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The International M2M Council (IMC) announced the election of its first slate of officers. The new association aims to bring together all segments of the global machine-to-machine (M2M) industry, including automotive telematics, transportation, remote asset management, healthcare, supply chain logistics, smart utilities and location-based services.

FIRST RF Corp. announced that it has been awarded 12 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I contracts from the DoD 13.1 competition. The company earned ten Air Force and two Navy SBIR phase 1 projects.

Hughes Network Systems LLC (Hughes), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, announced a significant advancement in rotary wing Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) SATCOM capabilities by successfully demonstrating data throughputs of up to 10 Mbps through rotor blades and over geostationary satellites to a remote HUB.

The R&S BBA150 broadband amplifier from Rohde & Schwarz is now also available with a frequency range from 2.5 GHz to 6.0 GHz. The new frequency range is an addition to the already existing range from 0.8 GHz to 3.0 GHz. Thanks to their state-of-the-art design, the amplifiers, which have been optimized for high frequencies, deliver high output power, and are still compact and lightweight.

Molex Inc., a global electronic components company, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest and most successful private companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Koch Industries will acquire all of Molex's outstanding shares, including the Common Stock (MOLX), the Class A Common Stock (MOLXA) and the Class B Common Stock, for $38.50 per share in cash, for a total equity value of approximately $7.2 billion.

Machine-to-machine (M2M) is often portrayed as a nascent industry sector. However, operators are already generating strong revenue in this sector, amounting to USD10 billion worldwide in 2013, and increasing to USD88 billion by 2023. Future growth opportunities will be realised in emerging regions as applications are tailored to local markets and the cost of solutions declines.

NEC Corp.announced a new deal between NEC Neva Communications Systems and Russian mobile operator Scartel, which will see LTE microcell base stations used to provide commercial services in Russia for the first time.

Anite has achieved validation for the most number of LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation protocol test cases by the PTCRB (a wireless device certification forum led by North American mobile operators).

Nujira Ltd.has selected ASE as its production packaging and test partner for its Coolteq.L family of High Accuracy Tracking Envelope Tracking ICs.

Aeroflex Ltd.is introducing its 5800 Series ATE system to the Indian automotive manufacturing market. The company has appointed iNETest Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. for distribution and sales of this product in India.