As the world’s premier measurement company, Agilent works in close collaboration with engineers, scientists, and researchers around the globe to meet the communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis challenges of today and tomorrow. The company operates two primary businesses -- electronic and bio-analytical measurement -- supported by Agilent Research Laboratories, its central research group. Agilent is committed to providing innovative measurement solutions that enable our customers and partners-- the leaders in their fields -- to deliver the products and services that make a measurable difference in the lives of people everywhere. With a singular focus on measurement, Agilent helps:

• Test more than half of the world’s 1.3 billion cell phones
• Equip more than 200 communications service providers
• Analyze the causes and cures for disease
• Advance next-generation integrated voice, video and data
• Enable the military to be more flexible, mobile and reliable
• Make the world more safe and secure from crime and drugs
• Aid the discovery and quality of medicines
• Keep our air, water, soil and food clean and safe

Market Leadership
Agilent holds many product and market leadership positions, including being first worldwide in overall test and measurement products, as well as gas chromatographs and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Agilent is also a leading test and measurement equipment supplier to the telecommunications industry.

History
Agilent spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 as part of a corporate realignment that created two separate companies. Its roots date to 1939, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started a company that helped shape Silicon Valley and the technology industry. The two founders are renowned for their visionary approach to management (known as the “HP Way”) and for their commitment to making products that contribute to advances in science and technology.

Culture
Agilent continues to support the values that made Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett’s company a success: dedication to innovation; trust, respect and teamwork; and uncompromising integrity. Added to these are speed, focus and accountability to meet customer needs and create a culture of performance that draws on the full range of people’s skills and aspirations.

Community and Social Responsibility
Agilent’s effect on the global community is not only measured by the company’s precision tools, but also by the impact it makes on people’s lives. Agilent’s worldwide community programs enrich people’s lives around the globe via grants, employee volunteerism, and community partnerships in our focus areas of science education and health and human services. In addition, through Agilent’s University Relations program, we collaborate closely with leading universities worldwide, contributing funds and the expertise of our employees to important research projects.