The project involved upgrading their existing video system that helped provide situational awareness during the target towing process.

The rapid change in both sensor and video system technology in the last decade has pushed aircraft operators to evaluate their system architecture to maximize performance and reduce complexity and system weight.

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.