Flight test campaigns typically operate within very compressed timeframes, and delays can lead to expensive additional flights and excessive overtime for engineers. It's not unusual for requirements to change during a campaign, and this can take significant amounts of time due to complex installation of equipment and wiring.

Evaluating and comparing rugged commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and COTS-based solutions can be confusing. Although military ruggedization standards make the process easier, the techniques and methodologies used to ensure ruggedness and reliability can differ from one vendor to another.

With a range of software tools and solutions that have been developed from the ground up to support a range of defense and aerospace applications, Curtiss-Wright reduces program risk and cost by ensuring the software that supports our systems are fully supported throughout the programs lifecycle.

Curtiss-Wright’s open architecture Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) based rugged embedded computing solutions process data in real time to support mission critical functions. We play a key industry role in the establishment of resources
and services to ensure that our customers have access to the long lifecycle support required by aerospace and defense programs. We offer comprehensive
approaches for mitigating obsolescence, blocking the use of counterfeit parts, and developing product roadmaps to ease the integration of future
generations of technologies.

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, a division of Curtiss-Wright, is an industry-leading supplier of sophisticated electronics products recognized around the world as one of the most innovative designers and manufacturers of highly engineered systems built to perform reliably in harsh conditions.

Curtiss-Wright is an American company with global manufacturing, services, and support capabilities. Our design and manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada, and Europe, as well as sales and support experts around the globe, can help satisfy your regional requirements without sacrificing quality.

The Curtiss-Wright Space COTS Advantage helps reduce costs, development time and risk by using a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) approach that utilizes an extensive library of proven IP and decades of rugged system design experience. Our designers optimize systems for low cost of ownership based on a customer’s application and the procurement life of the platform. The Curtiss-Wright Space COTS versatility
has been fully proven – no other COTS system has been qualified and used successfully in such a wide variety of space missions for
both Development Flight Instrumentation (DFI) and Operational Flight Instrumentation (OFI) requirements.

Curtiss-Wright's in-house manufacturing capability delivers a combination of responsiveness, flexibility and quality that far exceeds anything achievable by contract manufacturing. The video provides an inside look at this facility and some of its advanced equipment.