Curtiss-Wright Company introduced that it has been awarded a follow-on contract by the USA Marine Corps (USMC) to supply small kind issue community router and swap modules to help communications modernization with extremely transportable expeditionary community communications know-how. Beneath the contract, Curtiss-Wright will present a Modular Open Techniques Method (MOSA) deployed baseband system for the Marine Corps Wideband Satellite tv for pc-Expeditionary (MCWS-X) program. Curtiss-Wright is performing the work inside its Protection Options division within the Protection Electronics phase. The merchandise coated by this settlement will likely be shipped to the USMC from the Curtiss-Wright Protection Options facility in Portland, Oregon.
“As a number one provider of tactical battlefield communications options, we’re very proud to supply the Marine Corps with our confirmed field-deployable community communications know-how to help the MCWS-X program. This contract additional strengthens the lengthy and profitable relationship we have now with the USMC and highlights Curtiss-Wright’s means to boost interoperability and enhance value efficiencies with electronics methods that adhere to the DoD’s mandate for options primarily based on the Modular Open Techniques Method,” stated Lynn M. Bamford, Chair and CEO of Curtiss-Wright Company.
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To mitigate this threat and guarantee Marines stay deadly on future battlefields, Marine Corps Techniques Command not too long ago fielded the Marine Corps Wideband Satellite tv for pc – Expeditionary, or MCWS-X. MCWS-X is a man-portable, multiband, super-high frequency, multi-waveform satellite tv for pc communications terminal that gives the warfighter resiliency and agility within the area. Designed to be transported by a single Marine – and arrange by that very same Marine in lower than quarter-hour – MCWS-X will permit Marines on the bottom to rapidly and securely join to numerous SATCOM frequencies whereas offering excessive throughput price.
Curtiss-Wright Company is a world built-in enterprise that gives extremely engineered merchandise, options and companies primarily to Aerospace & Protection markets, in addition to important applied sciences in demanding Industrial Energy, Course of and Industrial markets. We leverage a workforce of roughly 8,100 extremely expert workers who develop, design and construct what we consider are one of the best engineered options to the markets we serve. Constructing on the heritage of Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Curtiss-Wright has a protracted custom of offering progressive options by way of trusted buyer relationships.
