The Boeing Company acquired Rockwell International — Aerospace & Defense businesses for Approximately $860 million in Boeing common stock issued to Rockwell shareowners; Boeing also assumed the units' liabilities. Boeing's fairness analysis put the implied asset value of the aerospace-and-defense business in a $2.7-3.2 billion range., a transaction completed in December 1996, structured as Stock, structured as a tax-free reorganization: Rockwell first spun its automation, avionics-and-communications, semiconductor-systems and automotive businesses into a new company ("New Rockwell") distributed to its shareowners, then the remaining company holding only the aerospace-and-defense units merged into a Boeing subsidiary (Boeing NA, Inc.)..
Rockwell International — Aerospace & Defense businesses operates in Defense & space, is based in United States (Rockwell A&D units, incl. Downey/Canoga Park, California). Boeing acquired the aerospace and defense operations of Rockwell International, which were renamed Boeing North American, Inc. The businesses spanned military aircraft, missiles, space systems and rocket propulsion (including the Rockwell Space Systems and Rocketdyne heritage). The deal roughly doubled Boeing's defense and space footprint and was one of the first steps in the mid-1990s consolidation of the U.S. aerospace industry, ahead of Boeing's larger merger with McDonnell Douglas the following year.
Boeing sought scale in defense and space to complement its commercial-airplane business as the U.S. defense-industrial base consolidated.
A large, established defense and space franchise (military aircraft, missiles, space, propulsion) that scaled Boeing's non-commercial businesses. Renamed Boeing North American, Inc.; folded into Boeing's defense and space operations
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