Overview
Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company serving aerospace and defense, commercial nuclear power, process, and industrial markets. Its three business segments are Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power, with products and services including sensors and controls, electromechanical actuation, rugged computing and communications, naval propulsion equipment, nuclear-power solutions, and severe-service valves.[1][2][3][4][5]
The company operates internationally, with manufacturing locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, and its technologies support defense platforms and programs worldwide.[6][4] Curtiss-Wright describes its mission as supplying engineered products, services, solutions, and next-generation technologies to complex industries and demanding markets.[7] For scale, it reported fiscal 2025 net sales of $3.498 billion and 9,055 employees at December 31, 2025.[8][9] [1][2][3][4][5][6][8][7][9]
Products & services
Curtiss-Wright’s aerospace and industrial products include engineered sensors, controls and electromechanical actuation components; industrial power-management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters, joysticks and vehicle-control systems. Its offerings also include shot and laser peening, engineered coatings, and analytical testing services. Aerospace actuator applications include pilot, environmental and engine systems, doors and flight controls.[3][10][11]
Defense Electronics products include rugged embedded-computing modules and systems, data-acquisition and flight-test instrumentation, integrated subsystems, tactical communications and electronic stabilization equipment. The company also supplies commercial-aerospace avionics, aircraft data-recording and management solutions, and lifecycle-management and technology-refresh services. Its computing systems include rugged 3U and 6U VPX/VME platforms for air, land and sea applications.[4][12]
Naval and power products include submarine and carrier propulsion equipment, such as main coolant pumps, compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves and secondary propulsion systems. Nuclear-industry products include reactor coolant pumps, control-rod drive mechanisms, containment doors, airlock hatches and spent-fuel-management products; services include ship repair and maintenance, heat-exchanger repair, and piping testing and isolation. The company also makes aircraft-arresting systems; one military-aircraft net-barrier system is specified for energy absorption up to 125 million ft·lbf (170 MJ), engagement speeds up to 190 knots, and runout distances of 400–1,200 ft.[5][13][14]
For 2025, disclosed net sales were $2,977.233 million for products and $521.139 million for services, approximately 85.1% and 14.9% of total net sales, respectively; individual product categories were not assigned sales percentages.[15][8] [3][10][11][4][12][5][13][14][15][8][11][12][14]
Geographic presence
In FY2025, Curtiss-Wright reported revenue by customer geography of 72.8% from the United States, 5.6% from the United Kingdom and 21.5% from other foreign countries; the filing does not break out the latter group by country.[16] Its principal manufacturing facilities are in Arizona, California, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina in the U.S., and in Canada, Mexico and the U.K.[6]
At year-end 2025, long-lived assets were located mainly in the U.S. ($281.3 million), with $27.4 million in the U.K. and $73.5 million in other foreign countries.[17] The company’s facilities directory also lists locations in Germany, China and India, among other countries.[18] [16][16][16][6][17][17][17][18][18]
Business segments
Curtiss-Wright reports three business segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power.[2]
Aerospace & Industrial serves primarily commercial aerospace and general industrial markets, with some defense exposure. Its offerings include sensors, controls and electromechanical actuation; surface-treatment services; and power-management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters and control systems for industrial and specialty vehicles.[3] Defense Electronics focuses mainly on defense and government customers across aerospace, ground and naval defense, and also serves commercial aerospace. Its products include embedded computing, data-acquisition and flight-test instrumentation, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, tactical communications, and avionics.[4] Naval & Power serves naval defense, power and process markets, and to a lesser extent aerospace defense. Its activities include naval propulsion and auxiliary equipment, U.S. Navy ship repair and maintenance, aircraft-arresting systems, and equipment and services for nuclear power and process industries.[5]
Based on FY2025 segment sales divided by consolidated net sales of $3,498.372 million, approximate revenue contributions were Aerospace & Industrial 27.9% ($977.188 million), Defense Electronics 29.2% ($1,021.820 million), and Naval & Power 43.0% ($1,503.494 million).[19] Segment sales include intersegment revenue, so the rounded contributions total slightly over 100%. [2][3][4][5][19][19][19][19]
Company history
Curtiss-Wright was formed on July 5, 1929, through the merger of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and Wright Aeronautical, bringing together businesses associated with aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers.[7][20] The company began expanding beyond its aviation roots with the 1960 acquisition of Target Rock Corporation, followed by its 1968 acquisition of Metal Improvement Company, which established a foundation for its surface-treatment business.[21][7]
In the early 2000s, acquisitions broadened Curtiss-Wright’s capabilities in controls, naval systems, and industrial technology. In 2004, it completed 11 acquisitions, including Dy 4 Systems, as part of a major expansion that year.[22][23] Further acquisitions added electric actuation and rugged computing in 2013, flight-test and data-acquisition technology in 2017, and defense communications and shipboard systems from 2019 to 2020.[24][25][26][27][28][29]
Lynn M. Bamford became president and chief executive officer in 2021.[30] The company continued to expand in aerospace and nuclear technology through its 2022 acquisition of Safran Aerosystems Arresting Company, its 2024 acquisition of nuclear-plant simulation provider WSC, and its 2025 acquisition of Ultra Energy.[31][32][33] [7][20][21][23][22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
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