(New Mexico MEP: Albuquerque, NM) -- Sagebrush Technology production manager Vaughn Halford knows a lot of military secrets. But the secrets he eagerly spills are the ones that New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP) helped him uncover.

Ask the heads of any small or struggling companies if they’d like to be growing at more than a million dollars a year, and there’s no doubt what they’d say.

But for Albuquerque’s Sagebrush Technology, that kind of growth was costing a lot of money.

“Every month we had to order ever higher numbers of parts, and it was just a nightmare from beginning to end because of our bidding process, not just for us but for our vendors,” says Halford.

Providing gimbals, positioners and other state-of-the-art precision motion products to the military, aerospace and medical markets, not just in the United States, but in Israel, Australia and around the world, this New Mexico company is one of no more than 10 like it in the nation, says Halford.

With its markets booming, so too its need for parts. The more parts, the longer and more complicated the process became.

“It was getting to the point where our vendors almost dreaded our calls. ‘Oh, no. It’s another Sagebrush project.’”

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