What’s billed as the biggest aerospace deal in history is bringing one of the industry’s largest players, United Technologies Corp., into Salt Lake City.
United Technologies’ $23 billion purchase of Rockwell Collins Inc. includes a facility with 150 employees in University of Utah Research Park. The Salt Lake City division of Rockwell Collins produces visual simulation programs to enhance training for commercial and military pilots.
It launched in the 1970s as the simulation division of Evans & Sutherland, an early leading computer graphics company founded in 1968 by U. computer science professors David Evans and Ivan Sutherland.