M&A Deal Summary

Agilent Acquires NetworkFab

On August 13, 2007, Agilent acquired defense company NetworkFab

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Agilent’s 1st transaction in the Defense sector.
  • This is Agilent’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Agilent’s 6th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-08-13
Target NetworkFab
Sector Defense
Buyer(s) Agilent
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

NetworkFab

Santa Clara, California, United States
NetworkFab designs and builds advanced signal intelligence, communications and jammer systems for the U.S. military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement groups.

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Buyer

Agilent

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees17,600
Revenue 6.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Entrance to Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Agilent is a producer of solutions that includes instruments, software, services, and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Agilent's life sciences and applied markets business provide application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify, and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular level. Agilent was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 38
Sector (Defense) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 7 of 35
State (California) 6 of 13
Country (United States) 8 of 28
Year (2007) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-15 Objective Systems Integrators

Folsom, California, United States

OSI, headquartered in Folsom, California, is a provider of Operations Support Systems (OSS) solutions for communications service providers. The Company's flagship product, NetExpert® is used by leading Communications Service Providers (fixed, broadband, and wireless companies) to manage their networks, services, products and customers.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-17 Velocity11

Menlo Park, California, United States

Velocity11 designs, manufactures and markets robotic solutions that range from standalone instrumentation to bench-top automation solutions to large, multi-armed robotic systems.

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