Mercury Systems Inc., a leading provider of affordable, commercially developed, open sensor processing systems and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, announced that its Mercury Defense Systems subsidiary recently received a $1.2 million order from a leading international aerospace and defense company for radar environment simulation equipment to support European Fighter Aircraft (EFA). The order was booked in the Company’s fiscal 2015 second quarter and is expected to be shipped by its fiscal 2016 third quarter.

Brian Perry, President of Mercury Defense Systems, said, "These orders reaffirm Mercury’s commitment to continually upgrade and refresh our customers’ radar environment simulators with the latest open architecture, standards-based products. 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. Many of our fielded systems have been in continuous operation for more than seventeen years, a true testament to their performance, quality and reliability."

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