11.   In the last two years, Siemens has sold off marginal businesses in military electronics and dental equipment.

12.   Lockheed Martin will absorb the highly regarded military electronics business of Loral.

13.   Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Co. and other aerospace companies have jostled to expand their military electronics operations.

14.   Neither did GEC-Marconi, the General Electric Co. Plc unit that makes missiles and military electronics.

15.   The deal came after more than a month of negotiating that grew out of a plan by Litton to sell its military electronics business in early November.

16.   The two companies appear to have mostly complementary product lines, with Lockheed strong in military aircraft and Martin strong in military electronics and heavy-launch rockets.

17.   Thomson-CSF, the third-largest military electronics contractor in the world after Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, has recently performed better than the consumer products arm.

18.   When electronics company Raytheon sought increased access to Taiwan to sell American military electronics systems, it was Feinstein who asked the State Department to change its policy.

19.   Experts said the Russians were interested both in political intelligence and secrets concerning Israeli industry, especially in its state-of-the-art military electronics sector.

20.   Kavaliauskas said Lithuania hoped for British support for large-scale projects such as modernizing sea and airports and converting major military electronics factories to civilian uses.