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EMRISE CORPORATION RECEIVES $1 MILLION IN ORDERS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY SYSTEMS FOR COMMERCIAL MARINE APPLICATION Year-to-Date Total from Customer Now Exceeds $2 Million, Orders Add to Company’s Growing Backlog RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.—October 21, 2008—EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced that it received $1 million in additional orders from a major international marine services provider for electronic systems for identifying and marking marine (shipping) channels and marine hazards. Deliveries against these orders are expected to begin in the first half of 2009 and are expected to continue into 2010. EMRISE Chief Executive Carmine T. Oliva said: “Orders for electronics devices for commercial land and marine applications are continuing to grow and complement our long-standing business in military and commercial aircraft applications.” The order was received by the Company’s Pascall Electronics Ltd. subsidiary in England. Pascall provides power systems, RF devices and integrated systems and subsystems for a broad range of military and commercial aircraft and other land and sea-based programs. Oliva added, “These orders add to our already record backlog levels and are consistent with our strategic plan to broaden and grow our existing revenue base, which is primarily military related, with higher-growth commercial business.” 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 of this order in the first half of 2009, ability to continue shipments for this program into 2010, ability to continue to grow electronics device orders for commercial land and marine applications, , ability to add to our already record backlog levels, and our ability to implement strategic plan to broaden our military revenue base with higher growth commercial business 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, unforeseen delays in receipt of materials from our vendors, inability of our products to meet customer specifications and/or difficulties integrating our products into the overall systems, changes in the economic, industry or political climate that may negatively impact demand for our future products, failure to book orders a rate higher than outgoing shipments, failure to develop new commercial 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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