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Curtiss-Wright Corporation

A maker of highly engineered equipment for aerospace, defense, and commercial power, Curtiss-Wright supplies sensors, reactor coolant pumps and valves for nuclear plants, and embedded computing used on hundreds of defense platforms worldwide. It was born in 1929 from a merger of companies founded by aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers — who, fittingly, had once been fierce courtroom rivals over who invented the airplane's controls.