Trimble Inc.

JKR Contractors invested in new Trimble Earthworks for Excavators systems and Trimble Connected Community, increasing its connected fleet to 14 units, the largest in Scotland, to support business growth and secure multi-million pound contracts.

Raytheon received an $11.4 million order from the U.S. Air Force to implement trusted ASIC technology in the MAGR-2000 GPS receiver for military aircraft.

Trimble announced it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Trimble and K-Tec Earthmovers announced a Trimble Ready factory option for K-Tec scrapers, allowing installation of Trimble GCS900 grade control systems at the factory, available now on 2017 models.

XCMG and Trimble announced a partnership to integrate Trimble machine control solutions with XCMG excavators for the global market. XCMG will offer certain excavator models Trimble Ready from the factory.

Caterpillar Inc. and Trimble signed an agreement to extend their collaboration in mining technology, integrating Cat MineStar with Trimble's Connected Mine platform. Caterpillar Global Mining will become the primary sales, marketing, distribution and support channel for Trimble's Connected Mine platform, with increased engagement starting in early 2017.