NASA has granted its Group Achievement Award to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory personnel and external partners who contributed to a Mercury mission that concluded three years ago. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, mission, which was intended to orbit and examine the planet Mercury, lasted for over four years […] More

Mercury Systems has received the International Aerospace Quality Group certification for quality management at its facilities in Alabama, California, Indiana and Switzerland. The company said Thursday the Aerospace Standard 9100D certification adds to the  AS9100C and/or ISO 9001 designations given to its other sites. Dean Holman, senior director for global mission assurance at Mercury Systems, said the company […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $3.2 million order to deliver ruggedized memory devices to a prime defense contractor for an effort to develop an advanced airborne military computing system. The company said Thursday the computing system will be equipped with the BuiltSECURE products that include high density secure memory hardware and military-grade solid-state drives. The product suite also consists of selective […] More

Michelle McCarthy, former corporate controller at Analog Devices, has joined defense electronics manufacturer Mercury Systems as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller. Mercury Systems said Tuesday McCarthy will report to Chief Financial Officer Michael Ruppert and oversee the company’s financial reporting, accounting and tax operations. The certified public accountant previously served as corporate financial reporting manager at J. Jill and manager […] More

Mercury Systems has introduced a multilevel cell solid-state drive technology designed for rugged military environments. BuiltSECURE TRRUST-Stor features Mercury Systems’ ARMOR 4 NAND processor and a multilevel cell flash technology built in a 2.5-inch form factor enclosure, the company said Tuesday. The SSD architecture is designed to withstand mechanical shock and vibration conditions that are common in military deployment areas. […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $3.9 million follow-on order from a defense company to produce solid-state drives for use in airborne mission management efforts. Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury Systems said Thursday it booked the order during the second quarter of its 2018 fiscal year and scheduled to deliver military-grade SSDs to the customer over the next several quarters. The […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $2.5 million task order to deliver storage appliances in support of an undisclosed military-use product being developed by a prime defense contractor. The company said Friday the custom storage appliances to be delivered were built with TRRUST-Stor secure solid-state drive devices that make use of Mercury’s ARMOR processor. The company’s SSD technology integrates algorithms and […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $2.2 million microelectronics order from a defense contractor that currently supports a U.S. ballistic missile defense program. The order is for radio frequency modules that will be integrated into the radar system of a ballistic missile defense platform, Mercury Systems said Thursday. Kevin Beals, vice president and general manager at the company’s […] More

Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, and Mary Louise Krakauer, former executive vice president and chief information officer at Dell, have been appointed to the board of directors at Mercury Systems. The latest appointments bring the number of Mercury Systems’ board members to nine, including eight independent directors, the company said Thursday. Mark […] More

Mercury Systems has obtained design service accreditation from a Defense Department organization for its microelectronics facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The Advanced Microelectronics Center in Phoenix is the company’s second facility to obtain the Category 1A Trusted Supplier certification for design services from DoD’s Defense Microelectronics Activity organization, Mercury Systems said Wednesday. The accreditation seeks to […] More

Mercury Systems has introduced a set of products designed to help address mission computing, avionics and platform management requirements of defense and commercial aerospace organizations. The Mercury Mission Systems product line is comprised of avionics-certified Ethernet and input/output systems, command and control processors, flight test computers, graphics and video processing, mission computers and primary flight control units, the company said Thursday. The portfolio […] More

Mercury Systems Inc. will supply advanced digital radio frequency memory jammers to the U.S. Navy under a $10.8 million follow-on order to the company’s five-year sole source basic ordering agreement. The company booked the order in its fiscal 2017 second quarter and will deliver the items over the next several quarters, Mercury Systems said Thursday. […] More