Kyndryl and Aptiv announce strategic collaboration

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) and Aptiv (NYSE: APTV) announced a strategic collaboration on July 14, 2026, aimed at delivering services for mission-critical environments across global markets.

Under the agreement, Aptiv selected Kyndryl to provide advisory, implementation, and managed service support to modernize Aptiv's customer experience and product engineering. Kyndryl will also deploy Aptiv's Wind River software as part of its solutions portfolio.

The partnership includes Wind River technologies such as Wind River Cloud Platform, eLxr Pro, VxWorks, and Helix Virtualization Platform, combined with Kyndryl's advisory, implementation, and managed services capabilities. The companies plan joint go-to-market initiatives and integrated offerings targeting edge and cloud deployments.

"More organizations are moving critical workloads to the edge, where applications cannot fail," said Jamie Rutledge, President of Kyndryl U.S. "By partnering with Aptiv to leverage Wind River technologies, we are strengthening Kyndryl's ability to deliver resilient, secure systems that can be deployed and managed at scale, while helping customers meet data sovereignty, regulatory and operational goals."

Ed Harbour, Chief Customer Officer of Intelligent Systems, Software and Services at Aptiv, said the collaboration "enables customers to innovate faster with easier access to proven, high-performance edge-and-cloud architectures, backed by trusted systems integration, operational support, and deployment reach."

Kyndryl operates in more than 60 countries. Aptiv serves customers across automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace and defense, telecom and datacom, and other industrial markets.

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