June ended on an exceptionally good not for Chelmsford’s own Mercury Systems, which reported new contracts that are combined worth more than $6 million.
The company, which is located on Riverneck Road adjacent to the Route 3/495 Cloverleaf, first announced three follow-on orders from Boeing, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force for $1.6 million for radar environment simulation equipment.
"These orders reaffirm Mercury's commitment to continually upgrade and refresh our customers' radar environment simulators with the latest open architecture, standards-based products,” said Mercury Defense Department President Kevin Carnino in a press release found on 4-traders.com. “The ability to simulate and stimulate airborne radars with realistic targets, threats, background clutter and synthetic imagery is critical to providing useful and effective testing capability.
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That news was quickly followed by a $4.7 million follow-on order for an advance digital intermediate frequency receivers for a shipboard electronic warfare application (EW) purchased by Lockheed-Martin.
"Our decade-long relationship with Lockheed Martin exemplifies our commitment to extending customer success over the entire life of this critical EW defense program, one of the largest for Mercury," said Didier Thibaud, President of Mercury's Commercial Electronics business unit, in a press release posted by the Wall Street Journal. "Our ability to deliver advanced mixed-signal offerings with unique capabilities in ultra-fast tuning, high dynamic range and extreme data processing will help enable our customer to gain a competitive advantage with its EW solFind out what's happening in Chelmsfordfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
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