Description of Business

3 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

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Description of Business

Description of Business

Mercury Systems, Inc. (the “Company” or “Mercury”) provides commercially developed, open sensor and Big Data processing systems, software and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications. The Company delivers innovative solutions, rapid time-to-value and world-class service and support to our defense prime contractor customers. The Company's products and solutions have been deployed in more than 300 programs with over 25 different defense prime contractors. Key programs include Aegis, Patriot, Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program ("SEWIP"), Predator and Reaper. The Company also delivers services and solutions in support of the intelligence community. Mercury Systems operates across a broad spectrum of defense and intelligence programs and the Company delivers its solutions and services via three business units: (i) Mercury Commercial Electronics ("MCE"); (ii) Mercury Defense Systems ("MDS") and; (iii) Mercury Intelligence Systems ("MIS").

MCE delivers innovative, commercially developed, open sensor and Big Data processing systems, software and services that include embedded multi-computing and embedded sensor processing. Mercury's products include, but are not limited to, embedded processing boards, digital receiver boards, and chassis-based systems using air, conduction, and proprietary cooling technologies. MCE has added capabilities around radio frequency ("RF") and microwave technologies, including tuners, converters, transceivers, switch filters, and power amplifiers and limiters, as well as emerging new manufacturing capabilities on a more scalable basis. MDS leverages commercially available technologies and solutions (or “building blocks”) from the Company's MCE business. MDS leverages this technology to develop integrated sensor processing subsystems and capabilities, for the C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), electronic warfare ("EW"), electronic counter measures ("ECM"), signal intelligence ("SIGINT") and radar test and simulation markets. MIS delivers Big Data processing capabilities, software data processing solutions and predictive analytics capabilities to address intelligence community and Department of Defense ("DoD") mission needs. These three business units allow the Company to deliver capabilities that combine technology building blocks, deep domain expertise in the defense sector and critical solution areas, and specialized skills in serving the DoD and the intelligence community.