The pay is way below national standards. If someone starts making "standard" salaries, they usually have a RIF and pull someone cheaper in that they can brainwash. And this is often someone younger as well.
Harris seldom writes software from the ground up. Harris usually buys troubled companies that they can buy cheap and "fix." They feel their business model is such that they can fix anything. They think a lot of their cookie-cutter approach. It doesn't always work, though, and they refuse to admit it.
The Harris model is to buy companies and never sell. This model also means that they run some business units entirely into the ground to get rid of them.