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    1. Defense Executive

    Honeywell improves mobile networking, rugged computer, and SATCOM capabilities with EMS Technologies buy

    June 13, 2011
    MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., 13 June 2011. Honeywell International in Morris Township, N.J., has agreed to acquire EMS Technologies Inc. in Norcross, Ga., to boost Honeywell's expertise in mobile networking, rugged mobile computers, and satellite communications (SATCOM). The EMS Aviation segment in Ottawa has been an avionics hardware supplier to Honeywell and other major avionics systems integrators. Honeywell (NYSE:HON) plans to acquire EMS Technologies (NASDAQ:ELMG) for $491 million in cash.
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    MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., 13 June 2011. Honeywell International in Morris Township, N.J., has agreed to acquire EMS Technologies Inc. in Norcross, Ga., to boost Honeywell's expertise in mobile networking, rugged mobile computers, and satellite communications (SATCOM). The EMS Aviation segment in Ottawa has been an avionics hardware supplier to Honeywell and other major avionics systems integrators.Honeywell (NYSE:HON) plans to acquire EMS Technologies (NASDAQ:ELMG) for $491 million in cash. EMS Technologies consists of EMS Aviation; EMS Defense & Space in Norcross, Ga.; EMS Global Tracking in Tewkesbury, England; and LXE Inc. in Norcross, Ga.

    The acquisition will improve the rugged mobile computing technologies and satellite communications capabilities in the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions in Golden Valley, Minn., and the Honeywell Aerospace segment in Phoenix, company officials say.

    The EMS Global Resource Management division provides rugged mobile computers for transportation, logistics, and workforce management, and secure satellite tracking and messaging search and rescue, warehousing, and field force automation. EMS Aviation provides terminals, antennas, in-cabin network devices, rugged data storage, and surveillance for avionics and data gathering.

    For more information contact Honeywell International online at www.honeywell.com, or EMS Technologies at www.ems-t.com.

    About the Author

    John Keller | Editor

    John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.

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