Mercury Computer Systems Delivers Radar Processing Subsystems and Integration Services to Leading International Prime for Next-Generation Maritime Radar

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a leading provider of open, embedded, high-performance computing systems, software, and services for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, announced delivery of its network-enabled radar processing subsystems and comprehensive integration services to a leading international prime, for its next-generation maritime radar to be deployed on surface fleet vessels and aircraft carriers.  

Mercury's Services and Systems Integration (SSI) team integrated Mercury and third-party components to deliver standards-based subsystems using its VXS high-density processing modules and multicomputing software suite, combined with the Serial Front Panel Data Port sensor interface and the RapidIO® switch. As a result, the fully open subsystems will help to minimize customer risk and accelerate the customer's time to deployment.

"Our customer's next-generation radar is designed to meet the stringent size, weight and power, or SWaP requirements of the system it will replace, and to improve the performance of their customer's primary sensing capability, particularly when operating in a complex littoral, or shoreline environment," said Brian Hoerl, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Advanced Computing Solutions at Mercury Computer Systems. "Mercury's SSI team successfully met our customer's SWaP requirements and aggressive schedule, delivering network-enabled radar subsystems that preserve the customer's software investment and ensure a migration path for future technology insertions."

For more information on Mercury's performance advantage in delivering leading-edge, open architecture computing systems, visit www.mc.com/products/services.aspx, or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or [email protected].

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Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) provides open, embedded computing systems, software, and services that combine image, signal, and sensor processing with information management for data-intensive applications. With deep expertise in optimizing algorithms and software and in leveraging industry-standard technologies, we work closely with customers to architect comprehensive, purpose-built solutions that capture, process, and present data for defense electronics, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, commercial computing, homeland security, and other computationally challenging commercial markets. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 25+-year history in enabling customers to gain the competitive advantage they need to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.

Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.

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