• Superior Product Reliability & Quality

• Design Expertise & Flexibility

• Uncompromising After-sale Service & Support

• Deep knowledge of Military Applications, Specs & Procurement Processes

• Extensive Parts & Component Availability

CRI offers reliable, quality solutions that address rugged defense / military computer systems requirements faced by our US and international customers. CRI’s design expertise and flexibility allow CRI to offer both standard and custom solutions, including interconnect wire / cable assemblies for use across a variety of demanding defense applications.

Typical Programs and Applications for Rugged Defense / Military Computer Systems

CRI brings our extensive design and development experience as well as a deep knowledge of military ruggedization requirements to each of our customers’ projects. CRI works closely with defense prime contractors and integrators to create custom designs, prototypes and production quantities in support of many different defense programs and initiatives:

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Surveillance Drones, Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), autonomous vehicles
• Rotorcraft, Transport and Combat Helicopters, Tiltrotor Aircraft
• Littoral Combat Ship, Small Surface Ships, Special Operations, Assault Transport
• Ground Mobile Support Systems
• Mobile Communications Networks
• Service-life Extension, Tech(nology) Insertion, Equipment Upgrades, Refurbishment and Replacement

CRI complements its product designs with extensive parts availability, years of experience working with military and prime contractor procurement processes, and uncompromising after-sale service and support to provide reliable products and systems that serve a broad spectrum of defense / military applications:

• Surveillance Systems
• Airborne Control and Surveillance
• Image processing and distribution
• Threat Identification Systems
• Situational Awareness Systems
• Sensor System Integration and Processing
• Ground Combat Support Systems
• Vehicle-Mounted Control Systems
• Fire Control Systems
• Command and Control Systems
• Mobile Command-Post Support
• First-Responder Command Stations
• Mobile Networks
• Equipment Monitoring
• Transportable Training Systems
• Mobile Training Systems
• Highly Compute-Intensive Applications

Additional Services

The needs of CRI customers often extend beyond product design, development and production into various support services that provide even greater long-term system performance assurances. In response to these additional, often mission-critical needs, CRI offers these program-specific services to our customers:

• Environmental Testing and Analysis
• Configuration Management
• Life-Cycle and Obsolescence Management
• Spares/Lifetime Buys
• Extended Warranty and other After-Sale Support

Standard Rugged Products / Offerings

CRI has a variety of standard product offerings for military / defense computer systems that are configurable based on situation-specific functional requirements. Please click one of the links below to view these standard offerings and their specifications:

• Rugged Computers
• Rugged Flat Panel Displays
• Industrial Flat Panel Displays
• Rugged Network Routers & KVM Switches

Design and Manufacture of Custom Products / Systems

• Custom Rugged Flat Panel Displays
• Custom Rugged Computers
• Custom Rugged Network Routers and KVM Switches
• Custom Rugged Storage Systems
• Custom Rugged Embedded Systems
• Custom Rugged Equipment Enclosures

CRI's Qualifications for Development and Deployment of Rugged Defense / Military IT Systems

Program Support

CRI’s ruggedization and build-to-print operations are significant and growing, and continue to serve military and commercial customers worldwide. A short list of CRI program and customer support for rugged defense IT systems includes:

• F-16 Aircraft
• Panel assemblies, loose wire assemblies
• P-3 Special Operations Aircraft
• Rugged rack-mount SGI/Octane workstations
• Joint Tactical Air/Ground Station
• Rack-mounted workstations, displays for ground systems
• Flying Radar Test Bed
• FAA-certified rugged servers / systems for acquisition & processing of radar test data
• M1 Tank (US Army)
• Cable harnesses
• Rugged defense IT system, now in sea trials on USS Shiloh Area Air Defense Commander (AADC)
• Photonic Mast System – Virginia Class Submarines
• Mil-Spec computers with custom power supply

Certification and Standards

For CRI customers, we know that certifications and standards are vitally important to their solutions as well as their decision-making process. CRI is ISO 9001-2008, AS9100, and AS9120 certified and is compliant with AS9102 First Article Inspection reporting. In addition, CRI also designs and tests its products to meet, per customer requirements, a wide variety of military and other standards, including:

• Mil-Std-810F, 810G (selected procedures - shock, vibration, sand and dust, pressure altitude, thermal, humidity, fungus)
• Mil-Std-901D Grade A and Grade B Shock
• Mil-Std-1474 Noise Limits
• Mil-Std-167 Vibration
• Mil-Std-461 for conducted and radiated emissions and susceptibility
• NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association)
• Other Environmental/Spatial Specifications as required

Background and Experience

CRI’s qualifications to provide ruggedization and assembly services are as unique as they are deep and varied, and we look forward to applying our capabilities and expertise to your challenging and mission-critical programs:

• We have managed many major manufacturing and assembly projects through design, development, test and production.
• CRI has a formal quality system based on ISO 9001 and AS9100 with Registration by BSI since 1999.
• We have applied AS9100 quality processes to many avionics projects / programs, including: F-16, Boeing P8A, Boeing 727, Cessna & Learjet commercial business aircraft.
• Our managers and engineers have extensive experience delivering Programs, both large and small, on time and with high quality.
• Our engineering team has extensive experience in development and testing of electromechanical assemblies for major military / aerospace programs, including: P-3, ES-3A, S3-B, Trident submarine, and Titan missile.
• Many of our staff members have previous employment with defense and space contractors, and fully grasp the critical nature of quality and reliability for field-deployable systems.
• We have provided thousands of systems used by soldiers, sailors, and airmen.
• CRI systems and deliverables are used in every corner of the globe and in a variety of harsh environments.
• We have a large network of relationships with high quality suppliers of electronics, components, etc.