Rockwell Collins is keen to build European interest in its open architecture glass cockpit systems.
This comes on the back of its recent contract win from Eurocopter Deutschland to develop a German Avionics Management System (GAMS) for the German Army CH-53 G helicopter. The GAMS is based on Rockwell Collins' Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) and integrated into the new glass cockpit of the Sikorsky CH-53 G.
The modular open system architecture (OSA) cockpit and mission management system includes a flight management system, new navigation sensors, five displays and a communication suite tailored and adapted specifically to German Army requirements. Claude Alber, Rockwell Collins director air mobility and rotary wing solutions, says: “The open architecture system means that we can incorporate third party software and other enhancements, such as video inputs, FLIR, enhanced vision (EVS) and synthetic vision. It is very scalable.
“CAAS is well proven in the states and on a wide range of US Army and US Special Operations platforms. Now we want to build on that experience this side of the Atlantic. We are also keen to chase fixed-wing retrofit upgrade programmes too,” says Alber.
Rockwell Collins points out that a lot of the development and production wok for the systems happens right here in Germany at its Heidelberg plant. Other work is completed at Toulouse, France and Reading, England.
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