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Built-in security and trust Mercury builds in a layered and customizable or turnkey security frame- work for system integrity required for modern defense processing ap- plications. Our proven built-in security framework spans software, firm- ware and hardware and is configurable with trusted third-party and our customer's own IP enabling the creation of private and personalized sys- tem-wide security. Although fully customizable, many of our customers rely on our proven built-in system security engineering, cyber resiliency and trust stance to produce a robust turn-key layered security solution. Mercury processing solutions with BuiltSECURE technol- ogy counter nation-state reverse engineering with systems security engineering (SSE). BuiltSECURE is built-in SSE that enables turnkey or personalized security solutions to be quickly configured. The extensible nature of Mercury's SSE delivers system-wide security which evolves over time, building in future-proofing. As countermeasures are developed to offset emerging threats, Mercury's security framework keeps pace, maintaining system-wide integrity. SECURE Built TM Mercury building blocks are built with systems security engineering (SSE), cyber resiliency and trust embedded into them. Our holistic se- curity approach is built-in and not bolted-on and forms our BuiltSECURE portfolio of building blocks. This portfolio includes processing (server- class CPU, ASICs, GPU, Atom and FPGA devices), switching, storage, memory, Ethernet, 1553/ARINC and CANbus solutions, all of which have embedded BuiltSECURE technology. Built-in security is mandated by SOSA and Mercury is jointly chairing The Open Group's security subcommittee to define its implementation within the standard. Key Mercury Advanced Microelectronics Centers (AMCs) are Category 1A Trusted Supplier accredited for design ser- vices and manufacturing from the DoD's defense microelec- tronics activity (DMEA). Our Phoenix facility has received Missile Defense Agency approval and is one of a very few select entities with trusted key loading and initialization fa- cility (KLIF) programming authorization. Mercury's facilities are continually audited by the DoD and our customers. We have received three James S. Cogswell Awards for "out- standing industrial security achievement". Built-in flight safety certification Mercury deterministic safety-certifiable processing solutions are built with a top-down approach for scalability, interoperability and ease of subsystem configuration and safety certification. This built-in approach to safety-certification is the basis of our BuiltSAFE portfolio of pre-en- gineered DAL building blocks for subsystem pre-integration. BuiltSAFE building blocks include CPUs and CPU-rendered graphics, safe OpenGL, deterministic Ethernet and the most I/O interfaces in the industry. Mer- cury is executing a roadmap to certify Intel multi-core devices (Apollo- Lake). We have the most EASA, FAA, JAA and Transport Canada safety agency experience for the lowest certification risk. Mercury processing solutions with BuiltSAFE capabilities bring the highest level of flight safety assurance to aero- space and defense applications. Our proven, reusable De- sign Assurance Level (DAL) certified artifacts for mission computing, avionics, networking and datalink comms pro- cessing save time and cost while decreasing risk. SAFE Built TM Inherently refreshable and reusable Our pre-engineered subsystem building blocks are inherently refresh- able being made compatible with prevailing standards, many of which Mercury made significant contributions to or pioneered. Mercury pro- cessing solutions comply with SOSA, FACE, OpenVPX, VME, VNX, hybrid and customer architectures. Our software, operating systems and APIs are open system compatible (MPI/OpenMPI) enabling relatively easy technology refreshes of both hardware and software. Greatest SWaP performance Digital convergence dramatically reduces the number of platform pro- cessing boxes required from many to potentially one (logical digital convergence conclusion without redundancy). Using already rugged, SWaP efficient architectures including OpenVPX and VNX, we add fur- ther miniaturization at the board level with system-in-package and 3D fabrication techniques. This produces extreme miniaturization giving our processing solutions the highest functionality density available. Fewer boxes with the highest processing density enable not only autonomous platforms but also small autonomous platforms including UAVs. Digitally converged processing subsystem pre-integration Mercury is the only commercial company with whole sensor and mission processing expertise. Our focused IRAD has produced the broadest and most contemporary portfolio of interoperable building blocks in the RF and digital domain, across hardware, software and firmware. Depending upon a building block's functionality it may feature the industry's most robust built-in security or be produced with the highest level of flight safety certification (DAL-A) in mind. Mercury's security pedigree is reflected in SOSA's confidence in our abili- ties and our chairmanship of the standard's security subcommittee. Our extensive flight agency program experience testifies to our safety certi- fication qualification. Connecting the sensor and effectors grids together 9

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