MERCURY SYSTEMS INC (MRCY)

ITEM 2.     MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

From time to time, information provided, statements made by our employees or information included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) may contain statements that are not historical facts but that are “forward-looking statements,” which involve risks and uncertainties. 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, continued funding of defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in our 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 our products, shortages in 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 federal securities class action lawsuit and related claims, 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 our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 27, 2025. We caution readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

OVERVIEW

Mercury Systems is a global technology company that delivers mission-critical processing to the edge to solve the most pressing aerospace and defense challenges.

Combining technologies and expertise developed for more than 40 years, the Mercury Processing Platform offers customers a unique advantage to unleash breakthrough capabilities. It spans the full breadth of signal processing—from RF front end to the human-machine interface—to rapidly convert meaningful data, gathered in the most remote and hostile environments, into critical decisions. The Processing Platform allows Mercury to offer standard products and custom integrated solutions from silicon to system scale, including components, modules, subsystems, and systems.

Mercury’s products and integrated solutions are deployed in more than 300 programs and across 35 countries. The company is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has more than 20 locations worldwide.

As a leading manufacturer of essential components, products, modules and subsystems, we sell to the top U.S. and European defense prime contractors, the U.S. government and original equipment manufacturers (“OEM”) commercial aerospace companies. Our mission-critical products and solutions are deployed by our customers for a variety of applications including sensor and radar processing, electronic warfare, avionics, weapons, and command, control, communications, and intelligence (“C4I”). Mercury has built a trusted, robust portfolio of proven capabilities, leveraging the most advanced commercial silicon technologies and purpose-built to exceed the performance needs of our defense and commercial customers. Customers add their own applications and algorithms to our specialized, secure and innovative products and pre-integrated solutions. This allows them to complete their full system by integrating with their platform, the sensor technology and, increasingly, the processing from Mercury.

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Our deep, long-standing relationships with leading high-tech and other commercial companies, coupled with our targeted research and development (“R&D”) investments and industry-leading trusted and secure design and manufacturing capabilities, are the foundational tenets of this highly successful model. We are leading the development and adaptation of commercial technology for aerospace and defense solutions. From chip-scale to system scale and from data, including RF to digital to decision, we make mission-critical technologies safe, secure, affordable and relevant for our customers.

Our capabilities, technology, people and R&D investment strategy combine to differentiate Mercury in our industry. We maintain our technological edge by investing in critical capabilities and intellectual property (“IP” or “building blocks”) in processing, leveraging open standards and open architectures to adapt quickly those building blocks into solutions for highly data-intensive applications, including emerging needs in areas such as artificial intelligence (“AI”).

As of March 27, 2026, we had 2,117 employees. We employ hardware and software architects and design engineers, primarily engaged in engineering and research and product development activities to achieve our objectives to fully capitalize upon and maintain our technological leads in the high-performance, real-time sensor processing industry and in mission computing, platform management and other safety-critical applications. Our talent attraction, engagement and retention is critical to execute on our long-term strategy. We invest in our culture and values to drive employee engagement that turns ideas into action, delivering trusted and secure solutions at the speed of innovation. We believe that our success depends on our ability to foster a company-wide culture that values a broad range of solutions to problems, a wide array of skills and experiences, and multiple perspectives. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment that respects the varied backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees. We believe that the workforce required to grow our business and deliver creative solutions must be rich in diverse thought and experience. Our initiatives focus on building and maintaining the talent that will create cohesive and collaborative teams that drive innovation. By adhering to these values, it will help our employees to realize their full potential at work to provide Innovation That Matters®.

Our consolidated revenues, net loss, diluted net loss per share, adjusted earnings per share (“adjusted EPS”), and adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter ended March 27, 2026 were $235.8 million, $2.9 million, $0.04, $0.27, and $36.1 million, respectively. Our consolidated revenues, net loss, diluted net loss per share, adjusted earnings per share (“adjusted EPS”), and adjusted EBITDA for the nine months ended March 27, 2026 were $693.8 million, $30.5 million, $0.51, $0.68, and $101.7 million, respectively. See the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section for a reconciliation to our most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS:

There were 13 weeks included in the results of operations for the third quarters ended March 27, 2026 and March 28, 2025, respectively. There were 39 weeks during the nine months ended March 27, 2026 and March 28, 2025, respectively. The results for the third quarter and nine months ended March 27, 2026 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full fiscal year.

The third quarter ended March 27, 2026 compared to the third quarter ended March 28, 2025

The following table sets forth, for the third quarter ended indicated, financial data from the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss):

REVENUES

Total revenues increased $24.4 million, or 11.5%, to $235.8 million during the third quarter ended March 27, 2026, as compared to $211.4 million during the third quarter ended March 28, 2025. Revenues increased year over year as we continued to execute on our program base. Point in time revenue and over time revenue represented 52% and 48%, respectively, of total revenues during the third quarter ended March 27, 2026, an increase of $9.8 million and $14.6 million, respectively. Point in time revenue and over time revenue repres

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ITEM 7.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

From time to time, information provided, statements made by our employees or information included in our filings with the SEC may contain statements that are not historical facts but that are “forward-looking statements,” which involve risks and uncertainties. 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 our 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 our 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 set forth under Part I-Item 1A (Risk Factors) in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We caution readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

OVERVIEW

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, we accelerate commercial technology adoption to deliver powerful and secure mission-critical processing solutions to the edge. We are headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and have multiple locations worldwide. Our end-to-end processing ecosystem, the Mercury Processing Platform, is built on technologies we have developed and acquired over 40 years. Our technologies are available as standard products or custom solutions from silicon to system scale to ensure interoperability, reduced complexity, optimized performance and speed development.

As a leading manufacturer of essential components, modules and subsystems, we sell to the top U.S. and European defense prime contractors, the U.S. government and OEM commercial aerospace companies. Our customers deploy our

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solutions for a variety of applications including sensor and radar processing, electronic warfare, avionics, weapons, and C4I. We deliver a trusted, robust portfolio of proven capabilities, built on the most advanced commercial silicon technologies to exceed the performance needs of our defense and commercial customers.

Our capabilities, technology, people, culture and R&D strategy all differentiate Mercury in the aerospace and defense industry. We maintain our technological edge by investing in the critical building blocks of processing, developing valuable IP and embracing open standards and architectures. This lets us rapidly shape these building blocks into products and solutions for highly data-intensive missions, including emerging areas like AI processing at the edge.

As of July 3, 2026, we had 2,102 employees. Our consolidated revenues, net loss, diluted net loss per share, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2026 were $983.6 million, $(29.7) million, $(0.50), $1.06 and $150.2 million, respectively. Our consolidated revenues, net loss, diluted net loss per share, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2025 were $912.0 million, $(37.9) million, $(0.65), $0.64 and $119.4 million, respectively. See the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section for a reconciliation to our most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS:

FISCAL 2026

On November 3, 2025, the Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program for the purchase of up to $200.0 million of our outstanding common stock. The program has no expiration date and repurchases may be made through open market or privately negotiated transactions from time to time at prevailing market prices. The timing and amount of repurchases will depend on market conditions and other factors. Repurchased shares are accounted for as authorized and unissued shares. All share repurchases are made in accordance with Rule 10b-18. As of July 3, 2026, there was $185.0 million available for future share repurchases under this share repurchase program See Note O in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for more information on our share repurchase program.

On November 4, 2025, we executed Amendment No. 7 to the Revolver. This amendment extended the maturity date of the credit facility by five years to November 4, 2030 with a facility size of $850.0 million. We had $591.5 million in outstanding borrowings prior to the closing of Amendment No. 7. On April 30, 2026, we repaid $150.0 million of the Revolver, leaving $441.5 million drawn on the Revolver as of that date. The repayment was funded with available cash on hand and did not affect our assessment of liquidity or capital resources. We remained in compliance with all applicable financial covenants both before and after the partial repayment. We continue to evaluate opportunities to further reduce outstanding borrowings under the facility depending on market conditions, operational requirements and cash flows. See Note L in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for further discussions of the Revolver.

On March 3, 2026, we completed the asset acquisition of a provider of specialized manufacturing processes that support key Mercury programs that are ramping into production.

On June 1, 2026, we entered into a $100.0 million committed Receivables Purchase Agreement ("RPA") with a new party. The RPA has an initial term of one year. Pursuant to the RPA, the new party committed to purchase receivables at a discount from a list of certain of our customers, maintaining a balance of purchased receivables at or below $100.0 million. On June 4, 2026, we terminated the Receivables Purchase and Servicing Agreement ("RPSA") in conjunction with entering into the new RPA.

FISCAL 2025

On August 13, 2024, we entered into Amendment No. 6 (“Amendment No. 6”) to our credit agreement dated May 2, 2016, as amended to date. Amendment No. 6 permanently decreased borrowing capacity to $900.0 million, with a temporary reduction in credit availability to $750.0 million until we meet a minimum consolidated EBITDA level of $75.0 million excluding (a) adjustments for cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies, (b) EAC charges and other non-cash expenses, charges, and losses addbacks and (c) deducts to reverse EAC charges previously added back, in each case for a last twelve-month period. We had $591.5 million in outstanding borrowings both prior to and following the closing of Amendment No. 6. See Note L in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for further discussions of the Revolver.

On January 29, 2025, we executed a workforce reduction that eliminated approximately 145 positions, which resulted in restructuring charges of $4.9 million for employee separation costs, which costs are classified as restructuring and other charges within our statement of operations and other comprehensive income. The headcount savings, primarily within R&D and cost of revenues, are expected to yield annualized savings of approximately $15 million, a portion of which is expected to be reinvested in the business with the remainder supporting improved profitability and operating leverage for our fiscal year 2026.

On March 28, 2025, we announced the departure of our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, with Mr. Ballhaus, our Chairman and CEO, leading the business operations group, with the group’s senior leaders reporting directly to him. Mr. Farnsworth, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, assumed additional responsibilities including

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leading a rigorous and focused organization-wide management operating system; actioning a robust and aligned technology investment strategy; overseeing execution related customer engagements; and driving operational performance.

On April 15, 2025, we entered into a strategic supply agreement under which Cicor Group acquired the Company's manufacturing operations in Plan-Les-Ouates, Switzerland, and exclusively provides contract manufacturing to supply the Company's international operations with electronic products over the next five years.

On April 30, 2025, we completed an asset acquisition of Star Lab, a subsidiary of Wind River Systems, Inc., that provides anti-tamper and cybersecurity software solutions designed to protect mission-critical processors from advanced attacks.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS:

FISCAL 2026 VS. FISCAL 2025

Refer to Item 7 of the Company's Form 10-K issued on August 11, 2025 for prior year discussion related to fiscal 2025.

There were 53 weeks and 52 weeks included in the results of operations for fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2025, respectively.

The following tables set forth, for the periods

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