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Estimated cumulative losses including reserves.

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Increase (decrease) in net earnings due to favorable/unfavorable profit rate adjustments.

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Increase (decrease) in diluted earnings per share due to favorable/unfavorable profit rate adjustments.

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Increase (decrease) in operating profit due to favorable/unfavorable profit rate adjustments.

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Number Of Commercial Satellite Programs With Performance Issues

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Research And Development Expense, After Tax

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Research And Development Expense, After Tax, Per Share

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Revenue from Contract with Customer, Number Of Contract Types

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Valuation allowances and reserves charged to cost and expense earnings per share.

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Valuation allowances and reserves charged to cost and expense, net of tax.

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Amount of revenue recognized from performance obligation satisfied or partially satisfied in previous reporting periods. Includes, but is not limited to, change in transaction price.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of any significant sales of financing receivables during the reporting period.

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Reflects the net positive or negative amount derived from subtracting from net proceeds of sale, the carrying amounts, net of allocated reserves, of accounts receivable transferred to a third party in a transaction that qualifies for sales treatment.

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The aggregate 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.

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Amount of increase in the allowances and reserves, which consist of the valuation and qualifying accounts that are either netted against the cost of an asset or that reflect a liability established to represent expected future costs, from charges to costs and expenses.

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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICY UPDATES (Details)	3 Months Ended
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICY UPDATES (Details)	Mar. 25, 2018 USD ($) contract $ / shares	Mar. 26, 2017 USD ($) $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2017 program
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Number of types of contracts \| contract	3
Performance obligation satisfied in previous period	$ 415,000,000	$ 380,000,000
Additional charge for performance matter on EADGE-T, gross		120,000,000
Additional charge for performance matter on EADGE-T, after tax		$ 74,000,000
Additional charge for performance matter on EADGE-T, after tax (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares		$ 0.25
Cumulative losses, including reserves	260,000,000
Customer receivables sold	103,000,000
Gains or losses related to sales of receivables	0
Contracts Accounted for under Percentage of Completion
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Increase in operating profit due to profit rate adjustments	420,000,000	$ 295,000,000
Increase in net earnings due to profit rate adjustments	$ 332,000,000	$ 192,000,000
Increase in diluted earnings per common share due to profit rate adjustments (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 1.15	$ 0.66
LM 2100 Project
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Commercial satellite cumulative losses on development	$ 340,000,000
Commercial satellite losses on development	35,000,000
Commercial satellite losses on development, after tax	$ 26,000,000
Commercial satellite losses on development, after tax (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 0.09
Space
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Number of commercial satellite programs with performance issues \| program			2