Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

The United Technologies Corp. (UTC) and Raytheon merger took a step forward yesterday with Department of Justice conditional approval that is contingent upon the sale of Raytheon’s military airborne radios business and UTC’s GPS business. In addition, under the DOJ conditions for approval, UTC must sell its optical systems business in Danbury, Connecticut.

 


The DOJ action comes less than a year after the two companies announced plans on June 9, 2019, for an all-stock “merger of equals” that would create a $166 billion entity known as Raytheon Technologies. Signed off by both boards of directors in October, the merger would bring together UTC’s Collins Aerospace and Pratt &amp; Whitney businesses with Raytheon’s Intelligence, Space, and Airborne Systems and Integrated Defense and Missile Systems divisions.

 


The DOJ specified the divestitures to ensure competition remains for military airborne radios and GPS products, as well as for components used in reconnaissance satellites, all of which are used by the U.S. Department of Defense.

 


BAE Systems announced plans in January to acquire Raytheon’s airborne radios business, which includes facilities in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Largo, Florida, for $275 million, as well as UTC’s military GPS unit, which currently is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for $1.925 billion. The sale is subject to the closure of the Raytheon/UTC merger, BAE said.

UTC, Raytheon Tie-up Gets Conditional DOJ Approval

DOJ approval is contingent upon sales of Raytheon’s military airborne radios business, as well as UTC’s GPS and optical systems businesses.

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