A Balanced Approach to Developing Technology

The Rockwell Collins Advanced Technology Center balances investments between traditional and disruptive technologies. We lead an aggressive "idea mining" process that identifies innovative, technology-enabled opportunities with the potential to produce an order of magnitude improvement over current capabilities. Rockwell Collins also applies and improves traditional technologies to meet our customers' current and future requirements. Rockwell Collins' Advanced Technology Center achieves this balance by strategically engaging members of the academic, governmental and industrial communities. This collaboration allows us to identify common technology needs and to create a path to market that assures a high return on investment.