SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Net Sales, End Market and Long Lived Assets by Geographic Area

Net sales by the originating geographic area and by estimated end market are as follows (amounts in thousands):



	2012		2011		2010
Net Sales:
United States	$	565,931	$	508,145	$	243,822
Europe	290,265		132,145		125,209
Asia	156,299		195,564		149,237
Total	$	1,012,495	$	835,854	$	518,268

Communications	$	311,952	$	148,792	$	116,369
Defense & Security	286,430		299,503		208,098
Aerospace	212,293		212,127		107,587
Industrial	201,820		175,432		86,214
Total	$	1,012,495	$	835,854	$	518,268

by geographic area are as follows (amounts in thousands):



	2012		2011		2010
United States	$	93,496	$	69,647	$	55,737
Europe	13,253		12,632		14,212
Asia	7,912		7,643		5,964
Other	1,485		—		—
Total	$	116,146	$	89,922	$	75,913

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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