Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc.

Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc., doing business as Curtiss-Wright Tactical Communications Group, manufactures and sustains the Battlefield Operations Support System (BOSS), a tactical data link and ground support platform for command and control operations across the U.S. military, primarily as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) competing on full-and-open, non-set-aside contracts. The company is a small business subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and competes across NAICS 338221 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and software publishing categories, with most awards carrying sole-source or competitive justifications grounded in proprietary BOSS intellectual property ownership.

Curtiss-Wright DS delivers tactical data link software licenses, hardware systems, annual maintenance support, training, and technical integration services. Representative prime work includes a $413,167 firm-fixed-price definitive contract from the Electronic Systems Center (awarded September 2025) for procurement and implementation of a Tactical Data Network Lab Refresh for BOSS at Hanscom Air Force Base; a $241,199 purchase order from Air Combat Command (September 2025) for annual BOSS support at Minot Air Force Base through 2030; and a $600,876 purchase order from the Air Force Test Center (September 2021) for BOSS upgrade delivery. The company anchors a five-year, $749,000 single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Air Force Test Center (awarded May 2023, running through April 2028) for BOSS software licenses and annual Gold-tier product support at Edwards Air Force Base, with delivery orders typically valued between $108,000 and $114,000 annually.

Customer concentration clusters in Air Force and Navy operations. The top five funding agencies account for 50% of awards by count, led by the Naval Air Warfare Center (58 awards, $6.4 million combined potential value), Air Combat Command (46 awards, $6 million), Air Force Materiel Command (37 awards, $10 million), Air Force Test Center (36 awards, $6.6 million), and the Air Force (35 awards, $5.5 million). When ranked by potential value, the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center dominates with 27 awards carrying $18.8 million in combined potential value — a concentration signal indicating sustained platform modernization and test-center work. The two rankings show alignment: Air Force inventory concentration is persistent across both volume and dollars.

Curtiss-Wright DS places the majority of task orders under the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (237 task orders, $39.9 million combined potential value), supplementing a smaller set of agency-specific IDICs including an indefinite delivery contract with the Air Force (FA930223D0002, 4 task orders, $450 thousand combined potential value). The MAS vehicle is the primary conduit for task order issuance across Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps customers, enabling rapid order placement for software renewals, hardware refreshes, and sustainment.

Activity has grown materially — from 13 prime awards in 2022 to 41 in 2024 — though 2025 slowed to 27 awards and 2026 carries only 2 awards to date as of the May 27, 2026 source snapshot. Across the next twenty-four months, 9 awards (combined potential value $2.2 million) reach ultimate completion, creating recompete exposure for the vendor and recompete opportunity for competitors.

In its subcontractor role, Curtiss-Wright DS delivers BOSS software, product support, and tactical data link integration services to major defense primes including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, The Boeing Company, L3Harris Technologies, Sikorsky Aircraft, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada Company, The MITRE Corporation, and others. Recent sub work includes Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) integration support to Sikorsky (January 2024, involving SIMPLE Interface units and Gold product support plans), F-15 flight test base support to Boeing (September 2024), and Korea F-16 M6 upgrade Link-16 simulation software to Lockheed Martin (September 2024). The subcontract footprint is secondary to the prime business but signals deep embedding in airframe and combat systems modernization programs across multiple service branches.

Curtiss-Wright DS competes entirely on full-and-open procurement; no set-asides (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB) appear in the source. The sole-source posture on many awards reflects standard IP justifications for proprietary BOSS systems, not small business set-aside reserve. Combined obligated dollars ($95.6 million) marginally exceed combined potential value ($93.4 million), indicating high contract execution and revenue realization across the 428-award footprint.