Why a United Technologies Bid for Rockwell Collins Would Make Sensebr United Technology’s last big aeronautics deal – paying $16.4 billion for Goodrich in 2011 – succeeded handily in lowering costs.br United Technologies’ potential acquisition of Rockwell Collins could deliver enoughbr cost savings to justify paying a reported price tag of nearly $23 billion.br A similar level of efficiency gains at Rockwell Collins would produce $530 million of annual savings.