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EMRISE CORPORATION RECEIVES FIRST PRODUCTION ORDERS FOR CUSTOM POWER SUPPLIES AND TEST EQUIPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL MILITARY PROGRAM Production Orders Follow Recent Completion of Development and Pre-Production Contract RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, April 30, 2008 - EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE ARCA:ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced that it has received initial production orders valued at $450,000 for a range of military power supplies and test equipment from an existing European customer for use in an international military program. Deliveries are expected to be completed in 2008. These initial production orders, which follow the recent successful completion of the design and development phase of the program, were received by the company’s Xcel Power Systems Ltd. subsidiary (“Xcel”) located in England. EMRISE Chairman, President and CEO Carmine Oliva said “While, for security reasons, we are unable to disclose the specific military organization or applications involved, this is a key international military program and an important opportunity from one of our major European customers. We believe these orders are the first of expected on going orders we will receive for this program. . “These orders are evidence of the successful marketing of our custom military products by Xcel into continental Europe, an area where Xcel is capitalizing on the synergy between itself and our subsidiary in France, CXR AJ,” Oliva added. “Even though the orders are from an existing customer who buys different types of products from other EMRISE subsidiaries, for Xcel it is a new customer. Xcel is now beginning to enjoy substantial success marketing its products for the military and other harsh-environment markets into the continental European market, which offer much larger opportunities than those we have traditionally serviced predominantly in the U.K.” About EMRISE Corporation EMRISE designs, manufactures and markets electronic devices, sub-systems and equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications markets. EMRISE products perform key functions such as power supply and power conversion; RF and microwave transmission; digital and rotary switching; network access and timing and synchronization of communications networks. Primary growth driver applications for EMRISE products include commercial avionic “In-Flight Entertainment and Communications” products and communications “Network Timing and Synchronization” equipment. EMRISE serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through operations in the United States, England, France and Japan. The Company has built a worldwide base of customers including all of the Fortune 100 in the U.S. that do business in markets served by EMRISE and many similar-size companies in Europe and Asia. For more information go to www.emrise.com 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, including without limitation EMRISE’s ability to obtain multiple follow-on production orders for this or any other new order, ability to complete delivery of this order in 2008, ability for Xcel to continue to have substantial success in harsh environment / military markets, ability to achieve synergistic results between various operational units of EMRISE, ability for subsidiaries of EMRISE to meet challenging military development requirements and/or ability to deliver within tight time frames, are all 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, unforeseen technical issues failure to deliver on time or to meet required specifications on initial of subsequent orders, changes in customer actual or anticipated requirements, vendor and/or production delays, quality issues, poor performance of EMRISE products in the intended applications, unforeseen marketing and/or sales setbacks in the harsh environment / military markets, and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” Section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and other Company filings.
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