CHELMSFORD, Mass., April 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRCY) (www.mc.com), a trusted provider of commercially developed application-ready ISR and EW subsystems for defense prime contractors, announced it received $5.1 million in follow-on orders from a leading defense prime contractor for rugged embedded multi-processing modules for two airborne radar applications.
"We are very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with this customer, supplying them with mission-critical subsystem building blocks," said Didier Thibaud, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mercury Computer Systems' Advanced Computing Solutions business unit.
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Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com) (Nasdaq:MRCY) is a best-of-breed provider of open, commercially developed, application-ready, multi-INT subsystems for defense prime contractors. With over 30 years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in radar, EW, EO/IR, C4I and sonar applications, and more than 300 successful program deployments including Aegis, Global Hawk and Predator, Mercury's Services and Systems Integration team leads the industry in partnering with customers to design and integrate system-level solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability, and accelerate customers' time to market.
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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