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w w w. m r c y. c o m WHITE PAPER The RF/Microwave industry looks a lot like an hourglass. The top part of the industry has a few big players capable of delivering complex solutions. But they tend to be slow and inflexible. Some of these play- ers actually compete with their prime contractor customers and few, if any, are known for driving open systems architectures. At the bottom of the hourglass are several small organizations in a highly fragmented segment of the industry. They are often creative and good at doing prototyping, but they are unsophisticated and can't scale and they lack the sophistication or industry clout to drive the adoption of open architectures. Our Advanced Microelectronics Centers allow us to take an open systems architecture such as OpenRFM, and turn it into a real- ity. Scalable, modern, redundant, world class manufacturing will allow OpenRFM to become a key part of the industry landscape. On top of these capabilities we have advanced facilities where we can take the best of our RF and Microwave engineering, design, develop- ment and manufacturing capabilities built at our Advanced Microelec- tronics Centers and marry those with our longstanding digital signal processing skills. Our Hunstville, Alabama facility has deep experience in taking our modular, open, standardized OpenRFM technologies and creating highly advanced EW, EA and SIGINT solutions. We have done this for both prime contractor and government customers. Conclusion- OpenRFM is The Better Alternative OpenRFM is a better alternative to meeting today's EW and SIGINT challenges. • We are the only remaining solely domestic provider of secure embedded processing solutions and RF and microwave solutions. • We have a track record of leading, not following, in the adoption of open systems architectures • We have world class manufacturing and test capabilities • OpenRFM is being put into practice as we speak • We can combine digital signal processing and advanced RF and Microwave into one system- making OpenRFM truly unique • We have a thirty year history of solving tough customer problems • We are in tune with the needs of the DoD OpenRFM is not an idea waiting to be executed. Mercury has built standardized subsystems today that can meet the open system archi- tecture requirements the DoD, customers and others have been asking for. We didn't wait to be asked. We know our customers and the DoD are waiting for affordable, standardized, interoperable solutions for EW, EA and SIGINT applications. OpenRFM , with its modular, standardized, scalable approach allows prime contractors and the DoD to develop or augment existing applica- tions to counteract evolving threats in EW and EA. It also allows for the faster deployment of applications and classified techniques that are the lifeblood of rapidly evolving EW related programs. Programs that are growing in importance as the complexion of our defense base and the missions it serves continues to change. OpenRFM will allow already existing EW, EA and SIGINT applications to be deployed more effectively and affordably. These include areas such as deceptive jamming, pulse jamming and spot jamming. In the realm of electronic countermeasures OpenRFM can speed up deployment of techniques such as "cloaking" the outgoing signal with random noise. Rolling out EW applications can and will be made more predictable and affordable with the standardized OpenRFM solutions already being built. Just like Mercury did with OpenVPX – We're not going to wait for the industry to act. We will drive OpenRFM to be- come an open systems architecture because that's what's expected of us. We're already building modular, standard- ized solutions that can be applied to EW and SIGINT. We know the government and our prime customers expect no less. Mercury Systems has a better alternative to RF and Microwave technologies to support EW applications- Dr. Ian Dunn- General Manager, Open Systems Solutions) Where open systems architecture meets world-class manufacturing- Advanced Microelectronics Centers Driving open system architectures in the RF and Microwave realm is only workable if you have the design, engineering, manufacturing and test capabilities that are scalable, predictable, and can take a design from prototype to production. Mercury Systems has two redundant Advanced Microelectronics Centers to address this. One located in Hudson, New Hampshire and the other in West Caldwell, New Jersey. I need an open standards based approach to EW and SIGINT and I need it now! 4

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