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Meeting Local Content Requirements with a Modular Motion Control Solution

Meeting Local Content Requirements with a Modular Motion Control Solution

In 2019, Rheinmetall Defence Australia was awarded a contract to provide a replacement of the Australian Army’s Light Armoured Vehicle in support of Phase 2 of the Land 400 project.

02/08/2024
Aiming Stabilization

Proven Aiming and Stabilization Brings Maximum Effectiveness from Land to Sea

Discover how one customer harnessed the power of a purpose-built motion control system to successfully deliver a unique solution to navies around the world.

07/27/2022
Rugged CameraLink using Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA

Rugged CameraLink using Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA

Curtiss-Wright was recently challenged to provide a direct CameraLink interface to a Kintex-7 FPGA without the need for ChannelLink transceivers, thereby allowing an existing “generic” digital FPGA solution to be used. Read about the solution we developed.

12/20/2017
Successfully Instrumenting a Regional Jet for Flight Testing with a New Team

Successfully Instrumenting a Regional Jet for Flight Testing with a New Team

A major aircraft manufacturer needed to plan and operate a flight test campaign for a new regional airliner. Read about the solution Curtiss-Wright developed here.

08/16/2017
The Bigger Picture for Radar Sub-systems

The Bigger Picture for Radar Sub-systems

A customer approached Curtiss-Wright to develop a Radar system, with high-performance FPGA processing and integration of other system function all wrapped up in a rugged system. Read about the solution we developed here.

04/10/2017
Upgrade Airborne Radar within Power, Cost & Temp Constraints

Upgrade Airborne Radar within Power, Cost and Temp Constraints

To remain competitive, a Curtiss-Wright customer needed to upgrade an existing radar system that was deployed across multiple airborne platforms. A critical part of the upgrade was doubling the system’s signal processing throughput.

02/02/2017
Acra KAM-500 Helps to Breathe New Life into the Young Eagle

Acra KAM-500 Helps to Breathe New Life into the Young Eagle

In order to guarantee a high level of measurement reliability, the Air Force Institute of Technology (ITWL) sought to have sensor redundancy, with multiple strain gauges at each load measurement location. Learn about the solution.

10/31/2015
Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

This case study describes a crash-protected recorder designed by Curtiss-Wright to interface to a Data Management Unit (DMU) for a mid-range commercial airliner that had schedule challenges and changing requirements.

05/27/2015
Rugged Data Acquisition for Missile and Captive Carry Platforms

Rugged Data Acquisition for Missile and Captive Carry Platforms

Download the case study to learn about the data acquisition solution that met the space requirements for a missile testing application.

05/15/2015
Data Acquisition System (DAS) Upgrade on an RNLAF F-16BM

Data Acquisition System (DAS) Upgrade on an RNLAF F-16BM

NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory) helped the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) instrument one of their 68 F-16’s with an upgrade data acquisition system designed around flexibility and minimizing space.

04/15/2015
Rugged Data Acquisition for Engine Test Applications

Rugged Data Acquisition for Engine Test Applications

It is difficult to have a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Data Acquisition System that fulfills both the robustness and channel density criteria - the Curtiss-Wright Acra KAM-500 fulfills both of these criteria using COTS equipment.

04/15/2015
Rugged Networked Data Acquisition, Recording & Telemetry for Experimental Re-entry Vehicle

Rugged Networked Data Acquisition, Recording & Telemetry for Experimental Re-entry Vehicle

Curtiss-Wright was selected to provide its COTS data acquisition, networking and recording systems to the European Space Agency for the IXV which are qualified to meet requirements for space equipment such as radiation tolerance and high reliability.

03/12/2015