ABOUT
High-performance Solutions
for Aerospace and Defense
Wolf Advanced Technology was founded with a bold and clear ambition: to close the gap between rapid commercial innovation and field-ready deployment in the world’s harshest environments.
In an industry where technological breakthroughs often stall at the lab bench or get lost in bureaucratic timelines, WOLF emerged as a different kind of embedded systems company. We recognized that war fighters, pilots, and engineers on the front lines of defense and aerospace couldn’t wait for the next generation of AI, GPU, or sensor capabilities—they needed it now, and they needed it rugged.
From day one, we made it our mission to act as the engineering bridge between bleeding-edge commercial compute innovation and the uncompromising demands of mission-critical deployment. We embedded ourselves in the heart of tactical systems, building a team of elite engineers who not only understood performance, but respected the precision and compliance required in defense, aerospace, and industrial platforms.
Our early successes came not from splashy claims, but from quiet wins inside ISR pods, autonomous land vehicles, UAV payloads, and surveillance systems—places where failure isn’t an option and every millisecond matters.
Over time, word spread. Prime contractors, system integrators, and government programs began turning to WOLF not just for performance, but for partnership. They knew we would deliver modular, standards-aligned, and AI-optimized hardware—backed by rugged reliability, short lead times, and a fierce dedication to support.
Through every decision, we’ve held onto our belief: when commercial speed meets mission assurance, everything changes. Lives are protected. Discoveries are accelerated. And systems win where it counts—at the edge.
The following two-minute video provides some context for how WOLF products are used by the military and aerospace industries today.
A Brief History of WOLF
1990
1990
McLaren Industrial Computer Sales (MICS) was founded by Craig McLaren. MICS was a representative and distributor for embedded board, component, and systems manufacturers.
April 1999
Wolf Industrial Systems Inc. is founded by Craig McLaren to provide services such as embedded board distribution, systems integration, PCB design, mechanical design, and product customization

September 2003
Wolf Industrial Systems assumes the operations of sister company McLaren Industrial Computer Sales Inc. (MICS).

2010
Wolf Industrial Systems begins doing business as WOLF Advanced Technology, to better reflect WOLF’s focus on providing advanced technology to Aerospace and Defense customers.
2010
January 2011
WOLF delivers VPX video graphics solutions using a new high density MXC module which permits double the functionality of previous VPX modules.
August 2012
WOLF moves to a new, larger space in Uxbridge, Ontario.
October 2014
WOLF designs new NVIDIA Maxwell and Tesla K1 modules for aerospace and defense.

February 2015
WOLF designs 3U VPX boards with advanced AMD Radeon GPUs and WOLF’s FGX capture technology to produce a complete video processing unit, capable of capture, process, encode and display.

September 2016
WOLF delivers new NVIDIA Maxwell-2 Quadro and Tesla based products.
July 2017
WOLF delivers products that include the latest NVIDIA Quadro Pascal GPUs, extending the native GPU functionality with WOLF technology to provide capture, format conversion, analog video (no longer supported on the new GPUs), and customizable PCIe configurations.
April 2018
WOLF’s rapid growth prompts a move to a new location, tripling its space in a new modern building in Stouffville, Ontario.

August 2019
WOLF develops new NVIDIA Turing modules especially suited for high performance embedded computing (HPEC) and AI Inference.
December 2019
WOLF receives certification for AS9100D Quality Management System – Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations.
2020
July 2020
WOLF ships its first SOSA Aligned product, the VPX3U-XAVIER-SBC.

September 2020
WOLF presents “SOSA™ Aligned Multi-Role RF High Performance & Embedded Compute (RF HPEC) System” with Herrick Technology Laboratories at the 2020 SOSA Technical Interchange Meeting.
July 2021
WOLF delivers the VPX3U-RTX5000E-SWITCH, an innovative slot-saving design for HPEC systems that combines a GPU, a PCIe switch, and a GbE switch in one 3U VPX module.
November 2021
WOLF announces the development of new SOSA™ Aligned VPX and XMC modules powered by NVIDIA RTX™ Ampere, NVIDIA® ConnectX®, and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier™ Industrial platforms.
November 2023
WOLF delivers the first 3U VPX board powered by an NVIDIA RTX™ Ada GPU, the VPX3U-AD5000E-VO (WOLF-1538), a high-performance embedded compute and video output module.
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