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.

Saab has selected Collins Aerospace to deliver power systems and engine control platforms for the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing T-X trainer aircraft.

Phil Jasper, president of the mission systems business at Collins Aerospace, has said the company continues work to help the Pentagon meet a demand for new military capabilities amid the rise of connected and digital battlefield, The Gazette reported Saturday. 

Collins Aerospace and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary have collaborated to create a fly-by-wire retrofit technology that works to allow autonomous flights for fixed wing and rotary systems.

Pete Iversen, program manager at Collins Aerospace, has said the company is already implementing their clarity noise reduction technology to potentially address the Federal Aviation Administration’s need for an advanced air traffic control system.

The U.S. Air Force has granted security certification to a Collins Aerospace-developed navigation receiver technology with anti-spoofing and anti-jamming features. Collins Aerospace said Wednesday its Common GPS Module demonstrated compliance with the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's security design specification for hardware and software platforms.

Collins Aerospace wants to use its expertise in developing actuation systems to join a number of military technology programs, including the Army’s Future Vertical Lift development, the Air Force and Navy’s F-35 replacement and other efforts focused on unmanned aerial systems, Rotor & Wing International reported Thursday.

Steve Timm, a 22-year veteran of Rockwell Collins, has succeeded Kent Statler as president of the avionics business at Collins Aerospace, Air Transport World reported Friday.

Collins Aerospace has secured a two-year, $43M contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and develop GPS receivers for military use.

A General Atomics-built ground control station used a Collins Aerospace avionics system to facilitate a recent test flight of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft.

United Technology Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business and the University of Iowa have partnered to demonstrate the integration of secure live, virtual and constructive air combat training systems.