L-3 Communications

L3 Technologies, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	: LLL S&P 500 Component
Industry	Aerospace, Defense
Founded	1997; 20 years ago (1997)
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Key people	Michael T. Strianese (Chairman, President and CEO)
Products	AVCATT, numerous specialized components
Revenue	US$ 12.629 billion (2013) US$ 13.146 billion (2012)
Operating income	US$ 1.258 billion (2013) US$ 1.351 billion (2012)
Net income	US$ 778.0 million (2013) US$ 810.0 million (2012)
Total assets	US$ 14.009 billion (2013) US$ 13.791 billion (2012)
Total equity	US$ 6.098 billion (2013) US$ 5.543 billion (2012)
Number of employees	>38,000 (2016)
Website	l3t.com

L3 Technologies, formerly L-3 Communications Holdings, is an American company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training devices and services, instrumentation, space, and navigation products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Government intelligence agencies, NASA, aerospace contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers.

L3 is headquartered in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City.

L3 was formed as L-3 Communications in 1997 to acquire certain business units from Lockheed Martin that had previously been part of Loral Corporation. These units had belonged to Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta, which had merged three years before in 1993. The company was founded by (and named for) Frank Lanza and Robert LaPenta, who had both served as executives at Loral and Lockheed, in partnership with Lehman Brothers.