CHARLOTTE, N.C. – MAY 14, 2008 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mission critical systems for defense and aerospace applications, today announced an $8 million contract award by General Dynamics C4 Systems and Rockwell Collins, Inc. to provide Curtiss-Wright General Processor Modules (GPM) for use in the Integrated Computer System (ICS) of the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program.
The Integrated Computer System combines a wide range of previously independent computing applications into a single, integrated, secure processing environment. ICS is a common computing environment for 13 of the 14 platforms in the FCS family of systems, which comprises a network of sensors, unmanned aerial platforms and manned and unmanned ground systems.
“Curtiss-Wright is proud to partner with the FCS ICS Team to apply our advanced rugged VPX processing technology to support the US Militarys FCS program,” said David Adams, President of Curtiss-Wright Controls.
Under terms of the contract, Curtiss-Wright will supply the processing modules to General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins for integration into the ICS system. The initial order is for more than 1,000 modules with deliveries scheduled to begin during the second quarter of 2008.
General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins were jointly awarded a contract by The Boeing Company and Science Applications International Corporation to accelerate technology development of the Integrated Computing System in 2005. By March 2007, the team had designed, built, tested and delivered the first ICS unit for use in an FCS mobile platform.
Curtiss-Wright Controls offers a complete family of rugged COTS boards and sub-systems ranging from Processing, Data Communication, DSP and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The companys innovative use of open standards such as the new high performance VPX board architecture enables customers to protect their investment and avoid the high cost-barriers and time-to-market penalties that changing embedded real-time computing systems normally incur.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industrys most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing visit www.cwcembedded.com.
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