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The current portion, due within one year or one operating cycle, if longer, of aggregate prepayments received from customers for goods or services to be provided in the future, as well as the current portion of money or property received from customers that are to be returned upon satisfactory contract completion or as partial prepayment for goods or services to be provided in the future and also includes liabilities due to billings on long term contracts that exceed the income recorded under the percentage of completion contract accounting method, or that exceed the accumulated costs under the completed contract accounting method. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Sales reclassified from C3ISR segment to Government Services segment as a result of business unit re-alignments. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Other assets. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. General & administrative, independent research & development and bid & proposal costs included in inventoried contract costs at end of period. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Description of a business combination (or series of individually immaterial business combinations) completed during the period, including background, timing, and recognized assets and liabilities. This element may be used as a single block of text to encapsulate the entire disclosure (including data and tables) regarding business combinations, including leverage buyout transactions (as applicable). Also, includes acquisition pro forma information and financial information related to acquisitions and dispositions. No authoritative reference available. Net unbilled contract receivables and net inventoried contract costs. No authoritative reference available. This element represents the complete disclosure related to inventory. This may include, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the major classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory. If inventory is stated above cost, accrued net losses on firm purchase commitments for inventory and losses resulting from valuing inventory at the lower-of-cost-or-market may also be included. For LIFO inventory, may disclose the amount and basis for determining the excess of replacement or current cost over stated LIFO value and the effects of a LIFO quantities liquidation that impacts net income (excluding inventoried contract costs already included in CIP). No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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Describes an entity's accounting policy for revenue recognition for software arrangements relating to the licensing, selling, leasing or marketing of computer software. No authoritative reference available. Segment reclassification of goodwill allocated to the reportable segments of company. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Stockholders equity other. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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Selling, general and administrative expenses and research and development expenses for the company's commercial businesses. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Other current liabilities. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Redemption of senior subordinated notes. No authoritative reference available. General and administrative costs included in inventoried contract costs. 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The aggregate costs for the company's commercial businesses, not included included in inventoried contract costs, incurred (1) in a planned search or critical investigation aimed at discovery of new knowledge with the hope that such knowledge will be useful in developing a new product or service, a new process or technique, or in bringing about a significant improvement to an existing product or process; or (2) to translate research findings or other knowledge into a plan or design for a new product or process or for a significant improvement to an existing product or process whether intended for sale or the entity's use, during the reporting period charged to research and development projects, including the costs of developing computer software up to the point in time of achieving technological feasibility, and costs allocated in accounting for a business combination to in-process projects deemed to have no alternative future use. No authoritative reference available. 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No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Disclosures include the authorization and status of L-3 Holdings share repurchase program, the remaining dollar value of the repurchase program and the shares repurchased subsequent to year end through the date of the 10-K filing. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Describes an entity's accounting policy for revenue recognition for multiple-deliverable arrangements. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Equity in net income of consolidated subsidiaries. No authoritative reference available. Reconciliation of net income to comprehensive income attributable to L-3. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Fair Value, Assets Measured on Recurring Basis, Total assets. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Net carrying amount of liability component. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Operating income reclassified from C3ISR segment to Government Services segment as a result of business unit re-alignments. No authoritative reference available. 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General & administrative, independent research & development and bid & proposal costs included in inventoried contract costs at beginning of period. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. The pre-judgment interest maximum sought. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Components of Contracts in Process. No authoritative reference available. Contributions To Employee Savings Plans In Companys Common Stock. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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This form of debt can be exchanged for a specified amount of another security, typically the entity's common stock, at the option of the issuer or the holder, and places a lender in a lien position behind debt having a higher priority of repayment in liquidation of the entity's assets. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Disclosure of the equity of L-3 Communications and description of the terms of certain debt and the structure of the guarantees of that specific debt. Includes certain condensed combining financial information at different legal entity levels, including aggregating the financial information by Guarantor Subsidiaries and Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. The current portion, due within one year or one operating cycle, if longer, of aggregate prepayments received from customers for goods or services to be provided in the future, as well as the current portion of money or property received from customers that are to be returned upon satisfactory contract completion or as partial prepayment for goods or services to be provided in the future and also includes liabilities due to billings on long term contracts that exceed the income recorded under the percentage of completion contract accounting method, or that exceed the accumulated costs under the completed contract accounting method. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Including the current and noncurrent portions, fair value as of the balance sheet date of Notes with the highest claim on the assets of the issuer in case of bankruptcy or liquidation (with maturities initially due after one year or beyond the operating cycle if longer). Senior note holders are paid off in full before any payments are made to junior note holders. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Contract costs incurred. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Other current liabilities includes accruals for pending and threatened litigation, accrued product warranty costs, accrued interest, estimated costs in excess of estimated contract value to complete contracts in process in a loss position, deferred revenues, aggregate purchase price payable for acquired businesses and other. Other liabilities includes non-current income taxes payable, deferred compensation, accrued workers compensation, unfavorable lease obligations, non-current portion of net deferred gains from terminated interest rate swap agreements, notes payable and capital lease obligations, accrued product warranty costs, and other non-current liabilities. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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The aggregate total costs of selling the company's commercial businesses products and services, as well as all other general and administrative expenses not included in inventoried contract costs. Direct selling expenses (for example, credit and advertising) are expenses that can be directly linked to the sale of specific products. Indirect selling expenses are expenses that cannot be directly linked to the sale of specific products, for example telephone expenses, Internet, and postal charges. General and administrative expenses include salaries of non-sales personnel, rent, utilities, communication, etc. No authoritative reference available. Condensed Combining Statements of Operations. No authoritative reference available. Description of the estimated period of time over which a non-employee director is required to wait in exchange for the share-based payment award to vest. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. The additional purchase price of the acquired entity generally resulting from purchase price obligations resulting from contractual or contingent obligations recorded pursuant to the purchase agreement and subsequent to the completion of the acquisition. No authoritative reference available. Compensatory damages awarded by trial court. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Reconciliation of basic and diluted earnings per share. No authoritative reference available. Current convertible common stock price, which is 120% of the current conversion price. Used for calculating the conversion of its convertible debt as contained in the provisions of the Convertible Contingent Debt Securities, which is used under certain conditions to settle the principal in cash based on a 120% of the conversion price, and if the settlement amount exceeds the principal amount, the excess will be settled in cash or stock or a combination thereof, at the Company's option. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Unliquidated progress payments for inventoried contract costs. 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An example would be gross amounts associated with contracts or programs where the recognized revenue for performance thereunder exceeds the amounts billed under the terms thereof as of the date of the balance sheet. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Supplemental Cash Flow Information. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Assets reclassified from Government Services segment to Electronic Systems segment as a result of business unit re-alignments. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Inventoried contract costs, Unbilled receivables, and unliquidated progress payments. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Number of employees terminated. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Sales reclassified from Government Services segment to Electronic Systems segment as a result of business unit re-alignments. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Includes inventoried contract costs, unbilled receivables, and unliquidated progress payment amounts capitalized and descriptions for long-term contracts. Separately, includes Selling, General, and Administrative costs and Research and Development costs related to commercial businesses incurred and expensed during the period. No authoritative reference available. Independent research and development and bid and proposal costs included in inventoried contract costs. No authoritative reference available. Additional amount of shares authorized to be repurchased. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Future amortization expense remaining current year. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Number of common shares repurchased. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. This element represents the amount of interest expense accrued, after tax, as of the date of the statement of financial position for an underpayment of income taxes computed by applying the applicable statutory rate of interest to the difference between a tax position recognized for financial reporting purposes and the amount previously taken or expected to be taken in a tax return of the entity. No authoritative reference available. Repurchase of additional outstanding shares. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Weighted average assumptions in valuation model. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. The pre-judgment interest minimum sought. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. Other financing activities. No authoritative reference available. Amortization expense. No authoritative reference available. Describes the form and magnitude of the minimum award the plaintiff seeks in the legal matter. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. No authoritative reference available. 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