The City of Austin gains another huge household name with GE Aviation opening a digital collaboration center on 15th Street this week.
Following the acquisition of Austin Digital Inc., a privately-owned supplier of flight operations data analysis in 2012, GE Aviation launched its only U.S. center of this nature to support three similar international offices in Dubai, Shanghai and Paris.
"Austin is a hub of software development and innovation — attracting some of the best talent in the industry and developing new talent across the street at the University of Texas," said Jennifer Villarreal, media relations team for GE Aviation, regarding their decision to operate in Austin.
Australia-based Qantas Airways helped co-launch the Austin office. Together, the two companies will employ a team of 100 developers and architects — with more hiring within the year — to build systems that obtain flight intel and operational insights from the billions of annual aviation-industry generated data points.
The systems will increase efficiency and create significant outcomes for GE Aviation customers were not previously available without the fusion of an industrial analytics platform and true aviation domain expertise.
“GE’s collaboration center in Austin is home to software developers, data scientists and domain experts with specific backgrounds in analytics, flight-planning and engines, depending on what we’re working on,” Jim Daily, GE Aviation Chief Digital Office, said in a statement. “Opening the center with Qantas, marks the commitment from a customer who really understands the value of using data across their operation.”
GE Aviation employs 44,000 people worldwide, operating 84 locations, and is a subsidiary of General Electric that provides jet and turboprop engines, components and integrated platforms.
“The work we’re doing with GE is giving us more insight than we’ve ever had before into the way our aircraft operate, helping us find ways of flying smarter – and this is the next step in the partnership,” said Alan Milne, Qantas Head of Fuel and Environment in a statement.
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