September 26, 2025
Mercury Systems Secures $12.3M Military Aircraft Contract
Mercury Systems, Inc. has secured a $12.3 million development contract from a defense prime contractor to create an avionics subsystem for a new U.S. military aircraft. Under the three-year arrangement executed in July, Mercury will engineer a Communication Management Unit (CMU) control head that consolidates and oversees multiple cockpit communications systems and is anticipated to be installed on a new aircraft fleet. “The Mercury Processing Platform provides distinctive technologies that improve the pilot–machine interface to support faster, more informed decisions,” said Tom Smelker, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Processing Technologies. “This award represents a new product from our Displays and