
Building and deploying reliable airspace modernization advances that overhaul communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management systems historically has served as a core element of Raytheon’s Technologies business. Now, Raytheon’s corporate reorganization into three business units will see its Intelligence and Space division’s civil traffic systems business absorbed into Collins’s Connected Aviation Solutions, whose ambitious team aims to stake a claim on the future of air traffic management.
Raytheon Technologies systems currently manages two-thirds of the world’s air traffic. It operates in more than 60 countries and supports the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in overseeing more than 45,000 flights across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Jen Schopfer, president of Collins Aerospace’s Connected Aviation Solutions division, told AIN that the reorganization allows for better alignment with customers’ priorities, ensuring more effective coordination and collaboration across its businesses.