Collins Aerospace in Cork is one of the largest Ireland-based industrial participants in EU Framework programs such as Horizon Europe and its joint undertakings such as Clean Aviation, Clean Hydrogen and SESAR.
Some of the technology areas under development include:
- Future system architectures: Defining new ways to integrate new functions and energy domains on aircraft to reduce size, weight, power and cost.
- Power and thermal management: Integrated power and thermal management solutions, including systems to support hybrid-electric flight and sustainable fuels like hydrogen.
- Future communication and navigation: Defining the architecture for communications and navigation for future aircraft and air traffic management.
- Autonomy and pilot workload reduction: Systems to support pilots in the cockpit, evolving towards more autonomous flight.
- Accelerating technology: Transforming the speed and agility in the way we work together within Collins Aerospace.
More info on Collins' involvement in SESAR projects