Beltsville, MD, September 13, 2006: Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi) announced today that it has been awarded a $16,196,464 contract by the U.S. Navy to upgrade and enhance the existing Indonesian Integrated Maritime Surveillance System (IMSS) that it developed. Under the terms of the contract the IMSS will be expanded with eight additional Coastal Surveillance Stations (CSS) and two CSS equipment sets to supplement the two existing coastal stations in Indonesia. The project includes tasks to improve communications capabilities at the Indonesian Navy Headquarters Command Center; to upgrade radars on several Indonesian ships; and to install TSi Trident Monitoring Systems on the ships. TSi will also define requirements and develop a design for a Regional Integrated Maritime Security Information Center (RIMSIC) and develop IMSS Concept of Operations, Training and Exercise Plans for the Indonesian Navy.

“We are delighted and honored to have been selected by the U.S. Navy to provide an enhanced coastal surveillance capability for the Indonesian Navy. This system will support the Indonesian Navy in developing a Maritime Domain Awareness capability to assure the safety of shipping and the security of its maritime regions” said Dr. Gil Blankenship, Chairman of TSi.

The IMSS project is aimed at assuring the safety of shipping in the Malacca Strait, a critical waterway for the world’s commerce. Much of the world's economy depends on the shipping that passes through this narrow body of water in Southeast Asia. Situated between the coastline of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to the East and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the West, the Strait of Malacca extends some 900 km from its widest point, about 350 km between northern Sumatra and Thailand, to its narrowest, less than 3 km between southern Sumatra and Singapore.

The Strait carries 50,000 vessels per year, representing between one-fifth and one-quarter of the world's sea trade. A quarter of all oil shipments carried by sea pass through the Strait (in 2003 an estimated 11 million barrels a day), a trade that is expected to expand as oil consumption rises in China. Fears of terrorism rest on the possibility that a large ship could be pirated and sunk at a shallow point in the Strait (it is just 25m deep at its shallowest part), effectively blocking the Strait. If successful, such an attack would have a devastating effect on world trade.

This contract (N00039-06-C-0102) represents purchases by the U.S. Navy for the benefit of the Government of Indonesia under the authority of Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2006. Work will be performed at TSi’s offices in Beltsville MD, and in Indonesia. The work is expected to be completed by September 2008. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego CA is the contracting agency.