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 …

Mercury Systems has landed a $1.5 million contract to provide signal processing subsystems for a radar system being built by a defense company. The defense firm ordered server-class radar signal processors that are designed with an advanced telecommunications computing architecture, Mercury said Thursday. Didier Thibaud, president of Mercury’s commercial electronics …

Mercury Systems will provide technical support for an unnamed company’s naval radar applications under a follow-on task order worth $5.7 million. The work will run for several months and include solutions for digital signal processing systems, the company said Thursday. Brian Hoerl, Mercury vice president of sales, indicated that the …

A Mercury Systems subsidiary has received a $2.6 million order to build digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. Mercury Defense Systems booked the order for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015 and the contract is a follow-on order under a five-year agreement with the Navy, Mercury Systems said. “The continued technology advancements are designed …

Mark Aslett, CEO of Mercury Systems, predicts the company will be open to acquisitions in the digital signal processing modules market during the next year, the Boston Business Journal reported Tuesday. David Harris writes Aslett said the firm could expand its portfolio by purchasing companies with radio frequency or microwave …

Lockheed Martin has awarded $4.7 million follow-on order to Mercury Systems for intermediate frequency receivers used in shipboard electronic warfare. Mercury Systems booked the orders during its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and will deliver the digital IF receivers to Lockheed in the first quarter of 2014, the company said Thursday. …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 21, 2021 — Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) Chief Technology Officer William Conley was appointed to serve a six-year term on the National Defense Industrial Association Central Georgia Chapter's board of directors, GovCon Wire reported Friday.

William Conley, chief technology officer of Mercury Systems, has been named to the board of advisers at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology in Washington, D.C.

Mercury Systems has released a suite of compact and rugged microwave tuners built to support data processing in tactical missions.

Mercury Systems has introduced a multicore processing module built to provide onboard processing power that will support integrated avionics capabilities on rotary-wing aircraft systems.

Mercury Systems has unveiled a direct digital synthesizer the company designed to support wideband electronic warfare and intelligence systems used to monitor radio frequency bandwidth.

Mercury Systems has finished the expansion of its design and assembly facility in Huntsville, Ala., for radio frequency and digital processing systems.

Lorne Graves, a two-decade engineering veteran, has joined Abaco Systems as chief technology officer. Rich Sorelle, president and CEO of Abaco, said in a statement released Wednesday Graves’ leadership and experience in the embedded computing market will help advance the company’s presence in the field of open architecture commercial-off-the-shelf platforms.
 

General Dynamics has awarded Universal Switching a contract to provide data distribution for satellite command and control systems that will help connect Canada’s military to the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation. Universal Switching said Aug. 22 it will supply its S64530 Digital RS-530 switching system to aid Canada’s participation in the WGS constellation, …

ETL Systems has delivered radio frequency equipment to General Dynamics to help connect Canada’s armed forces to the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation. The RF equipment supports General Dynamics’ efforts to install seven anchor stations that will link Canada’s military communications infrastructure to WGS as part of the Mercury Global …