Mercury Systems, a US-based producer of mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defence, and the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin have agreed to cooperate on sensor processing technology in Switzerland.
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II. Credit: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II. Credit: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock
The two companies announced that they had signed an agreement to collaborate on the development and manufacture of new sensor processing technologies at Mercury’s Geneva, Switzerland facility for a wide variety of applications such as radar signal processing, multi-sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence and situational awareness.
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With a potential lifetime value of $40 million, the contract supports Lockheed Martin’s offset agreement with the Swiss government as part of Switzerland’s planned procurement of 36 F-35A Lightning II aircraft related to the Air 2030 program.
This cooperation between Lockheed Martin and Mercury will help provide Switzerland and other nations with some of the most advanced airborne defence systems in the world. The local industry in western Switzerland will also benefit from new opportunities and additional market access in the long term.
Paul Tanner, Mercury’s vice president of international growth operations, commented: “We believe this project will be important to Switzerland and its economy, as it benefits Swiss national security through military aerospace and defence use.
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"Further, it will continue to support our international growth as well as strengthen our product capability. It’s a great example of connecting cutting-edge commercial technology to defence, to address the A&D industry’s rapidly changing mission-critical needs.”
Patrick Nyfeler, managing director, Lockheed Martin Switzerland, added: “Together with Mercury, we intend to work closely with the Swiss government to select the best possible projects over the lifetime of this agreement, enhance Switzerland competitively in the global economy, creating jobs and enhancing local labor market skills well beyond the 10-year life of the contract.”
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As part of this agreement, the companies will seek to bring the next generation of embedded processing technology to bear on safety-certifiable systems through the design, development, and manufacturing of complex products, purpose-built for the aerospace and defence industry to meet sensor processing requirements for a variety of fixed-wing and rotary-wing airborne platforms.
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