Curtiss Wright Tech For S.Korean Army, AF Radars

Curtiss-Wright announced Friday that it has completed the development phase of a contract received from LIG Nex1 for supplying its rugged COTS-based radar processing module technology.

Under the agreement, Curtiss-Wright provides LIG Nex1 with its latest generation high performance OpenVPX modules, including high performance field-programmable gate array (FPGA), single board computer, DSP, Network Switch and FMC processing module products.

The radar processing module technology will be used in the Korean Army's Next-Generation Local Air Defense Radar and Korean Air Force's Long-Range Surveillance Radar programs.

These open architecture modules provide the pulse compression and beam forming processing for the Radar's new Signal Processing system. The development phase for the two Radar programs commenced in 2012 and was recently completed.

During the three-year development period, LIG Nex1 showed advanced capabilities such as Multiple Digital Beamforming and Pulse Compression on Curtiss-Wright's CHAMP-FX3 FPGA board and cutting-edge Radar signal processing algorithms on Curtiss-Wright's CHAMP-AV8. The products were shipped to LIG Nex1 in Korea.

Curtiss-Wright manufactured the products covered by this agreement at its facility in Ottawa, Canada.