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Mission-critical solutions for the modern warfighter

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Key Differentiators

Leveraging decades of defense product experience

An integrated engineering team

Acting as a seamless extension of your team, our engineers are equipped to support your defense acquisition, including system modernization and sustainment for warfighters.

Offering superior risk mitigation

Our global supply chain expertise and extensive network proactively secure critical components, ensuring continuous production and rapid disruption mitigation.

Scale to volume manufacturing

Early collaboration across design, testing, prototyping and manufacturing proactively enables us to scale defense technologies quickly and reliably.

OUR expertise

Our defense product experience, solutions and regulatory expertise

Connected battlefield products across all domains, which includes:

  • Land, air and naval ground systems
  • Radars, terminals and modems
  • Secure satellite communications (LEO and GEO deployments)
  • Unmanned and autonomous systems
  • Missiles, guided smart munition systems and soldier protection
  • Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)

  • Comprehensive Testing and Qualification: We utilize advanced testing facilities to conduct thorough environmental, mechanical and electrical testing. This ensures your product meets the most stringent military specifications
  • Strategic Component Engineering and Supply Chain Solutions: Our global supply chain expertise enables us to anticipate and mitigate component availability risks and supply chain disruptions. We leverage our extensive network to secure critical components and maintain uninterrupted production. When unexpected issues arise, we quickly create contingency plans, demonstrating our commitment to rapid response and customer focus
  • Department of Defense (DoD) experience in supporting manufacturing readiness level (MRL) and technology readiness level (TRL) activities

  • AS9100 (design and manufacturing)
  • DoD Trusted Source Accreditation
  • Nadcap
  • ITAR and EAR compliance
  • FAA FAR 145
  • EASA
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 14001
  • ANSI/ESD S20.20
  • IPC 610 Class II and III
  • IPC J-STD-001
  • IPC-J-STD-001 Space Addendum
  • Government acquisition compliance experience

EUROPEAN DEFENCE

Globally capable and regionally compliant

Your partner for delivering innovation, scale and compliance to ensure sovereign readiness for UK/EU defence.

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EUROPEAN DEFENCE

Globally capable and regionally compliant

Your partner for delivering innovation, scale and compliance to ensure sovereign readiness for UK/EU defence.

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OUR SOLUTIONS

End-to-end solutions for innovative defense product development

We embed our expert team with yours, providing guidance and support throughout the entire product life cycle to ensure your critical defense technologies reach the warfighter across all domains with speed, precision and unwavering reliability.

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OUR SOLUTIONS

End-to-end solutions for innovative defense product development

We embed our expert team with yours, providing guidance and support throughout the entire product life cycle to ensure your critical defense technologies reach the warfighter across all domains with speed, precision and unwavering reliability.

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faqs

Frequently asked questions about our defense capabilities

At Plexus, we understand that our customers must trust and have confidence in our ability to protect what matters most. Our reputation is built on this commitment and our mutual success depends on it. Protecting the sensitive data of our partners and team members is a continuous, evolving risk and a fundamental aspect of Plexus’ governance framework. Ensuring information security and data privacy throughout our value chain is essential to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and data. Through a robust information protection and privacy program, we enforce policies and practices that incorporate administrative, technical and physical safeguards. These measures collectively underscore our unwavering commitment to global information security and privacy.

We prioritize a Design for Excellence (DfX) approach from the earliest stages of development. Our dedicated DfX experts meticulously evaluate your product’s hardware design, integrating essential complexity while optimizing for manufacturability, testability and long-term reliability. By incorporating input from our Supply Chain, Test, and Manufacturing teams throughout the design cycle, we proactively identify and resolve potential challenges, ensuring a smooth transition to production and ultimately saving you time and resources.

We’re strategically positioned to support defence programmes across the UK and EU. Our Livingston site in Scotland provides rapid prototyping and design, while Kelso delivers NPI, manufacturing and sustaining services. For EU-based needs, our Oradea facility in Romania offers scalable production capacity and test engineering capabilities to help meet “Buy European” procurement rules. This regional footprint, combined with our global quality frameworks, enables us to deliver fast, flexible and compliant solutions that align with national content and sovereignty goals.

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