Company: MRCY
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001049521-25-000029
Chunk: 96

Company: MERCURY SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 96
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 and, to the extent applicable, such determination shall be made in a manner that satisfies Sections 409A and 422(c)(1) of the Code.

w. "Full-Value Award" means any Award other than a Stock Appreciation Right, Stock Option or Cash Award.

x. "Good Reason" means, unless otherwise defined in an Award Agreement: (i) a reduction in the Participant's annual base salary or base rate of pay as in effect immediately prior to the Change-in-Control, except for across-the-board reductions similarly affecting all or substantially all employees or service providers (as applicable) of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries; or (ii) a relocation whereby the Corporation or any Subsidiary requires the Participant to be principally based at any office or location that is more than fifty (50) miles from the Participant's office immediately prior to the Change-in-Control; provided that the reasons set forth above will not constitute "Good Reason" unless,

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within thirty (30) days after the first occurrence of such Good Reason event, the Participant shall have delivered written notice to the Corporation sent to its headquarters, addressed to its Legal Department, specifically identifying the event that the Participant believes constitutes Good Reason and the Corporation, or, if applicable, its Subsidiary, has not remedied such event within thirty (30) days after the Corporation's receipt of such notice.

y. "Grant Date" means the date on which the grant of an Award is made by the Committee, or such later date as the Committee may specify to be the effective date of an Award.

z. "Incentive Stock Option" means any Stock Option designated in the applicable Award Agreement as an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, and that in fact so qualifies.

aa. "Incumbent Directors" has the meaning set forth in Section 10(e)(ii).

bb. "Nonqualified Stock Option" means any Stock Option that is not an Incentive Stock Option.

cc. "Other Stock-Based Award" means an award granted to a Participant under Section 8 of this Plan.

dd. "Participant" means an Eligible Individual to whom an Award is or has been granted.

ee. "Performance Goals" means the performance goals established by the Committee in connection with the grant of an Award which may be based on attainment of specified levels or growth of one or more, or any combination, of the following measures, or of any other