NASA Purchases Arotech IES Simulator for Johnson Space Center
Arotech Corporation
(NasdaqNM: ARTX) announced today that its “use-of-force” training
subsidiary, IES Interactive Training, Inc. has received an order for
its Range3000 XP4 simulator from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas.
NASA/Security is utilizing an IES simulator at Kennedy Space
Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is rotating another IES
portable trainer (also based at the Kennedy Space Center) to other
NASA/Security facilities throughout the U.S. NASA/Security at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas will be training on the IES
Interactive Training Range3000 XP4 which will be a dedicated
installation at the Johnson Space Center.
“NASA is also involved in Arotech’s zinc-air battery for unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV) project,” said Arotech Chairman and CEO Robert
S. Ehrlich. “We greatly value NASA’s involvement in our defense
technology.”
IES Interactive Training, (www.ies-interactive.com) is a
world-leading manufacturer of hi-tech multimedia and interactive
digital training solutions to local, state and federal, government
agencies and law enforcement professionals around the world. Through
the incorporation of a unique solution-driven philosophy and an
experienced team of interdisciplinary professionals, IES has assumed a
leadership role in delivering products that set the industry standard
for interactive simulation training. The focus of IES Interactive
Training is to develop and sell advanced multimedia training systems
specifically targeted to law enforcement professionals.
About Arotech Corporation
Arotech’s corporate mission is to provide quality defense and
security products for the military, law enforcement and homeland
security markets, including advanced zinc-air batteries, multimedia
interactive simulators/trainers and lightweight armoring.
Arotech Corporation (www.arotech.com) operates two business
divisions: Electric Fuel Batteries — developing and manufacturing
zinc-air batteries for military and homeland security applications and
developing electric vehicle batteries for zero emission public
transportation; and Arotech Defense — consisting of IES Interactive,
which provides advanced high-tech multimedia training systems for law
enforcement and paramilitary organizations, and MDT Armor, which
provides vehicle armoring for the military, industrial and private
sectors.
Arotech is incorporated in Delaware under the name “Electric Fuel
Corporation” and has corporate and sales offices in New York and
Denver with research, development and production subsidiaries in
Alabama, Colorado and Israel.
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These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks
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the market for Arotech’s products; changing economic conditions;
delay, cancellation or non-renewal, in whole or in part, of contracts
or of purchase orders; significant future capital requirements; and
other risk factors detailed in Arotech’s most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, as amended, and
other filings (under the name Electric Fuel Corporation) with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Arotech assumes no obligation to
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