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Managing Long Product Lifecycles and Supply Chain Challenges

December 10, 2024

Developing proactive, resilient, and cost-optimized supply chains is critical for long-lifecycle products (LLCPs), those with active production lives exceeding five years. Sectors like aerospace and defense (A&D), automotive and transportation, large-scale capital equipment, and medical and life...

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Designing for Interplanetary Exploration

October 14, 2024

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Developing technology for space is challenging. Developing technology for interplanetary space requires stratospheric skills. At Benchmark Lark Technology (Lark), we embrace challenges, and nothing showcases our...

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Miniaturization—Driving the Next Generation of Space Technology

June 11, 2024

Miniaturization in electronic design is critical for integrating more capabilities into smaller devices, particularly for the growing next-generation space technology market. This trend enables the launch of smaller, more affordable satellites due to the compact, high-quality electronic components...

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Collaborating Toward Advanced Robotic Military Combat Vehicles—It Takes a Village

April 26, 2024

At the 2024 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) event in Huntsville, Alabama, military leaders and industry experts gathered to address the multifaceted challenges of developing robotic military combat vehicles. With a keen focus on sustainable technologies in contested environments,...

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Empowering Regulated Industries to Thrive in a Greener Future

April 22, 2024

An increasing number of companies across industries are embracing sustainable product design, manufacturing, and supply chain management practices to reduce their carbon footprint and help combat climate change. Amid stricter greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations from governing bodies like the...

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Aerospace and Defense 2024 Technology Trends

March 5, 2024

With the widespread impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, defense strategies must adapt. One clear example of this adaptation involves soldier training cycles. As commercial and defense technologies such as virtual reality (VR) continue to drive each other forward...

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Mission Critical — Product Realization for Aerospace & Defense

October 17, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving aerospace and defense (A&D) market, product realization services have become a critical part of mission and commercial success. With dwindling research and development (R&D) budgets, an ever-increasing need to field products faster, and requirements to fit more...

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Center of Excellence for RF Filters and Components — Tijuana, Mexico

October 9, 2023

Welcome to our blog series on Benchmark’s Centers of Excellence. Our Centers of Excellence represent locations within our worldwide network that have critical skills, knowledge, resources, training, and certifications surrounding a key technology area or technical competency. This blog series...

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Benchmark Site Profile – Tijuana, Mexico

September 14, 2023

The Benchmark Site Profile is an ongoing blog feature highlighting our manufacturing and engineering teams located around the world. This blog features the manufacturing team from Tijuana, Mexico.

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Benchmark Celebrates the Grand Reopening of Our Almelo Facility

June 26, 2023

On Friday, June 23, Benchmark celebrated the much-anticipated Grand Reopening of its engineering and manufacturing facility in Almelo, the Netherlands. While the facility was never closed during the renovations, we’re calling it a Grand Reopening due to a complete revitalization of the facility...

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Advocating for Veterans in the Workforce

May 25, 2023

For over 40+ years, Benchmark has actively supported our customers in the aerospace and defense (A&D) markets through design, engineering, manufacturing, and post-production expertise. Our continued investment in advanced technologies allows us to collaborate with our A&D customers to build the...

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Rising Competition for Counter-UAS Technology

May 2, 2023

Although the defense industry is still the largest and most mature market for drone sales worldwide, recreational and consumer drones are growing in popularity. In fact, according to Goldman Sachs Research, there were approximately 8 million consumer drone global shipments in 2020 amounting to...

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