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w w w. m r c y. c o m WHITE PAPER Mercury's pre-engineered processing solutions include multi-safety zone chassis that enable different safety levels to be integrated in a single processing box. Mercury is a systems integration company and has made the investments necessary to pre-integrate our proven pre- engineered processing building blocks to deliver digitally converged pro- cessing solutions for autonomous military platforms. Summary – Innovation that converges Autonomous commercial vehicles are emerging and may soon be com- monplace. The availability of this technology will necessitate a digital convergence in the military domain. "Autonomy is the future of where we're going and it really ties into manned-unmanned teaming."- Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, Marine Corps Combat Development Command The enabling technology has come of age through the investments made in the commercial sector using the proven digital convergence roadmap which is exemplified by the smartphone. To miniaturize military platforms, make them smarter and autonomous and to fundamentally keep them up to date with a modern threat environment demands ca- pabilities that can only efficiently be delivered through military digital convergence. Mercury is making commercial technologies safe for military and aerospace applications • From avionics I/O to platform networking, from storage to graphics processing • Recognized experts in certified multicore solutions and graphics processing • Design, certification and reverse engineering services • Transform of technology building blocks into safe deployable solutions • Built-in security foundation, tailored to deliver the right amount of security …delivering on the promise of certifiable COTS Coinciding with the availability of the required technology, SOSA is gain- ing traction within all branches of the military. Currently SOSA is seek- ing programs of record for decomposition into SOSA-certifiable open system building blocks. Two sensor manufacturers have supplied SOSA programs with decoupled sensors. Further, the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG) oversees the industrial internet of things (IIoT) standards/specifications and is driving towards decoupled sensors that will be made in volume for their industrial solutions. IIoT is becom- ing the industrial internet of sensors. Mercury Systems is a commercial company that has positioned itself and made the investments necessary to deliver the best commercial technology ready for military applications. Our investments and portfolio of capabilities enable the military digital transformation through con- verged sensor and mission processing solutions that feature robust sys- tem integrity and segmented safety zones in the same processing box. "We're looking at everything, like dropping off smaller autonomous unmanned systems that release from another autonomous unmanned capability…that impacts the EMS with jamming."- Lt. Col. Dan Schmitt, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory Military digital convergence has begun. Small UAVs will be the van- guard platforms that usher in the technology. Mercury has prepared to meet the requirements of this wave of technology with innovation that converges. Mercury is helping to certify UAVs for civilian airspace op- eration all the way to DAL-A including high-altitude, long endurance platforms involving four safety-critical audits by the FAA and EASA. We are helping the world's largest helicopter company bring video directly onto flight critical display and we're doing the same thing for commercial aviation with HUDs. Mercury's platform processing resume 10

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