Case Study: Mercury Systems achieves a secure, scalable Digital Thread and faster product development with Mendix

Crafting a Digital Thread in Aerospace & Defense with Mercury Systems

Mercury Systems, a U.S. aerospace and defense technology supplier, needed to accelerate digitalization while preserving strict DevSecOps security. Engineers were struggling with siloed systems—CAD, PLM, JIRA and others—hindering collaboration and visibility across the product lifecycle, so the company sought a secure way to deliver a connected “digital thread” quickly and at scale.

They chose a low-code solution (Mendix) integrated into their on‑premise, Kubernetes-based DevSecOps architecture with MongoDB, CI/CD (Docker/Jenkins/JFrog) and project-level security. This approach enabled rapid prototypes (a skillset matrix in a week, production in two weeks), seamless integrations, faster app delivery without compromising security, and a scalable platform roadmap (Data Hub, CAD visualization, ML/IoT) to drive future innovation and ROI.

Mercury Systems

Anu Mishra

Vice President of Application Engineering