Mercury Systems Awarded Contract to Develop Cutting-Edge Signal Processing Technology for BlueHalo’s Space Communications Platform

Mercury Systems has been awarded a production contract from BlueHalo to provide signal processing technology for BlueHalo’s digital beaming platform. This platform is being developed for the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource program. BlueHalo CEO, Jonathan Moneymaker, emphasized that this agreement marks BADGER’s first entrance into the high-rate manufacturing phase and is crucial in ensuring the nation will maintain its strategic advantage in space.

Mercury Systems will be producing a field-programmable gate array-based common signal acquisition and digital beamforming tool for BlueHalo’s BADGER technology. BADGER is a transportable ground-based communications system that uses re-configurable beamforming tiles to simplify space operations. The partnership between Mercury Systems and BlueHalo follows BlueHalo’s successful demonstration of integrated backend mission services for the SCAR program at the 2024 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in April. In May 2022, BlueHalo was awarded a $1.4 billion contract from the Space Rapid Capabilities Office to develop a satellite operations capability for the Space Force.