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#PAS19: Forklifts and Nail Guns and Drills, Oh My!

#PAS19: Forklifts and Nail Guns and Drills, Oh My!

Arriving on the scene at le Bourget today, was akin to being immersed in the first sketch of a pointillist painting dotted with “hi-vis” yellow and orange safety vests. Those wearing them are the smart, safety-conscious people who are working to get the 53rd International Paris Air Show ready for launch (pun intended).

Mercury Systems

June 15, 2019

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Safe AND secure avionics? You can do that? Yup!

Safe AND secure avionics? You can do that? Yup!

Although we all love connectivity and the benefits it brings us, there is a downside. By now, we’ve all heard about cars that have been hacked. Wired magazine even has an entire section of their website dedicated to the subject. Anytime you connect to a network, you open up your system to vulnerabilities.

Mercury Systems

April 19, 2019

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City Year - Spring Into Service

City Year - Spring Into Service

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.”– Elizabeth Andrew On a rainy March day, 5 Mercury employees based in Andover trekked into Boston to participate in our first Boston City Year volunteer event.

Mercury Systems

April 1, 2019

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Enabling Edge Processing in Military Intelligent Sensors

Enabling Edge Processing in Military Intelligent Sensors

In military environments, seconds can be the difference between life or death and mission success or failure. A soldier in hostile territory needs their mobile system to rapidly process sensor data to accurately analyze threats and take action. Intelligent sensor systems using artificial intelligence (AI) to make automatic critical decisions without human intervention rely on […]

Jennifer Keenan

March 14, 2019

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