Mercury Systems Joins Open Cloud Consortium

“Mercury is committed to taking a proactive role in developing the cloud computing technologies required to leverage massive amounts of data in the intelligence and defense communities,” said Matt Hughes, President of Mercury Intelligence Systems. “As an OCC member, our highly qualified team will share its extensive experience in architecture, system design and integration; software development and implementation; and mission operations, analysis and support. Mercury Intelligence Systems’ involvement with the Open Cloud Consortium is yet another example of how we’re enhancing our Big Data skills as we apply them to critical programs and missions within the Intelligence Community.”

The OCC is a not-for-profit organization that manages and operates cloud computing infrastructure to support scientific, medical, health care and environmental research. OCC members span the globe and include over 10 universities, over 15 companies, and over 5 government agencies and national laboratories. The OCC is organized into different working groups, which manage and operate the infrastructure and services that it provides. Other members of the Open Cloud Consortium include Raytheon, Cisco, Yahoo, Citrix and Booz Allen Hamilton.