Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

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Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, management, with the participation of our principal executive

officer (CEO) and principal financial officer (CFO), carried out an evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and

procedures as of January 3, 2025. Based on this evaluation, the CEO and CFO concluded that as of January 3, 2025,

our disclosure controls and procedures were designed at a reasonable assurance level and were effective to provide

reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange

Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and

that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our CEO and CFO, as

appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over

financial reporting as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of

1934, as amended. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable

assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external

purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect

misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that

controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the

policies or procedures may deteriorate.

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Our management, with the participation of our CEO and CFO, assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s

internal control over financial reporting as of January 3, 2025. In making this assessment, management used the

criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal

Control-Integrated Framework (2013 framework). Based on this assessment, management concluded that the

Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 3, 2025.

The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP, has issued a report on the

effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. This report appears on the following page of

this Report.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than changes related to incorporating our controls and procedures with respect to AJRD operations, there

have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended

January 3, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over

financial reporting.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited L3Harris Technologies, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 3, 2025, based

on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring

Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, L3Harris

Technologies, Inc. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial

reporting as of January 3, 2025, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United

States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of January 3, 2025 and December 29, 2023,

the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, cash flows and equity for each of the

three years in the period ended January 3, 2025, and the related notes and our report dated February 14, 2025

expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for

its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on

the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm

registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the

U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and

the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and

perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting

was maintained in all material respects.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a

material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on

the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We

believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance

regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in

accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting

includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail,

accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable

assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance

with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made

only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable

assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s

assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect

misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that

controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the

policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Orlando, Florida

February 14, 2025

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