Mercury Secures $131M NAVAIR Contract for Data Transfer Systems

Mercury Systems, a technology company providing crucial processing power to edge computing, has booked a five-year U.S. Navy contract valued at $131.3 million to deliver secure data transfer systems to Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, for its naval aircraft fleet.

The contractor said Monday it will continue providing the service branch with Advanced Data Transfer Systems and its components, a work it has been doing since 2017. Under the new indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Mercury will supply the latest ADTS units with the JDAR encryption module.

What is the Advanced Data Transfer System?

ADTS is a system designed for secure data transfer. It is equipped with up to 3 TB of solid-state memory with a read/write transfer speed of up to 450/300 MB/s, an optional 30 GB crash survivable memory, multiple interface options and a SATA port. It also features up to 250ms of response time, external command capabilities and manual zeroize functions.

Used in both rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, the system enhances aircraft operational readiness by facilitating secure data transfer between planners on the ground and aircraft.

Roya Montakhab, senior vice president of integrated processing solutions at Mercury, stated, “Mercury has a strong partnership with the Navy, providing a range of data storage and transfer, video recorders, mission computers, and cockpit displays for the aircraft fleet.”

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