Leonardo DRS, Inc. (DRS)

Defense electronics and naval power maker, 7,300. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 100 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A defense technology company whose filing states 7,300 employees, 7% union, and nothing by segment, so defense electronics lead by description with naval power equipment beside them.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 45% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 50% desk work, 17% people work and 33% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 50% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

7,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; its programs serve U.S. defense customers and some employees hold security clearances.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our workforce included approximately 7,300 employees of which approximately 500 (or 7%) were represented by labor unions.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (7,000 a year earlier), about 500 (7%) represented by labor unions; some hold security clearances for classified programs; about a 25% interest in Hoverfly Technologies.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)19% now, 43% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)20% now, 48% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)19% now, 45% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)19% now, 50% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)18% now, 48% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)19% now, 49% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)18% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

11 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says enhancements in sensing, AI-enabled computing, self-protection and power are central to its customers' priorities, and describes AI-optimized open architecture software, SAGEcore, that shares and synthesizes data at the tactical edge; it names AI in 11 sentences.

• “Enhancements in sensing, artificial intelligence ("AI")-enabled computing, self-protection, and power generation and management are central to these priorities.”
• “Across our offerings, we are focused on advancing sensor range and enhancing the precision, clarity, definition, spectral depth and effectiveness of our sensors to deliver actionable information in time-sensitive mission scenarios in combination with AI, enabled by our advanced edge processing solutions.”
• “These products help support the DoW's need for greater situational understanding and faster decision-making at the tactical edge by leveraging AI and AI-optimized open architecture software, SAGEcore™, to rapidly share, synthesize and transmit data securely between command centers and forward-positioned defense assets and personnel, while supporting reduced latency, operational continuity, and...”
• “AI technologies have rapidly developed, and our business may be adversely affected if we cannot successfully integrate the technology into our internal business processes and product and service offerings in a timely, cost-effective, compliant and responsible manner.”
• “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI or machine learning technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 202511median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by segment: the split between defense electronics and naval power equipment is by description (c); the data service's segment table (one segment, fiscal 2024) is not usable.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001833756-26-000013, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.