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“To be in command and have responsibility in what have been some tricky moments in history has been fascinating. I would sum it up as hard work, good fun and defined by an outstanding group of people.”
After such an illustrious career with the RAF, what was it that led the Air Marshall to seek new opportunities in 2017?
“I felt like another challenge was possible, and Cobham more or less found me when I was doing some consulting work,” Bagwell continues.
“The company fascinated me. I knew a little about what they did with the air force but that was less than 10 percent of the bigger picture – I had no real appreciation for how broad Cobham is. I knew about its excellent reputation for delivery, especially from my experience as a customer, so maybe it was fate that I ended up here.”
Fate decided, it is now Bagwell’s job to ensure Cobham maximises the potential of its tremendous depth of products and services, knowledge network and geographical reach.
“My role is quite simple – it is to aggregate up everything that Cobham does,” he explains. “When you begin to understand the totality of what Cobham does it changes your mindset… we are the UK’S third largest defence aerospace company, and I’m not sure how many people both in and outside of the group actually know that. Getting our profile out there is so important to how we are perceived.
“Further, we must also realise our synergies across specialisms and territories and make the most out of them. For example, most of employees are not actually in the UK, shown by the fact that around 40 percent of our business comes from US defence. Our individual business units must be able to exploit the international, global standing that Cobham has.”
River® is pioneering the infrastructure technologies that are driving the transition to software-defined systems in aerospace and defense. For nearly four decades, Wind River software has been running the mission critical systems for aircraft, space exploration, and military operations which demand the highest standards for certified safety, security, and reliability. The company’s portfolio of software platforms is proven in over 1,000 projects by over 650 customers, driving greater affordability into aerospace and defense programs.
Vxworks® is the world’s most widely deployed real-time operating system, delivering deterministic performance for high-integrity devices. Companies such as Airbus, Boeing, NASA and Northrop Grumman leverage Vxworks to create award-winning, innovative products effectively and efficiently. Cobham Air Refuelling & Auxiliary Mission Equipment uses Vxworks and COTS safety certification evidence for the 900E series air refuelling pods.
Cobham Gaisler partners with Wind River to provide a LEON SPARC support for Vxworks. The LEON processor offers an open and well supported instruction set. Combined with Vxworks this provides an ideal solution for embedded applications requiring radiation hardened solutions.
Simics, Wind River’s platform simulation solution, supports the Cobham Gaisler LEON processor, as well as all other major processor architectures, providing development Xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx and xxxxxxxxxxx maintenance xxxxxxxxx lifecycle optimization.
Wind River brings also the latest hardware and software innovations by creating virtualisation technologies that enable the consolidation of multiple standalone platforms on one multi- core processor, deploying unmodified guest operating systems such as Wind River Linux, tools and simulation technologies.