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Curtiss-Wright Awarded $4.25M Contract for U.S. Army Program

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July 30, 2008

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Award for Support of Future Combat Systems

ROSELAND, N.J., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Curtiss-Wright
Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced it was chosen for the development
and demonstration phase of the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems’ (FCS)
Integrated Computer System (ICS) program. Under terms of the contract with
General Dynamics C4 Systems and Rockwell Collins, Inc., Curtiss-Wright will
supply its Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module (GESM) to meet the performance
and reliability needs of the FCS, a family of advanced, networked air- and
ground-based military systems for use by the U.S. Army’s future forces.

“Curtiss-Wright is proud to supply our advanced open-standards based
networking products for the U.S. Army’s FCS/ICS program,” said Martin R.
Benante, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Curtiss-Wright. “We have
taken a leadership role in developing the new high performance standards
needed to meet emerging defense applications and we are committed to
delivering products based on these standards that should provide maximum
throughput, compatibility and computing power.”

General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins provide the computer processing,
networking, information assurance and data storage resources necessary to
support the network-centric operations of FCS.

The GESM contract will be fulfilled by the Curtiss-Wright Motion
Control segment facility in Ottawa, Canada and shipped to Rockwell Collins.
Curtiss-Wright will supply the General Dynamics/Rockwell team with a rugged
VPX-based line replaceable module, called the VPX3-683. VPX3-683 technology
supports “in-the-field” servicing, enabling the replacement of individual
cards rather than entire card-filled subsystems, thus reducing cost,
complexity and logistics. The company’s GESM design utilizes
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products, which eliminates custom design
and support costs and provides cost-effective, readily available,
technically-current and future-tolerant core functionality for the FCS
system.

The award also includes a services contract to be provided by
Curtiss-Wright with a production phase option planned to start in 2010.

About Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a diversified company headquartered in
Roseland, N.J. The company designs, manufactures and overhauls products for
motion control and flow control applications, and provides a variety of
specialized metal treatment services. The firm employs approximately 7,600
people worldwide. More information on Curtiss-Wright can be found at
http://www.curtisswright.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is
the Motion Control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. With
manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a
leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control
products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and
defense markets. For more information, visit http://www.cwcontrols.com.

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