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Curtiss-Wright Acquires Irish Defense Electronics Firm

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, August 5th, 2011

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Curtiss-Wright [CW] on Friday said it has acquired Ireland-based ACRA Control, Ltd., a designer and producer of data acquisition technology and telemetry ground stations for commercial aerospace and defense customers. Curtiss-Wright paid $61 million in cash for ACRA, which will operate within the Integrated Sensing division of Curtiss-Wright Controls. ACRA’s key technologies are modular data acquisition systems, solid state recorders, Ethernet switches and networking components, wireless data transmission, telemetry ground stations and ground station analysis software. “This acquisition launches Curtiss-Wright…

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