Lau Defense & Vista Controls is now Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
In January 2012, Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions was formed through a merging of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing and Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. As part of this organization, Curtiss-Wright Controls brought together many previously acquired companies to form the defense industries largest COTS module and systems company. Lau Defense and Vista Controls was one of these companies previously acquired by Curtiss-Wright Controls.
For more information about the original acquisition of Lau Defense and Vista Controls, please review the following press release issued in 2001.
Acquisition of Lau Defense & Vista Controls
Curtiss-Wright Controls buys Lau Defense Systems and Vista Controls
LYNDHURST, N.J. – November 2001 – Curtiss-Wright Corporation today announced the completion of its acquisition of Lau Defense Systems and Vista Controls, Inc. Curtiss-Wright's agreement to acquire LDS and Vista Controls from Lau Acquisition Corporation was announced on October 25, 2001.
LDS and its Vista operation design and manufacture "mission-critical" electronic control systems primarily for the defense market. Also acquired was the LDS perimeter intrusion detection security system product line and an agreement to definitize a license to market and manufacture Lau Technologies' latest patented "Face in the Crowd" facial recognition product line for certain U.S. Government and industrial markets.
The acquisition expands Curtiss-Wright's position in the defense electronics market. Curtiss-Wright currently provides electronic aiming and stabilization system components for European manufacturers of military armored vehicles, and the components supplied by LDS and Vista to the U.S. market will complement those and create cross-marketing opportunities to an expanded customer base.