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Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Schedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table Text Block] Contributions to our plans were as follows:
 
Quarter Ended September 30,
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Defined benefit plans
$
10

 
$
13

 
$
89

 
$
72

Defined contribution plans
134

 
97

 
421

 
296


We made no contributions to our domestic defined benefit pension plans for quarter ended September 30, 2019 and $25 million of contributions in the nine months ended September 30, 2019. There were no contributions to our domestic defined benefit pension plans in the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2018. Included in the current year contributions to employer sponsored defined contribution plans for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 is $98 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 September 30,
 
Other Postretirement Benefits
Quarter Ended September 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
$
88

 
$
94

 
$
—

 
$
—

Interest cost
334

 
274

 
7

 
7

Expected return on plan assets
(605
)
 
(558
)
 
—

 
—

Amortization of prior service cost (credit)
4

 
(11
)
 
(10
)
 
—

Recognized actuarial net loss (gain)
66

 
100

 
(3
)
 
(3
)
Net settlement and curtailment (gain) loss
(96
)
 
3

 
—

 
—

Total net periodic benefit (income) cost
$
(209
)
 
$
(98
)
 
$
(6
)
 
$
4


 
Pension Benefits
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
Other Postretirement Benefits
Nine Months Ended September 30,
(dollars in millions)
2019
 
2018
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
$
264

 
$
280

 
$
2

 
$
1

Interest cost
1,014

 
831

 
23

 
19

Expected return on plan assets
(1,820
)
 
(1,683
)
 
(1
)
 
—

Amortization of prior service cost (credit)
13

 
(31
)
 
(32
)
 
(2
)
Recognized actuarial net loss (gain)
172

 
302

 
(9
)
 
(7
)
Net settlement and curtailment (gain)
(87
)
 
—

 
—

 
—

Total net periodic benefit (income) cost
$
(444
)
 
$
(301
)
 
$
(17
)
 
$
11