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Collins Aerospace is Committed to Keeping the Middle East Safer
Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industry. Created in 2018 by bringing together UTC Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins, Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. Bernard Bouillaud, International Business Development Director - Missions Systems, Collins Aerospace, shares the company’s vision with Nation Shield in an exclusive interview. Excerpts:
Collins Aerospace has been in the Middle East for over 20 years. What has made you one of the preferred partners in the region for defence solutions?
Collins Aerospace has been here in the Middle East for decades providing a complete range of aerospace and defence solutions and services for customers. Our expertise in intelligent technologies from advanced secure communications to simulation and training solutions provides users with more powerful situational awareness, increased collaboration and, ultimately, success in the battlespace.
Furthermore, working together with the Armed Forces in the region for years contributed to create a real customer intimacy while improving our solutions with the experience and understanding of the regional operational requirements.
Customers want a guide to help them work through pain points in their operations, consequently to help them take advantage of new intelligent and connected systems to integrate all domains and assets into one battlespace.
Collins Aerospace is driving breakthroughs in intelligent systems design and automation. How does your work keep the region safer?
Most of our customers in the Middle East have invested in the last generation of defence capabilities across air, ground, sea, cyber and space domains.
There is a need for bringing a higher level of convergence across all domains with seamless, dynamic and continuous integration of capabilities to decide on the right offensive and defensive effects, with all the necessary information at hand.
To better illustrate the current trends, we can mention the needs of interoperability across services and within coalition forces. Interoperability goes from the radio, through the network and messages all the way to the application and service provided to the warfighter and decision maker. This is where our connectivity solutions comes into play as the means to perform seamless decisive operations to keep the region safer.
Your company has been redefining connected battlespace. What are your strengths in the area?
Collins’ reflections on the subject have led to a structured approach for redefining the connected battlespace.
We start from intelligent sensors for manned and autonomous platforms, which collect the right data needed for decision making. It spans low cost sensors to sophisticated multispectrum long distance sensors for strategic use.
The second pillar is the ability to securely connect the assets together, using the latest generation of communication, mesh networks and datalinks.
Cyber threats require resilient networks and the ability to continue to navigate in a denied and congested environment. Collins has developed the latest generation of autonomous precision navigation and timing technologies to ensure the battlespace remains in operation despite the harsh environment.
We have also invested in secured cloud combat processing systems to compute the significant amount of data available in the battlespace, while providing the C2 system with the most useful correlated information.
Achieving the needed level of readiness of our troops requires intensive training. Collins has developed immersive training capabilities to support our ‘train as you fight’ philosophy as a key asset to operate the full spectrum of the connected battlespace.
Connecting the battlespace is said to be a 21st century imperative for warfighters. What is the strategy you offer the UAE in this critical
segment?
Our mission is to be at the centre of integrating all domains and assets to ensure warfighters are more connected, protected and effective—empowering them to make better and faster decisions when it matters most.
The UAE has already invested in capabilities which give them an edge compared to other nations and is uniquely positioned to embrace the journey to the 2021 Connected Battlespace. But in the meantime, what we are trying to do is combine existing assets with the new connected battlespace enabling technologies to enable a smooth operational transition.
As an illustration of these enablers, Collins proposes smart air/ground multilevel security gateways to disseminate existing information to a wider range of networks and participants with the example of the Joint Fires capabilities where the dismounted soldier and associated strike asset have access to critical information which could be used beyond the sole purpose of accurate target designation.
Collins also plans to have Data Exploitation Centres to compute and disseminate decisive information, using combined data from our airborne intelligent sensors and other available sources and new generation of Software Defined Radios (SDR) to host both proprietary and government furnished waveforms and crypto sub-system to bring interoperability over a large frequency range.
A key focus for the defence community last year was to create these sovereign SDRs which you just mentioned. Can you tell us more on that?
The SDR concept is indeed a central piece of the Connected Battle Space. We need to move towards agnostic radios which can host several types of communication, including commercial technologies for satcom or cellular communications.
Regional defence communities have raised a strong interest to develop these capabilities in partnership with foreign vendors, and Collins is very supportive of these initiatives.
This is an area where Collins, with their local partners, can make a difference. We are convinced that all these mentioned improvements won’t be possible without the necessary involvement of local industry and universities, and it is Collins’s strategy to support the UAE vision and charter to help build a strong regional defence and aerospace industry, and to support development of local talent. Collins Aerospace has been highlighting its commitment to training local talent and redefining aerospace research. We continue to develop the valuable relationships we have with local entities such as Khalifa University.
Collins Aerospace is exhibiting at stand 03-C07
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