Collins delves deeper into training services
“Everything we do at Collins we do for a strategic reason,” said Kent Statler, executive vice president, Rockwell Collins Services, speaking of the avionic
“Everything we do at Collins we do for a strategic reason,” said Kent Statler, executive vice president, Rockwell Collins Services, speaking of the avionics major’s strengthening foray into the simulation and training market.
At the beginning of the decade, he elaborated, “what we saw was that people were taking the intellectual property that we had spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars creating and turning it into training devices for our products.” Collins had always provided classroom and, more recently, computer-based training (CBT), he explained, but “there was a big chasm between that and how the end user was using our products. And that gap would be filled by others in the industry leveraging our research and development.”
