Rodger H. Hosking, Director of Sales at Mercury, discusses the company’s leadership in RF and microwave technologies for aerospace and defense. He highlights Mercury’s evolution into a trusted provider of rugged, secure edge-processing solutions through strategic acquisitions and innovation. Hosking explains how Mercury’s RF portfolio including direct RF digitization, advanced GaN amplifiers, and millimeter-wave systems supports next-generation radar, EW, and SIGINT missions. Emphasizing their investment in high-performance System-on-Module (SoM) platforms and direct RF digitization up to 36 GHz, he outlines how Mercury is helping defense customers reduce SWaP-C, speed development, and enable real-time AI/ML at the tactical edge.
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