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Collins Aerospace

US
commercialFounded 1933
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
www.collinsaerospace.com/
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Collins Aerospace won an Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract from NASA in 2022.

ORG RELATIONSHIP2/8/2024Collins performs tests of new space station spacesuit

In 2018 Phil Jasper was named president of Collins Aerospace’s Mission Systems strategic business unit.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE1/10/2024RTX names new President of Raytheon

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, was awarded a $36,000,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a platform-agnostic, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) SATCOM pod.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/10/2023RTX Trilogy: Contract to develop platform agnostic BLOS SATCOM solution / New large form factor CubeSat / DARPA award for AI to human values

Collins Aerospace’s actuation and flight control business is expected to generate an EBITDA of $130,000,000 in 2024E.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL7/24/2023Safran to acquire Collins Aerospace’s actuation + flight control business

Collins Aerospace opened an 11,000-square-meter facility in Houston on 2022-08-31 for spacesuit development.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/8/2022NASA selects Axiom Space to develop Artemis spacesuit

NASA has partnered with Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop next-generation spacesuits with improved life support, communications, and extra mobility.

NARRATIVE PLAN8/12/2022Why NASA Wants to Go Back to the Moon

NASA awarded contracts to teams led by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace on 2022-06-01 to develop new spacesuits for International Space Station spacewalks and Artemis lunar landing missions through the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) program.

NARRATIVE PLAN6/26/2022Axiom and Collins only bidders for NASA spacesuit contracts

Collins Aerospace received a ninth delivery order from the U.S. Army to provide AN/PRC-162 ground radios for the Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) program.

ORG RELATIONSHIP10/7/2021Collins Aerospace Receives 9th Delivery Order From U.S. Army for HMS Manpack Radio Modernization Program

The first aircraft equipped with Viasat’s Ka-band in-flight connectivity system provided by Collins Aerospace entered service in August 2021.

NARRATIVE CAPABILITY9/27/2021Viasat’s Industry-Leading Ka-band In-Flight Connectivity Service For Business Aviation Now Available through Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace can provide Viasat Ka-band service for new installs and service upgrades for current Viasat Ku-band customers to either Viasat Ka-band or the global Dual Ku-/Ka-band solution.

NARRATIVE CAPABILITY9/27/2021Viasat’s Industry-Leading Ka-band In-Flight Connectivity Service For Business Aviation Now Available through Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace’s existing facility in Houston, which develops and produces systems for NASA’s human spaceflight programs, is at capacity.

NARRATIVE GROWTH8/23/2021Collins Aerospace to provide life support for privately run LEO outpost

Collins Aerospace was awarded a $2,600,000 contract on 2021-08-23 to provide life support systems for a planned privately owned and operated low Earth orbit outpost.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/23/2021Collins Aerospace to provide life support for privately run LEO outpost

BAE Systems plans to expand Collins’ former GPS headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

NARRATIVE GROWTH2/17/2021BAE Systems positioning for growth in military GPS following Collins acquisition

Collins Aerospace was one of three companies selected on 2020-07-08 by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to develop new GPS handheld devices for the U.S. military.

NARRATIVE PLAN7/31/2020BAE Systems completes acquisition of Collins’ military GPS business