SEC Comment Letter for L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, (LHX) — Sep 23, 2016
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. /DE/
Date: Sept. 23, 2016 · CIK: 0000202058 · Accession: 0000000000-16-094323
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Mail Stop 3561
September 23, 2016
Mr. Rahul Ghai
Chief Financial Officer
Harris Corporation
1025 West NASA Boulevard
Melbourne, Florida 32919
Re: Harris Corporation
Form 10-K for the Year Ended July 1, 2016
Filed August 29 , 2016
File No. 001 -03863
Dear Mr. Ghai :
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to these comments within ten busine ss days by providing the requested
information or advis e us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the year ended July 1, 2016
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations Review, page 41
Discussion of Business Segment Results of Operations, page 44 -48
1. We note your discussion of the operating resu lts by segment; however, your discussion
did not provide sufficient quantitative insights attributable to the various factors affecting
your income statement accounts. For example, for the Communication Systems Segment,
you disclosed the various offsetting factors such as inclusion of Exelis operations,
weakness related to DoD and international tactical radio markets affecting revenues
without their related amounts. In addition, you did not provide a similar discussion for
your costs of sales and services a ccounts. In that regard, please revise to provide a more
robust and comprehensive discussion of your segment operating results by providing a
separate discussion on their respective costs of sales and services as well as quantifying the
amounts associated with the various factors affecting each significant income statement line
item. Refer to Item 303 of Regulation S -K and SEC Release No. 33 -8350.
Mr. Rahul Ghai
Harris Corporation
September 23 , 2016
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We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and all applicable Exchange Act rules require . Since the compa ny and its management are
in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
In connection with responding to our comments, please p rovide, in writing, a s tatement
from the company acknowledging that:
the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;
staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose
the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by
the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
You may contact Effie Simpson at (202) 551 -3346, or in her absence, Andrew Mew ,
Senior Assistant Chief Accountant at (202) 551 -3750 if you have questions regarding comments
on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact the undersigned, at (202) 551 -
3750 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
/s/ Melissa Raminpour
Melissa Raminpour
Branch Chief
Office of Transportation and Leisure