Uncharted territory - Rockwell Collins

Volume eIGHTeeN Issue oNe b 2013

Uncharted territory

Experimental test flights show our latest synthetic

vision technology helps military helicopter pilots

navigate at low altitudes.

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Rockwell Collins has a strong reputation for innovation.

Key to that success has been our unwavering commitment

to investing in the products and technologies that meet

our customers’ needs. In both good years and bad, we

have consistently dedicated 18-20 percent of our revenue to

research and development. This fiscal year, we plan to raise

that figure to 22 percent of sales, or about $1 billion, even as

revenue growth remains challenged.

In this issue of Horizons magazine, you’ll learn about

our dedication to innovation – driven by the needs of

customers – and how it is producing results. You’ll also read

about how we’re asking the right questions in order to solve

the right problems.

For example, this issue’s cover story talks about our

research and development work to integrate synthetic

vision into a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. Synthetic

vision is an important feature offered on our Pro Line Fusion®

integrated avionics system for business and regional aircraft

and, in this case, we were able to leverage technology from

our commercial business for military customers.

Yet, as you can imagine, military helicopter pilots’

operational needs are very different from those of

commercial pilots. To ensure our company is solving the

right problems and providing the right features, our

engineers have worked closely with Army helicopter pilots

to better understand real-life challenges in poor visibility

and at low altitudes.

This process of clearly defining and articulating

technical and operational issues is an important part of

research and development. Too often, companies try to

solve a challenge before really understanding the problem.

This can lead to wasted resources, missed opportunities and

products that aren’t aligned with customer needs. And in an

environment where every dollar must deliver value, we must

avoid that waste.

As Rockwell Collins expands globally and develops

relationships with customers in new market segments,

it’s more critical than ever for us to ask the right questions

to ensure we’re solving the right problems. This level of

diligence and clarity will help us stay at the forefront of

innovation and realize continued success.

Publisher: David Yeoman

Editorial director: Cindy Dietz

Managing editor: Cindy Adkins

Editor: Crystal Hardinger

Creative direction: Rick Kaufman

Copy editors:Ruth Anne Denker Karen steggall

Staff writers:Jill Wojciechowski Annette BusbeeKelly scott

Photography: Airbus s.A.s., pages 4,7

Annette Busbee, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, page 3

Klaus Hecke, mannheim, Germany, page 19

Jim Hinnant, u.s. Department of Defense, cover

laurel Hungerford, Costa mesa, Calif., pages 15, 19, 23

David Jackson, Wilsonville, ore., page 19

Frederic lancelot, Toulouse, France, pages 5, 6

mark Tade, Iowa City, Iowa, pages 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21

John Thomas, Hiawatha, Iowa, pages 8, 10

Design:WDG Communications Inc.

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I N T H I S I s s u e

On the back coverThis ad — which can be found in the early march issue of Aviation Week — highlights our company’s commercial solutions that offer smart, new ways to deliver information faster, easier and more reliably.

On the coverA formation of three u.s. Army Black Hawk helicopters arrive at an airfield. military helicopter pilots often encounter brownout landings, where visibility disappears in rotor-blown sand and dust. Rockwell Collins is working to combat this danger by combining synthetic vision technology with sensors to improve situational awareness.

Clay Jones

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

www.rockwellcollins.com/horizons

Maximizing space 2using lean principles, employees in oregon were able to expand production without expanding the manufacturing floor.

Solving the integration challenge 4Rockwell Collins has a greater, more integrated development role on the Airbus A350 XWB than on previous Airbus aircraft.

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Uncharted territory 8experimental test flights show our latest synthetic vision technology helps military helicopter pilots navigate at low altitudes.

Small details, big difference 12Why Rockwell Collins’ synthetic vision technology can help military helicopter pilots.

Streaming with Skybox 14With the Rockwell Collins skybox™, business jet passengers can now enjoy digitally-protected Apple® content.

Innovation in engineering 16Rockwell Collins’ annual engineer of the Year Program celebrates the accomplishments of our company’s top engineers.

Creating the ultimate supplier relationship 20Rockwell Collins wants to work with trusted suppliers that share our passion to win.

Staying on top 22Why the Rockwell Collins Airshow® moving map continues to be a passenger favorite.

Six rules for building better business relationships worldwide 24Ye “Grace” Du from China gives advice on how to build better relationships with customers, partners and colleagues globally.

Service anniversaries 25

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maximizing spaceWith efficient planning and proven Lean principles, employees in Oregon were able to expand production without expanding the manufacturing floor.

Q What drove your Lean transformation?

A The first time a Helmet Mounted Displays customer

came through our facility, they were disappointed in how

our manufacturing floor was set up. Granted, we were in an

initial stage of low-rate production, but in evaluating our

facility, they wanted to see us ready for full-rate production.

Space was maxed out, and given the economic environment

we’re in, we knew we couldn’t buy more real estate.

Q What was the first step?

A We started with an intense planning activity. We

considered the size of all of the products that we’re building,

the volume produced, the set of activities for each product,

and the equipment needed to support production. Then,

we performed a series of mock layout exercises and used

computer-aided design software to make sure everything

fit and flowed continuously. We discovered that almost 50

percent of our floor space was consumed by the storage of

small equipment and carts.

Q What other activities helped your team?

A We went through a super 5S (a Lean

tool that creates a more effective work

environment) where we freed up more

than 1,000 square feet of manufacturing

space. We also held an event similar to a

Pre-Execution Program Planning (PEPP)

Lean event with the electricians, movers and other contractors

involved. Everyone wanted to know how long the move was

going to take. Initially, I thought it might take a couple of

weeks, but we all knew we couldn’t interrupt production flow.

Q So, how long did it take?

A We accomplished the entire move in 4.5 hours over a

weekend. There wasn’t one thing left in its original place, and

there was no impact to flow or deliveries. The changes also

made our work more modular, so it’s easier for us to move

and adjust in the future. Our customer who was initially

disappointed in our facility has come back and is thrilled with

what we’ve done.

L E A N E L E C T R O N I C S T H e N E W S

Rockwell Collins recently donated and delivered its

North American Sabreliner 50 flight-test aircraft to

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore.

The 1964 Sabreliner Model 50 (tail number N50CR) was

acquired by our company in 1976 and was used for significant

flight-test projects that helped shape modern commercial and

military avionics. The aircraft was flown approximately 8,000

hours with more than 5,000 landings.

“For any pilot, the process of grounding an aircraft is

emotional, especially knowing, in this case, what Rockwell

Collins’ Sabre contributed to the aviation industry,” said Ivan

McBride, director, Flight Operations for Rockwell Collins.

The radar technology developed for Rockwell Collins’ market-leading MultiScan™ Threat Detection System, including

forward-looking wind shear and turbulence detection, was proven on N50CR. Other notable flight-test projects completed

using the aircraft include the development of Rockwell Collins’ Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS II) technology, which

is required on most commercial and business aircraft today for alerting pilots of potential collisions with other aircraft. Also,

enhanced vision systems were developed for aiding flight crews in low-visibility conditions near the ground.

Rockwell Collins donates flight-test aircraft to museum

Lean helps us become more efficient through the elimination of non-value added activities. Employees can learn more about the Five Principles of Lean, which identify focus areas to achieve operational excellence, on the Lean Electronics page on Rockwell Collins Online.

When the new Rockwell Collins facility in Wilsonville, Ore., opened in 2009, employees never imagined that their 17,000

square-foot manufacturing area would be maxed out in less than four years. Yet, during that time, the team experienced two

significant changes – demand for Head-up Guidance Systems increased and production for multiple product lines was moved

to Wilsonville. Craig Olson, senior director of Head-up Guidance Systems, explains how Lean principles not only helped his

team optimize the manufacturing floor, but also improved overall customer satisfaction. Experience head-up and eyes-forward flying with the HGS Flight app

More than 40,000 people have down-

loaded HGS™ Flight, an app that lets

users experience our company’s Head-up

Guidance (HGS) System with synthetic

vision on an iPad®.

“Eyes-up, out-the-window flying with

head-up guidance is the future, and we’re

allowing anyone with an iPad to see first-

hand the precision, increased situational

awareness and efficiency that HGS brings,”

said Joel Otto, senior director of Commercial

Systems Marketing.

Anyone with an iPad can download the

free app in English in the Apple® iTunes®

App Store. A version in Mandarin Chinese

will soon be available.

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Inspiring engineers and innovators of tomorrowIn February, nearly 5,000 students from around the world participated in hands-on

engineering events facilitated by Rockwell Collins during Engineers Week. As part of our

“Introduce a Girl to Engineering” program, employees at six facilities – Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

Melbourne, Fla., Portland, Ore., Richardson, Texas, São José dos Campos, Brazil, and Sterling,

Va. – provided middle school girls with an inside look at what it’s like to be an engineer

through tours and activities. Girls visiting our Cedar Rapids facility learned more about

engineering processes from female engineers while building prosthetic hands. The

prosthetics will be distributed to people in need around the world.

Craig Olson

Manufacturing Floor Before Manufacturing Floor After

Rockwell Collins’ 1964 Sabreliner, now at the Evergreen Aviation

& Space Museum, logged more than 5,000 landings,

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The Airbus A350 XWB (Xtra Wide-Body) is an all-new mid-size long-range aircraft.

In preparation for entry into service, Airbus has implemented a “pyramid” approach for

testing, starting with computer validations during design, followed by component-level

demonstrators and the full-scale build-up of certain major subassemblies in the

development phase. The pyramid’s next level is airframe testing in ground-based

installations, and it is topped off with the flight test/certification program.

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It’s a typical day in one of many validation labs at Airbus

headquarters in Toulouse, France. All 16 avionics rigs in

this particular lab are in use as engineers carefully test

applications for the new Airbus A350 XWB (Xtra Wide-

Body) aircraft family.

You can tell François Delbary, a senior systems engineer

for Rockwell Collins in Toulouse, is familiar with the people

and the electronics in the room. His team is currently

working side by side with Airbus employees to test the

final levels of application integration for the Fly Smart

Information Management Onboard (IMO) solution, a

system that monitors and provides detailed information

about all of the systems on the aircraft.

For the last four years, most of the Fly Smart IMO

integration work has taken place at Rockwell Collins facilities

with close collaboration with Airbus. And now, with the first

flight of the A350 XWB just months away, final integration

is taking place at Airbus.

According to Delbary, there’s always at least one

Rockwell Collins employee present in the lab, and often

there are multiple team members present to support Airbus

employees during test simulations as part of the technical

integration process.

“The technical integration we are doing for this

IMO platform used to be done by Airbus,” he said.

“Now, Airbus is relying on us to lead the integration

of this complex solution.”

A short walk from Airbus headquarters, in one

of several A350 XWB labs at our company’s facility in

Toulouse, Stéphane Sevestre, also a senior systems

engineer for Rockwell Collins, is focusing on integration

for the Communication Global Work Package. While his

team has already provided the fully integrated system to

Airbus for first flight, employees are now working to meet

a June deadline for additional equipment verification.

This fully integrated package enables all communications

systems for the aircraft using next-generation VHF/HF and

satellite communications. For the first time, Rockwell Collins

is a Tier 1 supplier

to Airbus, and

so the system

integration work

on this package

was completed in

identical Rockwell

Collins labs – one

in Toulouse and one

in Melbourne, Fla. –

before delivery

to Airbus.

“It’s a very

large project,”

said Sevestre,

who started on

the A350 XWB

Communication

Global Work

Package in May of 2008. “We are responsible for activities

that were previously done by Airbus, so we had to make sure

our processes align with Airbus’ requirements. We also are

managing more risk than on previous Airbus programs.”

Technology transfer

For more than two decades, Rockwell Collins has worked

with Airbus, providing content for the A300, A310, A320,

A330, A340 and A380. Yet the A350 XWB win in 2008

introduced a new level of trust.

To deliver on the A350 XWB’s promise of shaping future

airline travel, Airbus looked at ways to incorporate the very

latest in advanced technologies into the aircraft. One way to

do this was by implementing a new policy that for the first

time gave certain system-level responsibilities to high-tech

suppliers like Rockwell Collins.

“We have been known as the state-of-the-art

provider for

communication,

navigation and

surveillance

solutions,”

explained

Christophe Blanc,

senior director of

Airbus programs

at Rockwell Collins.

“Airbus now knows

that the breadth

of our capabilities

is much wider,

including our

integration

capabilities,

and trusts us

to deliver.”

Airbus selected Rockwell Collins to provide the

communication, information management, navigation,

data network and landing systems, along with the Trimmable

Horizontal Stabilizer Actuator, for the A350 XWB. More

recently, Airbus awarded Rockwell Collins the contract for

the rudder/brake pedal assembly, which is part of the pilot

control system. The overall win means that the A350 XWB

will contain more Rockwell Collins content than any previous

Airbus platform.

The program also is changing the way Airbus and

Rockwell Collins engineering teams – from Toulouse, France;

Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Melbourne, Fla.; Tustin, Calif.; Hyderabad,

India; and Moscow, Russia – work together.

solving the integration challengeThe first flight of the Airbus A350 XWB is just months away, and Rockwell Collins has a greater, more integrated development role on this jetliner than on previous Airbus aircraft.

Rockwell Collins solutions on the A350 XWBCommunication Global Work PackageThe communication package, which includes fully integrated radios with the audio and datalink systems, enables all communications systems for the aircraft using next-generation VHF/HF and satellite communications that lower operating cost and improve performance, especially during intercontinental and oceanic flights, with ground sources and other aircraft.

Fly Smart Information Management OnboardThis system serves as a hosting platform for flight operations, aircraft maintenance and airline applications. In addition, an intelligent, Internet protocol (IP)-based communication system optimizes the voice and data connection, which is based on the customer’s desired quality of service. Rockwell Collins is providing the hardware, system software and system integration.

Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Actuator (THSA)Rockwell Collins brings decades of experience designing, certifying and manufacturing its THsA to the A350 XWB. The flight-critical control system is built to withstand no-command-motion and load-path failures, and utilizes multiple electric drive motors for redundancy and maximum availability.

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Rockwell Collins employees Marina Arnaud and Guillaume Rebeyrotte perform tests on the

A350 XWB Communication Global Work Package System Integration Facility rig at our

company in Toulouse, France. With the A350 XWB, Airbus gave certain companies like

Rockwell Collins stronger and more integrated involvement in the aircraft’s development,

production and support. For the first time, Rockwell Collins is a Tier 1 system provider for

the Communication Global Work Package.

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get to the root cause at a product level, and then provide

solutions to that problem at a system level, we’re able

to identify issues sooner and give Airbus a more mature

product when we deliver.”

The other advantage is the expertise Rockwell Collins

is able to provide Airbus. For example, on other Airbus

aircraft, there are typically three VHF units. Rockwell Collins

engineers proposed a better architecture with two physical

units with two VHF channels inside each one.

“Airbus respects the innovation and creativity of

Rockwell Collins because it provides them better value,”

said Guzak.

Many players, shared outcomes

To achieve integration success, a working partnership

built on trust is absolutely essential, according to Mark

Fejfar, principal systems engineer at Rockwell Collins and

technical project manager for Fly Smart applications on

the A350 XWB.

Specifically, with the Fly Smart IMO, Rockwell Collins

and Airbus engineers worked together on the front end of

the program to define the system hardware modules and

the operating software that hosts the applications that

control functions like circuit breakers, maintenance reports

and flight deck communications. Rockwell Collins then built

and integrated the system and delivered it to Airbus for

further levels of integration.

“The journey to get there has been just as important

as the results at the finish line,” he explained. “Everyone had

to be aligned – ensuring we’re achieving the results we need

at the right time and with the right quality.”

As Rockwell Collins developed the hardware modules

and the operating software, the software applications were

being designed and built by other suppliers. So as part of the

technical integration, Rockwell Collins hosted joint reviews

where those suppliers were invited to our company’s lab

facilities to validate the software.

“With Fly Smart IMO, this is the first time Rockwell

Collins has integrated an Airbus system with so many

different companies, and such a variety of applications,”

explained Fejfar. “It’s been really intense and multifaceted,

but the role has demonstrated our ability to productively

work through integration issues that naturally come up

during development and collaboratively sort through

them with many companies.”

Luc Signargout, a Rockwell Collins employee who was

part of the strong trans-Atlantic team that proved our

capabilities to Airbus during the A350 XWB pursuit, and

now director of program management for the Fly Smart

IMO in Toulouse, believes Rockwell Collins has entered

a new domain when it comes to system integration.

“A major reason why Airbus selected us is our

innovation, and we continue to prove that we have the

technological and system-level expertise to develop state-

of-the-art solutions at a higher level,” said Signargout.

“In many ways, Airbus is now looking to us to provide

functions instead of just boxes. That makes our work much

more collaborative and interactive during development.” b

By Crystal Hardinger

Collaborative relationship

A defining element of this new level of trust is an Airbus

specification called ABD-0200, which is the development

process and validation and verification processes Tier 1

suppliers follow for Airbus aircraft systems.

In the past, Rockwell Collins has always followed

ABD-0100, the Airbus specification for products. With the

Communication Global Work Package – a system that

includes VHF and HF systems, satellite communications,

avionics communications router, radio and audio

management systems, and airline operational control

software – Rockwell Collins has more system responsibility

than on previous Airbus platforms and is following

ABD-0200 for the first time.

“As a Tier 1 supplier, we are in charge of integrating

everything within the communication package,” said

Programs Manager Nancy Guzak, who is based in

Melbourne, Fla. “Airbus will then finish the system

integration effort in the aircraft environment. It’s a very

collaborative relationship between Rockwell Collins and

Airbus for the system activities.”

One reason why Rockwell Collins’ Tier 1 system

responsibility is beneficial for Airbus is the fact that the

engineering team can integrate hardware and software

earlier and fix problems sooner. With previous platforms,

if Airbus employees found a problem in their lab during

integration, they would diagnose it down to the equipment

level and then relay that information to our company.

With the A350 XWB Communication Global Work Package,

any system integration issues are not only identified by

Rockwell Collins, but also fixed before delivery to Airbus.

“You can imagine that issues identified later in the

development program are more costly to fix,” said Guzak.

“Since Rockwell Collins is taking the lead to diagnose and

Avionics Data NetworkRockwell Collins’ Avionics Full Duplex switched ethernet (AFDX) network is the backbone of the flight avionics data communications and connects the aircraft’s systems and applications together, such as displays and Integrated modular Avionics-based applications.

Landing Systems This flight landing avionics package includes Rockwell Collins’ multi-mode Receiver (mmR) and Digital low Range Altimeter (DlRA). The mmR enables precision departures and approaches by combining Instrument landing system (Ils), GPs landing system (Gls) and space Based Augmentation

system (sBAs). The DlRA provides precise height measurements above terrain during aircraft climb-out, approach and landing phases of flight. This information is provided to the automatic flight control system, instrument system and terrain awareness and warning system.

Navigation SystemsRockwell Collins provides navigation system components including the Automatic Direction Finder (ADF-900), Distance measuring equipment (Dme-2100) and the VHF omnidirectional Range receiver (VoR-900).

Rudder/Brake Pedal AssemblyIn 2013, Airbus chose Rockwell Collins to supply the rudder/brake pedal assembly, which is part of the pilot control system.

Rockwell Collins solutions on the A350 XWB

François Delbary, Dominique

Roques and Pamela Bertin,

all Rockwell Collins

employees from Toulouse,

France, prepare a test

scenario on the technical

integration rig for the Fly

Smart Information

Management Onboard

platform verification.

Airbus’ A350 XWB family consists of three versions — the A350-800,

-900 and -1000. In a typical three-class configuration, the A350-800

will accommodate 270 passengers, while the A350-900 and the

A350-1000 will seat 314 and 350 passengers, respectively.

© Airbus S.A.S.

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A surprise storm led to the first true operational test of Rockwell Collins’ Synthetic Vision System in military helicopter displays. Now, our engineers are combining synthetic imagery with sensors on an experimental U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter to improve situational awareness not only in bad weather, but also during brownout landings.

Experimental Test Pilot Bob Nagel isn’t often surprised.

His job, after all, is to ensure nothing dangerous or

unexpected happens on test flights for the Aviation

Applied Technology Directorate (AATD), an organization

within the United States Department of Defense

that transitions critical technologies to enhance

Army Aviation.

“We like our flights to be as boring as possible, to be

quite frank,” said Nagel, who works in the rapid prototyping

division based in Fort Eustis, Va. “For every hour that we fly,

there are probably tens of hours that are put into planning

that flight.”

Extensive planning was certainly involved last May

during an early test of Rockwell Collins’ Synthetic Vision

System on a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter – however,

the flight was anything but boring.

Synthetic vision provides a computer-generated 3D

view of the outside world that improves pilots’ situational

awareness. Nagel was testing this capability while flying

from Little Rock, Ark., to El Paso, Texas. When he made

his first fuel stop in Texas, there were some rain showers

moving into the area, but nothing to cause alarm. Then, as

the crew flew south of Dallas, weather conditions began to

deteriorate. As a result, they were forced to descend lower

Uncharted territory and lower into an area that had numerous obstacles in terms

of towers, wires and antenna farms.

Along with the crew, Rockwell Collins Senior Flight Test

Engineer Ryan Scoble began watching for obstacles. When a

Dallas air traffic controller kept warning them of the antenna

farms ahead, the situation became a little more intense,

according to Scoble, who was onboard the helicopter to

collect data and analyze the Synthetic Vision System.

“Our idea was that we were going to call out anything

that we saw outside,” he said. “As we were flying, we could

see the antenna farms come up on the synthetic vision

displays, but it was hard for us to see the obstacles outside

because the weather was so bad.

“Synthetic vision did exactly what it was designed to

do,” continued Scoble. “It was the first true operational test

of the Synthetic Vision System on a military helicopter.”

Helicopter pilots need more detail

Rockwell Collins’ integration of synthetic vision into

a Black Hawk helicopter is an example of our company’s

unique ability to leverage technology from our commercial

business for military customers. In this case, synthetic

vision, a key feature offered on the Rockwell Collins

Pro Line Fusion® avionics system for business and

regional aircraft, is now being applied to military

helicopter cockpits.

Yet, a glance at the experimental EH-60L Black Hawk

helicopter with a Rockwell Collins Common Avionics

Architecture System (CAAS) cockpit on one half is all that

it takes to realize that the synthetic vision displays are not

the same as those found in business jet cockpits. While

the out-the-window view from high-resolution databases

remains the same, images of obstacles and terrain are far

more detailed.

“In commercial applications, you’re almost always at

an altitude over 1,000 feet. In military helicopters, however,

you’re rarely higher than 500 feet, so you have to pay a lot

more attention to ground obstacles,” said Dan Toy, principal

marketing manager in Rockwell Collins Government

Systems Airborne Marketing. “We really had to focus on

increasing the resolution of the synthetic vision imagery.”

This is particularly true for brownout landings,

where visibility disappears in rotor-blown sand and dust,

that military helicopter pilots often encounter in Iraq

and Afghanistan.

“There’s so much dust over there,” said Toy, explaining

that there have been more helicopter accidents in non-

combat situations in Iraq than in Vietnam, according to a

Joint Department of Defense rotorcraft study. “The dust

gets churned up and pilots can’t see.”

One way Rockwell Collins engineers are helping to

combat this danger is to enhance synthetic vision with

sensors that will image the ground, allowing a pilot to

“see” through the brownout.

For example, if a pilot is making a tactical approach

to an unprepared landing zone, the synthetic vision shows

nearby hazards, such as buildings, towers and power lines.

By adding radar sensor data, a pilot also can see a dynamic

object like a truck that’s moving into the landing area or

small obstacles such as irrigation ditches or rocks that

will damage the aircraft’s landing gear.

Rockwell Collins engineers, including James Sampers, Max Taylor,

Scott Schultz and Jenny Myren (pictured left to right), are working

with AATD to adapt synthetic vision technology for military

missions. The integration of synthetic vision into the CAAS cockpit

is an example of our company’s unique ability to leverage

technology from commercial business for military customers.

Rockwell Collins is working with the Aviation Applied

Technology Directorate (AATD) to test sensor-fused

synthetic vision on an experimental EH-60L Black

Hawk. In between flight tests, the helicopter landed

near our hangar in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Testing synthetic vision

Last year, when Scoble, along with Rockwell Collins

employees Jenny Myren and James Sampers, began

testing our software version 1.0 with AATD, the system

was rudimentary, but it was easy to see the potential for

adaptation for military missions.

“We started at Fort Eustis and flew west. The

mountainous region and high terrain had everything we

wanted in order to exercise the capability,” explained Scoble.

“We started with this basic version, and every time we’d get

feedback from pilots, we’d come back with another version

with more improvements.”

Principal Software Engineer Max Taylor and Principal

Systems Engineer Scott Schultz are part of the Rockwell

Collins development team that was able to increase the

resolution of the synthetic vision images and rapidly

optimize the software based on flight test findings.

“Working in concert with the flight test folks was key,”

said Taylor. “Customer feedback was integral to our team’s

ability to quickly turn around new features.”

Now, the testing and development teams are working

on the latest version of the software with sensor-fused

synthetic vision.

Military helicopter pilots fly lower

and in worse conditions than

commercial pilots, dictating the

need for highly detailed images of

obstacles and terrain. Digital terrain

data is measured in arc-seconds.

Synthetic vision imagery on

business jet cockpits is typically

displayed with three arc-second

resolution (30 meters), while the

helicopter displays are testing

with 1/3 arc-second resolution

(10 meters), which provides about

81 times more detail. In the future,

Rockwell Collins plans to flight test

synthetic vision imagery with even

higher resolution.

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Only one half of the experimental

EH-60L Black Hawk cockpit is

used to test synthetic vision and

sensor data so the aircraft is

always flightworthy. During one

of the demonstrations, a test

pilot flew with synthetic vision

while his outside view was

blacked out. When the safety

pilot asked the test pilot to

remove the black-out material,

the test pilot was shocked to

learn that he was flying in a rain

shower. He realized that with the

Synthetic Vision System, he

could maintain control in nearly

any weather conditions.

“It’s exciting because this hasn’t been done before for

this marketplace,” said Schultz, explaining that Rockwell

Collins’ research and development funding made it

possible for the teams to quickly prototype the technology,

demonstrate it to pilots, and incorporate feedback.

While our company is developing “sensor-agnostic”

avionics, meaning the technology is not limited to one

type of sensor, the team is currently using BAE’s Brownout

Landing Aid System Technology (BLAST) sensor during

flight tests.

“The sensor can draw what the ground looks like, so it

can see through dust, which is important in those brownout

situations,” said Myren, a senior flight test engineer. “The

display is constantly being updated, and you can see the

latest view of what’s going on outside on the display.”

According to Sampers, also a flight test engineer,

this intuitive picture is especially useful for pilots during

subsequent helicopter landings in sandy or dusty areas.

“When the first helicopter comes in to land, the pilot

is 200 feet off the ground and will visually scan the area for

obstacles before going in. In between those two points, a lot

of dust or debris can be picked up, but at least there was that

chance to look before landing,” he said. “Pilots in subsequent

aircraft don’t get that opportunity. All the dust has already

been kicked up, and they’re not sure what the landing site

looks like. At night, once you get in the brownout, you can’t

see stars, you can’t see the moon, you can’t see anything.”

Meeting operational needs

Jesse Miller, the flight test team lead for synthetic vision

and a senior engineering manager at Rockwell Collins,

can personally relate when he hears helicopter pilots

like Nagel from AATD talk about the need to advance

situational awareness technology. He was an Army

pilot for 20 years.

From his perspective, it’s important for Rockwell

Collins to be conducting flight tests with AATD because

our company’s engineers can better understand real-life

challenges and tailor synthetic vision technology to meet

operational needs.

“We’re able to test on an aircraft that’s currently in the

Army fleet and Army pilots are familiar with,” said Miller.

“The benefits are huge for us, but also for the end user.”

One of the biggest rewards of Miller’s current role

is being able to see the evolution of the synthetic vision

technology. As the team adds capabilities, he said it’s

exciting to see the new functionality presented to pilots.

“Ultimately, we’re developing a solution designed to

save lives and increase the capabilities of pilots,” said Miller.

“We know this technology is important for the future. We

know we are investing in a solution that will be beneficial

for our customers.” bBy Crystal Hardinger

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Small details, big difference Why Rockwell Collins’ synthetic vision technology can help military helicopter pilots more safely navigate during hazardous and low-altitude missions.

Alerts pilots of nearby obstaclesIn degraded visibility conditions

due to weather or dust, the

Synthetic Vision System will

alert military helicopter pilots of

nearby hazards, such as antennas,

towers, buildings and power lines.

Provides highly detailed images of terrainData management algorithms,

high-resolution databases and

embedded processing capabilities

of the CAAS architecture enable the

Synthetic Vision System to provide

exceptionally detailed situational

awareness in mountainous regions

and other areas with rugged terrain.

When integrated into the Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) as illustrated

below in a CH-47F cockpit, synthetic vision provides flight crews with an intuitive computer-generated

3D view of the external environment.


streaming with skyboxWith the Rockwell Collins Skybox™, business jet passengers can now enjoy digitally-protected Apple® content across a variety of devices while in flight.

Steve Jobs once said that a lot of times people don’t know

what they want until you show it to them.

That was the case when Ara Derderian, senior

engineering manager for our company’s Cabin Systems

business in Tustin, Calif., created an Apple®-based audio/

video server that allowed him to stream his library of

nearly 300 movies and more than 5,000 songs.

He invited his colleagues over to demonstrate how his

family could easily access their desired content from any

TV in his house. Soon after, the employees envisioned a

solution that ultimately led to the Rockwell Collins Skybox™,

a new cabin entertainment system that brings the full

Apple experience to business aircraft.

“We kept asking ourselves how we could create this

personalized experience on an airplane,” said Derderian,

explaining that Skybox includes the second-generation

version of Apple TV®. “We knew our business jet customers

would want it as soon as they saw it, and we knew we

didn’t have to reinvent the wheel.”

Quick to marketUnveiled in October 2012, Skybox is the first aircraft-

certified device to share a wide range of entertainment

and business content, wirelessly and on demand across

a variety of devices. Passengers can stream digitally-

protected Apple content – movies, TV shows and music

– from Skybox’s on-board Apple iTunes®

library to cabin displays or to a maximum

of 10 Apple devices. Music, movies and

presentations saved on Windows® and

Android™ devices can be accessed, too.

“Before the Apple iPad® came on

the market, I don’t know that anyone

would have thought about people

bringing their own equipment for in-

flight entertainment,” said Derderian.

“When game changers like this happen,

you have to be able to move quickly.”

Rockwell Collins’ leadership team first

authorized the Skybox project in December

of 2011. Ten months later, our company

introduced it to the marketplace.

“That’s the fastest turnaround Cabin

Systems has ever done,” said Mike Tiffany,

director of Cabin Systems business jet

programs. “There’s so much competition

when it comes to the aircraft cabin, so our

primary goal with Skybox was to get it out

as soon as possible.”

Aircraft certifiedTechnology used on the ground isn’t

designed for use in the air. That’s why

Skybox had to be engineered to ensure

movies, TV shows and music could be

safely and reliably streamed, viewed and

shared while in flight.

“You can’t just take Apple TV and plug

it into an airplane. The Federal Aviation

Administration would have issues with that,”

said Derderian. “We had to come up with a

way to make everything airworthy. That’s

where a lot of the engineering happened.”

In addition to designing the appropriate

connections necessary for power conversion

on an aircraft, the team worked closely with

a Chicago-based design and manufacturing

company to develop Skybox’s external casing.

Various qualifications and certifications

– including flammability, radiation and

vibration testing – also had to be completed

successfully prior to marketplace introduction.

“Rockwell Collins is about building

trust, so even though we were working

quickly, there was no way we were going

to compromise the quality of this product,”

said Tiffany.

Skybox provides unique valueDassault will be the first original equipment

manufacturer to offer the Skybox capability.

It will be available on Dassault Falcon Jets

equipped with FalconCabin HD+,

which currently includes the

Falcon 7X, Falcon 900LX

and Falcon 2000LX+.

Skybox also easily

integrates with our

company’s Venue™

high definition cabin

management system,

turning every Venue

touch screen into a

Skybox controller.

“Innovation is

all about finding creative

solutions for a problem,” said Tiffany.

“In this case, we’ve taken commercial

off-the-shelf products and added value

in a unique way to make the solutions

work in our marketplace.” bBy Jill Wojciechowski

Skybox™ is the first aircraft-

certified device where passengers

can stream movies, TV shows and

music from an Apple iTunes®

library to cabin displays or a

maximum of 10 Apple® devices.

Rockwell Collins employees

Michael Diekmann, Ara

Derderian, Michael Tiffany

(back row, left to right) Paul

Sapp, Stan Dewan and Nga Do

(front row, left to right)

showcase the content that’s

accessible wirelessly and on

demand while in flight with

the Skybox™.

eric N. AndersonCommercial Systems

Winning a large-format display contract over the

incumbent provider required something that Eric

Anderson believes is essential for innovation.

“You need a hard target,” he said. “Then you need the

time and ability to go off and find a new way to meet the

target – not just squeeze more out of the existing ways.”

Anderson’s engineering team took on the extraordinarily

tough cost challenges in pursuit of a significant flight-display

program contract for Boeing’s 737 MAX.

“Our target was a brand new display system that fits

the 737, is as capable as the one that we just got through

putting on the 787, and has very aggressive cost targets,”

he said. “We knew that we needed to do something like

that to get a foot in the door at Boeing.”

It worked. Anderson made progressive technical

contributions that helped win Rockwell Collins the contract.

sarah A. millerGovernment Systems

Sarah Miller credits her decade of mentoring at

Rockwell Collins with developing key skills she needed

to effectively lead system design on the Common Range

Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) engineering team.

“My experiences as a mentor sharpened my ability to

encourage open communication with team members, so

that I could understand their issues as well as express my

knowledge,” she said.

Miller also is being recognized for her work with the

U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) for

military satellite communications. She provided technical

insight and leadership on waveform development for our

ARC-210 radio. With its advanced networking capabilities,

the ARC-210 will have the potential to expand into new

markets with this MUOS capability.

Her daily operating motto is: Learn something new

every day. “If you try something,” she said, “whether you

succeed or fail, any experience you gain will be beneficial.”

Innovation in engineeringRockwell Collins’ annual Engineer of the Year Program celebrates the contributions and accomplishments of our

company’s top engineers. These corporate winners, who were nominated by their peers or leaders, have achieved

breakthrough results that significantly impact business growth.


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Richard D. JinkinsEngineering & Technology

Taking Rockwell Collins’ commercial weather radar

technology and broadening its utility beyond traditional

weather applications was a market opportunity that

Richard Jinkins helped achieve. He developed and

prototyped systems that use weather radar technology to

provide better runway imaging and altitude estimation, and

to reduce equipage requirements in commercial aviation.

Jinkins has worked in what he describes as two

distinct areas of engineering innovation. One is in the

product domain, where a customer has a specific need.

“That’s a very focused kind of innovation,” Jinkins said,

“versus innovation that is more broadly about what the

aviation world needs, or what would be valuable for the

company. I think you need both kinds.”

Jinkins is passionate about innovating. “When people say

that something can’t be done,” he said, “it motivates me to

prove them wrong.” b

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Ara James DerderianCommercial SystemsHe helped develop skybox™, an FAA-certified iTunes® server that integrates into the cabin management system.

Roger R. KirpesGovernment SystemsHe led his team in the design and implementation of m-code, a type of GPs signal designed and secured for military use. It is a critical capability in the u.s. military’s modernized user equipment (mue) Program.

Jonathon C. skarpholGovernment SystemsHe lent his technical expertise and leadership to develop four new modules for the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation system (CRIIs) program’s second phase for the u.s. military.

Russell D. WyseEngineering & TechnologyHe led the design of radio- frequency integrated circuits that are used in three solutions: CRIIs, electrically steerable antenna satellite communications and weather radar.

Carlo TianaCommercial SystemsHis development work on Rockwell Collins’ Remote Vision system program helped our company achieve significant savings in non-recurring engineering and material costs.

Timo ReuboldInternational & Service SolutionsHis innovations have helped our company efficiently compress high-definition (HD) video for transmission in real time from a moving platform, such as an aircraft, to a ground-based receiver.

susan R. margheimOperationsshe led an initiative to develop a web-based application that streamlined the process for notifying our buyers and suppliers whenever a Rockwell Collins engineer revises a part.

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engineering excellenceWith thousands of Rockwell Collins engineers working

around the world, it’s a tremendous honor to be chosen

as a finalist. These 10 employees were selected from

50 semifinalists for their business impact, innovation

and leadership contributions in FY’12. Their work con-

tinues the long legacy of innovation at Rockwell Collins.

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Spotlight on qualitySharing this type of accountability is

what our company is looking for with all

suppliers. But not every supplier strives

for the same high level of performance as

KEMET. In FY’12, our overall supply base

contributed to about half of the major

quality issues Rockwell Collins had to

disclose to our customers. That’s double

where we wanted it to be, according to

Kevin Myers, vice president of Material

and Supply at Rockwell Collins.

“Our quality performance had not been

accelerating at the pace it needed to,” he said.

To achieve and maintain the industry-

leading quality levels that Rockwell Collins

is known for, our company’s Material and

Supply organization recently implemented

a set of strategies to improve both our

internal and external processes.

“We’re first looking at ways to

enhance our internal processes to ensure

we prioritize clear supplier expectations –

whether it’s providing more clarity in our

design drawings or better communication

about changes to an order,” said Myers.

The second piece of the strategy

is external, and involves better under-

standing our suppliers’ capabilities, quality

management systems and innovation

strategies. Our company also is looking

at ways to grow our global supply base as

Rockwell Collins grows internationally.

“Our supply chain is extremely

important from a profitable growth

standpoint,” said Myers, emphasizing

that about 60 percent of the cost of our

product content is supply chain-related.

“To be successful, we have to have trusted

suppliers that will help us positively

influence the quality of our products.”

Not all suppliers are equalA key tool KEMET has used to continu-

ously foster collaboration and improve

communication with Rockwell Collins

is quarterly question-and-answer lunch

meetings, which give engineers from both

companies a chance to learn from each other.

“One of the factors in having a quality

product is selecting the right capacitor for

the right application,” explained Janice

Kass, a KEMET Electronics manufacturer’s

representative. “When we come together

and collaborate on this, we can avoid the

expense of having the wrong capacitor

designed in from the start.”

Another benefit of these sessions,

said Kass, is to learn what capacitance

technology Rockwell Collins may need

in the future that KEMET may already

be working on or may be able to develop

to fill that need.

For Myers, these conversations show

that KEMET is committed to helping

Rockwell Collins produce quality, cutting-

edge, cost-effective solutions for our

customers – traits he’s looking for in

all suppliers in the future as part of the

Rockwell Collins Trusted Supplier Program,

which was rolled out last year.

“From our perspective, not all suppliers

are equal,” he said. “Our strategic supply

partners are those that help define and drive

solutions, and share our passion to win.” b

Nearly every Rockwell Collins

solution that ships outside

our doors contains a KEMET

Electronics capacitor like the

tantalum (tan) and ceramic

(gray) rectangle capacitors

shown above. KEMET is one

of Rockwell Collins’ trusted

suppliers that is working

collaboratively to help our

company achieve industry-

leading quality levels.

Joint accountability with our

suppliers is key to achieving the

level of quality Rockwell Collins’

products are known for. Our

company enjoys this type of

trusted partnership with

KEMET Electronics, a supplier

of capacitors. Rockwell Collins

employees Randy Harris (left),

a senior buyer, along with

Jordan Overton, an application

engineer, work with Janice

Kass, a KEMET Electronics

representative, as well

as KEMET engineers to

troubleshoot problems and

drive continuous improvement.

Creating the ultimate supplier relationshipRockwell Collins wants to work with trusted suppliers that share our passion to win.

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When it comes to essential components in

Rockwell Collins’ products, capacitors rank

at the top. These devices, which are used

to store electrical energy, are contained in

virtually every product manufactured by

our company.

“As far as piece parts, capacitors are

one of the largest commodities by volume

we use in electronics,” said Jordan Overton,

application engineer at Rockwell Collins.

“It’s imperative that we have a reliable

supplier to consistently deliver quality

parts for our products.”

For several decades, KEMET Electronics,

a global company based in Greenville,

S.C., has provided Rockwell Collins with

various surface-mount and through-hole

capacitor technologies for use across our

product lines. Like many of our company’s

trusted suppliers, its performance as a

quality and innovative supplier hasn’t gone

unnoticed. In fact, in 2012, KEMET received

our top supplier award, the Rockwell Collins

President’s Award.

According to Overton, the ability to

work collaboratively with the capacitance

company is helping drive continuous

improvement processes.

“If there’s a capacitor failure, it’s my

job to find out if it was due to an issue on

our part, or something that occurred during

KEMET’s manufacturing process,” said

Overton. “Knowing that I can go to KEMET

and they’ll provide us with the information

to help us get to the root cause of the

failure is important to us.”

S U P P LY C H A I N

By Annette Busbee


When Mike Sanders flies, he gets a thrill out of seeing

how other commercial passengers become engaged

with the Rockwell Collins Airshow® moving map.

He’s witnessed passengers taking photos and videos

of the map to record where they’ve been. He’s watched

travelers’ reactions when they discover on the map that

they’re flying over a famous city like Casablanca. He’s

also assisted passengers in using Airshow to determine

the direction of Mecca so they can pray before takeoff.

“With all the information and entertainment

options available to passengers, it’s fun to walk through

a twin-aisle airplane and see that over half of the people

are watching Airshow,” said Sanders, a principal systems

engineer in Tustin, Calif., who has worked on the product

since 1984. “It continues to have universal appeal and

value to passengers.”

Rockwell Collins celebrated the 30th anniversary

of Airshow at our facility in Tustin last October —

a milestone that includes being the preeminent map

globally throughout all three decades.

Currently, the product line is flying on more than

10,000 aircraft in both the business aviation and air

transport markets, according to Cathleen Collett, manager

of Sales Support for Airshow in Tustin.

“The Airshow brand is recognized worldwide,” said

Collett. “Other in-flight entertainment vendors are selling

our map as an integrated part of their solutions because

it’s demanded by their customers.”

Same information, new delivery methodsThe first Airshow moving map – developed in the early

1980s — tapped into passengers’ desire to know the

aircraft’s location and length of time to arrival. Airshow

100 provided that information by linking cockpit flight

information to the cabin in a two-color map.

While the desire for real-time information has

remained constant over the years, passengers’

expectations in the way in which it’s delivered has

changed along with technology. Collett believes Airshow

has been successful because of our company’s ability to

keep up with evolving technology and consumer trends,

as well as our capability to customize for our customers.

staying on topWhy the Rockwell Collins Airshow® moving map continues to be a passenger favorite.

Day and night views for 3D maps, historical details

about points of interest along the route, and the recently

launched 3D moving map app are just a few examples of

how Airshow continues to evolve. Designed for business

jet customers, Collett noted that the interactive app for

the iPad® includes the ability to see a moving map of the

outside world from any direction the device is pointed —

as if the aircraft were transparent.

“The app also is customizable,” she added. “There’s a

sync functionality that allows the app to pull the airline’s

branded elements from the onboard Airshow system.”

Staying ahead of the competitionWhen Airshow came on the market 30 years ago, it was

the first and only product of its kind available. Today, our

moving map faces a growing field of competitors.

To remain the first choice of our customers, we’ll need to

connect Airshow maps to other value-added services,

according to Rick Moore, director of Flight Information

Solutions Architecture and Content.

“Today, our map is basically a self-contained

experience on the aircraft,” he said. “Over the next five

years, capabilities like our Airshow network — which

connects the map to ground-based systems — will morph

and expand, connecting passengers to a host of additional

information and services as they’re traveling.”

But the challenge remains to continue to move

rapidly to respond to market demands. New consumer

technologies — particularly in mobile devices — are

increasing customer expectations.

“The 3D mobile app is a good example of how we saw

a disruption created by consumer technology and got out

in front of it to maintain our leadership position,” he said.

“Historically, we have had the best map in the industry,

but we can’t be complacent. We’re continuing to take

proactive steps to stay on top.” bBy Annette Busbee

Airshow 1982 Airshow 1990

The Airshow team responded quickly to market demands

with a 3D moving map mobile app.

Members of the Airshow

team in Tustin, Calif.,

include (left to right)

David Chong, Jeff Davis,

Mike Sanders and

Cathleen Collett.

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six rules for building better business relationships worldwideFifteen years ago, Ye “Grace” Du won the admiration of

her university classmates when she accepted a job at

Rockwell Collins in Beijing, China. Today, she’s winning

the admiration of colleagues for her work to establish

successful business relationships in China.

Born and raised in Beijing, Du was among the first in

China hired to work for our Government Systems business.

Yet, for most of her career, she’s held various Rockwell Collins

roles working with Chinese commercial customers.

In her current role as a principal business

development manager in International and Service

Solutions, her main focus is establishing joint interests

between Commercial Systems and in-country partners.

She recently helped support the formation of the joint

ventures for the COMAC C919 aircraft program and a

renewed maintenance, repair and overhaul joint venture

contract with China Eastern Airlines.

“All parties are excited with the strategic partnerships

we have established so far, along with other alliances in

progress in China,” said Du. “The next step is to further

grow the joint ventures to achieve mutual operations

success, which will also help Rockwell Collins expand in

China’s marketplace over the long term.”

Like many of her peers, Du enjoys working for a

multinational company like Rockwell Collins because of

the opportunities to learn more about Western culture

and working styles, interact with people around the world,

and develop her critical thinking and problem-solving

skills. She also values the people she works with.

“The Beijing office has a good team and many loyal

people,” she explained, emphasizing that more than half

of Rockwell Collins employees in China have been with the

company for more than 10 years. “We have a diverse and

inclusive working environment, and much of our success

is driven from the fact that we gain a lot of knowledge

from each other.”

Throughout her career, Du has learned a number of

best practices that have helped her build relationships

with customers, partners and colleagues in China and

other countries. She recommends those practices to others

who want to develop stronger business relationships:

1. Recognize that building a great business relationship –

whether with a customer, partner, supplier or colleague

– and the benefits that come with that relationship,

take time.

2. Get to know each other first. Before jumping to

recommendations or conclusions, it’s important to

truly understand the other party’s business, interests

and requirements.

3. Be open minded. Both parties often

have to be receptive to new

ideas in order to grow.

4. Find win-wins. There

has to be mutual

success for a business

relationship to last.

5. Be accommodating.

For example, something

as simple as scheduling

a meeting during the other

party’s regular working

hours shows that

you’re adaptable

and willing to meet

others’ needs.

6. Make the

commitment and

deliver it. To build

trust, you have to

do what you say

you’re going

to do.b

Principal Business Development Manager Ye “Grace” Du has

worked in our Beijing office for more than 15 years.

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HindmanVallerie A. JanniePamela S. KramerGeraldine S. Lemon

Glenn D. LightPatricia K.

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DECEMbErBarry A. BrownDavid A. BuckmillerRobert CeldranGary M. CoblerBrigitte FagesJohn E. FieldsPaul G. Jagnow

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Rockwell Collins offers congratulations to employees who have marked significant service award milestones in recent months.

service anniversaries

CElEbrAtINg 45 yEArS

Judy BurgerCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date: July 1967

Original position:

Assembly Operator

Current position:

Certified Quality Instructor

What is your favorite aspect of your

current position? Helping employees

understand quality procedures

that enable them to be successful

contributors to Rockwell Collins. It’s

wonderful when someone flashes a

big smile and thanks me for all the

new knowledge they’ve gained.


Don HavensTustin, Calif.

Start date:

October 1972

Original position: Crystal Designer

Current position:

Business Director of Filter Products

What advice do you have for

new employees? Find the best

mentor available.


Geraldine LemonCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date: October 1972

Original position: Assembly Operator

Current position: Repair Displays IPT

What is your favorite aspect of

your current position? Being able

to tear down old display units and

repair them.


JANUAryRose M. DonnellyKevin J. LeonhardRichard C. RauchBrenda K. ReynoldsRenee S. SparsDavid M. StaehelyKevin L. Witte

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LaBarbaraSteven J. LarsonDawn M. MuenchPatricia J. OdellLeon A. Powelson

Jeanne L. RinikerDean J. SchmidtPatricia A. ShulistaDebra D.

StephensonRobert J. TurnquistJulia K. VaskeLinley E. Woelk

NOvEMbErChristopher G.

ArmstrongDawn M. BartonDavid A. BellendierGloria R. BockmanPaul J. BurkePamela M. CookBarbara L. CurtisDavid L. DavisMari J. DieschCorey S. Eichinger

Christy K. EntwisleRick L. GrapesLaurie A. HansonTammy T. HeiarDavid G. JoostenJeffery D. KeleherLynette J. KoffronCheri L. MartensMarilyn J.

Mc DonaldSharry A.

Mc FarlaneJulie A. Meese

Terri L. PettingerPeggy L. PrinceGary N. PriorCarolyn J. RaymondClare H. RichinsSharon E.

SchneeklothNancy A. TimpFrederick A. TolmieMicheal J. TritleCarmen K. Whittle

DECEMbErGregory E. BrownCindy K. CraigDiann M. DennisLisa M. EdaburnMadonna M. FinkPatricia A. FossDuane A. GraveKaren K. MensenCarol L. Nickels

JANUAryMichael R. AubeyJace C. Barkley

Sherry L. BetzerTodd M. BrownChet A. CooperKarl E. DueckerLori A. FowlkesJon A. GreebMichael D. HindsSharyl M. KellerJenny LeibenzonBonnie E. NeuzilMarilyn R.

QuandahlBrenda L. RodasLaurel L. RollinsJeffery L. SalterTerrence J. SantelKevin H. TruongJane Allison Wersky

FEbrUAryMark A. AcklandSandra S. AshlerDaniel A. CoolEddie L. CoversonMarian J. Coyle

David J. DvorskyTimothy R. FanninFrank P. GonzalesKeith R. GudenkaufSherri A. HeimDavid J. HillersJohn C. KehoeMary E. KennedyMichelle M.

KleinleinTracey A. LewinJeffrey M. LyonsLinda A. MoserAmy J. NicholasRodney L. Sarver, Jr.Tina J. ShecklesDaniel J. SpodenKimberly D. Willie

20 YeARs

OCtObErPhilippe BardetEcho M. BatsonJohn K. CallawayKirk J. DarrochDawn M. DeFriezeJeffery A. FinleyStephen J. GriffithsDuane R. HeidtMark L. JacksonWendy J. JohnsonCurtis J. LarsonSara A. Martens

Jeanne NeuzilFred W. Powell, Jr.Gia M. RoccataniJohn W. Roltgen IIIJohn E. ThoresonJoseph D. TrckaDreama F.

WashingtonCarolyn M. WeberDavid M. Zias

NOvEMbErCarolyn M. BiesShawn P. DayJohn P. DunnwaldClaude E.

Etheridge, Jr.John K. FitzpatrickAntonio GuillenRoger L. HurmenceBruce A. JonesJoann M. KuennenDebra L. LemmenGilles MaccariniPatrick D. Mc CuskerJacqueline A.

MedingerLodivic L.

MiddlebrookPatrice PerrierClayton M. RobertsDebra L. SamuelsonGlen E. TreanklerKelly B. WrightLynnette J. Yoder

DECEMbErRaejean FairbanksJennett P. LewisBarbara A. ProutyRegina M. SmithEvan R. Walters

JANUAryChris L. BrownFranck BruetLaurence CalvignacDaniel J. Cannon

Wilfrid CottavozChristian T. DeloyAngela M. GlawCarlton J.

HarringtonCorey D. HawkenRandy J. HiattGreg O. JohnsonAnita A. KernPaul G. LeiperClayton A. LindwallDonald L. McDonaldRandy W. NelsonDavid J. OharaJeffrey L. PhelpsGeorge O. Pratt IIIMark D. RolfesGregory A. Royer

Jerome L. SchmidtRussell L. SchmidtBrian L. SchultzEric ThomasKarl W. UlmerJanet L. WaltonJames M. Wolff

FEbrUAryKathryn A. BrincksMartin T. Budrovic

Jean-Pierre Demortier

Lawrence R. Goudzwaard

Sandra L. HodgesRonald D. ParpartLinda S. RosemanNorman R. SchrockThomas M.

SedlacekDavid F. Walerius

15 YeARs

OCtObErDolores Agramont

AguilarHeidi R. AhrendsenBrian S. AndersonDavid L. BeneschScott L. Bradley

John H. Brosnaham, Jr.

Sally A. BruceRichard ChabanetHan Yin ChuaCharles R. CrawleyOlivene A. DottinAndrew O. GarciaGerald R. GerberHelen GieseckeScott M. GlassScott E. GreenerGwen D. GrittiLynn M. HalwegLisa R. HaugenJohannah M.

HepnerThomas E. HerlihyJanet E. HoeferJohn A. HoffmanGregory R. IsaacsonTabatha D. JayneJon R. JensenMickala A. JessDavid A. JohnsonNarmin N. KoenigAlan L. KritzmanJacqueline A. KruserRobert D. LarsonMaria del Rosario

Lopez GarciaEsthela Manriquez

GomezBetty L. MarshallLanette A.

Maschino

Jacquelyn R. Masterson

Loic MeessemanRosa Maria Meza

GonzalezSteven C.

MiddlekauffBernard L. MienkeSteven D. MonahanGery J. MrasElisa Munoz BarreraGraciela Munoz

NachezMatthew A. NeelleySusan M.

NormingtonMark C. NovakDebra M. PaskerConnie C. PetersenRichard PuntousNathan G. RohrssenKristine A. SeeleyLaurence SerieysWade A. StevensRichard W. SzyAndrea J. TaylorAnnette M. TimmMa Del Pilar

Vazquez DelfinHollie R. VolkenantChristopher J.

WagnerLori L. WallerichHolly S. WalshTerri L. WatkinsonSue M. Wenger

NOvEMbErJodi L. AdairGeorgina Alvarez

De La TorreBirendra BahadurDean A. BeitzelRyan G. BruceMark S. CarrollEdward W. CarrollChristian L. CaseLiliana Chanes

CarrilloKevin J. CooperLeland D. DiersLisa M. DuffyRaymond DynesJose Antonio

Estrada TucuhMartha Liliana

Ferreira GonzalezKariann M. FiserDavid FullerSida A. GrecianMichael L. HagemanKenneth K. HambyLarry A. HassKevin R. HavranNgoc K. HuynhJeffrey M. KaufmanDouglas D. KayserSteven KemplerRobert H. KoellingJeramie T. Kopp

James B. LedeburGregory A.

LewenczukMarco Antonio

Macias JassoMelissa A. MackinLuis Angel Martinez

CervantesRebecca K. MaynardJesus Mario Medina

NietoMarcus E. MillerShelley M. MolidorGail L. MorarieEnrique Ozuna

OntiverosKathryn E. PicaXu-miao QiAmanda J. RaueRenee S. RedingKatherine R. RowleyLilian Ruvalcaba

SandovalRoger D. SanfordJames J. SchoenJennifer F.

SchwendingerSherry S. SibelCameron C. SmithGuy A. StacyDennis M. UrbonMohammed A.

WaheedGarry A. Walker


Margaret (Peg) HewittCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date: November 1972

Original position: Post Coat Operator

Current position: Test Technician

What is your proudest

accomplishment at rockwell Collins?

I worked my way through the labor

grades from the bottom almost to

the top by taking advantage of

training opportunities and college

courses. I learned everything I could

everywhere I worked and tried to

help others do the same.


Dennis WordehoffCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

January 1973


Current position:

Principal Electrical Engineer



The most outstanding was being part

of the Personnel Computer Signal

Generator team (PCSG). The PCSG

is a GPS satellite simulator used for

GPS development and testing. We

were able to add a feature to an

existing GPS ASIC which provided GPS

simulated signals. This allowed us to

design a GPS simulator significantly

smaller than what was available

in the market at that time and at a

significantly lower cost.


Linda RabikCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

October 1977


Current position: Senior Engineering

Project Assistant


your current position? I enjoy

helping people navigate through

our processes and sharing knowledge

from my years of experience. I also

get to interface with many different

people and functions which keeps

my perspective fresh.


Barry A. BrownCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

December 1977

Original position: Engineering

Lab Technician

Current position: Corporate Pilot

What was your most challenging

project? Flight testing during the early

development of our Traffic Alert and

Collision Avoidance System, in which

we had to fly in very close proximity

to our other flight test aircraft. The

testing involved overtaking, closing

laterally and flying head-on at various

speeds and altitudes.


Joseph KnightCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

October 1977

Original position: Lab Technician

Current position: Manager, Avionics

Project Cost Management

What advice do you have for new

employees? Treat everyone with

respect and dignity. Over time,

people may forget what you did or

said; however, they will likely always

remember how you made them feel.


Denise K. KrenzCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

October 1977

Original position: Document

Change Notice Clerk

Current position: Senior

Administrative Assistant


project? In the summer of 1998, I

was tasked with moving a group

of more than 400 employees into a

newly remodeled facility over three

weekends. Thanks to the help of some

awesome coworkers, the task was

accomplished and we were able to get

employees back online quickly.


Dione L. WilsonJames J. WrightRebecca D. Zaspal

DECEMbErSteven D. AabJames E. AndorfEric J. ApplegetCameron P. BellRiney L. BrysonTanya M. CaldwellDavid M. CarrollPoh Khoon ChiaAndrea J. DrinovskyRachelle Y. FlakeMichele D. FordErnest M. FreeseFred P. GalbraithKim K. GingrichDamien M. GlynnTimothy A.

HefflefingerDavid W. HerrellNicholas W. JonesNicholas D. KlimaRichard A. KostnerEric M. LarsenChristopher A.

LarsenLeslie A. MartinMichael H. MastersRogelio R. MatosArice MoralesIain MottramGerald A. MuenchGrant D. NesheimDale L. NicponskiSuzanne M. NillesPhillip M. PageDidier PerrinGeorge S. Reida

Wendy N. Roberts-Gorton

Libbie A. RottmanKevin W. SpielmannFrederick M.

SpinnerDennis G. TuiteChieu C. VuJing-guo Yang

JANUAryDavid W. AltdorferOscar Arvizu JaraDavid S. AustinEdilia Ayala

HernandezGary L. BohlkenLinda L. BucciMichael J. BurianJames P. BurkeAndrew J. BurkhardtJennifer L. ChaseWan Hwee ChuaVictor CornejoLawrence M.

CovingtonRosalina M. CurtissMichael W. DaviesRobert D. DenisonRosanne C. EdenChristopher L.

FarmerDuane M. FeltesRichard P. FineJerry E. FrawleyGloria Armida

Fuentes GarciaRaul Joaquin

Galindo Armendariz

Thomas A. GalloroNancy J. Gatchel

Lynette J. GoedkenShawn M. GoudyMark W. GruetteScott A. HargensEric G. HaukChristopher D.

HealdTrina L. HerrenJohn D. HorthPaul J. HuberMark A. HuntBrett A. IbsenKimberly I. JohnsonTravis C. KalousRichard E.

KimberleyShawn L. KolosikAnne LattesPoh Mun LeeJames E. LeePierre LombardChristopher E.

MadsenJason J. MandersPeter J. MartinGary R. MayberryDoris J. MidyettBret A. MolanderTomiko L. MorrisPhillip W. NielsenLori A. PackinghamLeigh A. ParkerRay A. ParksStan J. PidimaMitchell A. RileyMaria Isabel Roman

Cecena

Michelle R. SanfordChristopher A.

SchererBrian K. SchmueckerDustin J. SellonLynne M. SevcikDennis L. SlyThomas D. SmithCheri L. SniderLisa J. SteffenNaparat StutzmanHarold L. ThomaCoy L. WagnerMichelle L. WebbBruce A. WedemeierKyle D. WehringJohn S. WilcoxLane A. WranekThomas E. Yerke

FEbrUAryAlbert J. AndersonNohemi Noelia

Barraza LopezSuzanne L. BaxaLaurent BeaulesSherry R. BellJeffrey R. BennettDennis F.

BlumenthalBillie D. BridgesKevin L. CarkinCarlos Marx Castillo

CalderonJ E ClarkHarry J. ColeBrenda K. CurtisEric Dagnac

Sebastien DuburcDavid W. DunnicliffLisa L. GutierrezCurt C. HarmanBrian R. HazenJose Trinidad

Hernandez ChavezNancy A. HlasBradley J. HorejsiShannon R. HornThomas R. HornEric T. HoweClaude JibouleauDaniel J. KarlTimothy R. KelloggGabriela KirsteinOlga V. KornienkoTimothy E. KreelRadomir KuznetsovSeok Cheng LeeNicolas LefevreDavid M. LortzJohn P. LoyalWilliam T. MadleyMichael J. McIntireGary R. MehrlChristopher L.

Migdalski

Sherry J. MysakErica L. PadillaRandall A. PaskerBethany C. PearceRandall W. PoeDale L. RawdonAimee L. RichardRichelle L. RileyVictor Arturo

Rodriguez PerezMichael D. SandersConi L. SchaulTerry L. SmithAndrew J. SovaJennifer L. StanfieldPerry L. TafoyaRohan G. ThomasMichael D. ThomasLeticia Vargas

AguilarDavid R. ViethJames R. WalkerMickie L. WeberDebra K. YoungTeresita Zapata

PadillaGilberto Zavala

Guerrero

10 YeARs

OCtObEr Mark A. BohushJosephine BrilloChristopher N.

BristowLionel CojanMichael L. DavisErik R. GeorgeJennifer J. GilbertNicolas GrassartMichael G. KoontzOlivier LaroqueMichele Y. LehrJohn P. LiGraham P. LuffJulien MayelleThomas G.

McNameeBob J. MilnerRobert B. MooreRyan T. ParnowKirk A. PhelpsYazid RahmaneMary K. SchellAdam C. SickKevin A. SikkinkGregory S. TateKent A. TerwilligerKathleen R. WentheErik WibergKelli S. Wolfe

NOvEMbErPascaline BarreJohn R. BlodgettJames E. Boswell, Jr.Tuan A. BuiJean-Claude

ChateaubonGraham M.

DavenportSergio DiasBarbara D. FarnumPaul A. FleuellingGregory FremontJack T. GalyeanMichael E.

GrumkoskiDenise L. HaackPeter HallidayEmmanuel I. JidariaKevin E. KempfRicky L. LopataPeter S. MacKenzieAmirouche

MekhtoubScott M. PfeilerGuillaume PineauRonald S. RobersonGregory A. SochurekDiana Rocio Vargas

Leon

DECEMbErMark BeierBarrett R. Bowers

Trevor J. CowlesLisa M. DietzeUlrika EdbackAndrew R.

HollingworthWeston J. LahrLoren M. LangDarcy D. MageeDebra A. ManessRyan D. MillerMichael A.

MontemayorDale A. Perry IIJohn R. SeberGrant R. SorensonEugene TaXiao-fei TangMikael Touffet

JANUAryMark R. AbramsJohn F. Acree IIIOrin A. AndersonThomas W. BilligBarrie BirchJoshua P. BreitbachValerie BruElizabeth DalyAnthony B. DekenahPatrick H. FrostClare E. GridleyMatthew L.

HamandLynnette K. HeiterJames M. HinkleMartin R. HoareJohn M. KahleMollie J. Lorenz

Douglas L. McKechnie

Elizabeth A. MintzRichard MolesJennifer A. MyrenAkio NagatoRebecca NunezAnn E.

O’Shaughnessy-Happel

Jamie T. PetersenMark J. PopeKim D. PowersDarin L. QuistIona K. SelbyLarry J. ShephardScott M. SlivkoAmy M. SoukupLaToya T.

SoutherlandRachel D. SparksDianne J. TarantinoBrian B. TonKristy M. Ziegler

FEbrUAryFidel Arredondo

CastroSteven J. BeckMatthew R. BrownAlberto Ubaldo

Canedo BurguenoRichard E. Cook, Jr.Carlos Enrique

Cornejo Hernandez

Joy A. EslingerStephen J. FoleyJose Antonio Garcia

Hernandez

JoEllen M. HovindVictoria E. HuntDominic G. KellyTeresa A. LaderaChristopher R.

LensingDavid S. LomonacoAnthony Q.

MancillaJoel C. MasonErica R. MorganRoger F. MuggletonCorrine O. O’LearyVincent PatanchonMildred L. PierceMaria-Luisa

QuirogaVania Elizabeth

Salazar AvilaMark E. SchottsTami K. SodenMegan M. TharpAmy M. Thomas

5 YeARs

OCtObEr Casey D.

AbernatheyFuad R. AldawodiRosaura E. AmaroAjay AnandScott R. BaderRichard E. BalvanzNickerson Delos

Reyes BautistaWendy S. BauwensStephen J. Bedford

Giles A. BeerWilliam H.

Belcher, Jr.Celeste A. BlytheJohn K. BotsfordKathryn M.

BrendeckeJoshua M. BrinkleyBryan L. BrownMichele M. BusseTeresa K. ButtEdward C. CaseyThiam Watt ChengAbla ChevalierCorinne ClabautMolly L. ClarkInna S. ClasenJohn L. ColemanLiQiang CongTimothy R. ConnellLincoln H. CornellRichard C. DahmkeOrion D. DaviesGaylon M. DeciousMichael T.

DiekmannJoseph E. DudekSteven R. DuganNathan M. DunsonTroy W. EdwardsDante G. EstevezLynn E. EvansKevin K. FinckJoy D. FitzgeraldDouglas K. ForretHeather J. Franks


Christopher B. (Kit) MillerRichardson, Texas

Start date: January 1978

Original position:

Contract Administrator

Current position:

Director, GS Operations


employees? Excel in the job at hand

and career development will follow.


Patricia ClineCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

February 1973

Original position: Clerk Typist

Current position: Senior Customer

Account Specialist


project? The most challenging project

I was involved in was being a member

of the team that trained and tested for

SAP integration at Rockwell Collins.


Larry R. SchlehuberCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

January 1978

Original position:

Business System Analyst

Current position: Principal

Subcontract Program Manager



Being involved as the pricing analyst

for the original GPS user equipment,

and being the marketing manager

for the KC-135 Global Air Traffic

Management proposal. Both of these

contributed to the long-term growth

of the company.


Steve KennellCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

January 1978

Original position:

Flight Controls Engineer

Current position: Director,

Publications and Training Solutions

What piece of advice do you have for

new employees? Come to work every

day ready to accept new challenges

and give your best effort.


Deborah A. PattersonRichardson, Texas


Original position: Circuit Board Line

Current position: Senior Electrical

Mechanical Inspector


your current position? Without

the employees in receiving, no job

could be accomplished. We help

make sure the parts come in

correctly to make the manufacturing

part of the build easier.


Edward Bernard Hayes

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

January 1978

Original position: Systems Engineer

Current position:

Principal Systems Engineer


your current position? At the

Aircraft Certification Center,

we are exposed to and support the

entire suite of avionics products

that Rockwell Collins manufactures

– many which are cutting-edge

technology – so that they may be

approved for the marketplace.


Ryan FultonKent J. FuquaLisa M. GansterKimberly E.

GarrahanKaren M. GauleRachel A.

GoldsberryJesus Gonzalez, Jr.Ourihya GuerdaneRyan J. GuttridgeScott A. HansonMark R. HasaraClarence M.

HeckmanJennifer A. HenryKirk R. HermanAndrew D. HindsHarald H.

HoldernessAdam P. HouserRena F. HuntDonald J. IehlRenjith JagadeesanMagnus JohanssonCharleen M. JonesMichael E. KesslerHusnain S. KhanKristin J. KieseyTrina H. KinserMichael C.

KochmannRachel R. Kuhn

Tristan J. LawsonAlex LeggYan LianKay Chor LimTroy L. MackMalcolm J.

Manning, Jr.Bryan J. McGonigalBrooks D. McLarenDaniele MechainJoseph MillerShivani MishraRobert C. MitchellKelli M. MorrisMichael L. MuldongAnna M. NgRobert H. NuttingKyle T. O’ConnorMark P. OrsbornTracy PennChristopher A.

PieperRodney D. PierceMellisa S. PowersWilliam M. PuhlEphraim ReitzfeldDavid K.

RentmeisterJason R. RigbyAnthony J. RiosQuinn I. RoehlRonald Rogers

Robert D. ScottBalaji ShanmugamJaime L. ShawPerminder S. SidhuCody J. SilverKeevan W.

SimmondsHayley SpargoRoger C. StanoTimothy L.

StansburyChristine I. StoutJames M. TestaScott B. ThompsonTracy J. ThomsonJeffery C. TomlinsonEric S. TowTravis B. WelandPatrick R. WilcoxAshley M. WilliamsJames D. Wuensch

NOvEMbErFelicia A. AllenBrandon H. AlveyMichael J. ArmatysJames C. BakerUriel BarillasDebora J. BetzerElias BitarLevi S. BoscardinHeath A. BradleySjonna L. BruntFrederic Chatelain-

GorjuxLi ChenTodd A. ClayCurtis J. CranoThomas J. DeasyTimothy M.

DelCampoJessica K. DeSotelMarcus C. DismukePaul R. DombrowskiMuaaz F. ElhagWayne FrancisKimberly M. FrankJodelle C. FranklinJulien GagnayreAndrew C.

GustafsonAmber B. HanlonDwaine J. HepplerAntonio

Hernandez, Jr.Sonya M. HillWilliam A. HinerTony B. HolmesBonnie B. HoltkampTrevor B. Horton

Kenneth P. HosbySharon HudockAlfredo L. ItuarteBengt-Ove

JohanssonMatthew L. KarlenRichard L. KaufmanMichael J. KoehnkeAaron J. LamaakAdam H. LangfittJeffrey A. LeitchJohn D. MartinNancy J. McCoyJames P. McKeoneSonal H. MehtaTonatiuh MendozaJean Hubert

Meunier DolfusBrooke A. NelsonKarla J. NovakKristyan OsborneNeha PatelMegan J. PleckerMarina D. PorterLaura C. PostelBandi B. ReddyTamara J. ReicksDaniel E. RichardsMathew P.

RippergerGregory V. RobinsonAndrew V. RobinsonCurtis J. RomeyKatie E. SchaeferJames B. Shaw, Jr.Kendrick L. ShipmanTravis T. ShultzPaul L. SimonClare Elizabeth

StaffordRuthie M. StewartMarc J. TattarMichael D. TienvieriSimon TocockIvra L. TurnerRobert G. UtterbackSmitha G. VargheseQuynh H. VoBenjamin F.

Washington, Jr.Rebecca S. WeissMichael S. WelchZhibin WengKelley P. WesleyNathan A. WiegmanEyal WilamowskiJeffrey L. WillisChristina XavierFangQiang Yin

Simon P. YoungMaria P. Young

DECEMbErDouglas S. AbrahamAmanda L. BeneshGarrett A. BlustDoris E. CabassaRachida CapderouJeffery S. CarmanShankar ChetryJoshua E. CihaJoseph D. ClearyJason T. DeSotelHsin-Chi Esneu

Eliana FaileFabienne FourcadeAnthony E. FransioliDanielle L. GlessnerAlyssa A. HahnLisa C. HammJames W. HauserMark W. HefronCatherine L. HonourChristian M. HorakScott A. HouckAsif IqbalNavin R. ItwaruCharlotte KabyKara A. KennickerGeorge C.

Koenigsaecker

Suku KuriakoseJacob L. LappeChristopher M.

MainsDouglas M.

McCormickDennis E. McPhillipsJacqueline N.

MichacaJoshua S. MillerLoc T. NgoPaula D. ParkerAubrey E. PatockaJoshua M. Patocka

Jill M. Perez-VernonJen L. PoppeJesus M. ReyChristopher D. RiceTod K. RichardsonDavid L. RyallJohn D. SamuelsonYvette C. ScamardoJennifer L. SerraAmy L. StuesselFelegeselam F. TesfaDan V. TranMichael VuRonald M. WattsDavid L. Westergren


Bob RaesideCedar Rapids, Iowa

Start date:

January 1978

Original position: Mechanical

Design Drafter

Current position:

Director, Communication Services

in Enterprise Communications


employees? Smile. Work hard and do a

good job, and not just when people are

watching you. Continually build strong

working relationships. And whatever

you do, never criticize or complain.


Verl W. DayCedar Rapids, Iowa


Original position: Test

Equipment Engineer

Current position: Principal

Program Manager


current position? I enjoy working

with the customers and the Rockwell

Collins teams to fulfill a need or

provide a solution.

JANUAryWilliam M. AdamPaula J. AdamsJason L. AdrianZafar S. AhmadJustin M. AlgerLuis A. AlgutriaMaged M. AlmawriEric D. AmesJoshua N. BallewGerald J. BaronWilliam M. BentleyCarl A. BinhammerNicholas A. BjorkDustin L. BolinKristine K. BrownEric M. BryantJeffrey L. CallowayThomas L.

CarpenterKaren R. ChapmanPaul J. ChinskiBrian E. ChristensenKristopher L. CoryBartel DanjulSteven P. DoddDaniel R. DostalSean P. DuffyNithya DuraiswamyRobert T. ElworthChristeen J. FailleJames D. FitzgibbonPaul W. ForbesDominic P. Foti, Jr.Larry J. FruitShane M. GarrickChristopher L.

GeorgeJoshua W. GerdesKevin N. GillsonEvan R. GlendinningTrent G. GoldsackAndres F. Gomez

David GondyMeana HackmanStephen HallettRobert M. HarnerMarc D. HilerAmanda R. HillMichael J.

HolmstedtJustin D. HoltgardJason D. HoytDavid J. HuffSamantha HurseyQueanh N. HuynhEvan J. HyattMd M. IslamAndrew K. JeffreyJoseph C. JordanAndre P. KahlerNaga Suman

KanagalaSolamite S. KapaldoHakim G. KenyiWilliam J. KlemaAdam K. KristDarlene M. KrsekSrinivas

KuchibhotlaKalyana KumarMichelle R. LagerChristopher J.

LampeMiranda R. LankfordSamuel W. LeeThomas J. LehmkuhlTeresa L. LemleyMaxime LepageSteven L. LessoCrystal L. LongStephanie C.

LowderRosalba V. LunaRyley J. LyonsMohammed Y.

Mahdi

Jesse C. MaireVikram MalhotraJoseph S. ManireIan McIntoshAndrew F. McNabbAdam K. MillerLaurie E. MoellerRoman D. MooreJeremy K. MooreJoshua J. MooreZachary A. MooreJessica L. MoraniecKevin A. MorrisRonald L.

MunstermanJoe L. MyersTuan V. NguyenJudy S. OgawaVadim OlenRonald PalermoJohn P. PerichNathan R.

PetersburgDaniel Ramirez, Jr.Alvin R. RasingFabian ReyesJeffery J. RodenburgMichael A. RuessGlenn P. RuizBrett D. SchauerPaul W. SchneemanStephen J. SchreiberNeel S. ShahForrest K. SmithPeter SollnerMary P. SorgenfreyRaymond D.

SukalskiDinh N. TranChristopher A.

Van BuerMary M. Van

Ersvelde

Kara L. VolzDanielle L.

WatkinsonPeter R. WeidowScott E. WelshDaniel T. WilliamsRyan C. WolfeLynn M. Woods

FEbrUArySebastien AyrollesShawn A. BakerThomas G. BarberJonathan Z.

BauwensPeter D. BeauchampCraig D. BeecherHugh D. BuchananTimothy J. BurkeJuan M. CangahualaJean Caujolle

Christopher M. Cheney

Ta-Hsiang ChiuErin L. ClemenGordon W. CoxGary L. CoxValentine CucuRobert A. DagdaganJeffrey J. DaughertyVincent DelacotteJaneth DemaraClark J. DenneyJennifer L. DuffyPhuong T. DuongVanessa EatonEldon L. ElySean W. EubanksMarc FerrierDavid E. GarbeKimberly A. Gourley

Denis GrishinJon B. HagarmanStephane HallygAmie L. HaumesserAshley J. KemptonBianca W. KingSabrina A.

KlostermannPeah Yen LeePhillip H. LegateAlok R. MadasaniSam MarkhamBecki L. MerkelTiffany A. MillerTed K. NakayoshiJuan A. OcasioAlexander M.

OranskyTimothy S.

PasewarkShane W. PaustianBrian G. PortzlineRichard SadilAndrew D.

SchroederTequila A. ScottChoon Leong SeahChad M. SitesEric E. SmithTammy Y. SnipesDavid L. SoudersNicole L. StanfordSheila J. StitesKatherine M. StolleyPheap ThangBrian J. ThomaJeffrey M. ValentaShravan Kumar

VatambetiRicardo A. VillarrealJason A. WilksNathaniel P.

Wyckoff


Daniel L. HooverCedar Rapids, Iowa


Original position: Clerk Typist

Current position: Manager, Service

Solution Contracts


current position? I’ve got to be the

luckiest person at Rockwell Collins.

I am part of a world class contracting

team where I serve four fantastic

contracting professionals. My

director is an absolutely super

person, outstanding leader and

mentor, and I work with a peer I can

trust as a friend and confidant.


In memoriamRockwell Collins offers condolences to the families and friends of the following employees and retirees, whose deaths were recently reported.

Norman W. Anderson*Cedar Rapids, IowaSept. 28, 2012

Jay W. Atherton*Murdock, Kan.Aug. 31, 2012

Jeanne b. besendorfer*Salt Lake City, UtahJune 8, 2012

Donald S. betts*Freeport, OhioAug. 10, 2012

timothy M. bindaPalm Bay, Fla.Nov. 18, 2012

Willard W. boner*Orwigsburg, Pa.Dec. 10, 2012

Martha J. branchaud*Palm Bay, Fla.Oct. 22, 2012

Margaret A. burns*Cedar Rapids, IowaNov. 13, 2012

ray l. Carman*Urbana, IowaJuly 10, 2012

John J. Christin*Palm City, Fla.Oct. 6, 2012

Joseph P. Cook*Anamosa, IowaAug. 20, 2012

lewis A. Cosentino*Elmhurst, Ill.Oct. 17, 2012

Kathryn F. Daily*Belle Plaine, IowaNov. 2, 2012

Noreen A. Damery*North Billerica, Mass.July 12, 2012

James H. Doyle*Cedar Rapids, IowaOct. 22, 2012

N.P. Durette*Merritt Island, Fla.Oct. 29, 2012

tina M. EllisWatkins, IowaNov. 12, 2012

Carl l. garno, Sr.*Newark, OhioNov. 6, 2012

glenn E. gibbs*Roseville, Calif.Oct. 15, 2012

Myrtis Hartry*Detroit, Mich.Oct. 3, 2012

Calvin E. Hayes*Santa Ana, Calif.Aug. 22, 2012

Donald r. Heck*Cedar Rapids, IowaDec. 11, 2012

Sandra K. Henry*Lansing, Mich.Sept. 19, 2012

roy I. Ishida*Rowland Heights, Calif.Nov. 20, 2012

Kenneth l. Jesion*Oshkosh, Wis.Oct. 15, 2012

Sharla M. landersLisbon, IowaNov. 25, 2012

James H. loughman*Glenford, OhioAug. 23, 2012

Sandra J. Matthew*Hiawatha, IowaOct. 23, 2012

george N. Meldrum*Hollister, Mo.Dec. 4, 2012

thomas Merritt*Moberly, Mo.Dec. 1, 2012

roger D. Miller*Dunkirk, OhioSept. 19, 2012

Marlan b. Modrow*Outing, Minn.Dec. 2, 2012

richard O. Morgan*Newark, OhioDec. 28, 2012

Patricha Ovelgonne*Ellensburg, Wash.Sept. 16, 2012

William J. Paffenroth*Oshkosh, Wis.Aug. 25, 2012

teresa Pham*Garden Grove, Calif.Aug. 20, 2012

Irwin l. Priest*Thornville, OhioSept. 12, 2012

genrikh rashevsky*Beaverton, Ore.Aug. 22, 2012

Michael W. redman*Snellville, Ga.Oct. 15, 2012

Alvin g. Salinas*Union City, Calif.Aug. 16, 2012

Ernest A. Sallee, Jr.*Hot Springs Village, Ariz.Sept. 4, 2012

Mary l. Shepherd*Marshall, Mich.Aug. 16, 2012

Curtis l. Siler*Modesto, Calif.Dec. 18, 2012

Curtis H. Spradling*Bean Station, Tenn.Dec. 2, 2012

richard E. Stalter*Lancaster, OhioOct. 21, 2012

gary A. SwanstromCedar Rapids, IowaNov. 16, 2012

robert J. thon*Center Point, IowaOct. 17, 2012

thomas A. tietze*Macomb, Mich.Sept. 4, 2012

Joyce A. vaden*Gordonsville, Tenn.Dec. 30, 2012

Sami r. WahabMelbourne, Fla.Nov. 22, 2012

James J. Zagacki*Bellaire, Mich.Sept. 2, 2012

*Retiree

RetireesRockwell Collins offers congratulations and best wishes to the following employees, who have recently announced their retirements.

Morris H. AndersonCedar Rapids, Iowa

terry J. AnthonyDerby, Kan.

James M. ArringtonMelbourne, Fla.

Steven r. ballCedar Rapids, Iowa

Joan M. barthWest Melbourne,

Fla.

Carol A. bartonWest Melbourne,

Fla.

Peggy A. bearbowerVinton, Iowa

Pamella S. blinnHarbor City, Calif.

Nathan J. borrettMarion, Iowa

Katherine S. brownGarland, Texas

William r. Carmichael

Stamford, Conn.

Debbie J. CarrawayGray Court, S.C.

Christine l. CarsonPalo, Iowa

Penny l. CarterMarion, Iowa

linda l. CaslavkaPlano, Texas

Steven H. ConstonSan Jose, Calif.

Duane r. CooleyMarion, Iowa

David J. DuncalfCedar Rapids, Iowa

bruce E. EickhoffSpringfield, Va.

Alan D. EilersCedar Rapids, Iowa

benjamin A. EkwallCedar Rapids, Iowa

William P. Engelhardt

Sharpsburg, Ga.

Carol l. FranchiLos Gatos, Calif.

Maryann b. FrazerCedar Rapids, Iowa

Carl r. gallowayHurst, Texas

lynda N. gentryVan Alstyne, Texas

raul H. gonzalezCumming, Ga.

Enrique gonzalezPalm Desert, Calif.

Michael D. groatSan Jose, Calif.

richard E. groth, Jr.Marion, Iowa

robert t. HallIowa City, Iowa

Dale l. Harris, Jr.Edwardsville, Ill.

theodore HicksForney, Texas

thomas E. HodelSherwood, Ore.

Dennis l. HoffmanCoupeville, Wash.

Steven K. HortonGarland, Texas

Sheryl D. HouserNorth Liberty, Iowa

Jeffrey l. HudsonGrand Prairie, Texas

Diane M. HudsonMarion, Iowa

Mary M. JohnsonMarion, Iowa

rodney l. KiserPlano, Texas

larry D. KnapperRobins, Iowa

Holly J. la trobeHuntington Beach,

Calif.

Marie A. lanningMarion, Iowa

Marie C. lanphereSwisher, Iowa

Alan g. leongSan Jose, Calif.

rosavilla N. leosPortland, Ore.

John P. liLos Altos, Calif.

brenda S. linderSigourney, Iowa

Judith A. lukeMarion, Iowa

Donna r. MacDonald

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

ronnie E. MantheCentral City, Iowa

roy MattaiCedar Rapids, Iowa

Charles W. McDermed, Jr.

Lake Oswego, Ore.

Margaret E. McDonald

Palm Bay, Fla.

Mary E. McguireCedar Rapids, Iowa

Marjorie F. McguireFort Myers, Fla.

April M. MeaderCedar Rapids, Iowa

Joan A. MeyerCedar Rapids, Iowa

Karen J. MillerBeaverton, Ore.

terry l. MoffittHuntington Beach,

Calif.

robert S. MooreCarson, Calif.

timothy D. MooresCedar Rapids, Iowa

Donna r. O’brienCedar Rapids, Iowa

larry D. OlsonGrand Rapids, Minn.

Sherry g. PayneGarland, Texas

thomas r. PennCedar Rapids, Iowa

richard D. PetersonCenter Point, Iowa

barbara A. PitlikMount Vernon,

Iowa

David D. PohlCenter Point, Iowa

Jeanne O. PrattMalabar, Fla.

Janice E. randallFairbank, Iowa

James E. ringwaldHiawatha, Iowa

lawrence A. robison

Hiawatha, Iowa

Maria t. rodriguezMelbourne, Fla.

gary rosenbergPortland, Ore.

Melinda g. rubleSolon, Iowa

Maureen D. ryanMarion, Iowa

vickie l. Schoettmer

Newhall, Iowa

Michael l. SchwabCedar Rapids, Iowa

larry r. ScottMarion, Iowa

Dennis J. ScullyMission Viejo, Calif.

Sharon K. SiebelsCedar Rapids, Iowa

Charles F. SmileyMarion, Iowa

billie E. SmithGilbert, Ariz.

Joe E. SpodenRobins, Iowa

Astrid J. taenRancho Santa

Margarita, Calif.

James M. tanuryToddville, Iowa

Michael P. taylorCedar Rapids, Iowa

Connie W. taylorCommerce, Texas

Jose J. tostadoCorona, Calif.

Dorothy t. UsherFort Worth, Texas

Michael S. vasquezCanyon Lake, Calif.

Ursula g. virginPalm Bay, Fla.

lonnie r. voellerBurien, Wash.

renate A. yentWest Melbourne,

Fla.

Charles D. youngTucson, Ariz.

Madonna M. Zimmerman

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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