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Who We Are
At Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, we have one simple goal. To help you succeed.
On this site, you will find valuable information about our capabilities, products, and services. In their design, and resulting from the applications and programs they support, many of these solutions are complex. That's also true of the platforms, programs, and missions we support. We try very hard not to let that complexity get in the way of ensuring our mission and core value stay quite simple. In other words, to support your program, our solutions are engineered to help you succeed.
What We Do
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted, proven leader, delivering superior products and services that meet the defense and aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value. Our solutions address air, ground, and naval defense applications, and are focused on growth segments with a high demand for advanced technology, enhanced safety, security, and performance. As a leading Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) solutions supplier for battlefield platforms and communication systems, we are uniquely positioned to benefit from the DoD's commitment to maintaining technological superiority on the battlefield.
Our products include future-proof open system architectures, communications and processing systems for the tactical edge, flight test and operational aerospace instrumentation, storage and recorders, enclosures and consoles, and stabilization and motion control solutions. For the U.S. Navy, the division supplies MIL-SPEC integrated subsystems and Naval Nuclear Instrumentation and Control solutions. Avionics solutions include flight data recorders, and aircraft sensor data management products and services. As an industry leader, Defense Solutions takes an active role in industry standards organizations, serving, for example, as a Principal Member of The Open Group SOSA Consortium and as a member of the VITA Standards Organization's Board of Directors.
How We've Grown
Our strategy at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions is to drive customer success by leveraging our best-in-class solutions and our world-class engineering team. At times, however, engineered to succeed means adding to our portfolio of innovative technologies through acquisition. We are constantly searching, through our Mergers & Acquisitions team, for organizations that complement our engineering culture and add to our portfolio of solutions to meet customer needs. We support our customer's success by delivering what we have today and an eye toward innovations you may require tomorrow. For information about companies and products that are now organized under Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions over the years, please use the links below:
Trusted. Proven. Leader.
We achieve design excellence with what we believe is one of the best engineering workforces in the industry. We also realize that our customer's success must be based on a set of very specific benefits.
We recognize and have taken a leadership stance around, the importance of the MOSA initiative and the leading open architectures that support it.
We believe that a technologically elegant solution must meet cost criteria.
Our products and solutions, from simple COTS-based solutions to customized Modified COTS products and fully integrated subsystems, are all developed, designed, and produced with platform and program affordability in mind.
As a reflection of our leadership role, on behalf of our customers, around MOSA standards and solutions, we actively drive modularity, portability, and solution reuse across our entire product portfolio.
We are committed to reducing that risk with reliable manufacturing, a trusted supply chain, carefully tracked parts, sophisticated counterfeit mitigation and highly managed components sourcing.

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Latest News
Curtiss-Wright Introduces the Industry’s Highest Performance SOSA Aligned 3U VPX GPU Module for AI at the Edge
New VPX3-730 combines NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell & NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NIC for 100 GbE/PCIe Gen5 GPU connectivity in a rugged 3U VPX module.

Curtiss-Wright Introduces the Industry’s Highest Performance SOSA Aligned 3U VPX GPU Module for AI at the Edge
New VPX3-730 combines NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell & NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NIC for 100 GbE/PCIe Gen5 GPU connectivity in a rugged 3U VPX module.
Curtiss-Wright Awarded $7.7 Million IDIQ Contract by Tyonek Aircraft Overhaul for Rugged Flight Recorders
Curtiss-Wright to provide combined Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder for use on U.S. Coast Guard’s MH-65E Dolphin and MH-60T Jayhawk Helicopter Fleets.

Curtiss-Wright Awarded $7.7 Million IDIQ Contract by Tyonek Aircraft Overhaul for Rugged Flight Recorders
Curtiss-Wright to provide combined Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder for use on U.S. Coast Guard’s MH-65E Dolphin and MH-60T Jayhawk Helicopter Fleets.
Curtiss-Wright Awarded $31 Million IDIQ Contract by the U.S. Navy to Supply Airborne Mission Processors for the Triton UAV
The contract also includes Total Lifecycle Management™, training, and engineering services in support of the AMP.

Curtiss-Wright Awarded $31 Million IDIQ Contract by the U.S. Navy to Supply Airborne Mission Processors for the Triton UAV
The contract also includes Total Lifecycle Management™, training, and engineering services in support of the AMP.
Curtiss-Wright Expands its Capabilities Supporting Airbus UpNext’s eXtra Performance WING Demonstrator
Curtiss-Wright’s Nano Motion Controller is designed for use in precision drive systems with size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints.

Curtiss-Wright Expands its Capabilities Supporting Airbus UpNext’s eXtra Performance WING Demonstrator
Curtiss-Wright’s Nano Motion Controller is designed for use in precision drive systems with size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints.
Curtiss-Wright to Showcase Latest Commercial and Defense Aerospace Solutions at 55th International Paris Air Show 2025
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, continuing its long and historic presence at the International Paris Air Show, beginning with the Wright Brothers participation at the inaugural event held at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1908.

Curtiss-Wright to Showcase Latest Commercial and Defense Aerospace Solutions at 55th International Paris Air Show 2025
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, continuing its long and historic presence at the International Paris Air Show, beginning with the Wright Brothers participation at the inaugural event held at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1908.
Curtiss-Wright Awarded $80 Million IDIQ Contract by U.S. Air Force to Provide High-Speed Data Acquisition Technology
The contract covers Curtiss-Wright's full line of Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) products and will support production platforms as well as future USAF development programs.

Curtiss-Wright Awarded $80 Million IDIQ Contract by U.S. Air Force to Provide High-Speed Data Acquisition Technology
The contract covers Curtiss-Wright's full line of Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) products and will support production platforms as well as future USAF development programs.
Curtiss-Wright Adds Digital Video Encoder Module to Industry-Leading Axon Family of Compact Flight Test Instrumentation System Building Blocks
AXN/VID/401 Axon module automatically detects, captures and compresses a single HD-SDI/3G-SDI channel and supports independent low-data-rate video channel for real-time telemetry.

Curtiss-Wright Adds Digital Video Encoder Module to Industry-Leading Axon Family of Compact Flight Test Instrumentation System Building Blocks
AXN/VID/401 Axon module automatically detects, captures and compresses a single HD-SDI/3G-SDI channel and supports independent low-data-rate video channel for real-time telemetry.
Curtiss-Wright Recognized by Investors in People with We Invest in People Gold Award
For commitment to high performance through people management.

Curtiss-Wright Recognized by Investors in People with We Invest in People Gold Award
For commitment to high performance through people management.