Agi­lent Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. is a glob­al com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, that pro­vides instru­ments, soft­ware, ser­vices, and con­sum­ables for lab­o­ra­to­ries. Agi­lent was estab­lished in 1999 as a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard. Today, Agi­lent sup­ports sci­en­tists in 110 coun­tries in cut­ting-edge life sci­ence research; patient diag­nos­tics; and test­ing required to ensure the safe­ty of water, food and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals. Agi­lent focus­es its exper­tise on six key mar­kets: Food, Envi­ron­men­tal and Foren­sics, Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, Diag­nos­tics, Chem­i­cal and Ener­gy, and Research.