March 18, 2015
Budget cuts and sequestration have reduced funding for new aircraft platforms but there are still pockets of funding for avionics and flight decks in existing military aircraft. In this Q&A with Troy Brunk, Vice President and General Manager of Airborne Solutions for Rockwell Collins Government Systems, he discusses his outlook for military avionics technology, what pilots want avionics technology to do for them, and the situational-awareness benefits of synthetic vision technology. Edited excerpts follow.