By combining the best commercial practices with selected off-the-shelf components, Curtiss-Wright products are designed from the ground up to deliver years of reliable operation in extremes of operating temperatures, shock, vibration and corrosive atmospheres.

Our products are available in four rugged design levels for a variety of requirements, from naval between-decks, through tracked land vehicles, helicopters and manned aircraft to the latest generation of unmanned air vehicles.

Air- or conduction-cooled designs are available. Conduction-cooling is preferred for the most severe environments because conduction-cooled construction is more rugged, incorporating additional stiffening at the top, bottom and center of the product. The use of wedgelocks at the board’s edges delivers further mechanical integrity while providing a low impedance thermal path between the board and its chassis.

Designed and manufactured for rugged deployment
Our ruggedization process ensures that all our products are designed and manufactured to meet the most demanding rugged deployment requirements for reliability, maintainability and upgradeability as well as the more usual COTS product attributes of high performance, rich functionality and affordability.

And to meet the highest specifications, all our rugged products are manufactured in our own world-class manufacturing facilities, which are optimized for high-mix, high quality and small batch sizes typical of military requirements.

Following full functional testing, newly manufactured products go through an Environmental Stress Screen (ESS) running functional test software. Hot and cold starts and variations of supply voltage are applied to weed out any early component failures or manufacturing defects.