Curtiss-Wright’s Acra KAM-500 data acquisition units (DAU) are airborne acquisition and transmission systems that utilize chassis with a standard backplane that accepts over 100+ user selected modules. This highly configurable system enables fully customized systems to be built using COTS products. From their inception, the DAU’s were designed specifically to optimally balance small size with high performance to be the perfect fit for the majority of FTI and rugged data acquisition applications.