LEESBURG, VA – October 19, 2009 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced that it intends to support the OpenVPX™ interoperability specification across its range of VPX single board computers (SBCs), DSP engines, network interfaces, storage solutions and other board and sub-system platforms.

“Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has taken a leadership position in the development of the VPX and OpenVPX specifications and we plan to offer the market the most comprehensive mix of board and subsystem solutions based on these groundbreaking new standards,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Our VPX6-185 was the industry’s first VPX SBC, and our CHAMP-AV6 was the industry’s first 6U VPX DSP engine. We were also the first to publically demonstrate a working VPX system and a working OpenVPX system. We will continue this leadership with support for OpenVPX, many of our existing products today are ‘OpenVPX Ready’.”

Curtiss-Wright Controls has leadership roles in the working groups defining VITA’s VPX and the OpenVPX work undertaken by an independent association of leading defense industry prime contractors and COTS systems developers to extend system-level interoperability for VPX.

OpenVPX defines the VPX Systems Specification, an architecture that manages and constrains module and backplane designs. The VPX Systems Specification includes the definition of pin-outs and sets interoperability points within VPX while maintaining full compliance with the existing VPX specification.

VPX, with its far greater bandwidth and support for distributed computing, is rapidly emerging as the VME of the 21st Century. It will enable Curtiss-Wright Controls to provide the aerospace and defense market with far larger and more powerful system solutions, based on our SBC and signal processor engine technologies.

The OpenVPX industry association was created to take VPX into the systems realm. Curtiss-Wright Controls, along with more than 25 other COTS and military systems vendors and integrators worked together to complete this new standard which will help define how VPX system architectures are put together and how they will interoperate. The benefit for Curtiss-Wright Controls’ customers will be lower costs and quicker time-to-market for system integrators delivering system platforms. Although this standard is being developed outside of VITA it is comprised only of VITA members (a requirement to join) and the plans are for it to be delivered to VITA in the fall of 2009, at which point it becomes part of the VITA 65 standard. Curtiss-Wright Controls currently chairs the VITA 65 Working Group. 

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About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, visit www.cwcembedded.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.