When Rockwell Collins (Booth 3099) met with reporters before last year’s NBAA Convention, the avionics manufacturer couldn’t say much about its still-pending acquisition of airborne communications provider Arinc. That transaction–at $1.4 billion Rockwell Collins’ largest ever purchase–closed in late December. Now the company has plenty to say about its plans to grow with Arinc in the business aviation market.
In the 10 months since acquiring Arinc from The Carlyle Group, Rockwell Collins has folded the Annapolis, Md.-based business into an “information management services” organization with its earlier-acquired Ascend Flight Information Solutions (the former Air Routing International) and Computing Technologies for Aviation (CTA) businesses. The combination, branded as Arinc Direct, presents to the marketplace a robust suite of international-trip and flight-planning software and communications connectivity on the ground and in the aircraft.
