NEWBRIDGE, UK -- EMS firm Axiom said first-quarter revenues rose 20% year-over-year to £6.8 million ($10.7 million), a company record.

WASHINGTON -- A US Senate Armed Services Committee investigation discovered counterfeit electronic parts from China in the Air Force’s largest cargo plane, in assemblies intended for Special Operations helicopters, and in a Navy surveillance plane among 1,800 cases of bogus parts, a committee report released today shows.

LEICESTERSHIRE, UK – The Center of Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland in concert with Loughborough University will cosponsor the 6th International Symposium on Tin Whiskers here in November.

The symposium will focus on research on tin whisker growth, experiments and result; failure characterization; and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies.

The event takes place Nov. 27 and 28 in Leicestershire, UK.

Send technical abstracts to Dr. Michael Osterman at osterman@calce.umd.edu. The deadline is Aug. 23. For more information, visit http://www.calce.umd.edu/symposiums/ISTW2012.htm.

TEL AVIV – Jabil Circuit is opening an office here, where it will partner with fellow EMS firm R.H. Technologies, according to published reports.

Jabil said it would focus on products for startup and emerging companies, as Israel has the largest number of startups in the world per capita, say reports.

R.H. Technologies has a manufacturing plant in Nazareth-Illit that will serve as Jabil's Israeli manufacturing site.

No financial terms were disclosed.