Not seeing the right fit for your organization just yet? Collins Aerospace is always looking for innovative partners to help shape the future of aerospace.
By joining the Powered by Collins Ecosystem on SwitchPitch, you’ll ensure your organization is visible to our advanced technology teams, who continuously assess potential collaborators for future opportunities—including SBIR/STTR proposals and other strategic initiatives. As new needs arise, our team will proactively reach out to companies whose capabilities align with emerging opportunities.
While outreach timing may differ from our annual call schedule, joining the Ecosystem ensures you remain on our radar for potential partnerships. Filling out a profile does not replace the option to submit a Solution Brief for current or future Collaboration Opportunities—but it does keep your organization connected and considered for what’s next.
Stay engaged. Stay connected. Become part of the Powered by Collins Ecosystem today.
The Powered by Collins initiative is a unique opportunity to directly collaborate with Collins Aerospace, accelerating your capabilities and products and moving from technology to market faster.
Strategic vision: Join a visionary journey with Collins Aerospace, defining the future of aerospace through strategic initiatives.
Rapid innovation: We're not just talking; we're investing significantly to demonstrate cutting-edge capabilities and accelerate collaboration through initiatives like the Powered by Collins Initiative.
Speed of innovation: Break free from traditional business plans and pitch competitions. The Powered by Collins Initiative is your express lane to identify and implement advanced technologies and solutions aligned with Collins’ products and customers.
Collaboration opportunities: Instant fit assessments tailored to your capabilities, a straightforward application process, and potential for rapid progression into funded proof of concept demonstrations.
Aerospace expertise: Gain access to a network of 17,000 technical professionals.
Global reach: Utilize unique facilities and assets spanning 30+ countries.
Customer insights: Tap into use cases and needs derived from experience with over 70,000 fielded aircraft.
Funding advantage: Move quickly to funded demonstrations in collaboration with Collins program teams, without diluting your equity.
Holistic relationships: Forge lasting connections with the second largest aerospace company globally.
Bonus: While not mandatory, having achieved a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) positions you for rapid collaboration in a proof-of-concept project within 3-6 months.
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, recently completed a successful digital demonstration with Parasanti on Collins’ RapidEdge™ Mission System for Collaborative Uncrewed Launched Effects (LE). Parasanti, a small business that provides edge computing solutions, was selected for the work through the Powered by Collins Initiative™ to foster technology innovation with Deep Tech small- to medium-sized enterprises.
On a periodic basis, the Collins team will publish open collaboration opportunities to the site. Please review those opportunities and see if your company’s capabilities and solutions are a potential fit. We welcome companies that are actively working aerospace, and equally so for those working in adjacent industries but passionate about exploring the opportunity in aerospace for their offerings.
Tell us more about your company and your technology-enabled solutions via a solution brief. It’s our version of an introductory meeting in a document format. We’re looking for a < 3-page document or < 10 slide presentation (.pdf format preferred), with a total file size not exceeding 2 MB.
Information we’re looking for:
The internal Collins team will evaluate your solution brief submission for a fit with our needs and the likelihood of a successful collaboration together.
Selected solution briefs will be invited to join us for a Collaboration Day to explore, in greater detail, potential opportunities.
Companies joining the Powered by Collins Ecosystem will be contacted by individual technology and business teams at Collins as specific needs arise to discuss potential alignments.
Collins may select a subset of Collaboration Day participants to collaborate with through a funded, proof-of concept demonstration.
If you’re a global technologist that represents a deep-tech, small-medium enterprise – in aerospace or an adjacent industry – and you share our passion for innovation, we invite you to explore our active collaboration opportunities to see if your company’s capabilities and solutions are a potential fit.
While each interaction will be tailored to the needs of a particular project, some sample benefits could include access to our aerospace expertise and world-class facilities, insights into market needs and use cases, non-dilutive funding through collaborative demonstration programs, along with developing a holistic, lasting relationship with one of the world’s leading aerospace companies.
To submit an application, apply here, or to learn more about our acceleration of transformative technologies, visit Advanced Research & Technology.
We understand how busy the world is, and our goal is to evaluate potential collaborators swiftly while enabling you to get to know Collins and our expertise more thoroughly. To that end, our portal is designed to enable you to tell us more about your company and your technology-enabled solutions via a solution brief.
Visit Applied Research & Technology for more information about our team.
The Applied Research & Technology team is a global technology and open innovation resource within Collins Aerospace working on mission-critical projects that push the boundaries of what technology can do. We work on the cutting edge, redefining our industry with innovative partners, government and academia to research and advance transformative technologies that can create a safer, more connected and sustainable world.
With teams located in the U.S., Europe and Asia, we leverage combined engineering expertise across Collins Aerospace and RTX to create differentiated systems-level solutions across a range of disciplines. Working together, we bring breakthrough technologies to market that redefine how the world experiences the present and envisions the future.
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