TransDigm Group Incorporated (TDG)
Aircraft components, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 12, 2025. Ranked 144 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
46%
Employees, annual report
16,500
Leading staffing pattern
Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202846%
- End of 203049%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 46%
- Becomes checking a model's work 46%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states 16,500 employees in two aerospace segments, Power and Control and Airframe (99% of revenue), with no count by segment, so aerospace parts manufacturing carries the whole workforce.
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, 36% at the end of 2027, 46% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 50% desk work, 13% people work and 38% 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), 46% 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
16,500 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). Not stated; U.S. revenue is 63%.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we had approximately 16,500 full-time, part-time and temporary employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 100% | The Power and Control (52% of revenue) and Airframe (47%) segments both make engineered aircraft components, the non-aviation business is 2%, and the filing counts no employees by segment, so aerospace product and parts manufacturing carries the whole workforce by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Full-time, part-time and temporary employees counted together; about 15% of full-time and part-time employees represented by unions under agreements expiring up to January 2029; no hourly or part-time count stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts 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.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)17% now, 48% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)17% now, 47% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Textron Inc. (TXT, 34,000 employees)16% now, 42% by 2028
- Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM, 25,430 employees)18% now, 41% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. Two risk-factor sentences name artificial intelligence as intensifying cybersecurity risks and as a tool threat actors increasingly use.
- “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies may intensify these risks.”
- “Furthermore, the Company has access to classified, sensitive, confidential, proprietary, or personal data or information that is subject to privacy and security laws, regulations, or other contractually-imposed controls. 11 Table of Contents The risks in this area continue to grow, and we expect cyber events will continue to accelerate in frequency and impact as threat actors increasingly use A...”
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 20244median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 16,500 | 2025-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 16,600 | 2024-11-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 15,500 | 2023-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 14,400 | 2022-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 13,300 | 2021-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 14,200 | 2020-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 18,300 | 2019-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 10,100 | 2018-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 9,200 | 2017-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 9,300 | 2016-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 8,200 | 2015-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 7,300 | 2014-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 6,100 | 2013-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 5,400 | 2012-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 3,800 | 2011-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 2,400 | 2010-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 2,000 | 2009-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 2,100 | 2008-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 2,100 | 2007-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 1,400 | 2006-11-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: one pattern by description (c); the 2% non-aviation business folds under rule 5.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001260221-25-000081, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of TransDigm Group Incorporated's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 46% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce TransDigm Group Incorporated's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does TransDigm Group Incorporated employ?
- 16,500 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up TransDigm Group Incorporated's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 50% desk work, 13% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does TransDigm Group Incorporated's annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 4 and 2 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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