Mercury to Deliver SSD Recorder

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., provider
of commercially developed application-ready ISR and EW subsystems for defense
prime contractors, has received a contract from a defense
prime contractor to provide a SSD recorder for the
aggregation and storage of sensor data from 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, SVP and GM 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 density capacity Digital
Storage Unit with a controller function built to the 3U OpenVPX standard.
The DSU uses an array of commercially available SSD components configured
within a compact, rugged, deployable enclosure, while the controller supports
flexible protocol conversions as part of the data recording process.