Enclosures & Consoles

A Value-Focused Approach to Integrated Enclosures & Consoles

Curtiss-Wright provides a “one-stop-shop” for complete integrated enclosure solutions, from specification to the delivery of fully qualified equipment. These cost-effective and modular enclosures, consoles, and workstations span the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command platforms. Our business approach leverages the advantages of the best COTS technology and practices and tailors the technologies to the needs of the defense industry. Curtiss-Wright offers more vertical integration capability, design maneuverability, better affordability, and lower technology and schedule risk by leveraging a modular approach to equipment enclosure construction and payload integration.

The electronics enclosures protect mission systems from salt water and other ingressions, shock, vibration, and electromagnet interference (EMI) while providing security and efficient cooling for long-term reliability. The solutions are built for specific applications requiring in-house system architects to routinely engage with in-house packaging design teams to ensure compatibility and functionality.

Increase Functionality While Reducing Program Cost and Risk

Curtiss-Wright developed technologies, capabilities, and business solutions aligned with program needs to maximize customer program value. These capabilities offer a versatile, easy-to-manage extension to each program's design, manufacturing, qualification, and integration capabilities, creating an efficient, low-risk environment where customers can focus on their primary sources of value creation. The Curtiss-Wright 901D portfolio of capabilities, services, and products leverages the latest commercial technology and practices. Curtiss-Wright's common baseline, modular, and hatchable design approach allows quick and affordable custom solutions from proven building blocks to reduce program cost and risk.

Engineering for the Toughest Missions

Curtiss-Wright enclosures are designed to offer the highest levels of mechanical and environmental protection for the equipment they house. All of the systems are built from the ground up using components and assembly approaches intended to meet or exceed MIL-DTL-901 (shock) and MIL-STD-167 (vibration) for mission-critical military and other harsh environmental applications. We achieve high MIL-DTL-901 first-pass rates by holistically evaluating new functional specifications for performance, functionality, and dexterity against MIL-STD requirements, ensuring the enclosures and systems Curtiss-Wright produces are qualification-ready.

Using extensive in-house thermal, structural, environmental, and EMI/EMC engineering expertise gained over hundreds of Naval programs, Curtiss-Wright engineers systematically identify and mitigate the technical risks associated with a new functional specification.

Low-Risk Approach to MIL-STD Qualification

Qualification is expensive, especially regarding schedule impact if the equipment under test fails and needs re-engineered. High-impact shock qualification per MIL-DTL-901 using COTS payload equipment is often identified as a program risk. As such, the assurance of qualification approval is critical. Curtiss-Wright's engineering and test teams have gained deep electromechanical, shock, and vibration expertise across many naval, maritime, airborne, shelter, and radar programs. We distilled this knowledge into an approach that de-risks shock testing with a robust engineering phase that assesses system fragility, lessens equipment shock, and ensures system survivability.

Our capabilities extend into acoustic, shock, vibration, environmental, and emissions testing and qualification to military specifications, including MIL-STD-167, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-740/MIL-STD-1474, MIL-STD-810, RTCA/DO-1600G, and MIL-STD-1472. Going beyond requirements for initial system qualifications, Curtiss-Wright invests in test capabilities for repeated production unit acoustic signatures.