Defined Benefit Plan, Pension Plan Benefit Obligation, Plan Assets, Outstanding

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Non-cash, Non-operating Pension Settlement Charge

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Non-cash, Non-operating Pension Settlement Charge, After Tax

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Non-cash, Non-operating Pension Settlement Charge, Per Share, After Tax

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Program net sales as percent of total net sales.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123359005&loc=d3e8672-108599

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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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INFORMATION ON BUSINESS SEGMENTS - Narrative (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Billions	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 26, 2021 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 27, 2020	Sep. 26, 2021 USD ($) segment $ / shares	Sep. 27, 2020	Aug. 03, 2021 USD ($)
Segment Reporting [Abstract]
Number of business segments \| segment			4
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Non-cash, non-operating pension settlement charge	$ 1.7		$ 1.7
Non-cash, non-operating pension settlement charge, after tax	$ 1.3		$ 1.3
Non-cash, non-operating pension settlement charge, per share, after Tax (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 4.72		$ 4.72
Outstanding pension benefit obligations and related plan assets					$ 4.9
Product Concentration Risk \| Sales Revenue, Net \| F-35 Program \| Aeronautics
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net sales for the F-35 program representing total consolidated net sales (as a percent)	28.00%	28.00%	27.00%	28.00%