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CHELMSFORD, Mass., Apr 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Mercury Computer Systems Inc., (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mc.com), a trusted provider of commercially developed ISR subsystems, announced that Dr. Donald M. Kerr, fourth Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, was elected to the Board of Directors of Mercury Federal Systems, Inc. (MFS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Presently, Dr. Kerr is a Research Professor in George Mason University's Volgenau School of Engineering and member of the Board of Trustees for the MITRE Corporation. He spent 31 years in increasingly responsible roles with the government and in 2007 he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence where he earned the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. Earlier, he served as the fifteenth Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and, prior to that, as Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Central Intelligence Agency where he received the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal. From October 1997 until August 2001, he was the Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in charge of the Laboratory Division.

Dr. Kerr was the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1985 and in earlier roles there he conducted and led research in high altitude weapons effects, nuclear test detection and analysis, weapons diagnostics, ionospheric physics, and alternative energy programs. His distinguished career includes executive positions in the private sector with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and EG&G, Inc. He served as a Director of Resources for the Future for nearly a decade, and on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers Board. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves as a member of the Defense Science Board.

"We are very pleased to welcome Don to the Mercury Federal Systems Board where the breadth of his government, business and scientific expertise will be a key asset," said Mark Aslett, President and CEO of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "Don's exceptional experience uniquely complements the strengths brought to Mercury Computer Systems by Jim Bass and Mike Daniels, who joined Mercury's Board of Directors earlier this fiscal year."

Mr. Bass is the retired President and CEO, Piper Aircraft, Inc., a general aviation manufacturing company, who has 30+ years of executive management experience in the electronics and aerospace manufacturing industries. He previously served as a director of TTM Technologies, Inc., a publicly-traded global printed circuit board manufacturer, as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Suntron Corporation, a provider of high mix electronic manufacturing services and as a Senior Vice President of Sony Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Bass held various manufacturing management positions at the aerospace group of General Electric Corporation.

Michael Daniels, retired Chairman and CEO of Mobile 365, Inc. and Network Solutions, Inc., honed his executive management capabilities over more than 25 years of industry experience, including as a director of Sybase, a publicly-traded global enterprise software and services company and in a number of senior executive positions at SAIC, a publicly-traded scientific, technical, and professional services firm. Mr. Daniels also served on the boards of directors of VeriSign, Inc. and of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. For more information on Mercury's Board of Directors, visit the company's Investor Relations website.

For more information on Mercury Federal Systems, visit www.mercfed.com, or contact them at (703) 413-0781 or mercfedinfo@mercfed.com.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. - Where Challenges Drive Innovation^®

Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) is a best of breed provider of open, commercially developed, application-ready, multi-INT subsystems for the ISR market. With over 25 years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in radar, EW, EO/IR, C4I, and sonar applications, and more than 300 successful program deployments including Aegis, Global Hawk, and Predator, Mercury's Services and Systems Integration team leads the industry in partnering with customers to design and integrate system-level solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability, and accelerate customers' time to market.

Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.

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