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Curtiss-Wright announces plans for advanced surface treatment facility in Morocco to meet growing aerospace demand. PARAMUS, NJ, July 21, 2026 - Curtiss-Wright today announced a strategic expansion of its global footprint with plans for a new facility in Morocco. The company is actively evaluating potential sites to support a new state-of-the-art surface treatment facility in this growing aerospace hub. "Morocco has become a key growth location for premier aerospace manufacturers and their supply chain, and we are excited to provide critical surface treatment services to our valued customers", said Ray Lopuc, Senior Vice President and Division Lead, Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies. "We expect the facility to be fully operational by mid-2027".

Curtiss-Wright has emerged as a strong cash-producing industrial stock, according to StockStory analysis. The aerospace and maritime products provider demonstrated 11% annual revenue growth over the past two years alongside 18.9% earnings per share growth, boosted by share repurchases. The company's free cash flow margin expanded by 6.3 percentage points over five years, reaching 16.4%. Meanwhile, two industrial stocks face challenges. Trex Company's revenue declined 2.1% annually over two years, with its free cash flow margin shrinking by 8 percentage points over five years. Carrier Global saw earnings per share fall 6% annually despite revenue growth, suggesting declining profitability on incremental sales. Both companies showed shrinking returns on capital, indicating increasing competitive pressure.

NASA awards $5m contract to AiRANACULUS for lunar communications tech. AiRANACULUS to partner with NASA Ames, Nokia Federal Solutions, NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, Curtiss-Wright, Supermicro and Radisys to advance autonomous heterogeneous networking technologies through space flight testing. Massachusetts-based deep technology company AiRANACULUS has secured a $5m contract from NASA under the Civilian Commercialisation Readiness Pilot Programme (CCRPP) to advance intelligent communications technologies for future lunar and deep-space missions. The 24-month project will focus on developing next-generation heterogeneous communication networks capable of supporting NASA’s expanding lunar exploration initiatives. As part of the contract, AiRANACULUS will further enhance its Cross Layer Spectrum Aware Cognitive Control Plane and Intelligent Routing Engine (CLAIRE) and Intelligent Network Slicing and Policy-based Routing Engine (INSPiRE), two AI-powered platforms designed to improve the performance, resilience and adaptability of complex communication networks. The programme will be carried out in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center and a group of industry partners including NVIDIA, Nokia Federal Solutions, Dell Technologies, Curtiss-Wright, Supermicro and Radisys. The effort will also include integrated testing and spaceflight validation to advance the technologies toward operational deployment. The award comes as NASA and its partners continue to expand lunar exploration under the Artemis programme, creating demand for communications systems capable of supporting a wide range of applications. These include lunar habitats, robotic systems, autonomous vehicles, rovers, science payloads, mining operations, radio astronomy, lunar orbiters and future Mars missions. Such environments require seamless coordination across multiple communication technologies, including 4G/5G cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite communications operating across diverse frequency bands and conditions. AiRANACULUS said its CLAIRE and INSPiRE platforms are designed to deliver flexible and resilient connectivity between lunar surface operations, orbiting assets and cislunar infrastructure. CLAIRE dynamically manages networks through cross-layer sensing, adapting to changing radio frequency environments, reducing interference and congestion, and intelligently routing traffic to maintain mission-critical quality of service. INSPiRE extends these capabilities by enabling intelligent network slicing and policy-based orchestration across heterogeneous terrestrial and space-based networks using NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms, including the NVIDIA Aerial Testbed and NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip. Steve Vogelsang, Chief Technology Officer, at Nokia Federal Solutions, said: "Nokia Federal is proud to support the evolution of lunar communications infrastructure through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. AiRANACULUS’ CLAIRE architecture creates an important bridge between terrestrial 4G/5G systems, Wi-Fi, SATCOM, and cislunar communications while enabling more intelligent Delay Tolerant Networking across space environments." Joseph Korff, Founder of Arc Ventures, added: "The future of lunar exploration depends on resilient, adaptive, and interoperable communications architectures capable of supporting a broad range of missions and operational environments. AiRANACULUS’ technology represents an important building block for the future of lunar and space networking, and Arc Ventures has proudly invested in AiRANACULUS to build the foundation to support the Lunar economy and the next generation of intelligent, mission-critical networks." Dr Apurva N. Mody, Founder and CEO of AiRANACULUS, stated: "From resilient defense communications and interference-aware 5G systems to autonomous space networking, CLAIRE and INSPiRE represent the next evolution of intelligent communications infrastructure where reliability is mission critical, whether on Earth or beyond. This award validates our leadership for AI-driven, self-optimizing RF and networking systems and positions AiRANACULUS at the forefront of AI-RAN innovation for lunar and deep-space exploration." Through the CCRPP programme, NASA aims to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) of the CLAIRE and INSPiRE platforms through comprehensive testing and spaceflight demonstrations in partnership with NASA Ames Research Center.