Mercury Celebrates the Expansion of its Phoenix Production Facility
The new building began operations in fiscal 2026’s third quarter and is expected to create more than 50 jobs in the next year.
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Mercury Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY) expanded its Phoenix production facility, adding 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to increase production capacity.
Operations in the new building began in the third quarter of fiscal 2026. Mercury expects the highly automated facility to create more than 50 jobs in the next year and help accelerate delivery through vertical integration, bringing more production activities together. The expansion supports U.S. and international defense programs, including Common Processing Architecture programs. Mercury said it ended fiscal 2026 with record bookings and backlog, which the expanded facility will help it fulfill.
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Positive
- Moderate pointPhoenix expansion adds 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to increase production capacity.
- Moderate pointFiscal 2026 ended with record bookings and backlog, Mercury said.
- Minor pointNew building began operations in fiscal 2026’s third quarter, supporting production increases for defense programs.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Mercury expects the automated facility to create more than 50 jobs in the next year.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Mercury expects vertical integration in the expanded facility to accelerate delivery timelines.
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Key Figures
- Manufacturing space added
- 50,000 sq. ft.
- Phoenix production facility expansion
- Expected new jobs
- More than 50 jobs
- Expected in the next year at the new facility
Historical Context
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Palantir agreement targeted material-planning and factory automation to increase throughput and shorten delivery timelines.
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Reported FY26 record bookings of $660 million and backlog above $1.9 billion, echoed by the facility’s execution rationale.
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Key Terms
printed circuit board assemblies technical
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PHOENIX, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics, today celebrated the expansion of its Phoenix production facility, adding 50,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space that allows the company to increase production capacity and accelerate delivery timelines through vertical integration to support critical U.S. and international defense programs.
As the United States and its allies accelerate military hardware production across all battlefield domains, Mercury is taking steps to increase manufacturing capacity and efficiency in its operations. The company has invested to build out a new, highly automated manufacturing facility on the company’s existing Phoenix campus, which is expected to create more than 50 jobs in the next year, with significant capacity for future growth.
Mercury’s Phoenix campus is already the company’s largest manufacturing center, with more than 400 employees. The existing facility manufactures printed circuit board assemblies used across Mercury’s product lines and delivers cutting-edge memory solutions, high-performance space drives, and advanced packaging technologies built to operate in extreme environments. Operations in Mercury’s new building in Phoenix began in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 and will allow the company to ramp up production for a number of critical products and programs, including its Common Processing Architecture programs.
“We are excited to expand our presence in Phoenix and bring more capacity online to meet customer demand for high-performance processing capabilities that ensure mission dominance for the warfighter at the edge,” said Tod Brindlinger, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Operations. “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.”
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Mercury Systems – Innovation that matters®
Mercury Systems is a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics, providing breakthrough capabilities in signal and data processing. With a four-decade legacy of innovation that spans silicon to systems and RF front ends to effectors, Mercury accelerates commercial technology adoption to deliver powerful and secure mission-critical processing solutions to the edge. Mercury is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has multiple locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com. (Nasdaq: MRCY)
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the Company's focus on enhanced execution of the Company's strategic plan. You can identify these statements by the words “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” “likely,” “forecast,” “probable,” “potential,” 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, cost increases, our inability to increase production and deliver products on time and with appropriate quality, continued funding of defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company’s markets, effects of any U.S. federal government shutdown or extended continuing resolution, effects of increasingly volatile geopolitical events and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in or cost increases related to completing development, engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, changes in, or in the U.S. government’s interpretation of, federal export control or procurement rules and regulations, including tariffs, changes in, or in the interpretation or enforcement of, environmental rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages or delays in receiving components, supply chain delays or volatility for critical components, production delays or unanticipated expenses including due to quality issues or manufacturing execution issues, failure to meet contractual performance specifications, adherence to required manufacturing standards, capacity underutilization, increases in scrap or inventory write-offs, failure to achieve or maintain manufacturing quality certifications, such as AS9100, failure to achieve or maintain qualified business systems, such as those required by the DFARS, adverse findings in government audits or investigations, the impact of supply chain disruption, inflation and labor shortages, among other things, on program execution and the resulting effect on customer satisfaction, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions, restructurings and operational efficiency initiatives or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, effects of shareholder activism, increases in interest rates, changes to industrial security and cyber-security regulations and requirements and impacts from any cyber or insider threat events, including the risks from heightened, persistent, and increasingly sophisticated nation-state level cyberattacks and emerging threats associated with agentic AI-enabled cyber tools, changes in tax rates or tax regulations, changes to interest rate swaps or other cash flow hedging arrangements, changes to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining key employees and customers, litigation, including the state law claim related to our settled federal securities class action lawsuit, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration engagements, and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 3, 2026 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. 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.
INVESTOR CONTACT
Tyler Hojo, CFA
Vice President, Investor Relations
Tyler.Hojo@mrcy.com
MEDIA CONTACT
Turner Brinton
Senior Director, Corporate Communications
Turner.Brinton@mrcy.com
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FAQ
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How much manufacturing space did Mercury Systems add at its Phoenix facility?
Mercury Systems added 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its existing Phoenix campus. The expansion increases production capacity to support U.S. and international defense programs.
When did Mercury Systems begin operating its new Phoenix production building?
Operations in Mercury Systems’ new Phoenix building began in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. The building supports production increases for products and programs, including Common Processing Architecture programs.