EMRISE CORPORATION RECEIVES $1.0 MILLION IN NEW ORDERS FOR IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.—November 25, 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 $1.0 million in new orders for electronic devices and subsystems to be used in commercial In-Flight Entertainment and Communication (IFE&C) systems. Shipments of these orders are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2009 and continue through the first half of 2009.

EMRISE President and Chief Executive Officer Carmine T. Oliva said, “These orders are for an extension of a major program from an established customer for new and retrofit IFE&C installations in commercial aircraft programs. We continue to see strength in our orders from the commercial aircraft business segment for IFE&C programs and for many other on-board commercial aircraft programs for which we provide products.”

The Company’s Pascall Electronics Ltd. (Pascall) subsidiary located in England received the new IFE&C orders. Pascall provides a range of power systems, RF devices and integrated subsystems for traditional IFE and new generation multimedia IFE&C systems, including video on demand and GSM communications products for retrofit and new-build applications.

“These newest orders are representative of the kind of demand we continue to experience for in-flight entertainment products,” Oliva added. “Sales of our electronic devices and subsystems that are integrated into in-flight entertainment systems continue to grow significantly and are reaching record levels in 2008.”

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 begin shipments for these new orders in quarter one of 2009, ability to provide order coverage through the first half of 2009, ability to continue to see strength in orders from the commercial aircraft business segment for IFE&C programs or for any other on-board commercial aircraft programs, ability for these new orders to predict or to be representative of the kind of demand we expect to receive for in-flight entertainment products, ability for sales of our electronic devices and subsystems that are integrated into in-flight entertainment systems to continue to grow significantly and/or to reach record levels on such sales in 2008 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, unforeseen changes in customer demand and/or changes in the commercial airline industry, unforeseen delays in receipt of materials from our vendors, inability of our products to meet customer specifications, changes in the economic, industry or political climate that may negatively impact demand for our future products, failure to receive continuing orders for IFE&C or other commercial aircraft products, failure to ship IFE&C products at increasing rates, 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.