The company formed of Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T, and AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs), the research and development organization, as a result of the Modified Final Judgement (MFJ) that broke up the AT&T Bell System in 1984. AT&T Technologies later became Lucent Technologies, which was acquired by the French company Alcatel in 2006.The combined company is known as Alcatel-Lucent, as of Spring 2007. See also Bell System and MFJ.