Embedded Computing

Speed Time to Market with COTS Technology

As a technology leader in providing open architecture COTS products to a range of deployable applications, including mission computing, signal, sensor and data processors, and data storage systems, Curtiss-Wright’s rugged solutions allow customers to speed time to market and minimize system integration challenges.

With solutions deployed on hundreds of defense and aerospace programs worldwide, Curtiss-Wright supports products throughout the long lifecycle of deployed programs in airborne, naval, ground, industrial, and space markets. Technology stability, application predictability, and long-term availability are essential for deployed mission-critical systems that have in-service life that long exceeds normal volume production periods. To meet these marketplace demands, Curtiss-Wright provides Total LifeCycle Management services that safeguard programs and mitigate the challenges of leveraging COTS technology.

Open Standards

Curtiss-Wright is a leading contributor to defining and advancing key industry open standards, including The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) Technical Standard, CMOSS, FACE, VICTORY, OpenVPX, VPX, VME, XMC, and FMC. These standards serve as the foundation for Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) acquisition and design strategies. They also define many of the hardware and software features that minimize size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) for deployed systems while increasing interoperability, maintainability, reusability, and scalability.

The proven processes, technologies, and intellectual property that we have developed in delivering COTS open standards solutions provide customers with significant cost, lead time, and supportability advantages. These same proven technologies become part of our valuable IP library of assets for our customers, enabling the rapid creation of customized and point-design solutions when needed.

High-Speed Fabrics

As the complexity of data processing for defense and aerospace applications increases, system designers must adapt to the latest proven technologies to deliver faster processing and information sharing. To address this challenge, many of our next-generation embedded computing cards will feature Fabric100™ connectivity. Fabric100 is a complete end-to-end ecosystem of high-speed rugged OpenVPX components designed to deliver uncompromised 100 Gbps data processing and information sharing across the platform. Fabric100 boards are built upon and are compatible with our proven Fabric40™ (40 GbE) and earlier technologies.

Trusted and Secure

Curtiss-Wright’s approach to embedded security deploys defense-in-depth and defense-in-breadth strategies to leverage the powerful security features inherent in commercial components with additionally added defense-grade security technologies. Our TrustedCOTS™ framework fully enables the security capabilities of commercial hardware and software technologies to protect applications and data from compromise. Additional software capabilities can be added for data-in-transit encryption and to establish security firewalls. This robust security approach aligns with risk management frameworks, cyber requirements, and secure boot standards, making it suitable for global deployments.