Biggest changeSuch risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, without limitation: • the effect of changes in economic, capital market, and political conditions in the U.S. and globally, such as from the global sanctions and export controls with respect to Russia, and any changes therein, and including changes related to financial market conditions, banking industry disruptions, fluctuations in commodity prices or supply (including energy supply), inflation, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, disruptions in global supply chain and labor markets, levels of consumer and business confidence, the imposition of tariffs, and geopolitical risks, including, without limitation, in the Middle East and Ukraine; • risks associated with U.S. government sales, including changes or shifts in defense spending due to budgetary constraints, spending cuts resulting from sequestration, a continuing resolution, a government shutdown, the debt ceiling or measures taken to avoid default, or otherwise, and uncertain funding of programs; • risks relating to our performance on our contracts and programs, including our ability to control costs, the mix of our contracts and programs, and our inability to pass some or all of our costs on fixed price contracts to the customer, and risks related to our dependence on U.S. government approvals for international contracts; • challenges in the development, certification, production, delivery, support, and performance of RTX advanced technologies and new products and services and the realization of the anticipated benefits (including our expected returns under customer contracts), as well as the challenges of operating in RTX’s highly-competitive industries both domestically and abroad; • risks relating to RTX’s reliance on U.S. and non-U.S. suppliers and commodity markets, including the effect of sanctions, tariffs, delays, and disruptions in the delivery of materials and services to RTX or its suppliers and cost increases; • risks relating to RTX’s international operations from, among other things, changes in trade policies and implementation of sanctions, foreign currency fluctuations, economic conditions, political factors, sales methods, U.S. or local government regulations, and our dependence on U.S. government approvals for international contracts; • the condition of the aerospace industry; 11 Table of Contents • potential changes in U.S. government policy positions, including changes in DoD policies or priorities; • the ability of RTX to attract, train, qualify, and retain qualified personnel and maintain its culture and high ethical standards, and the ability of our personnel to continue to operate our facilities and businesses around the world; • the scope, nature, timing, and challenges of managing acquisitions, investments, divestitures (including the pending disposition of Collins' actuation and flight control business), and other transactions, including the realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation, the assumption of liabilities, and other risks and incurrence of related costs and expenses, and risks related to completion of announced divestitures; • compliance with legal, environmental, regulatory, and other requirements, including, among other things, obtaining regulatory approvals for new technologies and products, and export and import requirements such as ITAR and EAR, anti-bribery and anticorruption requirements, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), industrial cooperation agreement obligations, and procurement and other regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which RTX and its businesses operate; • the outcome of pending, threatened, and future legal proceedings, investigations, and other contingencies, including those related to U.S. government audits and disputes and the potential for suspension or debarment of U.S. government contracting or export privileges as a result thereof; • risks related to the Deferred Prosecution Agreements, SEC Administrative Order, the Consent Agreement; and the related investigations by the SEC and the DOJ; • factors that could impact RTX’s ability to engage in desirable capital-raising or strategic transactions, including its credit rating, capital structure, levels of indebtedness, and related obligations, capital expenditures, and research and development spending, and capital deployment strategy including with respect to share repurchases, and the availability of credit, borrowing costs, credit market conditions, and other factors; • uncertainties associated with the timing and scope of future repurchases by RTX of its common stock, or declarations of cash dividends, which may be discontinued, accelerated, suspended, or delayed at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash; • risks relating to realizing expected benefits from, incurring costs for, and successfully managing strategic initiatives such as cost reduction, restructuring, digital transformation, and other operational initiatives; • risks of additional tax exposures due to new tax legislation or other developments in the U.S. and other countries in which RTX and its businesses operate; • risks relating to addressing the Powder Metal Matter, including, without limitation, the number and expected timing of shop visits, inspection results and scope of work to be performed, turnaround time, availability of parts, available capacity at overhaul facilities, outcomes of negotiations with impacted customers, and risks related to other engine models that may be impacted by the Powder Metal Matter, and in each case the timing and costs relating thereto, as well as other issues that could impact RTX product performance, including quality, reliability, or durability; • changes in production volumes of one or more of our significant customers as a result of business, labor, or other challenges, and the resulting effect on its or their demand for our products and services; • risks relating to an RTX product safety failure, quality issue, or other failure affecting RTX’s or its customers’ or suppliers’ products or systems; • risks relating to cybersecurity, including cyber-attacks on RTX’s IT infrastructure, products, suppliers, customers and partners, and cybersecurity-related regulations; • risks related to insufficient indemnity or insurance coverage; • risks related to artificial intelligence; • risks relating to our intellectual property and certain third-party intellectual property; • threats to RTX facilities and personnel, as well as other events outside of RTX’s control such as public health crises, damaging weather, or other acts of nature; • the effect of changes in accounting estimates for our programs on our financial results; • the effect of changes in pension and other postretirement plan estimates and assumptions and contributions; • risks relating to an impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets; • the effects of climate change and changing or new climate-related regulations, customer and market demands, products and technologies; and • the intended qualification of (1) the Raytheon merger as a tax-free reorganization and (2) the separation transactions and other internal restructurings as tax-free to us (formerly known as United Technologies Corporation (UTC)) and former UTC shareowners, in each case, for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Biggest changeSuch risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, without limitation: • changes in economic, capital market, and political conditions in the U.S. and globally; • changes in U.S. government defense spending, national priorities, and policy positions; • our performance on our contracts and programs, including our ability to control costs, and our dependence on U.S. government approvals for certain international contracts; • challenges in the development, certification, production, delivery, support, and performance of RTX’s advanced technologies and new products and services and the realization of anticipated benefits; • the challenges of operating in RTX’s highly-competitive industries both domestically and abroad; • our reliance on U.S. and non-U.S. suppliers and commodity markets, including cost increases and disruptions in the delivery of materials and services to RTX or our suppliers; • changes in trade policies, implementation of sanctions, imposition of tariffs (and counter-tariffs), and other trade measures and restrictions, foreign currency fluctuations, and sales methods; • the economic condition of the aerospace industry; • the ability of RTX to attract, train, qualify, and retain qualified personnel and maintain its culture and high ethical standards, and the ability of our personnel to continue to operate our facilities and businesses around the world; • the scope, nature, timing, and challenges of managing and completing acquisitions, investments, divestitures, and other transactions; • compliance with legal, environmental, regulatory, and other requirements in the U.S. and other countries in which RTX and its businesses operate; • pending, threatened, and future legal proceedings, investigations, audits, and other contingencies; • the Deferred Prosecution Agreements, SEC Administrative Order, the Consent Agreement; and the related investigations by the SEC and the DOJ; • RTX’s ability to engage in desirable capital-raising or strategic transactions; • repurchases by RTX of its common stock, or declarations of cash dividends, which may be discontinued, accelerated, suspended, or delayed at any time due to various factors; • realizing expected benefits from, incurring costs for, and successfully managing strategic initiatives such as cost reduction, restructuring, digital transformation, and other operational initiatives; • additional tax exposures due to new tax legislation or other developments in the U.S. and other countries in which RTX and its businesses operate; • the Powder Metal Matter; • changes in production volumes of one or more of our significant customers as a result of business, labor, or other challenges, and the resulting effect on its or their demand for our products and services; • an RTX product safety failure, quality issue, or other failure affecting RTX’s or its customers’ or suppliers’ products or systems; • cybersecurity, including cyber-attacks on RTX’s information technology (IT) infrastructure, products, suppliers, customers and partners, and cybersecurity-related regulations; • insufficient indemnity or insurance coverage; • our intellectual property and certain third-party intellectual property; • threats to RTX facilities and personnel, or those of its suppliers or customers, as well as public health crises, damaging weather, acts of nature, or other similar events outside of RTX’s control that may affect RTX or its suppliers or customers; 11 Table of Contents • changes in accounting estimates for our programs on our financial results; • changes in pension and other postretirement plan estimates and assumptions and contributions; • an impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets; and • climate change and climate-related regulations, and any related customer and market demands, products and technologies.