GovExec TV: Five Questions with Henry Brooks

In this episode of GovExec TV, we sit down with Henry Brooks, President of Power and Controls at Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, to discuss how agencies can accelerate mission readiness by leveraging commercial technology through FAR Part 12. Brooks highlights how dual-use solutions reduce costs, speed up delivery, and improve reliability, while also addressing key challenges like intellectual property rights and nonrecurring engineering (NRE) costs. He shares how greater collaboration between DoD, Congress, and industry can help ensure the right acquisition approach is used to deliver critical capabilities to the warfighter faster.