Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc.

Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc., operating as Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and doing business as Curtiss-Wright C5ISR Mission Solutions, is a manufacturer of ruggedized electronic components, mission-critical networking equipment, and subsystems for defense and aerospace applications, competing as a prime contractor on 71% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on 29%, with no SBA set-aside posture across its federal footprint. The company is a subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., headquartered in Tigard, Oregon.

Curtiss-Wright DS commands concentrated market presence in naval systems and air defense platforms. The top five customer agencies account for 58% of recent awards by count and 57% by combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command dominates both metrics with 72 awards carrying $14 million in combined potential value, followed by Naval Supply Systems Command (63 awards, $3.6 million), Naval Air Systems Command (29 awards, $1.7 million), and Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (11 awards, $1.5 million). Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center and Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command round out the active set. Work centers on electronic computer manufacturing (94 awards) and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing (41 awards), with secondary emphasis on aircraft manufacturing and electronic component manufacturing. PSC concentration reflects this: electronic countermeasures and quick-reaction capability equipment (43 awards), miscellaneous aircraft accessories and components (25 awards), and information technology components and peripherals (44 awards combined).

Recent capability examples include a $78 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded September 2025 by ACC Redstone to supply a ruggedized computer processing subsystem for the TPY-2 Army air defense system at Letterkenny Army Depot, a $1.127 million sole-source purchase order from Coast Guard in September 2024 for 60 DuraMAR 6300 mobile access routers and SmartNet IOS licenses for HC-144 and HC-130J aircraft, and a $201 thousand purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center in December 2024 for DuraMAR 6300 routers and DuraNET 3300 Ethernet switches. Earlier prime work included $86 thousand and $132 thousand sole-source orders from Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Supply Systems Command for power supplies and interface units in 2022–2023.

Activity has grown sharply over the past three years — 7 awards in 2022 to 53 in 2025 — though the source covers only two awards year-to-date in 2026. The company holds positions on five named indefinite delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0016407D8287 (36 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract FA868920D2020 (23 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0016410DWS25 (11 task orders, $109 thousand), Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract (11 task orders), and Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V (9 task orders). The source also names one Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle from Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded December 2023 with a $187 thousand ceiling for Ethernet switch hardware.

Subcontractor footprint is extensive and defense-platform-heavy. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems anchors the sub workload across MQ-9 Reaper proliferated low-earth-orbit programs and related initiatives, with dozens of awards from September 2024 forward supplying DuraMAR routers, DuraCOR mission computers, and Ethernet switches for airborne integration. Raytheon Company receives Parvus network equipment and life-cycle support across A3 Sentinel radar programs. L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems and L3 Technologies use Curtiss-Wright subsystems and chassis for Armed Overwatch and ROVER 6S programs. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation subcontracts the company for Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) hardware full-rate production on the Polish WISLA Phase II program. Lockheed Martin, Sierra Nevada Company, BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Boeing, and Bell Textron complete the prime contractor set. Subcontract work emphasizes ruggedized routers, switches, mission computers, and components for airborne, maritime, and ground vehicle platforms. The combined potential value across all 358 awards (prime and sub) is $38.1 million, though combined dollars obligated reach $93.1 million, signaling high task-order and modification activity against lower ceiling values. The company competes full-and-open without set-aside protection, positioning it as a capability-driven vendor in the defense electronics and subsystem market.