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Mercury Computer Systems to Provide Communications Platform for Commercial Ground-Based Satellite Beamforming Application

Posted on: Thursday, 20 July 2006, 15:00 CDT

CHELMSFORD, Mass., July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced it has been awarded an $8.6 million contract to provide a communications platform for a commercial ground-based satellite beamforming application.

"We are leveraging our investments and success in the Ensemble(TM) AdvancedTCA(R)-based platform and FPGA computation technologies, to deliver a highly configurable solution," said Mark Skalabrin, Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Solutions business at Mercury. "Mercury's proven capability to solve the hardest computing problems was critical to our selection for this innovative application."

The Mercury system will provide the signal processing resources and high-speed communications infrastructure to support the massive computing requirements for deployment of Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services. Authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, ATC services enable satellites to work together with terrestrial communications systems to provide improved coverage and capacity for voice and data communications.

The Mercury system is designed to include multiple carrier-grade field-programmable gate array, or FPGA-based compute blades in an AdvancedTCA chassis. In its full configuration, the system will interconnect more than 100 latest generation FPGAs with one-half terabit of streaming I/O, to deliver one of the highest performing signal processing platforms in existence.

Delivery of the initial development systems is planned for August 2006. About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing computer systems. Mercury's products play a critical role in a wide range of applications, transforming sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation. In military reconnaissance and surveillance platforms the Company's systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-of-the-art medical diagnostic imaging devices including MRI, PET, and digital X-ray, and in semiconductor imaging applications including photomask generation and wafer inspection. Mercury provides advanced 3D image processing and visualization software and optimized systems to diverse end markets including life sciences, geosciences, and simulation. The Company also provides radio frequency (RF) products for enhanced communications capabilities in military and commercial applications.

Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of subsidiaries and distributors. Visit Mercury on the web at http://www.mc.com/.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the Mercury communications platform. You can identify these statements by our use of the words "may,""will,""should,""plans,""expects,""anticipates,""continue,""estimate,""project,""intend," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geo- political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology, and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government's interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, and inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses, and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

CONTACT: Kathy Donahue, Public Relations Manager Christian Potts, Director Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Greenough Communications +1-978-967-1126 / kdonahue@mc.com +1-617-275-6521 cpotts@greenoughcom.com

Ensemble2 is a trademark of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. AdvancedTCA is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Kathy Donahue, Public Relations Manager of Mercury ComputerSystems, Inc., +1-978-967-112, kdonahue@mc.com; or Christian Potts, Directorof Greenough Communications for Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.,+1-617-275-6521, cpotts@greenoughcom.com

Web site: http://www.mc.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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