Collins Seeks Ways To Overcome Pandemic's Effects
The aerospace supplier is turning toward build its defense business while looking at a strategy to accelerate a rebound in commercial aviation.
Collins Aerospace's Pro Line Fusion avionics on the flight deck of an Airbus C295 tactical airlifter. Collins is turning to more defense work as a way to offset the impact of a decline in its commercial aviation business. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)
Collins Aerospace's Pro Line Fusion avionics on the flight deck of an Airbus C295 tactical airlifter. Collins is turning to more defense work as a way to offset the impact of a decline in its commercial aviation business. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)

Collins Aerospace is turning heavily to defense as it attempts to offset the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on commercial aviation, a primary industry for the Iowa-based aerospace supplier. About 75 percent of Collins's business involves commercial aviation, which has been hammered by the pandemic both domestically and internationally from travel restrictions, closed borders, and a steep drop in passenger demand.