Enabling Safe, Efficient and Effective Flight Operations Under All Conditions

Advanced Displays and Graphics
Rockwell Collins is a global leader in advanced displays and graphics technology, providing more than 30,000 display systems per year for US and international applications.  We are opening new markets through innovative display solutions that have intuitive, easy-to-read display formats and enhanced display quality for increased readability in all conditions. Research in image generation includes 2-D and 3-D graphics and complex multi-source video for a variety of information system applications. Our innovative Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology tremendously increases flexibility in display options while increasing reliability, reducing cost and uses less power.  The thin, lightweight, rugged displays are fail operational utilize novel, compact, low-cost head-up architectures.

Air Traffic Surveillance Applications
The Air Traffic Management Systems area develops new airspace applications intended to improve cost efficiency, operational efficiency and safety for airspace users. The department pursues strategies for successfully implementing the Free Flight concept, including integrity separation assurance. Areas of research and development include the operational concept, procedures, information systems requirements, automation and alerting systems.

Information Systems
The Information Systems department develops and acquires technology for high-level information processing, displays and graphics, and human computer interface systems.   Information Systems has expertise in systems development, as well as a solid understanding of military operations, crew station operations, air traffic management and airline operations.

Situational Awareness Systems
Situational Awareness Systems creates crew station information systems that provide critical data and advisories to operators in the air and on the ground. These systems combine display format design, human factors research, signal processing methods and intelligent systems design to present a coherent, user-friendly picture of the flight or ground vehicle situation. Situational Awareness Systems also develops technologies that emulate human cognitive processes in order to produce self-directed systems that are robust, adaptable and require minimal human intervention. Technologies in development for autonomous systems include causal networks, case-based reasoning, hierarchical task nets, neural networks, machine learning, automated decision analysis and intelligent systems.