{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"164886","rtpr_id":"nGNX8jqQtg-20261008","ticker":"MRCY","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["MRCY"],"title":"Mercury Celebrates the Expansion of its Phoenix Production Facility","author":"Globe Newswire","published_at":"2026-10-08T20:30:00.194Z","article_body":"PHOENIX, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:\nMRCY, www.mrcy.com), a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics,\ntoday celebrated the expansion of its Phoenix production facility, adding\n50,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space that allows the company to increase\nproduction capacity and accelerate delivery timelines through vertical\nintegration to support critical U.S. and international defense programs.\n\nAs the United States and its allies accelerate military hardware production\nacross all battlefield domains, Mercury is taking steps to increase\nmanufacturing capacity and efficiency in its operations. The company has\ninvested to build out a new, highly automated manufacturing facility on the\ncompany’s existing Phoenix campus, which is expected to create more than 50\njobs in the next year, with significant capacity for future growth.\n\nMercury’s Phoenix campus is already the company’s largest manufacturing\ncenter, with more than 400 employees. The existing facility manufactures\nprinted circuit board assemblies used across Mercury’s product lines and\ndelivers cutting-edge memory solutions, high-performance space drives, and\nadvanced packaging technologies built to operate in extreme environments.\nOperations in Mercury’s new building in Phoenix began in the third quarter\nof fiscal year 2026 and will allow the company to ramp up production for a\nnumber of critical products and programs, including its Common Processing\nArchitecture programs.\n\n“We are excited to expand our presence in Phoenix and bring more capacity\nonline to meet customer demand for high-performance processing capabilities\nthat ensure mission dominance for the warfighter at the edge,” said Tod\nBrindlinger, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Operations. “We see strong\ndemand signals across our portfolio, ending fiscal year 2026 with record\nbookings and backlog that our expanded production facility will help us to\nexecute against.”\n\nVisit our Careers\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=sXMAqeMxUcCrWW3NqSH8m8QaaR1dGBKRB22m5ODLqwOb2Zdgk1TE-n9-XQyUzRy8l195dYbW0NZkCNY2GL7x4A==)\npage to see job openings across Mercury.\n\nMercury Systems – Innovation that matters(®)\nMercury Systems is a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics,\nproviding breakthrough capabilities in signal and data processing. With a\nfour-decade legacy of innovation that spans silicon to systems and RF front\nends to effectors, Mercury accelerates commercial technology adoption to\ndeliver powerful and secure mission-critical processing solutions to the edge.\nMercury is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has multiple locations\nworldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com. (Nasdaq: MRCY)\n\nForward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement \nThis press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term\nis defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including\nthose relating to the Company's focus on enhanced execution of the Company's\nstrategic plan. You can identify these statements by the words “may,”\n“will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “plans,”\n“expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,”\n“project,” “intend,” “likely,” “forecast,” “probable,”\n“potential,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements\ninvolve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ\nmaterially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties\ninclude, but are not limited to, cost increases, our inability to increase\nproduction and deliver products on time and with appropriate quality,\ncontinued funding of defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding,\ngeneral economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in\nthe Company’s markets, effects of any U.S. federal government shutdown or\nextended continuing resolution, effects of increasingly volatile geopolitical\nevents and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods\nof marketing, delays in or cost increases related to completing development,\nengineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns,\nchanges in product mix, continued success in technological advances and\ndelivering technological innovations, changes in, or in the U.S.\ngovernment’s interpretation of, federal export control or procurement rules\nand regulations, including tariffs, changes in, or in the interpretation or\nenforcement of, environmental rules and regulations, market acceptance of\nthe Company's products, shortages or delays in receiving components, supply\nchain delays or volatility for critical components, production delays or\nunanticipated expenses including due to quality issues or manufacturing\nexecution issues, failure to meet contractual performance specifications,\nadherence to required manufacturing standards, capacity underutilization,\nincreases in scrap or inventory write-offs, failure to achieve or maintain\nmanufacturing quality certifications, such as AS9100, failure to achieve or\nmaintain qualified business systems, such as those required by the DFARS,\nadverse findings in government audits or investigations, the impact of supply\nchain disruption, inflation and labor shortages, among other things, on\nprogram execution and the resulting effect on customer satisfaction,\ninability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions,\nrestructurings and operational efficiency initiatives or delays in realizing\nsuch benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving\nanticipated synergies, effects of shareholder activism, increases in interest\nrates, changes to industrial security and cyber-security regulations\nand requirements and impacts from any cyber or insider threat events,\nincluding the risks from heightened, persistent, and increasingly\nsophisticated nation-state level cyberattacks and emerging threats associated\nwith agentic AI-enabled cyber tools, changes in tax rates or tax regulations,\nchanges to interest rate swaps or other cash flow hedging arrangements,\nchanges to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in\nretaining key employees and customers, litigation, including the state law\nclaim related to our settled federal securities class action\nlawsuit, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration\nengagements, and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and\nuncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in\nthe Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,\nincluding its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 3,\n2026 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on\nForm 8-K. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any\nsuch forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The\nCompany undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to\nreflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is\nmade.\n\nINVESTOR CONTACT\nTyler Hojo, CFA\nVice President, Investor Relations\nTyler.Hojo@mrcy.com\n\nMEDIA CONTACT\nTurner Brinton\nSenior Director, Corporate Communications \nTurner.Brinton@mrcy.com\n\nA photo accompanying this announcement is available at\nhttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/15d46ca9-9ac8-4f28-92ce-9ab6fe5d112b\n\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/0a86c2b2-28d2-4be3-a322-630f3550c07e)\nMercury celebrates the expansion of its production facility in Phoenix. \n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/15d46ca9-9ac8-4f28-92ce-9ab6fe5d112b/en)\nMercury celebrates the expansion of its production facility in Phoenix.\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nGNX8jqQtg-20261008","title":"Mercury Celebrates the Expansion of its Phoenix Production Facility","author":"Globe Newswire","ticker":"MRCY","created":"2026-10-08T20:30:00.194Z","tickers":["MRCY"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"PHOENIX, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:\nMRCY, www.mrcy.com), a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics,\ntoday celebrated the expansion of its Phoenix production facility, adding\n50,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space that allows the company to increase\nproduction capacity and accelerate delivery timelines through vertical\nintegration to support critical U.S. and international defense programs.\n\nAs the United States and its allies accelerate military hardware production\nacross all battlefield domains, Mercury is taking steps to increase\nmanufacturing capacity and efficiency in its operations. The company has\ninvested to build out a new, highly automated manufacturing facility on the\ncompany’s existing Phoenix campus, which is expected to create more than 50\njobs in the next year, with significant capacity for future growth.\n\nMercury’s Phoenix campus is already the company’s largest manufacturing\ncenter, with more than 400 employees. The existing facility manufactures\nprinted circuit board assemblies used across Mercury’s product lines and\ndelivers cutting-edge memory solutions, high-performance space drives, and\nadvanced packaging technologies built to operate in extreme environments.\nOperations in Mercury’s new building in Phoenix began in the third quarter\nof fiscal year 2026 and will allow the company to ramp up production for a\nnumber of critical products and programs, including its Common Processing\nArchitecture programs.\n\n“We are excited to expand our presence in Phoenix and bring more capacity\nonline to meet customer demand for high-performance processing capabilities\nthat ensure mission dominance for the warfighter at the edge,” said Tod\nBrindlinger, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Operations. “We see strong\ndemand signals across our portfolio, ending fiscal year 2026 with record\nbookings and backlog that our expanded production facility will help us to\nexecute against.”\n\nVisit our Careers\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=sXMAqeMxUcCrWW3NqSH8m8QaaR1dGBKRB22m5ODLqwOb2Zdgk1TE-n9-XQyUzRy8l195dYbW0NZkCNY2GL7x4A==)\npage to see job openings across Mercury.\n\nMercury Systems – Innovation that matters(®)\nMercury Systems is a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics,\nproviding breakthrough capabilities in signal and data processing. With a\nfour-decade legacy of innovation that spans silicon to systems and RF front\nends to effectors, Mercury accelerates commercial technology adoption to\ndeliver powerful and secure mission-critical processing solutions to the edge.\nMercury is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has multiple locations\nworldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com. (Nasdaq: MRCY)\n\nForward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement \nThis press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term\nis defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including\nthose relating to the Company's focus on enhanced execution of the Company's\nstrategic plan. You can identify these statements by the words “may,”\n“will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “plans,”\n“expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,”\n“project,” “intend,” “likely,” “forecast,” “probable,”\n“potential,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements\ninvolve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ\nmaterially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties\ninclude, but are not limited to, cost increases, our inability to increase\nproduction and deliver products on time and with appropriate quality,\ncontinued funding of defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding,\ngeneral economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in\nthe Company’s markets, effects of any U.S. federal government shutdown or\nextended continuing resolution, effects of increasingly volatile geopolitical\nevents and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods\nof marketing, delays in or cost increases related to completing development,\nengineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns,\nchanges in product mix, continued success in technological advances and\ndelivering technological innovations, changes in, or in the U.S.\ngovernment’s interpretation of, federal export control or procurement rules\nand regulations, including tariffs, changes in, or in the interpretation or\nenforcement of, environmental rules and regulations, market acceptance of\nthe Company's products, shortages or delays in receiving components, supply\nchain delays or volatility for critical components, production delays or\nunanticipated expenses including due to quality issues or manufacturing\nexecution issues, failure to meet contractual performance specifications,\nadherence to required manufacturing standards, capacity underutilization,\nincreases in scrap or inventory write-offs, failure to achieve or maintain\nmanufacturing quality certifications, such as AS9100, failure to achieve or\nmaintain qualified business systems, such as those required by the DFARS,\nadverse findings in government audits or investigations, the impact of supply\nchain disruption, inflation and labor shortages, among other things, on\nprogram execution and the resulting effect on customer satisfaction,\ninability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions,\nrestructurings and operational efficiency initiatives or delays in realizing\nsuch benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving\nanticipated synergies, effects of shareholder activism, increases in interest\nrates, changes to industrial security and cyber-security regulations\nand requirements and impacts from any cyber or insider threat events,\nincluding the risks from heightened, persistent, and increasingly\nsophisticated nation-state level cyberattacks and emerging threats associated\nwith agentic AI-enabled cyber tools, changes in tax rates or tax regulations,\nchanges to interest rate swaps or other cash flow hedging arrangements,\nchanges to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in\nretaining key employees and customers, litigation, including the state law\nclaim related to our settled federal securities class action\nlawsuit, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration\nengagements, and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and\nuncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in\nthe Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,\nincluding its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 3,\n2026 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on\nForm 8-K. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any\nsuch forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The\nCompany undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to\nreflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is\nmade.\n\nINVESTOR CONTACT\nTyler Hojo, CFA\nVice President, Investor Relations\nTyler.Hojo@mrcy.com\n\nMEDIA CONTACT\nTurner Brinton\nSenior Director, Corporate Communications \nTurner.Brinton@mrcy.com\n\nA photo accompanying this announcement is available at\nhttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/15d46ca9-9ac8-4f28-92ce-9ab6fe5d112b\n\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/0a86c2b2-28d2-4be3-a322-630f3550c07e)\nMercury celebrates the expansion of its production facility in Phoenix. \n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/15d46ca9-9ac8-4f28-92ce-9ab6fe5d112b/en)\nMercury celebrates the expansion of its production facility in Phoenix.\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-10-08T20:30:00.233400647Z","server_sent_at_ms":1791491400233},"received_at":"2026-10-08T20:30:00.337Z","source_url":null},"analysis":{"id":"153295","press_release_id":"164886","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Aerospace & Defense","sector":"Industrials"},"redFlags":[],"eventType":"operations_update","narrative":"Mercury Systems celebrated the expansion of its Phoenix production facility, adding 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to increase capacity and accelerate delivery for U.S. and international defense programs.\n\nOperations in the new automated facility began in the third quarter of fiscal 2026 and are expected to create more than 50 jobs in the next year; Phoenix is already Mercury's largest manufacturing center with over 400 employees.\n\nManagement cited strong demand signals, ending fiscal 2026 with record bookings and backlog that the expanded capacity will help execute against.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":false,"suggestedAngle":"Capacity expansion supports production ramp against record FY26 bookings and backlog."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"new_jobs_expected":"more than 50 in the next year","phoenix_employees":"more than 400","new_manufacturing_space_sqft":50000}},"quotedText":"We see strong demand signals across our portfolio, ending fiscal year 2026 with record bookings and backlog that our expanded production facility will help us to execute against.","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Tod Brindlinger","role":"Senior Vice President of Operations"},{"name":"Tyler Hojo","role":"Vice President, Investor Relations"},{"name":"Turner Brinton","role":"Senior Director, Corporate Communications"}],"products":["Common Processing Architecture","printed circuit board assemblies","memory solutions","high-performance space drives"],"companies":[{"name":"Mercury Systems, Inc.","ticker":"MRCY","relationship":"filer"}],"dollarAmounts":[]},"materialImpact":{"score":2,"reasoning":"Facility expansion adds 50,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing capacity and 50+ jobs, supporting production ramp for defense programs. 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