Textron's Bell subsidiary has partnered with Collins Aerospace as it works to develop a prototype for the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program.

Collins Aerospace and the U.S. Air Force have entered into an enterprise partnering agreement that encompasses sustainment services of the company's aerostructures, avionics, mechanical systems, power and controls, mission systems and interiors businesses.

Collins Aerospace has introduced a ground station for military customers to transmit audio, visual and data communications without utilizing satellite technology.

L3Harris Technologies has tapped Collins Aerospace to install an integrated avionics platform onto the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard’s C-130H Hercules aircraft fleet.

Collins Aerospace has secured a five-year, $44.4M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver very high frequency and ultra high frequency standard rack-mounted receiver and transmitter radios and related accessories to the U.S. Navy.

Data Link Solutions, a joint venture between BAE Systems and Collins Aerospace, has received a potential $75M contract modification to update terminals for a multi-service information technology system. The company will apply Block II updates to the Multifunctional Information Distribution System's low volume terminals designed to support data and voice communications, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Collins Aerospace showcased the simultaneous network operation features of its new software-defined airborne radio as part of a recent demonstration to Department of Defense representatives.

Collins Aerospace has partnered with special engineering firm ILC Dover to develop a prototype space suit designed to support missions to the moon and other planetary bodies.

Data Link Solutions, a joint venture between BAE Systems and Collins Aerospace, has secured a potential $62.3M contract modification with the U.S. Navy to retrofit a technology that enables the military to facilitate communications and transmit data.

Collins Aerospace has started accepting orders for a new GPS receiver set that is designed to receive Y-Code and Military Code signals and whose anti-jamming features are ten times more powerful than those of its predecessor.

United Technologies Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business has reviewed the safety features of an updated ACES II aircraft ejection seat and is set to begin deliveries to the U.S. Air Force this summer. Collins Aerospace said Tuesday it estimates the new seating technology will help technicians cut the maintenance time for B-2 bomber planes from 720 hours to just two hours.

Lockheed Martin has tapped Collins Aerospace to deliver environmental control systems and other equipment for the development of a NASA supersonic aircraft which will be utilized to investigate the possibility of supersonic commercial air travel.