About Us
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) has a long history with its roots dating back to the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903. It is an innovative engineering company that provides highly engineered, critical function products, systems and services in the areas of flow control, motion control and metal treatment to the defense, energy and commercial/industrial markets. The legacy company of Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Curtiss-Wright has a long tradition of design and manufacturing innovation along with long-standing customer relationships. The company employs approximately 8,600 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.curtisswright.com
Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the Motion Control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation and a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced technologies for niche actuation and drive applications, integrated sensors and electronic subsystems internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit Curtiss-Wright Controls.
The Curtiss-Wright Controls Avionics & Electronics (CWC-AE) division provides system solutions that acquire, consolidate, analyze and record all sensor and avionics data on aircraft. The division consists of four integrated business units – City of Industry (formerly Autronics US), Penny + Giles (UK), Acra (Ireland) and SES (UK).
CWC-AE invests heavily in research and development to ensure we maintain technology leadership to deliver high performance COTS and custom engineered products. Our core capabilities include certified design and development processes (DO-178 and DO-254) combined with mature quality processes (AS9100). A wide range of product and service offerings enables us to provide solutions for many applications including:
Airborne recording applications are served with products including crash protected, mission, flight test and usage data recorders. Scalable and modular data concentrator units are proven for a variety of aerospace controller applications. Highly configurable and reliable air data computing solutions ensure flight safety. Our ice detection and protection systems are designed to operate on a variety of surfaces and allow flight into forecast icing. CWC-AE is also a leading supplier of flight test instrumentation and real-time telemetry systems. Ground vehicles are served with extremely powerful, solid state, processing solutions with market leading environmental specifications.
CWC-AE provides low risk and future proof solutions that have flown on over 300 different aircraft platforms. We build strong relationships with our customers by listening to their needs and providing dedicated support teams and industry leading response times. Customers have the assurance that all products and services are backed by the proven performance of Curtiss-Wright, one of the most experienced and respected suppliers in the defense and aerospace industries.