---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001049521-25-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MRCY"
cik: "0001049521"
company_name: "MERCURY SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T09:45:58.251885+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mercury Systems board changes: Roger Krone departs, Jean Bua appointed

## Summary
- Roger Krone departed Board effective Jan 6, 2025 to focus on his role as CEO of Boy Scouts of America.
- Jean Bua, CFO of NetScout Systems, appointed as independent Class II director; joins Audit and Government Relations Committees.
- Bua will receive a restricted stock award valued at $225,000, vesting 50% on each of the first two anniversaries.
- Board size remains nine members; committee composition updated under Item 8.01.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001049521-25-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MRCY
- cik: 0001049521
- company_name: MERCURY SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952125000003/0001049521-25-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952125000003/mrcy-20250106.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049521-25-000003
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049521-25-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jean Bua was appointed as Director at MERCURY SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the appointment of Jean Bua, the Chief Financial Officer of NetScout Systems, a publicly traded network performance and security solutions company, to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952125000003/0001049521-25-000003-index.htm
- Executive change
  Roger A. Krone departed as Director at MERCURY SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Director
  source text: announced the departure of Roger A. Krone from the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952125000003/0001049521-25-000003-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.