Mercury Computer Systems Awarded Contract to Deliver Rugged, High Density Solid State Data Recorder for Airborne ISR Applications

“Our customer needed a technology upgrade that could manage the greatly expanded data streams generated by a new generation of sensors,” said Didier Thibaud, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mercury Computer Systems’ Advanced Computing Solutions business unit.

“We were selected because we were able to provide a rapid prototype solution they could use to enhance their application. Our Services and Systems Integration team engaged closely with the customer’s engineers to clearly understand the parameters of the problem, then designed an optimal solution based on industry standards.”

The Mercury solution combines the very high density capacity Digital Storage Unit with a controller function built to the 3U OpenVPX standard. The DSU uses an array of commercially available Solid State Disk components configured within a compact, rugged, deployable enclosure, while the controller supports flexible protocol conversions as part of the data recording process.