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Navigating the Unseen: Mitigating Degraded Visual Environments

Navigating the Unseen: Mitigating Degraded Visual Environments

Using a Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) system enables aircraft pilots to visualize the landing area in poor conditions, allowing them a safe, on-time descent to their target destination.

05/01/2024
Meeting Missile Program Upgrade Requirements with Power-Efficient, Future-Proof Transmitters

Efficient Transmitters Address New Requirements from Missile Program Upgrades

This case study describes how an organization ensured there was no transmitter interference with other onboard electronics.

03/29/2024
Deploying a Total Flight Test System Solution

Organization Successfully Deploys Total FTI System Solution

An aircraft OEM needed a flight test solution for one of its new jets. They decided to use multiple hardware vendors to complete their FTI system.

09/19/2023
Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires Encrypted Storage for the Autonomy System

Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires Encrypted Storage for the Autonomy System

Tasked with building a new Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), a shipbuilder faced challenging requirements.

03/25/2022
Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires NetBoot and Commercial Encryption

Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires NetBoot and Commercial Encryption

Tasked with building a new Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), a shipbuilder faced challenging requirements. The developer planned to connect all the computer systems via a one gigabit Ethernet (1 GbE) network.

02/24/2022
Aircraft Developer Looks to Modernize Storage of Sensitive Data

Aircraft Developer Looks to Modernize Storage of Sensitive Data

A leading C5ISR system integrator reached out to Curtiss-Wright in search of network-attached storage (NAS) server that would bring their aging fleet up-to-date.

03/29/2021
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Airplane Developer Looks to Protect ISR Data with Encryption

While developing a new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system, a large aerospace developer approached Curtiss-Wright for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment that had to fit into a space-constrained, propeller-driven aircraft.

02/25/2021
Robust and Reliable Flight Test Instrumentation System Deployed on Hypersonic Test Bed

Robust and Reliable Flight Test Instrumentation System Deployed on Hypersonic Test Bed

A company that was developing their own hypersonic vehicle for use as a technology test bed wanted a flight test instrumentation (FTI), recording, and transmission system.

02/16/2021
Successful Integration of a Launcher Video Telemetry System Using COTS Equipment

Successful Integration of a Launcher Video Telemetry System Using COTS Equipment

Réaltra was awarded a contract to develop a launcher video telemetry system (LVTS) that will provide the onboard live video telemetry for a launcher that is anticipated to fly in 2021.

11/20/2020
Large Aircraft Rapidly Deploys Customizable Mission Recording System

Large Aircraft Rapidly Deploys Customizable Mission Recording System

A manufacturer of a large military aircraft required a mission recording system to collect engineering data from around the aircraft and store it on a recorder for post-mission analysis.

11/03/2020
Successful COTS Solution for Space Vehicle Onboard Recording & Audio Handling

Successful COTS Solution for Space Vehicle Onboard Recording and Audio Handling

This case study describes how a space vehicle designer was able to rapidly implement a system to collect all of the data from onboard computers and accommodate late changes to requirements.

04/23/2020
Next Generation Data Acquisition System for a Sounding Rocket

Next Generation Data Acquisition System for a Sounding Rocket

Sounding rockets can carry experiments to altitudes that are often unsuitable for balloons and satellites and are much more cost-efficient since they do not require expensive boosters or extended telemetry and tracking coverage.

02/14/2020