The comprehensive Echotek Series product family is Mercury-designed, built, and proven to provide customized, high performance with COTS reliability for a growing range of network-centric applications

CHELMSFORD, Mass., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Highly reliable data acquisition is critical to embedded radar and signals intelligence (SIGINT) applications, in which the origin or location of signals of interest must be identified in real time to enable rapid analysis and action. For these network-centric operations, sensors and communications modules are increasingly migrating to smaller, self-contained platforms, posing new challenges that position RF and mixed-signal receivers and transmitters to be as critical to the solution as computing.

The Echotek Series(R) RF and mixed-signal solutions from Mercury Computer Systems ( www.mc.com/echotek) provide unsurpassed tuning speeds and best-in-class signal integrity, and enable a comprehensive range of narrowband, wideband, and ultra-wideband tuning and receiving capabilities for the most challenging communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), electronic warfare (EW), radar, and other sensor-based applications.

One of Mercury's most powerful offerings is the Echotek Series ECV4 family of Two/Four-Channel FPGA-Based PMC/XMC/6U Digital Receivers, which implements a flexible FPGA-based architecture in a space-efficient PMC/XMC and 6U form factor. Each member of the ECV4 family provides unique I/O connectivity and functionality, high-speed A/D conversion, and resolution from 8 to 16 bits. Optimized for wideband or narrowband multi-channel data processing, these receivers provide multiple configurations and ruggedization levels for a variety of end-user missions, and are available in either air-cooled or conduction-cooled versions.

"We've leveraged the unparalleled tuning and receiving capabilities of our Echotek products into a growing number of embedded COTS-based, network-centric computing solutions for our customers," said Randy Dean, Vice President of Integrated Solutions at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "With Mercury's supreme expertise in system engineering, we can offer customers the best possible signal processing performance using the best-suited COTS components from Mercury and third-party suppliers. For example, we implemented a highly integrated system, including a mix of FPGA and ASIC processors and VME and VPX backplanes, into a 6U chassis with the Mercury software environment and Echotek tuners and receivers. This system exceeded compute performance levels for our customer and is a prime example of Mercury's unique value-add in the embedded computing industry."

For more information on the Mercury Echotek Series RF and mixed-signal solutions, visit www.mc.com/echotek. For more information on Mercury's system integration services, visit www.mc.com/solutions, or contact Mercury at Email Contact or 866-627-6951.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. -- Where Challenges Drive Innovation(TM)

Mercury Computer Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY) provides specialized, high-performance computing systems and software designed for complex HPC and embedded applications in a range of industries that include aerospace and defense, telecommunications, medical imaging, semiconductor, EDA, and more. Our products blend unmatched expertise in algorithm optimization and silicon design with software application knowledge and industry-standard technologies.

Mercury's comprehensive, purpose-built solutions capture, process, and present data for the world's largest medical imaging companies, 8 of the 10 top defense prime contractors, and other leading Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in semiconductor, energy, telecommunications, and other industries. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 25-year history in enabling customers to gain the competitive advantage they need to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.

Mercury ( www.mc.com) is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. We are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MRCY).

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This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to Echotek Series products or Mercury's system integration services. You can identify these statements by our use of the words "may," "will," "should," "plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government's interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

Echotek is a registered trademark and Challenges Drive Innovation is a trademark of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

     Contacts:
     William Ceccherini, Director and Business Manager
     Echotek Administration
     Mercury Computer Systems, Inc./Echotek
     256-489-0483 / wceccher@mc.com

     Randall W. Dean, Vice President of Integrated Solutions
     Advanced Computing Solutions
     Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
     978-967-1493 / rdean@mc.com

     Kathy Sniezek, Public Relations Manager
     Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
     978-967-1126 / ksniezek@mc.com