The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is investing heavily in airborne attritable systems as a cost-effective approach to project force and influence.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation today announced an agreement for access and use of NVIDIA AI software and GPU hardware to accelerate the development of advanced processing and communications systems for rugged applications at the extreme edge.

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions will provide its high-speed data acquisition systems hardware and associated repair services.

Curtiss-Wright to supply its PacStar 451 Server, PacStar 453 GPU Enhanced Server, and PacStar 448 10-port 10 GbE Switch modules.

I am the Chief Technology Officer at Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions Division and a Curtiss-Wright Technical Fellow. I joined with PacStar, now part of Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, over 16 years ago. During this time, I have supported the development of our rugged, tactical hardware and IQCore software.

The Curtiss-Wright PacStar 453, VPX3-1262, and CHAMP-XD4 rugged computers are examples of how CPU, GPU, and FPGA technology can be packaged for different edge applications and operating environments.

Military and aerospace defense integrators, especially in the signal-processing application space, have typically turned to low-latency FPGA devices as coprocessors for signal-processing CPUs, forming the technical pillar for ingesting and processing massive amounts of time-critical radar and sensor data.

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