Mercury Systems: Modules excel in radar-processor study

Mercury Systems released the results of its participation in the US Air Force-led Next Generation Radar Processor Study on Wednesday.

The goal of this program is to assess the capability of current embedded-computing open architectures to perform airborne radar-signal processing on future USAF platforms. Mercury demonstrated that its scalable and rugged high-density server modules exceeded the target benchmarks in the study, enabling affordable capability evolution of radar processors through open, nonproprietary and standards-based systems for airborne solutions.

"Mercury's exceptional performance in this study reflects our ongoing investment and commitment to delivering the most powerful OpenVPX processing modules in the embedded-computing industry," Ian Dunn, vice president and general manager of Mercury's Embedded Products Group, said. "Now in its fourth generation, our powerful, open-standards-based Ensemble HDS660x modules meet the DoD's expectations for affordability, security, modularity and OSA requirements and can be deployed in harsh environments to take cloud processing for military and aerospace applications right to the tactical edge."

As part of the study, Mercury was required to satisfy performance requirements when executing USAF-provided ground moving target indicator and synthetic aperture radar benchmarks, which posed real-world processing scenarios for previously fielded and future planned airborne systems.