What happened is they want to sell at a profit.
Only Losers sell at a loss. Someone else can make money off future government helicopter sales (and move the work out of CT, who knows)
UTC doesn’t want to be the one seen moving jobs out of CT, when they are getting huge tax breaks from CT.
I’m not saying UTC won’t buy something stupid with their Sikorsky cash stash, but There are a lot of businesses out their that are closer to their core that they should look to purchase (like current, high volume suppliers to their other core businesses).
Excellent observation.