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EMRISE CORPORATION RECEIVES $850,000 IN FOLLOW-ON ORDERS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT Adds to Growing Commercial Aircraft Backlog RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.—October 28, 2008—EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced it has received from a major international integrator of electronics systems for commercial and military aviation markets $850,000 in additional orders for power supplies for use in commercial aircraft. Shipments are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2009 and be completed by the end of that year, which ensures continuity of shipments for this program through 2009. EMRISE President and Chief Executive Carmine T. Oliva commented, “Despite global economic conditions, we continue to receive orders for electronic devices and subsystems for applications in commercial aircraft. EMRISE’s business in the commercial sector is growing and represents an important complement to our long-standing business in military aircraft applications.” The order was received by the Company’s Pascall Electronics Ltd. subsidiary, located in England. Pascall provides power systems, RF devices and integrated subsystems for a broad range of military and commercial aircraft and other land and sea-based programs. Oliva added: “Backlog continues to rise and reflects our strategic plan to broaden and grow our revenue base with commercial aircraft business. This market is characterized by high-volume programs to outfit a variety of commercial aircraft, from large airliners to business jets to smaller private aircraft with a range of electronics devices and subsystems, not only for avionics and control systems but also for in-flight entertainment and communications.” 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 quarter of 2009 and complete such shipments by the end of that year, ability to continue shipments for this program through 2009, ability to continue to receive orders for electronics devices and subsystems for applications in commercial aircraft, ability to add to our growing backlog, ability to implement strategic plan to broaden our revenue base with commercial aircraft business and the ability to develop the market segment that involves commercial airliners, regional jets, business jets and smaller private aircraft with a range of electronic devices and subsystems not only for avionics and control systems but also for in-flight entertainment and communications 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 aviation markets including commercial airliners, regional jets, business jets and smaller private aircraft, 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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