Sustainability

We innovate for – and with – our customers to drive more sustainable solutions that solve unique business challenges and pave a better path for the industry and our planet. Across the industry, suppliers, airframers, airlines and allies are all advancing new and expanded efforts in sustainability, and many look to Collins Aerospace for technologies and solutions to help meet lofty goals. Together, we can seize new opportunities – and rise to the responsibility.

	In October 2021, Collins Aerospace signed the Air Transportation Action Group's declaration to Fly Net Zero by 2050.
	In 2019, we joined 23 other leaders in aerospace, research organizations and associations across Europe to sign the Clean Sky 2 Joint Declaration of European Aviation Research Stakeholders to lead the way toward the decarbonization of aviation by 2050. In 2021, we signed the Letter of Intent (LoI) to join as a Founding Member of the currently forming Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking.
	As part of a unique, long-term collaboration with Airbus, Emirates Airlines, GE Aviation and Thales, and in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation, we co-created Aviation X Lab to focus on technological innovations in aviation, including those enabling the next era of sustainable air travel.

Each year, we invest more than $3 billion in R&D to deliver the industry’s most advanced products and services to our customers. By pairing this mission with our steadfast commitment to creating a more sustainable aviation industry, we align product development to principles.

We start with the best and brightest ideas that push the limits of current capabilities and ask: What’s next?

That’s the question our new Applied Research & Technology Team will be asking about a number of critical issues facing the aviation industry. Starting with sustainability.

Part of the team’s mandate is to help accelerate enterprisewide efforts to create more environmentally responsible technologies, from lighter materials and more efficient alternative power sources to technologies that optimize aircraft flight path and fuel burn. And, because our employees are some of the best problem-solvers out there, the team created a new crowdsourcing tool to make it easier for employees to collaborate and share solutions around sustainability and other strategic challenges.

In other R&D news:

• We’ve invested $26M through 2023 in support of two programs at the Collins Ratier site in France for the development of next-generation propellers.
• Collins made an $18M investment in a research program to develop “smart” actuation components for both commercial airplanes and helicopters. (See Integrated Solutions)

So we’re not just talking big when it comes to sustainability – we’re making it fly.