Rockwell Collins will feature a variety of communication, navigation, joint fires and display platforms at the Association of the United States Army’s annual land power exposition and professional development forum. The company said Wednesday it will demonstrate its new Integrated Digital Vision System helmet-mounted display tool for the U.S. Army during the AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition 2016. IDVS works to […] More

Rockwell Collins has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Defense Contract Management Agency to establish a new procurement process for commercial items to be used in military applications. The aviation product maker said Wednesday the new process outlined information required from Rockwell Collins to comply with government-recommended commercial item classification and pricing structures. Industry and government partners pursue these types […] More

Rockwell Collins has unveiled at Land Forces 2016 exhibition in Adelaide, Australia, a new helmet-mounted display system that works to provide situational awareness functionality for warfighters. The company’s Integrated Digital Vision System is designed to combine mission data from command center, unmanned aerial systems and other sources with multispectral vision sensors to provide soldiers a view […] More

Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Air Force have conducted a live flight test to demonstrate the data transfer functionality of a wideband high-frequency communications system. The company said Tuesday its WBHF system worked to relay data from a C-17 aircraft to a land-based station over a distance of at least 1,500 miles for a period of […] More

Rockwell Collins has received a $31 million contract from the Defense Department to build a test range instrumentation system for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The company said Monday it will build the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System to replace the Advanced Range Data System currently used at the three military  branches’ test ranges as the prime contractor and system integrator on […] More

Rockwell Collins has formed a new business group that will provide connectivity and flight planning services to government aviation customers worldwide. The new government aviation services group within Rockwell Collins’ information management services unit aims to help clients schedule airborne assets on short notice and deliver field data to aircrews during operation, the company said Wednesday. The GAS organization will also offer satellite […] More

Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide a UH-60M Black Hawk simulator to the Mexican navy as part of an effort to help train the nation’s aviators in the operations of the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The Mexican navy will use the Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator to help equip Black Hawk pilots with the skills […] More

Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

Rockwell Collins will mount its global positioning system technology on Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s naval and artillery weapon suite in a move to assist in military operations. Leonardo-Finmeccanica is set to fire its Vulcano weapon system with Rockwell Collins’ NavFire Precision Positioning Service GPS under the agreement, Rockwell Collins said Monday. “We have customized the NavFire receivers for the particular […] More

Rockwell Collins has launched a high-resolution perimeter surveillance radar technology at the ongoing Eurosatory international defense and security trade show in Paris. The PSR-500 radar offering employs behavior analysis algorithms to identify, track and record intrusions even in rainy and foggy conditions, Rockwell Collins said Monday. “Demand for this type of radar technology is growing to address the need for surveillance of geographical […] More

The Department of the Air Force has announced it wants to negotiate a contract for the production, repair and logistics support of a global positioning system receiver for the Defense Department and foreign military customers. In a presolicitation released Monday, the Air Force said it also looks to tap Rockwell Collins for the requirements for the planned […] More

Rockwell Collins‘ missionized flight management software has received a Future Airborne Capability Environment verification statement from the FACE Consortium. The company said Tuesday the MFMS-1000 reusable software was developed to provide full civil airspace interoperability and help customers on mission planning. Troy Brunk, Rockwell Collins vice president and general manager of airborne solutions, said the company will support […] More