---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-085075"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LHX"
cik: "0000202058"
company_name: "L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T23:20:52.573947+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# L3Harris closes Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition for $58/share; forms fourth segment

## Summary
- Acquisition completed July 28, 2023; Aerojet Rocketdyne shareholders received $58.00 per share in cash.
- Aerojet Rocketdyne becomes L3Harris's fourth business segment, adding over 5,000 employees.
- Ross Niebergall appointed President of the new Aerojet Rocketdyne segment.
- Deal aims to strengthen defense industrial base and expand into hypersonics, missile defense, and rocket engines.
- Acquisition adds considerable long-cycle backlog and broad propulsion expertise.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-085075
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LHX
- cik: 0000202058
- company_name: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/202058/000110465923085075/0001104659-23-085075-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/202058/000110465923085075/tm2322078d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-085075.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. /DE/ completed an acquisition involving Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. for $58.00 in cash (closed 2023-07-28).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.
  - Consideration: $58.00 in cash
  - Closing: 2023-07-28
  source text: wholly owned subsidiaries and (ii) with respect to which appraisal rights have been properly exercised and perfected) was canceled and converted into the right to receive $58.00 in cash, without interest (the “Merger Consideration”). At the Effective Time, each outstanding Aerojet Rocketdyne stock appreciation right automatically vested and was cancelled
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/202058/000110465923085075/0001104659-23-085075-index.htm

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