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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
Modernization of a Ground Vehicle Network System

Modernization of a Ground Vehicle Network System

A military systems integrator received a government contract to upgrade the computer networking electronics onboard a small fleet of ground combat vehicles. The contract would demonstrate increased network capacity, resiliency, and convergence for the warfighter.

06/17/2021
Ship-to-Shore Integrated Fire Control

Ship-to-Shore Integrated Fire Control

With integrated fire control, naval ships in missile defense roles can communicate directly with ground-based Patriot missile batteries.

05/31/2021
Bringing Near Real-Time Threat Identification and Location Information to the Entire Coalition

Bringing Near Real-Time Threat Identification and Location Information to the Entire Coalition

This case study is the application example of CESMO, which a white paper has been written on. CESMO is a digital protocol that NATO has adopted to support EW operations.

01/19/2021
USFF Systems for Computing and Networking Onboard eVTOL Aircraft

USFF Systems for Computing and Networking Onboard eVTOL Aircraft

Multiple eVTOL aircraft developers from America and Europe have come to Curtiss-Wright seeking rugged COTS hardware to be used for prototyping as they develop their new aircraft platforms for production.

12/02/2020
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
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle NAS Protects Terabytes of Top Secret Mission Data

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle NAS Protects Terabytes of Top Secret Mission Data

In search of a small form factor network attached storage (NAS) solution for a new UUV, an engineer at a defense contractor reached out to Curtiss-Wright. The UUV required a high storage capacity solution to store critical mission data on long-range missions.

06/11/2020
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
USFF Mission Processors and Network Switches for ISR UAV Targeting System

USFF Mission Processors and Network Switches for ISR UAV Targeting System

As unmanned vehicles become more powerful and complex, their electronics payloads must adapt to match new mission objectives. This often forces aerospace and defense system integrators to push for reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C).

03/19/2020
Use Case: Advanced Tactical Data Link Gateway for the Modern Warfighter

Use Case: Advanced Tactical Data Link Gateway for the Modern Warfighter

TCG HUNTR software installed on a Parvus DuraCOR 8043 mission computer, displayed on a GVDU mission display, provides operators with a rugged, small form factor solution that can be used on the battlefield with minimal training and almost no expertise.

03/04/2020
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
Rugged, Encrypted Data Storage for an ISR Pod

Rugged, Encrypted Data Storage for an ISR Pod

A customer sought a secure data storage solution that could maintain reliability under extreme temperatures and vibration, and be available off the shelf.

02/04/2020