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EMRISE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION ACCEPTS INVITATION FROM BOEING TO JOIN “SUPPLIER EXCELLENCE ALLIANCE” RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, March 16, 2006 - EMRISE CORPORATION (PCX:ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic components and communications equipment, today announced it’s subsidiary, EMRISE Electronics Corporation (EEC), has accepted an invitation from The Boeing Company to join the Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA), an organization comprised of leading aerospace and defense prime contractors, major subcontractors and critical component and sub-systems OEM suppliers. The organization works together to improve capabilities and to ensure American competitiveness. The SEA alliance includes prime contractors such as BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Cessna, Northrop Grumman, L3, among others that are working with select manufacturing companies in their supply chain to ensure continuous improvement in reliability, costs and on-time deliveries. Commenting on joining SEA, William J. Miller, Executive Vice President of EMRISE Electronics Corporation, stated, “We are very pleased to be selected by Boeing to join SEA. As an organization, SEA has a vested interest in the defense and aerospace industries’ long term improvement and provides a unique and excellent forum for suppliers’ growth opportunity by outsourcing to members and by exchanging, testing and implementing management ideas. As EEC implements lean manufacturing, workforce development programs and other strategies in concert with our customers, we continue to play an important role in their success.” Carmine T. Oliva, Chairman, President and CEO, EMRISE Corporation, added, “The objective of many aerospace and defense prime contractors is to outsource as much as 80% of their work to their supply chain which provides new opportunities for growth at all levels in the chain for suppliers such as EMRISE Electronics. We are pleased to be considered by Boeing and others as a key supplier and to take advantage of new relationships formed through our participation in the Supplier Excellence Alliance to grow our business and improve our operational performance.” About EMRISE CORPORATION EMRISE Corporation is a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic components and communications equipment. EMRISE’s electronic components group, which consists of EMRISE Electronics Corporation and its international subsidiaries, provides custom power conversion, RF components and subsystems as well as digital and rotary switches to the North American, European and Asian electronic components market. These products are primarily used for defense, aerospace and industrial applications. EMRISE’s communications equipment group, consisting of CXR Larus Corporation and its subsidiary CXR Anderson Jacobson, provides network access, satellite timing and synchronization and transmission products as well as communications test equipment to the North American, European and Asian communications industry. Founded in 1983, EMRISE operates out of facilities in the United States, England, France and Japan. As of January 31, 2006, EMRISE had a total of 327 employees in its various subsidiaries and divisions. Website: www.emrise.com. Listed on ArcaEx® under the ticker symbol: ERI. Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of EMRISE CORPORATION could differ from those statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, EMRISE Electronics Corporation’s ability to capture new opportunities, the ability to implement lean manufacturing, and work force development, to ensure continuous improvement in product reliability, cost and on time delivery and to grow its business through participation in the SEA and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” Section of the company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
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