Curtiss-Wright to provide high-speed data acquisition test and measurement equipment for military aircraft
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. – U.S. Air Force airborne test and measurement experts needed high-speed data acquisition systems hardware and repair services. They found their solution from the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Defense Solutions segment in Ashburn, Va.
Officials of 99th Contracting Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., announced a $79.9 million contract to Curtiss-Wright in March to provide high-speed data acquisition systems that will provide ancillary support services to the 99th Test and Evaluation Squadron.
Specialized test equipment
This test and measurement equipment is to help evaluate military aircraft during flight trials.
This pool essentially is a dedicated inventory of advanced instrumentation that Air Force experts can deploy on various aircraft types to gather detailed data during rigorous flight test maneuvers, and allows for efficient and flexible instrumentation setup for different flight test scenarios.
Last January Curtiss-Wright won a $49.9 million sole-source contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., o provide high-speed data acquisition systems for the Naval Air Systems Command Special Flight Test Instrumentation Pool.
Curtiss-Wright offers several products for military aircraft data acquisition and test instrumentation. Central to these products is the Curtiss-Wright ADSR data recording system family that helps users capture, record, and output data based on their unique requirements.
Data server and recorder
The ADSR product family consists of advanced data server and recorder (ADSR) products for uses such as mission data recording, mission file servers, digital video recorders, or instrumentation network recorders.
Curtiss-Wright also provides the nREC-7000-1 data recorder, which can store data at fast sustained speeds, with support for 1,000 Megabytes per second data rates over each of its four 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports. It supports simultaneous data recording of several data formats such as DARv3, PCAP, IRIG-106 Chapter 10/11, and NFS.
On this contract Curtiss-Wright will do the work at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and should be finished by March 2030. For more information contact Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions online at www.curtisswrightds.com/products/storage-recorders/test-recorders, or the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base at https://www.nellis.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/284154/99th-air-base-wing/.
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