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FORM 11-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Plan period ended December 31, 2002

Commission File Number 1-812

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN

 

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
One Financial Plaza
Hartford, Connecticut 06103

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Index to Financial Statements
December 31, 2002 and 2001

 

Page
Report of Independent Auditors 1
        
Financial Statements
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits 2
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits 3
Notes to Financial Statements 4 - 9
Exhibit Index 11

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN

Report Of Independent Auditors

To the Participants and Administrator of the
  United Technologies Corporation
  Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

In our opinion, the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the United Technologies Corporation Defined Contribution Retirement Plan (the "Plan") at December 31, 2002 and December 31, 2001, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2002 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in  the United States of America.  These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan's management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.  We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, which require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

  

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Hartford, Connecticut
June 27, 2003

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 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
(Thousands of Dollars)

December 31,
2002 		December 31,
2001
Assets:
   Investments (Notes 3, 4, and 5)    

$

 14,490      $

15,117     
   
Net Assets Available for Benefits

$

 14,490     

$

  15,117     

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
(Thousands of Dollars)

Year Ended
December 31,
 2002
Additions to net assets attributed to:
Investment Income:
   Interest

$

709          
   Dividends 26          
      Total Investment Income   735          
        
Deductions from net assets attributed to:
   Net depreciation in fair value of investments (716)         
   Distributions to participants

(646)         
      Total Deductions

(1,362)         
          
Net decrease (627)         
        
Net Assets Available for Benefits, December 31, 2001   15,117          
    

    
Net Assets Available for Benefits, December 31, 2002

$

   14,490          

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN

General.  The United Technologies Corporation Defined Contribution Retirement Plan (the "Plan") is a defined contribution savings and money purchase plan administered by United Technologies Corporation ("UTC").  It is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA").  Eligible employees of UTC and certain of its subsidiaries were able to participate after completing one year of service.  As described in Note 8, all active Plan participants became participants of the UTC Employee Savings Plan II (formerly, the UTC Savings Plan for Hourly Management-Represented Employees) in 1998.  The following is a brief description of the Plan.  For more complete information, participants should refer to the prospectus and summary plan description as well as the Plan document which are available from UTC.

Contributions and Vesting.   No participant or employer contributions were made during the 2002 and 2001 Plan years  (see Note 8). Participant contributions, plus actual earnings thereon, are fully vested at all times under the Plan.  Generally, employer contributions, plus actual earnings thereon, became fully vested after two years of Plan participation.

Participant Accounts.  Each participant's account is credited with Plan earnings based on account balances.  The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant's vested account.  Forfeited balances of terminated participants' nonvested employer contribution accounts were used to reduce future UTC contributions.  For the year ended December 31, 2002, no forfeitures were used to fund employer contributions.

Voting Rights.  Common Stock held in the UTC Common Stock Fund is voted by the Trustee at shareowner meetings of UTC in accordance with the confidential instructions of the participants whose accounts are invested in the funds.  All shares of employer stock in the UTC Common Stock Fund for which the Trustee receives voting instructions from participants to whose accounts the shares are allocated are voted in accordance with those instructions.  All employer stock in the UTC Common Stock Fund for which the Trustee does not receive timely voting instructions are voted by the Trustee in accordance with the timely instructions it receives with respect to a plurality of the shares in the UTC Common Stock Fund. 

Trustee and Recordkeeper.  All of the Plan's assets are held by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Plan trustee.  Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.  Fidelity Institutional Retirement Services Company ("Fidelity") performs participant account recordkeeping responsibilities.

Payment of Benefits. Generally, benefits are paid in a lump sum to a terminating participant. A participant terminating due to retirement may elect to receive benefits in installments over two to twenty years.  At the participant's election, the portion of a lump sum distribution attributable to an investment in the UTC Common Stock Fund investment option may be paid in shares of UTC Common Stock instead of cash.  There were no distributions in UTC Common Stock for the year ended December 31, 2002.

Other. Participants who transfer to a new UTC location with a different savings plan may have the option of transferring their account balances in accordance with the provisions of the new savings plan. 

NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

Basis of Accounting. The financial statements of the Plan are prepared under the accrual method of accounting, except for benefits which are recorded when paid.

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

Master Trust. The Plan's assets are kept in the United Technologies Corporation Employee Savings Plan Master Trust (the "Master Trust") maintained by the Plan's trustee. Under the Master Trust agreement, the assets of certain employee savings plans of UTC and its subsidiaries are combined. Participating plans purchase units of participation in the investment funds based on their contribution to such funds and the unit value of the applicable investment fund at the end of the trading day in which a transaction occurs. The unit value of each fund is determined at the close of each day by dividing the sum of uninvested cash, accrued income and the current value of investments by the total number of outstanding units in such funds. Income from the funds' investments increases the participating plans' unit values. Distributions to participants reduce the number of participation units held by the participating plans (see Note 5).

Investment Valuation and Income Recognition. The Income Fund's investments in insurance contracts (see Note 4) are stated at contract value, which represents fair value.  Contract value includes contributions plus earnings, less Plan withdrawals. All other funds are stated at fair value, as determined by the Plan trustee, typically by reference to published market data.

Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on a trade-date basis. Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

Plan Expenses. Plan administrative expenses, including Plan trustee and recordkeeper fees were paid directly by the employer in 2002. Investment management fees are charged against Plan assets. All other administrative and investment expenses were paid out of Plan assets during 2002.

Use of Estimates. The preparation of financial statements requires Plan management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

NOTE 3 - INVESTMENTS

The following presents investments that represent 5 percent or more of the Plan's net assets:

December 31,
(Thousands of Dollars, except unit amounts)

2002

2001
              
Equity Fund, 75,695 and 82,927 units, respectively

$

 1,550        

$

 2,178        
              
UTC Common Stock Fund, 49,075 and 55,810 units,
   respectively		 1,043         1,243        
             

  
Income Fund, 121,703 and 125,288 units, respectively 11,029         10,633        

During 2002, the Plan's investments (including gains and losses on investments bought and sold, as well as held during the year) depreciated in value by $716 as follows:

(Thousands of Dollars)
          Mutual Funds

$

 (665)     
          UTC Common Stock Fund

(51)     

$

 (716)     

 

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

NOTE 4 - INVESTMENT CONTRACTS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES

The Plan's Income Fund invests in insurance contracts with insurance companies. Under these contracts, each insurance company guarantees repayment in full of the principal amount plus interest credited at a fixed rate for a specified period. Interest is credited to each contract based on an annual interest rate set each year by the individual insurance companies. This rate, which differs among contracts, takes into account any difference between prior year credited interest and the actual amount of investment earnings allocable to the contract in accordance with the established allocation procedures of the insurance company. The weighted average interest rates credited to participant accounts for 2002 and 2001 were 6.78% and 8.31%, respectively.

NOTE 5 - INVESTMENT IN MASTER TRUST

UTC has entered into a Master Trust agreement with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Under this agreement, certain savings plans of UTC and its subsidiaries combine their trust fund investments in the Master Trust.

Participating plans purchase units of participation in the investment funds based on their contribution to such funds along with income that the investment funds may earn, less distributions made to the plans' participants.

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

The following is a summary of the financial information and data for the Master Trust and the portion attributable to the Plan:

United Technologies Corporation
Master Trust Statements of Net Assets
(Thousands of Dollars)

December 31,
2002 2001
Allocated Unallocated Total Allocated Unallocated Total
  
Assets:
  Short-term investments $       24,137 $              -   $        24,137 $       34,221 $              -   $        34,221
  Investments:
    Equity:
      Mutual funds     549,432              -         549,432     658,861              -         658,861
      Equity commingled
        index funds		     924,906              -         924,906  1,203,904              -      1,203,904
      Common stock     674,306            310       674,616     768,320            283       768,603
      ESOP stock fund  1,624,640   1,082,039    2,706,679  1,693,307   1,219,410    2,912,717
    Debt:
      Fixed income
        commingled
        index funds		       17,131              -          17,131       19,422              -          19,422
      Income Fund
         investment contracts		  5,285,606              -      5,285,606  4,775,327              -      4,775,327
Participant notes receivable       90,787              -          90,787       92,055              -          92,055
        Subtotal  9,190,945   1,082,349  10,273,294  9,245,417   1,219,693  10,465,110
  
ESOP receivables             -        150,284       150,284             -        140,825       140,825
Interest and dividend receivable        1,674              -            1,674        2,297              -            2,297
      Total assets  9,192,619   1,232,633  10,425,252  9,247,714   1,360,518  10,608,232
  
Liabilities:
  Accrued liabilities       39,113              -          39,113        6,499              -            6,499
  Accrued ESOP interest             -           1,865          1,865             -           1,976          1,976
  ESOP debt             -        231,600       231,600             -        266,100       266,100
  Notes payable to UTC             -        193,133       193,133             -        175,334       175,334
    Total liabilities       39,113      426,598       465,711        6,499      443,410       449,909
  
    Net Assets $  9,153,506 $      806,035 $    9,959,541 $  9,241,215 $      917,108 $  10,158,323
  
Net assets of the Master Trust attributable to the Plan $  14,490   $      -   $    14,490   $  15,117   $      -   $    15,117  

 

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

United Technologies Corporation
Master Trust Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 (Thousands of Dollars)

 

December 31,
2002
Allocated Unallocated Total
Additions:
  Interest and dividend income $     384,220  $       21,225 $       405,445
  Contributions from participating plans for purchase of units     302,384       24,811       327,195
  Allocation of 269,000 ESOP shares, at market       71,553

             -    

        71,553
  
    Total additions     758,157       46,036       804,193
  
Deductions:
  Net depreciation on fair value of investments    (466,592)      (51,592)      (518,184)
  Benefit payments on behalf of participating plans    (430,445)

             -   

      (430,445)
  Allocation of 269,000 ESOP shares, at market             -        (71,553)       (71,553)
  Master trust expenses       (3,079)      (33,964)       (37,043)
   
    Total deductions    (900,116)     (157,109)   (1,057,225)
  
Net decrease prior to transfers    (141,959)     (111,073)      (253,032)
  
Plan transfers:
  Assets transferred in       70,167

             -   

        70,167
  Assets transferred out      (15,917)

             -  

       (15,917)
    
    Net Plan transfers       54,250

             -  

        54,250
  
Decrease in net assets      (87,709)     (111,073)      (198,782)
  
Net Assets:
  Beginning of year  9,241,215      917,108  10,158,323
  End of Year $  9,153,506 $      806,035 $    9,959,541

 

Year Ended
December 31, 2002

Amounts pertaining to Plan:
   Plan interest in net depreciation and investment income of Master Trust

$

   19      
   Distributions to participants $  (646)     

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UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE 6 - RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Certain Plan investment options are managed by Deutsche Asset Management and Fidelity. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, and Fidelity are the Plan's trustee and recordkeeper, respectively, as defined by the Plan and, therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest transactions.

The Plan holds common shares of UTC, the Plan sponsor, and these qualify as party-in-interest transactions. 

The Plan invests in the UTC Common Stock Fund (the "Fund"), which is comprised of a short-term investment fund component and shares of common stock of UTC.  The unit values of the Fund are recorded and maintained by Fidelity.  During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Plan purchased units of the Fund in the approximate amount of $352,000, sold units of the Fund in the approximate amount of $501,000, and had net depreciation on the Fund in the approximate amount of $51,000.  The total value of the Plan's interest in the Fund was approximately $1,043,000 and $1,243,000 at December 31, 2002 and 2001, respectively.

NOTE 7 - PLAN TERMINATION

Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, UTC has the right under the Plan to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. In the event of Plan termination, participants will become 100 percent vested in their accounts.

NOTE 8 - FROZEN PLAN

During 1998, all active Plan participants became participants of the UTC Employee Savings Plan II. Previously accumulated participant balances will remain in the Plan. No additional contributions will be made to the Plan. Participants will continue to be able to direct or withdraw their remaining investment balances in accordance with Plan provisions.

NOTE 9 - TAX STATUS

The Internal Revenue Service has determined and informed UTC by letter dated April 28, 2003, that the Plan and related trust are designed in accordance with applicable sections of the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC"). The Plan administrator and tax counsel believe that the Plan is designed and currently being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the IRC.

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SIGNATURES

 

The Plan (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan), pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, has duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN
           
           
          
Dated:  June 30, 2003 By: /s/ Laurie P. Havanec
Laurie P. Havanec
Director, Employee Benefits and Human Resources Systems
United Technologies Corporation
              

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 
(23)           Consent of Independent Auditors *
(99)           Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed and dated by Laurie P. Havanec and David L. Porter as of June 30, 2003. *

* Submitted electronically herewith.

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