Raytheon Technologies Corp. has sold a Danbury-based space-based optics business to Colorado tech firm AMERGINT Technologies Holdings, as part of company’s $180-billion merger deal with the now-defunct United Technologies Corp.
The electro-optics technology business was previously a division of Raytheon Technologies’ Collins Aerospace unit. AMERGINT will rename that business Danbury Mission Technologies.
The company designs, develops and produces optical systems to observe Earth from space, and provides support to national security space programs.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Andreas Nonnenmacher, who served as Collins’ vice president of defense, primes and government agencies from 2018 until the merger, will serve as Danbury Mission Technologies president, according to AMERGINT.
“Joining a leading provider of software-defined technology for military, intelligence and commercial applications, Danbury becomes a key part of a greater force,” Nonnenmacher said.
The U.S. government required Raytheon to divest from it’s Connecticut precision optics business as a stipulation for approving the Raytheon-UTC mega-merger, which was completed in April.
