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    Ashburn, VA 20147

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    About Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions

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    20130 Lakeview Ctr Plaza
    Suite 200
     Ashburn, VA 20147
    United States
    http://www.curtisswrightds.com
    703-779-7800
    703-779-7805

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    Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, a division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, is the trusted, proven leader for comprehensive, rugged, and secure mission-critical solutions for defense and aerospace applications.

    Products

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    Components - Enclosures and chassis

    8-Slot CMOSS/SOSA Enclosure

    This 8-slot, user integration-ready powered enclosure provides the highest functional density available using natural convection cooling and is aligned to the CMOSS/SOSA Technical...
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    Single-board computers

    VPX3-1262 3U VPX 100 Gb SBC with 13th Gen Intel Core i7 Processor

    The rugged VPX3-1262 3U OpenVPX SBC card, designed to meet the 3U I/O Intensive and Payload SOSA profiles, is powered by the 13th Gen Intel Core i7 (Raptor Lake) 14-core hybrid...
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    Communications/network controllers

    VPX3-6816 3U VPX 100 Gb Ethernet Switch

    The low-power and affordable rugged VPX3-6816 3U VPX Ethernet Switch card is designed and optimized to deliver the low-latency, high-speed Ethernet backbone required by modern...
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    FPGA boards

    CHAMP-FX7 6U VPX Dual AMD Versal Premium Adaptive SoC Processor Card

    Ideal for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system architectures, the CHAMP-FX7 rugged 6U OpenVPX dual AMD Versal Premium ASoC processor card is designed to...
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    Components - Enclosures and chassis

    PacStar® VPX Smart Chassis

    This hybrid chassis supports SOSA-aligned and proven PacStar 400-Series family of modules enabling users to select the best solutions from each ecosystem and seamlessly integrate...

    Press Releases

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    Software-driven instrumentation

    Rugged Airborne Flight Test Systems by Curtiss-Wright are First to Deploy Data Analysis/Visualization Software in Compact Mission Computer

    ASHBURN, Va. – May 02, 2024 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions Division has announced the availability of two new fully integrated Modular Open Systems Approach...
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    Single-board computers

    Industry’s first safety-certifiable VPX SBC to feature 13th Gen Intel processors offered by Curtiss-Wright

    ASHBURN, Va. - April 24, 2024 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions Division today announced the expansion of its family of DO-254 safety-certifiable single board computers...

    Articles

    Computers

    SOSA-compatible XMC embedded computing card to integrate IP into VPX and ATX introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    The XMC-528/529 embedded computing modules enable system integrators to add IP quickly to fielded systems without a complete redesign.
    Computers

    Rugged mission computer with cyber security for small-form-factor airborne uses offered by Curtiss-Wright

    The DuraCOR 8044 meets MIL-810G and DO-160G environmental test standards, weighs 5.6 pounds and measures 6.75 by 6.25 by 3.5 inches.
    Computers

    32-terabyte NVMe secure data storage with full-disk encryption for military uses offered by Curtiss-Wright

    The HSR10 will be submitted for National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) and Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) certification.
    Test

    8-port Gigabit Ethernet switch for SWaP-constrained flight test applications introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    TmNS specifies configuration, management, network transport protocols, telemetry link, and other capabilities of data acquisition units.
    Computers

    Rugged computer server for artificial intelligence (AI) uses at the edge introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Module can speed deployment at the edge to ensure access to advanced technology -- even in disconnected, intermittent, and limited environments.
    Curtiss 11 Sept 2023
    Computers

    Secure network-attached storage for embedded computing on military aircraft introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    The high-speed recorder captures data at speeds of 450 megabytes per second via its 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface and 1 Gigabit Ethernet interface.
    Curtiss 12 July 2023
    Computers

    Tactical computing radio-over-internet gateway to bridge military and civil radios offered by Curtiss-Wright

    The PacStar 421 pairs with a tactical sever, such as the PacStar 451 server module, to enable direct ear and mouth (E+M) interface to tactical radios.
    Curtiss 4 April 2023
    Computers

    Network-attached storage with encryption for data-at-rest on military planes introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    The DTS1+ can store and protect data on helicopters, jet fighters, unmanned vehicles, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft.
    Curtiss 8 June 2022
    Computers

    Small SWaP Time-space navigation information system to capture positioning data offered by Curtiss-Wright

    MiTSPI nTTU-2600 provides position information for location and orientation in space to capture critical data that involves inertial and GPS information.
    EaglePicher Technologies provides standard and custom batteries for aerospace applications, including conformal batteries for missile applications
    Computers

    Energy storage for military applications faces demands for more power

    Batteries, capacitors, and other energy-storage media are asked to provide increasing amounts of power for a wide variety of mobile applications, yet concerns for safety and certificati...

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    Enabling technologies for image and video processing

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    The latest high-performance embedded computing image and video processors rely heavily on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) to capture as much detail as possible...
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    Computers

    Rugged Raspberry Pi mission computer from Curtiss-Wright

    Rugged computer is small enough to fit in a hand, weighs 0.5 pounds and measures 1.2 by 2.49 by 3.34 inches, and can be stacked to extend performance.
    Sgt. Kyle Phillips configures computer equipment to ensure communications and controls connected to a Raven small unmanned aircraft system are working properly at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.
    Computers

    Rugged computing takes on the battlefield networking challenge

    Jamie Whitney
    Connectivity, networking, SWaP, and thermal management are among the highest priorities of rugged computing designers to support mobile warfighters at the edge.
    DIGISTOR NVMe solid-state drives for secure data-at-rest applications deliver fast performance for demanding applications such as artificial intelligence, video editing, visualization, and scientific and engineering modeling and analysis.
    Computers

    Data storage: it’s all coming up NVMe

    John Keller
    Non-Volatile Memory Express is fast, small, and lightweight, yet it still has something to prove when it comes to ruggedization, thermal performance, and power consumption.
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    Trusted Computing

    Cyber battlegrounds: trusted computing, cyber warfare, and cyber security for national defense.

    The threat categories are many. Vehicle loss or capture, data loss or transport, nation state hackers or internal threats all can threaten or intercept data at rest.
    General Micro Systems is using the second generation of the company’s RuggedCool thermal management technology to squeeze every bit of heat possible out of conduction-cooled circuit boards.
    Power

    Is thermal management up to the high-performance computing challenge?

    John Keller
    Embedded computing designers squeeze the most out of conduction, convection, and liquid cooling, and look to the future of disaggregated architectures and 3D printing.
    The Mercury model 6350 is an eight-channel A/D and D/A Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor in a small-form-factor rugged enclosure.
    Trusted Computing

    Embedded computing sensor and signal processing meets the SWaP test

    John Keller
    New enabling technologies in FPGAs, GPGPUs, and central processing units can fit on single chips, and are ready to meet emerging demands for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...
    Curtiss 22 July 2021
    Computers

    Rugged 6U OpenVPX data storage card offered by Curtiss-Wright

    This rugged 6U OpenVPX data storage module expands the memory capacity and data rates that can be integrated into a single embedded computing slot.
    Curtiss 19 May 2021
    Computers

    3U VPX embedded computing for AI and EW from Curtiss-Wright

    Card complies with the U.S. Army C4ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and aligns with Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) standards.
    Curtiss 11 March 2021
    Computers

    10-Gigabit Ethernet switch introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Network interconnect supports command and control, Internet of Things, cloud, storage replication, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
    The Elma VITA 48.4 liquid flow-through ATR box with a 6U OpenVPX backplane can accommodate as many as eight boards and two VITA 62 plug-in power supplies.
    Trusted Computing

    The evolution of embedded computing chassis, backplanes, and enclosures

    John Keller
    High data throughput and innovative thermal management may lead to a revolution in systems design that places the burden of electronics cooling on the enclosure more than on the...
    The PacStar Secure Wireless Command Post has demonstrated transformation for military requirements because it marries a modular communications package of hardware and software that reduces the management burden for tactical high-security communications.
    Computers

    The latest trends in rugged computing

    Jamie Whitney
    The proliferation of connected systems has been enabled by the U.S. military embrace of the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) revolution.
    Personnel with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group conduct cyber operations at Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md.
    Trusted Computing

    The essentials of trusted computing and cyber security

    Jamie Whitney
    U.S. military and government information security experts try to hold the line against determined hackers seeking to break into critical computing systems from foreign governments...
    Curtiss-Wright is releasing the 6U VPX Storage Blade Air Cooled module that based on PCI Express NVMe technology, is aligned with the CMOSS and SOSA open-systems standards, and comes in capacities from 16 to 128 terabytes.
    Trusted Computing

    Speed and security for military data storage

    John Keller
    Rugged data storage systems for aerospace and defense applications are moving to new data interfaces for unparalleled speed and capacity, while trusted computing and information...
    An MQ-9A Reaper sits on the ramp at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., in the first flight test of the MQ-9 carrying eight Hellfire missiles.
    Test

    High-performance test and measurement equipment hits the flight line

    Jamie Whitney
    Avionics technicians make use of oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and other high-performance test and measurement instruments to ensure that sensitive RF and microwave systems...
    5G telecommunications technology offers far more to the military than today’s voice and data radio. It has the potential to create a ubiquitous infosphere where data from sensors, targeting, surveillance, and signals intelligence are instantly available.
    RF/Analog

    What 5G means to the military

    John Keller
    5G wireless communications is expected to move voice, video, text, and image data with bandwidth as fast as 300 GHz to create data on demand for the battlefield.
    Curtiss 30 Nov 2020
    Computers

    Secure data storage system introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Data storage system can serve as a ground station network attached storage for data off-load and decryption from a deployed unattended network storage.
    This illustration show how VITA 48.8 air-flow-through cooling can increase heat dissipation in high-performance embedded computing.
    Computers

    Electronics cooling boosts capabilities to match performance upgrades

    John Keller
    Enabling technologies for electronics and embedded computing thermal management are expanding, as systems designers demand higher performance, standards-based cooling, and reduced...
    Curtiss Task Force 16 Oct 2020
    Computers

    Curtiss-Wright eyes open-systems industry standards

    Curtiss-Wright established a task force to streamline development and availability of new interoperable solutions based on CMOSS, SOSA, and MOSA.
    Pac Star 28 Sept 2020
    Defense Executive

    Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions acquires PacStar

    PacStar provides tactical communications for battlefield network management, including COTS rugged, small-form-factor communications systems.
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    Computers

    Simulation and mission rehearsal relies on state-of-the-art computing

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    Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and virtual reality are becoming essential parts of today’s military simulation and mission rehearsal to keep warfighters on the...
    Mercury’s EnsembleSeries HDS6605 6U OpenVPX blade server offers hardware-enabled support for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
    Computers

    When high-performance embedded computing meets open-systems standards

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    SOSA, HOST, MOSA, VITA, and a host of other new and emerging open-systems industry standards are coming to bear on the most performance-demanding aerospace and defense applications...
    The Pentek model 5550 eight-channel A/D and D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RF system-on-chip processor for signal and sensor processing is aligned to the emerging SOSA open-systems standard.
    Sensors

    The coming revolution in sensor and signal processing

    John Keller
    High-performance embedded computing is reaping the benefits of open-systems standards, new FPGA architectures, and artificial intelligence for never-before-seen edge computing...
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    Computers

    Rugged flight data recorder introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Device supports removable industrial-grade CompactFlash cards that can be read by standard COTS readers to eliminate the need for dedicated software.
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    Home

    The dawn of military 3D printing

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    Sensors

    Radiation tolerance meets commercial space

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    The wave of commercially developed communications and remote-sensing satellites seeks to balance costs, capability, size, weight, and power consumption in the latest new space...
    The DARPA MACH program seeks new materials and designs for cooling the hot leading edges of hypersonic vehicles.
    Sensors

    The electronics design challenges of hypersonic flight

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    Hypersonic munitions present an intimidating set of environmental challenges, raising the bar to an entirely new level of difficulty.
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    RF/Analog

    RF and microwave designers take-on the cluttered spectrum

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    Computers

    Rugged display for avionics introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Display offers LED backlighting for daylight viewing, and dual-mode LED backlighting for support with MIL-STD-3009 NVIS B night-vision-goggles.
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    Artificial intelligence and embedded computing for unmanned vehicles

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    The latest generation of unmanned vehicles operating on land, in the air, and at sea no longer simply are remotely operated. These advanced systems have built-in intelligence ...