ATC
Arinc Purchase Gives Rockwell Collins Ground Presence
Arinc’s headquarters will remain in Annapolis, Maryland, but Rockwell Collins plans to move “corporate functions” to its head office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: Arinc)
Arinc’s headquarters will remain in Annapolis, Maryland, but Rockwell Collins plans to move “corporate functions” to its head office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: Arinc)

Rockwell Collins’s planned acquisition of airborne communications provider Arinc positions it to benefit both on the ground and in the air from the increasing “digitization” of airline communications. The future paradigm for ATC calls for replacing voice communications between pilots and controllers with digital data messaging, and Arinc’s ground infrastructure provides one of two major pipes for routing those messages.