Mercury Computer Systems
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 Front entrance of Mercury Systems' headquarters in Andover, MA
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| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States (1981) |
| Headquarters |
Andover, Massachusetts, United States |
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Key people
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Mark Aslett (President/CEO) |
| Revenue |
 $270 million USD (2016) |
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Number of employees
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1000 (January 2017) |
| Website | www |
Mercury Systems, Inc.( NASDAQ: MRCY ) is a leading commercial provider of secure and safety-critical processing subsystems for defense applications. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury is pioneering a next-generation defense electronics business model specifically designed to meet the industry’s current and emerging technology needs. Mercury has supplied processing subsystems to over 30 prime contractors, in over 300 programs. Their processing subsystems are used in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Radar, Electronic Warfare (EW), storage and guidance defense applications.
To meet Department of Defense (DOD) defense electronics procurement reform objectives, Mercury created a Next Generation Business Model. Defense procurement reform objectives are captured by the Department’s Better Buying Power 3.0 (BBP3.0) under the overarching theme of “Achieving Dominant Capabilities through Technical Excellence and Innovation.”
BBP3.0 highlights the need to leverage commercial technology through open system architectures thereby meeting agility, performance, interoperability and affordability objectives. Augmenting the requirements of BBP3.0 is the need to build security in to all defense processing systems to counter emerging threats, cyberattacks and reverse engineering. Mercury’s next-generation defense electronics business model meets BBP3.0 and counter contemporary security objectives by:
• Quickly adopting the best commercial technology in support of defense programs and missions
• Investing in R&D to complement the Pentagon’s, prime-contractors’, defense and non-profit labs’ own initiatives
• Creating secure processing subsystem building-blocks for pre-integrating into defense programs
Mercury has a systematic approach to the creation of defense processing subsystems using a sensor processing chain methodology to define reusable building blocks. This business approach leverages best commercial technology making Mercury processing building blocks interoperable and standardized, so defense processing subsystems are quickly developed.
Open system architectures (OSA) are fundamental to meeting the DOD’s BBP 3.0 objectives and are aligned with Mercury’s business posture. The company pioneered many of today’s embedded protocols and processing standards including RapidIO and OpenVPX (ANSI/VITA 65 standard) which is the de facto embedded digital processing standard.
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