Mercury Systems Announces Defense Industry’s First Trusted Microelectronics Capability for Edge Processing Architectures
March 05 2019 - 4:15PM
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com) announced the
defense industry’s first trusted custom microelectronics capability
targeting SWaP-constrained intelligent sensors for military
applications using the resources of the Company’s Defense
Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)-accredited facility in Phoenix,
Ariz. for design, assembly and test services. Although the Company
provides a broad portfolio of digital microelectronics as standard
product offerings, edge processing architectures for intelligent
sensor and effector mission systems often require custom
microelectronics designs to avoid compromises between SWaP, thermal
management considerations and optimized system performance.
While most commercial microelectronics suppliers continue to
move design and manufacturing capabilities offshore, the defense
industry faces increased challenges for long-term supply continuity
of trusted microelectronics critical to the success of our military
forces. This increases the risk of device alteration by adversaries
from the earliest stages of product design through the end of full
rate production. Mercury’s custom microelectronics capability
mitigates this risk by providing customers with a domestic and
assured chain of custody deeply integrated throughout the entire
product lifecycle, starting with the initial conceptual design, for
both classified and unclassified programs.
“Our Advanced Microelectronics Center is proud to offer a
one-stop, trusted source of design, assembly and test services for
the most sophisticated custom microelectronics as an affordable
alternative to conventional microelectronics suppliers whose
business models fail to holistically integrate digital, radio
frequency, and mixed-signal technologies,” said Iain Mackie, Vice
President and General Manager of Mercury’s Microelectronics Secure
Solutions group. “We have made substantial investments in our
Phoenix, Ariz. facility to deliver authentic, high-performance
devices manufactured using advanced microelectronics
technologies.”
With tightly integrated design and manufacturing resources, the
Company has developed deep domain expertise spanning a broad of
range of capabilities ideally suited to custom microelectronics for
defense applications:
- Advanced packaging technologies with surface-mount,
flip chip, and wire bond: Military-grade,
SWaP-optimized microelectronics manufactured and tested on a highly
automated production line
- 2.5D and 3D packaging: In addition to
the Company's robust 2.5D & 3D packaging capabilities,
commercialization of state-of-the-art chip-scale packaging
technologies for defense applications using through silicon via
(TSV) interconnections is expected within calendar year
2019
- Thermal management: Innovative design
methodologies cool the most advanced processors and
field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices
- Ruggedization: Proven design strategies
mitigate the effects of exposure to extreme temperature
environments, mechanical shock, vibration and thermal shock common
in military environments
- Radio frequency (RF), microwave and
mixed-signal: Integration of analog and mixed-signal
devices and circuitry, leveraging Mercury’s world-class RF and
mixed-signal engineering expertise
- Scalable manufacturing: Fully automated
manufacturing floor with integrated material resource planning
(MRP) system
- Advanced testing protocols: Automated,
high-speed functional and environmental test capabilities to
validate mission-specific performance requirements
- Robust cybersecurity posture: Protection
of all design and manufacturing records with an active
cybersecurity program based on the Center for Internet Security
(CIS) critical security controls
Mercury is now engaging with customers on new custom
microelectronics design opportunities for next-generation sensor
and effector mission systems. For application assistance or
additional information, please visit
www.mrcy.com/custom-microelectronics or directly contact Mercury’s
application engineering team at custom.microelectronics@mrcy.com or
(866) 627-6951.
Mercury Systems – Innovation That
Matters®Mercury Systems is a leading commercial provider
of secure sensor and safety-critical processing subsystems.
Optimized for customer and mission success, Mercury's solutions
power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence programs.
Headquartered in Andover, Mass., Mercury is pioneering a
next-generation defense electronics business model specifically
designed to meet the industry's current and emerging technology
needs. To learn more, visit www.mrcy.com and follow us on
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Forward-Looking Safe Harbor StatementThis press
release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term
is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including those relating to fiscal 2019 business performance and
beyond and the Company's plans for growth and improvement in
profitability and cash flow. You can identify these statements by
the use of the words "may," "will," "could," "should," "would,"
"plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate,"
"project," "intend," "likely," "forecast," "probable," "potential,"
and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continued funding of
defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general
economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in
the Company’s markets, effects of any U.S. Federal government
shutdown or extended continuing resolution, effects of continued
geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in
technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing
engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order
patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in
technological advances and delivering technological innovations,
changes in, or in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of, federal
export contractor procurement rules and regulations, market
acceptance of the Company’s products, shortages in components,
production delays or unanticipated expenses due to performance
quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully
realize the expected benefits from acquisitions and restructurings
or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating
acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, increases
in interest rates, changes to cyber-security regulations and
requirements, changes in tax rates or tax regulations, changes to
generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining
key employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price
service and system integration engagements, and various other
factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also
include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the
Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 2018. The Company cautions readers not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only
as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update
any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances
after the date on which such statement is made.
Contact:Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate and Investor
CommunicationsMercury Systems, Inc.+1 978-967-1366 /
rmcgrail@mrcy.com
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