L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX)

Defense electronics and space, 45,000, 90% U.S.. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 2, 2026, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 28 of the 47 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states the total, the engineers and the U.S. share but no count by segment, so the instruments and aerospace shares follow segment revenue (c), said so.

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: 17% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 47% at the end of 2028, 52% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 52% desk work, 16% 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 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 44% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

45,000 employees as of January 2, 2026 (stated). 90% of employees were located in the U.S.

The filing: “We had approximately 45,000 employees as of January 2, 2026, including approximately 18,000 engineers and scientists.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 45,000 employees, including about 18,000 engineers and scientists; 90% in the U.S.; about 2,600 (6% of U.S. employees) under collective bargaining agreements; about 6,000 hired in fiscal 2025.

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)18% now, 43% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)19% now, 48% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)18% now, 44% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)18% now, 50% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. Seven sentences: fusing hardware, software and AI as what competing in its markets requires, AI among the new technologies needing significant investment, and risks that may increase as AI capabilities improve.

• “Such collaboration is driven by modern market dynamics where competing in our markets requires the ability to fuse hardware, software and artificial intelligence ("AI").”
• “These risks may increase as AI capabilities improve.”
• “To remain competitive, we need to continue to design, develop, manufacture, assemble, test, market and support new products and services, which will require the investment of significant financial resources in new technologies such as AI.”
• “Our competitors, including non-traditional new entrants, may incorporate AI technologies into their products or services more quickly or more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete.”
• “As part of our digital transformation, we are modernizing our infrastructure, applications, and information ecosystem, inclusive of cloud migrations, increasing automation and expanding the use of AI.”

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 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 20257median 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

• No headcount by segment: the instruments and aerospace shares follow segment revenue (c); the 18,000 engineers and scientists are a counted function, recorded in the notes.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000202058-26-000015, 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.