Curtiss Wright (CW) FY2025 results: revenue $3.5 billion, up 12.1% on the year

Curtiss-Wright is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina that makes engineered products and provides services mainly for aerospace and defense markets, and also for commercial nuclear power, process and industrial markets. Its customers include defense prime contractors, commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and energy and manufacturing companies. The company traces its history to the Wright Brothers, and states that its products were on the first nuclear naval vessel and used in the first commercial nuclear power plant.

Aerospace & Industrial

This segment sells mainly to commercial aerospace and general industrial markets, and to a lesser extent defense. It makes sensors, controls and electro-mechanical actuation components for commercial and military aircraft. It provides surface technology services such as shot peening, laser peening and engineered coatings. For industrial and specialty vehicles it makes power management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters and control systems.

Defense Electronics

This segment sells mainly to government defense customers in aerospace, ground and naval defense, and to a lesser extent commercial aerospace. Its products include commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing modules and processing equipment, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation, integrated subsystems, tactical communications for battlefield network management, and electronic stabilization products. The company states that it has content on more than 400 defense platforms and more than 3,000 programs worldwide, across fighter jets, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, ground combat vehicles, surface ships and submarines. It also sells avionics, flight test equipment and aircraft data recorders to commercial aerospace.

Naval & Power

For the U.S. Navy it supplies naval propulsion and auxiliary equipment, including main coolant pumps, compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves and secondary propulsion systems, for the Virginia-class and Columbia-class submarine programs and the Ford-class aircraft carrier program. It repairs and maintains ships for the Navy's Atlantic and Pacific fleets through three coastal service centers, and makes aircraft arresting systems such as energy absorbers and retractable hook cable systems. For commercial nuclear power it supplies hardware, valves, fastening systems, containment doors, airlock hatches, simulation equipment and spent fuel management products. Most of its revenue in that market supports the maintenance of reactors across North America, and the company states that it has content on every reactor operating in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. For new plants it supplies reactor coolant pumps and control rod drive mechanisms, most notably for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design.

Customers and contracts

The company has hundreds of customers, and no customer accounted for more than 10% of total net sales in 2025, 2024 or 2023. More than half of its sales go to the U.S. Government and foreign government end use. Government contracts can be terminated at the customer's option, and under fixed-price contracts the company usually absorbs the majority of any cost overrun.

Plants and people

Its principal U.S. manufacturing facilities are in Arizona, California, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and outside the U.S. it manufactures in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. At the end of 2025 it had approximately 9,100 employees in more than 20 countries, approximately 6% of them represented by labor unions.

From Curtiss-Wright's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

Written from the 10-K filed 12 February 2026: read the full 10-K.