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Employee Benefit Plans
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] Employee Benefit Plans
Pension and Postretirement Plans. We sponsor both funded and unfunded domestic and foreign defined pension and other postretirement benefit plans, and defined contribution plans. Contributions to our plans were as follows:
 
Quarter Ended June 30,
 
Six Months Ended June 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Defined benefit plans
$
47

 
$
22

 
$
79

 
$
59

Defined contribution plans
134

 
105

 
287

 
199


We made contributions of $25 million to our domestic defined benefit pension plans in the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2019. There were no contributions to our domestic defined benefit pension plans in the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2018. Included in the current year contributions to employer sponsored defined contribution plans for the six months ended June 30, 2019 is $65 million of contributions to the Rockwell Collins participants. The following table illustrates the components of net periodic benefit (income) cost for our defined pension and other postretirement benefit plans:
 
Pension Benefits
Quarter Ended June 30,
 
Other Postretirement Benefits
Quarter Ended June 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
$
89

 
$
93

 
$
1

 
$
—

Interest cost
340

 
278

 
8

 
6

Expected return on plan assets
(608
)
 
(562
)
 
—

 
—

Amortization of prior service cost (credit)
4

 
(10
)
 
(11
)
 
(1
)
Recognized actuarial net loss (gain)
53

 
101

 
(3
)
 
(2
)
Net settlement and curtailment loss (gain)
1

 
(2
)
 
—

 
—

Total net periodic benefit (income) cost
$
(121
)
 
$
(102
)
 
$
(5
)
 
$
3


 
Pension Benefits
Six Months Ended June 30,
 
Other Postretirement Benefits
Six Months Ended June 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
$
176

 
$
186

 
$
2

 
$
1

Interest cost
680

 
557

 
16

 
12

Expected return on plan assets
(1,215
)
 
(1,125
)
 
(1
)
 
—

Amortization of prior service cost (credit)
9

 
(20
)
 
(22
)
 
(2
)
Recognized actuarial net loss (gain)
106

 
202

 
(6
)
 
(4
)
Net settlement and curtailment loss (gain)
9

 
(3
)
 
—

 
—

Total net periodic benefit (income) cost
$
(235
)
 
$
(203
)
 
$
(11
)
 
$
7