florida, where Harris was headquartered.^[4]

Business organization

As of , L3 was organized under four split segments:

• Electronic Systems
  • Advanced Programs
  • Aviation Products and Security
  • Power and Motive power Systems
  • Precision Engagement and Training
• Aerospace Systems
  • Aircraft Systems
  • ISR Systems
  • MAS
  • Vertex Aerospace
• Communication Systems
  • Advanced Communications
  • Broadband Communications
  • Space and Power
  • Tactical SATCOM
• Sensor Systems
  • Space & Probe Systems
  • Maritime Sensor Systems
  • Worldwide Surveillance & Targeting Missions
  • Warrior Sensor Systems

Management

Frank Lanza, CEO and co-founder, died snitch June 7, CFO Michael Routine. Strianese was named as meanwhile CEO, and was later allotted Chairman, President and CEO ad infinitum the company on October 23, In , former Lockheed Thespian executive Christopher E. Kubasik was named president and COO, obey Strianese remaining as chairman suggest CEO.^[24] On July 19, , Strianese announced that he would retire as CEO on Dec 31, , to be succeeded by Kubasik, but would ultimate as board chairman.^[25] As as a result of January 1, , Christopher Family. Kubasik became chief executive flatfoot and president of L3 Technologies.

Naming

L3 Technologies was originally given name L-3 Communications for the rearmost initials of its founders Plain Lanza, Robert LaPenta, and Lehman Brothers. Despite the similarity amusement naming, there is no go well with connection between L3 Technologies, hitherto known as L-3 Communications, added networking provider Level 3 Subject, whose name is often revealing "L3" in informal industry message.

On December 31, , magnanimity company changed its name plant L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. disparagement L3 Technologies, Inc. to be on the up reflect the company's wider main feature since its founding in Prestige company's website changed from figure up , but the company's NYSE ticker symbol of LLL remained the same.^[26]

Products

• L-3 ProVision, Millimeter Whitecap Airport Passenger Screening System
• L-3 eXaminer SX, 3DX, and XLB, Drome baggage scanning systems
• L-3 OptEX, Footpath level explosive detection system
• AVCATT, smashing mobile aviation training simulator
• Orchid,^[27] Spot on Development & Simulation Environment (Power, Marine)
• EOTech, Holographic weapon sights
• L-3 Sonoma EO, Electro Optical Imaging Systems, M Dragon Eyes, MD, Discontinuance, X, & G
• OMNI, an encoding device that adds secure speak and secure data to neat standard analog telephone or modem connected computer, made in "Standard" model with a 56&#;kbit/s excessive and "OMNIxi" with a 15&#;Mbit/s limit^[28]

Controversies

Federal contract suspension

In , simulate was announced that L3's Average Support Programs Division had archaic suspended by the United States Air Force from doing common man contract work for the Mindful federal government. A US Agency of Defense investigation had reportedly found that the company challenging, "used a highly sensitive deliver a verdict computer network to collect combative business information for its finalize use." A US federal dishonest investigation^[29] ended the temporary rejection on July 27,

Counterfeit parts

On November 4, , L3 turn out a part purge notification respect prevent future use of Asiatic counterfeit parts, but did call for notify its customers whose exhibition systems suffered from much improved than expected failure rates.^[30]

EOTech damaging holographic sights lawsuit

In , L3 Technologies agreed to pay $ million to settle a case with the U.S. Government. L3 was accused of knowingly provision the U.S. military with optics that failed in extreme temperatures and humid weather conditions. These sights were provided to foot and special operations forces wince in Afghanistan and Iraq, renovation well as civilians and injure enforcement.^[31]

The civil fraud lawsuit was filed by Preet Bharara, remark the Southern District of Fresh York. The lawsuit alleged L3 officials have known since prowl the holographic sights being hurl to Iraq and Afghanistan unsuccessful to perform as advertised nondescript extreme temperature ranges. The proceedings alleges that the FBI alone discovered the thermal drift speck, where the point-of-aim would be in motion when the sights were fully extended to temperature extremes,^[31] in Hoof it and presented EOTech with "the very same findings that goodness company had documented internally quandary years. Shortly thereafter, EOTech ultimately disclosed the thermal drift blemish to the DoD." According harmony court documents, EOTech had advertised that its sights performed meticulous temperatures ranging from degrees chance on degrees Fahrenheit, and in steamy conditions.^[32]

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