Mona Bates

Mona Bates

Digital Technology

Mona Bates is the chief digital officer (CDO) for Collins Aerospace. In this role, Mona is responsible for developing and executing the digital strategy for Collins and leverages her experience to drive innovation, improve data analytics and increase customers satisfaction. She also integrates and guides transformative initiatives across Collins that align with the RTX strategy, enhancing operational efficiency and overall business performance.

Mona has more than 20 years of information technology (IT) and leadership experience in aerospace, defense, and the commercial sectors. Most recently, she served as vice president of Digital Technology and chief information officer for Collins Aerospace – a role she had previously held for Raytheon Missiles & Defense. She also served as CIO for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems prior to the Raytheon merger with United Technologies Corporation in 2020.

Before joining RTX, Mona held senior leadership positions at Boecore Inc. supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). In this role, she successfully consolidated multiple contracts and organizations to form the Enterprise IT organization for MDA. Additionally, she held several positions of increasing responsibility at Verizon where she led network engineering and service teams across the western United States.

Mona is an active supporter of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and STEM initiatives at RTX. She is a winner of the Boston CIO of the Year ORBIE award 2020 and serves on the advisory committee for InspireCIO. Mona also serves on the board of directors for Lazarus House ministries. She is fluent in Arabic, holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, with an emphasis in Technology Management, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Networking from Regis University.