Mercury Systems, Inc. announced that it has received a $49 million order from a leading defense prime contractor for high performance signal processing and RF solutions for a missile defense program. The order was received in the company’s fiscal 2020 fourth quarter and is expected to be shipped over the next several quarters.

“This order is one of the largest in the company’s history and reinforces our commitment to Innovation That Matters, delivering superior value and performance that help solve our customer’s most complex embedded processing challenges,” said Didier Thibaud, executive vice president and chief operating officer. “We are dedicated to delivering solutions that provide significant affordability and portability, making commercial technology profoundly more accessible to aerospace and defense.”

Mercury is accelerating innovation for its customers as the company bridges the gap between commercial technology and defense applications to meet the industry’s current and emerging needs.