L3 Technologies
| L3 Technologies, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US5024131071 |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | New York City , United States |
| management | Christopher E. Kubasik, CEO |
| Number of employees | 31,000 |
| sales | 9,573,000,000 USD |
| Branch | Defense industry |
| Website | www.l3t.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
L3 Technologies , formerly L-3 Communications Corporation, was a US company providing services and products in ISR systems, secure communications systems and products, telemetry, navigation products and instruments for navigation, space and aviation. The company's headquarters were in New York City ( New York , United States ). In Germany the company had branches in Starnberg ( Magnet-Motor GmbH ) and in Pfullingen (Narda Safety Test Solutions GmbH).
Its customers included the Department of Defense , the United States Department of Homeland Security , some US intelligence agencies as well as commercial telecommunications companies.
L-3 Communications was formed in 1997 through the acquisition of businesses resulting from the merger between Loral Corporation and Lockheed Martin .
The subsidiary L3 Communications Security and Detection Systems was a manufacturer of body scanners . This was also the manufacturer of the scanners that had been tested at Hamburg Airport since September 2010 .
The company was suspected of manufacturing projectiles and fuses for internationally banned cluster bombs .
In March 2013, a US federal court sentenced a Chinese citizen to 5 years and 10 months in prison because the court found that he had access to thousands of files and parts of a military control system, the L-3 Communications, while working for the company had developed, brought to the People's Republic of China.
In April 2010, L-3 Communications acquired Insight Technology and integrated it into the new Warrior Systems division, which also brought together other companies such as EOTech .
On June 1, 2015, L-3 Communications sold its marine division Marine Systems International with its subsidiaries SAM Electronics, Valmarine, Lyngsø Marine, Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems, Jovyatlas Euroatlas, ELAC Nautik, FUNA, GA International and APSS for 295 million euros Finnish company Wärtsilä .
On December 31, 2016, the company was in L3 Technologies, Inc. renamed.
In 2019 the company merged with Harris Corporation and was renamed L3Harris Technologies .
Web links
- www.l-3com.com
- L3 Technologies, Inc. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- Narda Safety Test Solutions GmbH , L3 Technologies in Pfullingen. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- Magnet-Motor GmbH , L3 Technologies in Starnberg. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b L3 Technologies 2017 Form 10-K Report , accessed April 22, 2018
- ↑ a b Frankfurter Rundschau: A disreputable business
- ↑ Suspected cluster bomb against body scanner company
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Not good advertising
- ^ The Washington Post: "Chinese citizen sentenced in military data-theft case", March 25, 2013, viewed March 26, 2013
- ↑ Steve Anderson: L-3 to acquire Insight Technology , February 22, 2010 in Laser Focus World [1]
- ↑ Bloomberg LP : Company Overview of L-3 Insight Technology Inc. [2]
- ↑ Wärtsilä completes acquisition of L-3 Marine Systems International, May 29, 2015
- ↑ L-3 Completes Divestiture of Marine Systems International Business, May 29, 2015 ( Memento from June 21, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ L-3 Communications to Change Name to L3 Technologies, Inc.
- ↑ L3Harris Technologies: Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies Set Closing Date for Merger , June 21, 2019