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The CERN’s High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is a major international and high-priority project in high energy physics to study the properties of the Higgs boson and confirm or exclude its Standard Model nature. Silicon detectors play a critical role in the upgrade of HL-LHC experiments. In the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, the current tracker will be replaced by a silicon-only detector, named ITk. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is producing more than 200 staves of the strip subsystem of the ITk barrel detector, that is half of the barrel area of 100 m2, and a third of the silicon strip modules, i.e. more than 1860 modules. The production of such a detector system is unprecedented, and comes with unique challenges that will bring insight in the building future, and possible even larger volume, trackers for the next generations of particle physics experiments, for example at FCC as well as EIC. In addition, the success of the HL-LHC physics program relies on the use of new timing detectors that implement a novel technology, i.e. the Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD), which can reach a time resolution in the order of 30 ps or less. Such a technology has a vast range of applications that extend to 4-dimensional trackers for future particle physics experiments. BNL designs, produces and tests LGAD sensors for several applications that go beyond particle physics, including space, medicine etc.