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Mercury’s fully integrated OpenVPX Radar subsystems and its Services & Systems Integration help advance warfighting capability rapidly, at lower costs

Mercury Computer Systems has announced that it will deliver OpenVPX-based radar subsystems to Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, to support its recently announced contracts for Patriot Air and Missile Defense System upgrades for Taiwan and Saudi Arabia.

“These upgrades leverage Mercury’s best of breed technologies and rapid deployment services to help Raytheon improve nearly every aspect of the Patriot system, ensuring it remains the most technologically advanced air and missile defense system in the world,” said Didier Thibaud, senior vice president and general manager of Mercury Computer Systems’ Advanced Computing Solutions business unit. “We continue to work closely with Raytheon to deliver solutions that meet stringent platform requirements and provide significant portability and performance in an open architecture.”

Patriot is a combat-proven air and missile defense system chosen by 12 nations around the globe including the U.S., Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Greece, Spain, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The newly redesigned Patriot protects against a full range of advanced threats, including aircraft, tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and UAVs. Raytheon recently received a $1.7 billion contract from Saudi Arabia to upgrade Patriot missile systems to the latest configuration. Mercury has already delivered OpenVPX radar subsystems for Raytheon’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, supporting its rapid deployment commitment to the UAE and Taiwan.

Complex computing requirements call for novel approaches, and Mercury is leading the industry with its innovative OpenVPX multi-plane architecture, which is the foundation for the VITA 65 OpenVPX System Specification. Modeled after the AdvancedTCA family of specifications used in the telecommunications infrastructure, the OpenVPX multi-plane architecture logically segments different kinds of communication traffic in a system backplane, enabling scalability while maintaining low-latency operation. Combined with Mercury’s MultiCore Plus software suite, which supports scalable, high-performance computing at the system level, Mercury is delivering a significant performance advantage that will help to maximize life-cycle cost savings for Raytheon.

For more information on Mercury’s performance advantage in delivering leading-edge, open-architecture computing systems and services, visit www.mc.com/products/services.aspx or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or info@mc.com.