November 8, 2012
Rockwell Collins has upgraded more than 600 tanker/transport aircraft to meet worldwide CNS/ATM mandates. With the Rockwell Collins Flight2™ system avionics upgrade, the C/KC-135 is able to transit all civil and military airspace unrestricted, with the KC-135 accumulating more than 1 million flight hours of global, operational experience, including combat zones.
November 8, 2012
The US Army needed to field a new Black Hawk aircraft and train pilots on the aircraft using new Black Hawk flight simulators – simultaneously. Rockwell Collins provided the Transportable Black Hawk Operation Simulator - or T-BOS.
August 24, 2012
Rockwell Collins worked closely with the U.S. Army to develop an alternative to training on the real Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan. The simulation and training solution enables the MRAPs to stay in the field, increases the mechanics’ safety and decreases expenses.
July 18, 2012
Rockwell Collins provides the USCG a fully compliant CNS/ATM solution, while addressing critical obsolescence issues by leveraging our long history of avionics integrations on a variety of commercial and military aircraft.
April 3, 2012
The flexibility and tailorability of FlexForce enable Rockwell Collins to modify the Coast Guard’s Performance Based Agreement throughout the life cycle as equipment and fleet composition changes.
October 13, 2011
With a series of successful tanker program achievements, Rockwell Collins has become the primary avionics provider for all U.S. Air Force tanker programs.
July 12, 2011
All 419 C/KC-135 aircraft have been successfully modified, enabling them to operate in airspace throughout the world. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) C/KC-135 Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) fleet was the first legacy mobility fleet in the Department of Defense to be GATM certified worldwide. The achievements of the program were recognized when the GATM team received the Colonel Joseph B. Duckworth Annual USAF Instrument Award in 2005, recognizing the team for its achievement in the field of instrument flying.
July 7, 2011
Mentoring is key to ongoing career development
January 24, 2011
DARPA contracted with Rockwell Collins to determine a new approach to autonomously mitigate the effects of physical damage that could potentially occur in an air combat environment.