Boeing is to sell its ordnance business to munitions specialist ATK (Alliant Techsystems). The Mesa, Arizona-based unit, with sales last year of $40 million, manufactures cannon for the AH-64 attack helicopter and Bradley fighting vehicle and will produce the gun for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Terms of the cash transaction, expected to close by mid-year, have not been disclosed. International communications satellite operator Intelsat is to acquire Lockheed Martin's World Systems and Comsat Digital Teleport businesses. Terms have not been disclosed. Both units were part of Comsat, acquired by Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications in 2000 and put up for sale when the company decided in December to exit the telecommunications services business. Rockwell Collins has acquired signals-intelligence specialist Communication Solutions for $23 million. The privately owned Maryland-based company, which had sales last year of $16 million, will become part of Collins' Government Systems business, which produces defence communications and electronic warfare equipment.
Source: Flight International
