CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Rockwell Collins began the first round of layoffs that will eventually affect more than 900 local workers. On Monday the company discharged nearly 470 employees.

The company merged with Rockwell International in 1971 to form Rockwell Collins and then Rockwell Collins merged with United Technologies Corporation to form Collins Aerospace in 2018.

Kelly Ortberg, chief executive officer of Rockwell Collins, stands for a photograph at the company's production facility in in Manchester, Iowa, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

Kelly Ortberg, former CEO and President of Rockwell Collins, speaks at the 14th annual U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Foundation Aviation Summit in downtown Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2014.

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Kelly Ortberg, former CEO and President of Rockwell Collins, speaks at the 14th annual U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Foundation Aviation Summit in downtown Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2014.

Former Rockwell Collins chief Kelly Ortberg has joined the list of contenders under serious consideration by Boeing as the planemaker’s next chief executive officer, The Air Current reported on ...

Former Rockwell Collins chief Kelly Ortberg has joined the list of contenders under serious consideration by Boeing as the planemaker's next chief executive officer, The Air Current reported on ...

Ortberg retired in 2021 as an adviser to the CEO of RTX after heading Rockwell Collins and its successor entities for about eight years as it went through mergers, acquisitions and restructuring.

Kelly Ortberg, former chief executive of Rockwell Collins Inc. and Collins Aerospace Systems, has resigned as a special executive adviser for Raytheon Technologies Corp., the company confirmed ...

The U.S. Navy awarded a $31 million contract to Rockwell Collins for an E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training System III Weapons System Trainer and an aircrew procedures trainer.

But the lines of code underpinning this system and the physical box it runs on were programmed and built to Boeing’s specifications by a lesser-known company called Rockwell Collins, one of the ...