Exhibit 10-h-4
ROCKWELL COLLINS 2005
NON-QUALIFIED PENSION PLAN
The purpose of this Plan is to provide benefits
in excess of the Benefit Limitation (as defined below) to a group
of employees and to provide benefits in excess of the Compensation
Limit (as defined below) to a select group of management and highly
compensated employees of Rockwell Collins, Inc. and its
affiliates. This Plan also provides benefits in excess of the
benefits provided under the Company Pension Plan (as defined below)
to a select group of highly compensated employees consisting of
Corporate Pilots and to a select group of management or highly
compensated employees who deferred compensation under the Rockwell
Collins Deferred Compensation Plan prior to 2005. This Plan
is unfunded for tax purposes and for purposes of Title I of
ERISA.
This Plan is established effective as of
January 1, 2005 for accrued benefits that were earned and
vested after December 31, 2004 under the Rockwell Collins
Non-Qualified Pension Plan (“Pre-2005 Plan”) through
September 30, 2006, the date the Pre-2005 Plan was
frozen.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.005
Affiliate means:
(a)
any company incorporated under the
laws of one of the United States of America of which the Company
owns, directly or indirectly, eighty percent (80%) or
more of the combined voting power of all classes of stock or eighty
percent (80%) or more of the total value of the shares
of all classes of stock (all within the meaning of Code
Section 1563);
(b)
any partnership or other business
entity organized under such laws, of which the Company owns,
directly or indirectly, eighty percent (80%) or more of the
voting power or eighty percent (80%) or more of the total
value (all within the meaning of Code Section 414(c));
and
(c)
any other company deemed to be an
Affiliate by the Board of Directors.
1.010
Benefit
Limitation means
the limitations on benefits payable from Defined Benefit Plans
which are imposed by Section 415 of the Code.
1.020
Board of
Directors means
the Company’s Board of Directors.
1.030
Change of
Control means any
of the following:
(a)
The acquisition by any individual,
entity or group (within the meaning of
Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”) (a “Person”) of beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the
Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either (1) the then
outstanding shares of common stock of the Company (the
“Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or (2) the
combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of
the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors
(the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”);
provided, however, that for purposes of this subsection (a), the
following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change of
Control: (w) any acquisition directly from the Company,
(x) any acquisition by the Company, (y) any acquisition
by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or
maintained by the Company or any corporation controlled by the
Company or (z) any acquisition pursuant to a transaction which
complies with clauses (1), (2) and (3) of subsection
(c) of this Section 1.030; or
(b)
Individuals who, as of the date
hereof, constitute the Board of Directors of the Company (the
“Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute
at least a majority of the Board of Directors; provided, however,
that any individual becoming a director subsequent to that date
whose election, or nomination for election by the Company’s
shareowners, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the
directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered
as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but
excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial
assumption of office occurs as a result of an actual or threatened
election contest with respect to the election or removal of
directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or
consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board of
Directors; or
(c)
Consummation of a reorganization,
merger or consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company or the acquisition
of assets of another entity (a “Company Transaction”),
in each case, unless, following such Company Transaction,
(1) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities
who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding
Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities
immediately prior to such Company Transaction beneficially own,
directly or indirectly, more than 50% of, respectively, the then
outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of
the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally
in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the
corporation resulting from such Company Transaction (including,
without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such
transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the
Company’s assets either directly or through one or more
subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their
ownership, immediately prior to such Company Transaction of the
Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting
Securities, as the case may be, (2) no Person (excluding any
employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or of such
corporation resulting from such Company Transaction) beneficially
owns, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of, respectively, the
then
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outstanding shares of common stock
of the corporation resulting from such Company Transaction or the
combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of
such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed
prior to the Company Transaction and (3) at least a majority
of the members of the board of directors of the corporation
resulting from such Company Transaction were members of the
Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial
agreement, or of the action of the Board of Directors, providing
for such Company Transaction; or
(d)
Approval by the Company’s
shareowners of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the
Company.
1.040
Code
means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.
1.050
Committee means the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors.
1.060
Company
means Rockwell Collins, Inc., a
Delaware corporation.
1.070
Company
Officer means an
employee who, effective January 1, 2005, has been elected by
the Board of Directors as an officer of the Company pursuant to the
Company’s by-laws.
1.080
Company Pension
Plan means the
Rockwell Collins Pension Plan.
1.090
Compensation
Limit means the
limitation imposed by Section 401(a)(17) of the Code on the
amount of compensation which can be considered in determining the
amount of a participant’s benefit under the Company Pension
Plan.
1.095
Corporate
Pilot means any
Participant in the Company Pension Plan whose principal duty as an
employee is the operation of aircraft as a pilot or co-pilot for at
least one year immediately preceding Retirement.
1.100
Defined Benefit
Plan has the same
meaning given that term in Section 3(35) of ERISA.
1.150
Delinkage
Date means
January 1, 2009 or such other date as is permitted under
Section 409A and is approved by the Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Human Resources or
General Counsel of the Company.
1.110
Employee
means any person who is employed by
the Company or by an Affiliate, including, to the extent permitted
by Section 406 of the Code, any United States citizen
regularly employed by a foreign Affiliate of the
Company.
1.120
ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended.
1.130
409A Change of
Control means a
“Change of Control Event” as defined in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(i) and as set forth in
Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)-(vii), applying
the default rules and percentages set forth in such Treasury
Regulations.
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1.140
Highly Compensated
Employee means a
participant in or retiree under the Company Pension Plan whose
compensation would otherwise be considered under such Plan in
determining his benefits thereunder in excess of the Compensation
Limit.
1.150
Interest
Rate means the
average 30-Year Treasury Rate as published by the Internal Revenue
Service in the October preceding the year of the
Participant’s annuity starting date.
1.160
Mortality
Assumptions means
the FAS 87 mortality assumptions used for the Company’s Net
Periodic Benefit Costs in the year of the Participant’s
annuity starting date.
1.170
Participant means any participant in the Company Pension
Plan whose benefits payable therefrom are restricted by the Benefit
Limitation or the Compensation Limit. Employees who were
hired on or before September 30, 2006 who (1) are
Corporate Pilots, (2) are Company Officers hired on or after
January 1, 1993 but eligible for the pre-1993 formula under
the Company Pension Plan, or (3) are participants in the
Company Pension Plan who deferred compensation under the Rockwell
Collins Deferred Compensation Plan and attained 85 points under the
Rule of 85 after December 31, 2004, are also eligible to
participate in this Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision
of this Plan or the Company Pension Plan to the contrary, no
Employee or other person, individual or entity shall become a
Participant in this Plan after the earlier of
(a) September 30, 2006 or (b) the day on which a
Change of Control occurs.
1.180
Plan
means this Rockwell Collins 2005
Non-Qualified Pension Plan.
1.190
Plan
Administrator means the person from time to time so designated
by name or corporate office by the Board of Directors.
1.200
Pre-2005
Plan means the
Rockwell Collins Non-Qualified Pension Plan and its predecessor,
the Rockwell International Corporation Non-Qualified Pension
Plan.
1.210
Retirement means “separation from service” from
the Company and all of its Affiliates, within the meaning of
Section 409A, on or after attainment of age 55 other than for
reason of death.
1.220
Rule of
85 means, with
respect to a Participant in the Collins Salaried Employees’
or Certain Salaried Employees’ sub-plans of the Company
Pension Plan attainment of at least age 55 but not more than age 62
with a sum of age (in years and months) and Credited Service (as
defined in the Company Pension Plan) (in years and months) total 85
or more on or before the date of Separation from Service or
Retirement. For purposes of determining eligibility, years
and months of service with the Company after September 30,
2006 shall also be considered.
1.230
Section 409A
means Section 409A of the Code
and any regulations or other guidance issued thereunder.
1.240
Securities Exchange
Act means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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1.250
Separation from
Service means a
“separation from service” from the Company and all of
its Affiliates, within the meaning of Section 409A, other than
for reasons of Retirement or death.
1.260
Specified
Employee has the
meaning set forth in Section 409A, as determined each year in
accordance with procedures established by the Company.
1.270
Third Party
Administrator means an independent third party selected by the
Trustee and approved by the individual who, immediately prior to a
Change of Control, was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer
or, if not so identified, the Company’s highest ranking
officer (the “Ex-CEO”).
1.280
Trust
means the master trust established
by agreement between the Company and the Trustee, which will be a
grantor trust.
1.290
Trustee
means Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., or any
successor trustee of the Trust described in Section 1.280 of
this Plan.
Terms not otherwise defined in this
Article I shall have meanings set forth in the Company Pension
Plan document.
ARTICLE II
DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS
2.005
Effective as of the close of
business on September 30, 2006, and notwithstanding any other
provision in this Plan (or in the Company Pension Plan) to the
contrary, individuals who first become Employees after
September 30, 2006 will not be eligible to become Participants
in this Plan. No benefits shall be accrued under this
Plan after September 30, 2006, except pursuant to the
Rule of 85.
2.010
This Plan has been established by
the Company as a non-qualified pension plan for benefits earned and
vested on and after January 1, 2005 for those employees of the
Company and its Affiliates whose retirement benefits under the
Company Pension Plan are, in the determination of those benefits,
reduced by reason of application of the Compensation Limit
and/or the Benefit Limitation for benefits earned and vested on and
after January 1, 2005. This Plan also provides enhanced
benefits to (a) Corporate Pilots, (b) Company Officers
hired on or after January 1, 1993 but eligible for the
pre-1993 formula under the Company Pension Plan, and
(c) participants in the Company Pension Plan who deferred
compensation under the Rockwell Collins Deferred Compensation Plan
and attained 85 points under the Rule of 85 after
December 31, 2004. The Company shall pay from its
general assets or from the Trust, as the case may be, to each
Participant, or to the beneficiary, surviving spouse or joint
annuitant of the Participant, a benefit which is equal to the
amount of such reduction or enhancement and reduction or
enhancement for benefits payable under the Pre-2005 Plan.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary,
all non-qualified pension benefits for Corporate
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Pilots are considered earned and
therefore payable under this Plan and not the Pre-2005
Plan.
2.020
If the monthly benefit for which a
Participant would have been otherwise eligible at retirement under
the Company Pension Plan is reduced because of application of the
Compensation Limit, for purposes of determining the benefit payable
under this Plan, a Participant’s Average Annual Earnings
shall mean the highest amount that can be determined by averaging
the Participant’s Earnings (as defined in the Company Pension
Plan) for any five (5) calendar years within the ten
(10) calendar years (or lesser period, if applicable) of
active employment which immediately precede the earliest of the
dates on which the Participant retires, dies, terminates or
commences an approved absence for disability or the date of the
Company Pension Plan freeze (September 30, 2006) in accordance
with the Company Pension Plan. In determining Average Annual
Earnings (as defined in the Company Pension Plan), any calendar
year in which the Participant has less than a full year of Credited
Service (as defined in the Company Pension Plan) may be
disregarded.
2.025
In the case of a Participant who
first becomes an Employee on or after January 1, 1993 and,
prior to the earlier of his retirement from the Company or
September 30, 2006 becomes a Company Officer, the monthly
benefit payable to such Participant from this Plan shall be
calculated pursuant to the same formula as is set forth in
Section 5.010(a) of the Cert