More than five years after entering the small but intensely competitive aircraft training and simulation business with a niche acquisition, Rockwell Collins finally is stepping up its challenge to market leaders CAE, Thales and L-3 Communications. In designing a new software/hardware architecture, Rockwell Collins aims to help simulators keep pace with a growing number of software upgrades being added to civil and military aircraft to improve navigation and display or accommodate new weapon systems. Dubbed CORE (Common Open Reusable Elements), the architecture is designed to replicate the company's success with open-system avionics software that's currently used on a wide range of aircraft.rn"This is very similar to what you saw us do 10 years ago with avionics," says Kent Statler, a Rockwell Collins vice president who heads the company's services business. "The ability to have an open systems architecture thatrncan take the best of commercial, off-the-shelf solutions and do that at a fraction of the cost is of great value to our customers."
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