L3Harris Partners with Accenture to Accelerate Technology Modernization and Digital Transformation

L3Harris Partners with Accenture to Accelerate Technology Modernization and Digital Transformation

(IN BRIEF) L3Harris Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Accenture to accelerate its technology modernization efforts through the LHX NeXt initiative. This collaboration aims to establish a robust digital foundation, optimize operational efficiencies, and foster future growth. Accenture will leverage its expertise in cloud, infrastructure, and application services to enhance L3Harris’ agility, scalability, and user experience. A portion of L3Harris’ IT workforce will join Accenture, gaining access to specialized training and development opportunities. The partnership aims to streamline IT operations, improve financial management, enhance customer service capabilities, and enrich the talent experience within L3Harris.

(PRESS RELEASE) DUBLIN, 18-Jun-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has announced a strategic collaboration with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) aimed at accelerating its technology transformation under the LHX NeXt initiative. This partnership is designed to establish a robust digital foundation and implement new operational practices that will optimize efficiencies and support future growth for L3Harris.

Accenture, leveraging its extensive industry expertise and digital capabilities in cloud, infrastructure, and application services, will play a pivotal role in enhancing L3Harris’ agility, scalability, and user experiences. A key aspect of the collaboration involves a segment of L3Harris’ IT workforce joining Accenture, where they will benefit from specialized training and development in cutting-edge technologies and operational practices.

Christopher E. Kubasik, Chair and CEO of L3Harris, emphasized the strategic importance of modernizing and automating their IT infrastructure at an accelerated pace to unlock innovation and deliver greater value to customers.

The managed service approach adopted in this collaboration is expected to deliver several benefits across L3Harris’ operations:

1. Improved cost structure: By streamlining and modernizing IT operations, L3Harris anticipates better financial management through standardized processes.
2. Enhanced customer service: Customers will benefit from enhanced software, hardware, and systems resulting from reinvestments in IT infrastructure and applications.
3. Enriched talent experience: IT professionals at L3Harris will gain access to advanced enterprise resources, training, and tools, empowering them to excel in their roles.

Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture, highlighted the significance of building a strong digital core to leverage cloud and automation effectively, elevate customer service, and drive continuous business transformation at L3Harris.

This collaboration marks a strategic step towards optimizing operations, driving growth, and achieving new performance milestones across L3Harris’ business sectors.

About L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our ~50,000 employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect management’s current expectations, assumptions and estimates of future performance and economic conditions. Such statements are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and future trends to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements that are not historical fact, including our plans, strategies and objectives related to our collaboration with Accenture, are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. L3Harris disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Media Contacts:

Aleks Vujanic
Accenture
+44 7500 974 814
aleks.vujanic@accenture.com

Sara Banda
L3Harris Corporate
+1 321 306 8927
media@l3harris.com

SOURCE: Accenture