Mercury Systems has been awarded a three-year, $32.5 million long-term supplier agreement from an unidentified defense prime contractor to provide GPS modules for precision guided munitions. Mercury said Thursday it will provide GPS SAASM receivers under the LTSA. Charlie Leader, a senior vice president and general manager at Mercury, said the company will work to deliver secure and rugged technology […] More

Mercury Systems has unveiled a rackmount server for the defense sector designed to perform mission processing, sensor processing and cybersecurity applications at the annual Association of the U.S. Army meeting in Washington. The company said Oct. 3 the ATX-class servers will work to address market demand for systems to protect mission-required functions and support command-and-control, battle management […] More

A defense contractor has awarded Mercury Systems a $4.4 million follow-on order for manned airborne sonar digital signal processing subsystems. The company said Thursday it booked the order in the last quarter of fiscal 2016 and is set to ship the subsystems through the next several quarters. Didier Thibaud, Mercury Systems’ executive vice president and chief operating […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $2.8 million follow-on order from a defense contractor to produce digital processing subsystems for an unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the subsystems in the company’s fiscal 2017 third quarter, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. Didier Thibaud, an executive vice president […] More

Mercury Systems has been awarded a $4.7 million contract to build digital transceivers intended to support electronic warfare missions at a government-run facility. The company said Wednesday it booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year 2016 and is scheduled to deliver the transceivers to the facility over the next several quarters. Charlie Hudnall, vice president and general manager for the embedded sensor products […] More

Mercury Systems has secured $4.2 million follow-on order from an undisclosed defense contractor to provide digital signal processing modules for an unmanned airborne synthetic aperture radar. The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-headquartered company said Tuesday the order is scheduled to be delivered by the second quarter of fiscal year 2017. Didier Thibaud, Mercury’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, said […] More

NASA’s Planetary Data System has unveiled Mercury’s initial global digital elevation model produced through the use of at least 100,000 images and data collected by the space agency’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said Friday the global DEM details the planet’s lowest and highest elevation and other topographic features. […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $4 million order for radio frequency test systems from an aerospace-and-defense contractor and another $2.9 million in orders for digital signal and image processing modules from a second A&D company. The first unnamed A&D contractor will apply the radio frequency test systems to a missile defense application, Mercury Systems said Monday. The second unidentified defense contractor will also […] More

A Mercury Systems subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $41.8 million contract to build 200 miniaturized digital radio frequency memory modulators for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday Mercury Defense Systems will also provide repair and evaluation services for the mini I/J band DRFMs. Miniaturized DRFMs work to help users produce high-fidelity threat simulation tools […] More

Mercury Systems has landed a $5.2 million contract to supply radar subsystems and digital processing tools to a defense company that is building a missile weapon system. Mercury said Wednesday it booked the order during the fourth quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the products in the coming quarters. Didier […] More

A Mercury Systems division has secured a $7.6 million order to provide digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. The order received by Mercury Defense Systems is a follow-on to a five-year basic ordering agreement awarded by the service branch, Mercury Systems said Monday. Brian Perry, president of Mercury Defense Systems, said the […] More

Mark Newman, formerly chairman and CEO of DRS Technologies, has joined the board of directors of Mercury Systems. Newman was instrumental in growing the DRS business before Finmeccanica acquired the company for $5.2 billion in 2008, Mercury Systems said Monday. “His tenure in the defense industry and focus on innovation as well as mergers and […] More