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Sept 27 & 28 | 2023

Anaheim, CA

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Jim Gourde: Speaking at the The Heat and Fire Expo California

Jim Gourde

Senior Manager in Business Development  -  Collins Aerospace

Aircraft Enhanced Vision Systems, Improving Operations in Disastrous Situations

This seminar is co-hosted with Jay Singh.

Our EVS-3600 is the latest in EVS technology, blending visible, short and a long-wave infrared high resolution cameras into a tri-band system. Ideal for post disaster, degraded airfield, aerial firefighting, and search and rescue operations, the system enhances visual acquisitions with lower weather inhibitors, enabling pilots to see through fog, snow, smoke and degraded visual conditions in disaster environments.

Jim Gourde will be speaking in the following theatres:

About Jim Gourde

Jim Gourde serves as a senior manager in business development has been with Collins Aerospace since March 2020. His portfolio includes C-130 systems upgrades, modernization, and advanced vision systems to include Enhanced, Synthetic and Combined vision systems. He currently manages the effort to incorporate a commercial off the shelf EVS-3600 onto C-130J and other military platforms. As a former USAF and Air National Guard C-130 pilot with over 4000 flight hours, he has experience in natural disaster response both in domestic and international environments with night vision devices. He represents Collins Aerospace on fixed wing efforts with firefighting, search and rescue and Air National Guard specific domestic emergency response required capabilities.