 The trading operation, retaining the name ERA Technology, was run as a wholly commercial enterprise, responsible to its shareholders.In September 2003, the company announced the agreement to sell the entire issued share capital of ERA Technology to Cobham plc.In March 2009, ERA Technology, Culham Lightning and Vector Fields assumed the collective trading name Cobham Technical Services as part of a Group wide rebranding programme by FTSE 100 parent company Cobham plc.