As engineers supporting highly complex programs worry about potential 2026 layoffs at L3Harris, it’s worth remembering that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on AlixPartners over four years on a failed attempt to roll out a simple reporting tool.
The money exists. It could have been invested directly into programs—staffing them properly and supporting frontline teams with real expertise. Instead, it was wasted.
Executive leadership should never allow this level of misallocation while employees are asked to do more with less. Defense work is hard enough; it becomes impossible without company support.
It’s time to invest in the people actually delivering the mission.
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Be glad Gen AI is revealing how much folly money has been wasted on consultants that just pump out modified slides on SWOTs VRIO and various business frameworks.
Billing rates of consultants are down since GPT.
Alixpartners started making their bones 44 years ago managing companies through chapter 11 bankruptcies and large companies reorganizing. Maybe l3 Harris will have another role for this consulting company when they reorganize. They will probably help them with the next rif
Inshittification at it's best. When a company prioritizes the investor experience over everything else, including customers, employees, and in this case, the safety and security of the American warfighter. The principles of this corporation belong in prison.
@bc Few understand that they self selected this outcome
Engineering skillsets are now based in India and the Philippines. Many contracts allow this with all the RTO drahma. ALIX has allocated funds to offset any regulatory issues. Only manufacturing onsite is allowed as I understand it
@a3 Hi Alix Partners, we are working incredibly difficult technology products that our troops need right away and our company executives have the funds to help our programs succeed but chooses to waste it. Yes, like many of my coworkers, I do plan to leave, it is with a heavy heart because when I joined this company I saw a lot of potential. I promise it will much harder to replace a top-secret RF engineer Navy Vet vs some random consultant with an MBA or an AI bot that cannot format an excel spreadsheet. At the end of the day, we cannot fulfill our contracts for our military partners that is the true loss.
Get out of there. Don't stick around waiting for a layoff.
Which world do you live in? Go with the flow or leave. Simple as that.