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Mercury Systems is the leader in providing mission-critical processing power to the edge to solve the most pressing challenges in the aerospace and defense industry.

Combining technologies and expertise developed for more than 40 years, the Mercury Processing Platform offers a flexible combination of standard products and integrated solutions that enable customers to turn data into decisions. Our products and solutions are developed for a broad range of applications, utilizing unique capabilities and cutting-edge technologies, and span the full breadth of signal processing—from RF front end to the human-machine interface.

THE MERCURY PROCESSING PLATFORM

Introduce capabilities more quickly and with lower risk

The “core” of the Mercury Processing Platform includes the critical technologies necessary for mission success, including Signal, Compute, Data Management, and Security, made available from silicon to system scale with our key differentiators: Purpose Built, Trusted and Secure, Software Defined and Open and Modular. 

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THE MERCURY PROCESSING PLATFORM

Capabilities

We employ breakthrough capabilities to deliver rapid innovation to the edge, including chip-scale system development, open systems architectures, and MBSE.

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Technologies

We make trusted, secure technologies profoundly more accessible to A&D, including direct RF, secure processing, and anti-tamper.

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Applications

Our technologies, product lines and innovative solutions empower challenging applications in some of the harshest environments, from electronic warfare to artificial intelligence.

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Domains

We bring some of the most advanced technologies to every corner of the globe and into space.

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Strategic Relationships

Through close collaboration with our Silicon Valley partners, we deliver high-performance, open architecture solutions purpose-built for mission-critical applications.

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TECHNOLOGIES

Mercury’s capabilities are enabled by advanced technologies to address our A&D customers’ unique challenges and requirements.
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DOMAINS

Mercury solutions support more than 300 platforms and programs and are deployed across Land, Sea, Air, Space and Cyberspace domains.

APPLICATIONS

Mercury products and solutions, considered essential to many advanced aerospace and defense programs around the globe, target an overall addressable market of approximately $40 billion.
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A NEW PARADIGM OF MISSION SYSTEMS

CHALLENGE: Interoperability

SOLUTION: Next-Level Integrated Avionics

Our mission systems expertise in avionics solutions is built on four decades of successfully delivering fully integrated, safety-certifiable and easily adaptable solutions.

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SPACE-QUALIFIED MICROELECTRONICS

CHALLENGE: Space-Grade Reliability

SOLUTION: Devices with Zero In-Flight Failures

Mercury has delivered more than 20,000 space-qualified devices with no in-flight failures, including on every Mars Rover expedition. Our custom microelectronics solutions are radiation-tolerant and purpose-built to operate in space.

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AUTONOMOUS OPERATION BUILT ON TRUST

CHALLENGE: Tackling Workloads on Unmanned Vehicles

SOLUTION: Safety-Certifiable Multicore Processors

Traditional single-core processors are unable to meet the processing demands of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Mercury works closely with Intel to bring powerful, multicore, safety-certifiable processing solutions to a new generation of UAVs.

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STAYING AHEAD OF CYBER THREATS

CHALLENGE: Cyber Attacks on Your System

SOLUTION: Security Built In, Not Bolted On

Security of aerospace and defense platforms and missions is not an option, it’s a must-have. Mercury’s advanced embedded security solutions deliver security that is built in, not bolted on.

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SEE CLEARLY, DAY OR NIGHT

CHALLENGE: Accurately Identify Targets More Quickly

SOLUTION: Displays that See Further with Greater Clarity

Mercury displays are engineered for operators to see clearly in the most extreme environments. Found in the world’s most prestigious cockpits and instrument panels, our display solutions are designed using highly specialized active matrix liquid crystal displays to provide superior situational awareness either by night or day for military combat vehicles.

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GROUND-BASED RADAR PROCESSING

CHALLENGE: Track More Targets Faster

SOLUTION: Data Center at the Edge

Mercury delivers the power of the data center to the tactical edge. A common enterprise architecture spanning rackmount, OpenVPX and custom small-form factors allow radar installations to differentiate and track smaller targets, further away, in all directions.

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RUGGED SEA-WORTHY SOLUTIONS THAT LAST

CHALLENGE: Affordable, Long-lifecycle High-Performance Computing

SOLUTION: Scalable Solutions for Naval Platforms

Long-lasting high-performance computing and electronics designed for naval platforms are often expensive and difficult to upgrade. Mercury’s affordable and scalable datacenter-caliber processing solutions, as well as mixed-signal and microwave components, operate reliably in the harsh and corrosive conditions at sea.

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ALTV

SEE CLEARLY, DAY OR NIGHT

CHALLENGE: Accurately Identify Targets More Quickly

SOLUTION: Displays that See Further with Greater Clarity

Mercury displays are engineered for operators to see clearly in the most extreme environments. Found in the world’s most prestigious cockpits and instrument panels, our display solutions are designed using highly specialized active matrix liquid crystal displays to provide superior situational awareness either by night or day for military combat vehicles.

Missile

GROUND-BASED RADAR PROCESSING

CHALLENGE:Track More Targets Faster

SOLUTION:Data Center at the Edge

Mercury delivers the power of the data center to the tactical edge. A common enterprise architecture spanning rackmount, OpenVPX and custom small-form factors allow radar installations to differentiate and track smaller targets, further away, in all directions.

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Ship

RUGGED SEA-WORTHY SOLUTIONS THAT LAST

CHALLENGE: Affordable, Long-lifecycle High-Performance Computing

SOLUTION: Scalable Systems for Naval Platforms

Long-lasting high-performance computing and electronics designed for naval platforms are often expensive and difficult to upgrade. Mercury’s affordable and scalable datacenter-caliber processing solutions, as well as mixed-signal and microwave components, operate reliably in the harsh and corrosive conditions at sea.

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F35

A NEW PARADIGM OF MISSION SYSTEMS

CHALLENGE: Interoperability

SOLUTION: Next-Level Integrated Avionics

Our mission systems expertise in avionics solutions is built on four decades of successfully delivering fully integrated, safety-certifiable and easily adaptable solutions.

Drone

AUTONOMOUS OPERATION BUILT ON TRUST

CHALLENGE: Tackling Workloads on Unmanned Vehicles

SOLUTION: Safety-Certifiable Multicore Processors

Traditional single-core processors are unable to meet the processing demands of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Mercury works closely with Intel to bring powerful, multicore, safety-certifiable processing solutions to a new generation of UAVs.

SPACE+
Satellite

SPACE-QUALIFIED MICROELECTRONICS

CHALLENGE: Space-Grade Reliability

SOLUTION: Devices with Zero In-Flight Failures

Mercury has delivered more than 20,000 space-qualified devices with no in-flight failures, including every Mars Rover expedition. Our solutions are radiation-tolerant and purpose-built to operate in space.

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Shield

STAYING AHEAD OF CYBER THREATS

CHALLENGE: Cyber Attacks on Your System

SOLUTION: Security Built In, Not Bolted On

Security of aerospace and defense platforms and missions is not an option, it’s a must-have. Mercury’s advanced embedded security systems deliver security that is built in, not bolted on.

DELIVERED UNCOMPROMISED
BY THE NUMBERS

100% DCSA superior ratings at all sites
4 Number of Cogswell Awards
100% DFARS controls compliant, third-party verified

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Mercury’s commitment to investing for the Digital Age extends to how we architect and design our products.

By leveraging leading artificial intelligence (AI), commercial cloud and product development technologies in DevSecOps, agile principles, cloud native architecture and digital thread, we future-proof A&D customer applications and platforms, making them more affordable, safe and relevant.

We have several other initiatives in flight including Insider Trust, Cybersecurity, Supply Chain Management and Trusted Microelectronics, all key elements of delivering uncompromised solutions to our customers.

 

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INVESTING IN TRUSTED MICROELECTRONICS
TO PUSH PROCESSING TO THE EDGE

Mercury invests in research and development at 4–5 times the industry average as a percentage of revenue to deliver the latest technologies to aerospace and defense quickly and affordably.

Our technology investments have pioneered the development of many of the aerospace and defense industry’s current and emerging open standards. We continue our leadership today as an innovator in game-changing chiplet technology, bringing open systems architectures down to chip scale. 

By accelerating trusted microelectronics innovation, Mercury is rapidly integrating the latest-generation technologies to push processing to the edge.

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PARTNERS HELP US MAKE TECHNOLOGY FROM SILICON VALLEY PROFOUNDLY MORE ACCESSIBLE TO A&D

Mercury leverages leading-edge technology to solve aerospace and defense challenges. Through close collaboration with our Silicon Valley partners, we deliver high-performance, open architecture solutions purpose-built for mission-critical applications.

Intel Micron Xilinx

Nvidia Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Case Study

Edge processing for mission success

Challenge: Convert vast amounts of sensor data into meaningful information and deliver it securely to the right people, at the right time, in remote locations on land, air or at sea where cloud computing cannot reach.

Solution: Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) right at the tactical edge for big data analytics.

Result: By using edge computing and AI for analytics, data can be deciphered at the source to obtain real-time insights. Mercury Systems accelerates AI analytics with agile edge servers that meet your unique security and platform requirements.

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