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Political Heat is Driving the Sustainability Beat, Says Raytheon

Raytheon's engines, aircraft systems, and defense divisions are leveraging multiple technologies to reduce their customers' environmental impact.

Collins Aerospace is tapping digital technology, including artificial intelligence, to gather and apply data to make airlines' flight operations more fuel-efficient in multiple ways. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

November 16, 2021

Delivering more environmentally sustainable technology to customers and partners is clearly now a matter of "how and when" rather than "if" for major aerospace and defense groups like Raytheon Technologies (Stand 1351). Briefing reporters ahead of this week’s Dubai Airshow as the United Nations COP26 climate change conference was underway in Scotland, LeAnn Ridgeway, the newly appointed chief sustainability officer with the company's Collins Aerospace unit, said that pressure from political and business leaders, as well as environmentalists, is making it more imperative for the industry to deliver a credible path to reducing and eliminating carbon and other harmful elements.

“We are seeing an acceleration [in expectations for progress] and on a global stage there are a lot more conversations around this,” she said. “We are getting more requests for proposals with sustainability goals, and we’re looking to do whatever we can to accelerate progress.”

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