Tactical Air Support's F-5AT aircraft to incorporate Curtiss-Wright's data recorder, computer
NewsJanuary 17, 2019
ASHBURN, Va. Tactical Air Support, Inc. officials signed a contract with Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions -- a Curtiss-Wright business unit -- to provide a cockpit accessible rugged data recorder and a pre-integrated mission computer to upgrade its fleet of F-5AT Tiger II military supersonic tactical fighters.
Under contract, Curtiss-Wright will provide Tactical Air with its Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Parvus DuraCOR 8042 processor and Data Transport System 3-slot (DTS3) Network Attached Storage (NAS) file server. The DTS3 file server supports FIPS 140-2 hardware encrypted solid-state storage of mission data. It communicates via Ethernet to a modified version of Curtiss-Wright’s DuraCOR 80-42 modular mission computer subsystem.
The contract, which is valued at more than $1 million, is scheduled to run through the second quarter of 2019.
