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SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) RAE systems Inc. (AMEX: RAE), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, today announced that RAE Systems has delivered to the United States National Guard additional AreaRAE wireless Rapid Deployment Kits (RDKs) to equip all 57 Civil Support Teams (CSTs) throughout the entire United States and its territories with portable toxic gas and radiation detection equipment and RAELink3 portable radio modems. The contract was valued at more than $3 million.

SAN ANTONIO, TX (MARKET WIRE) EADS North America Defense Security and systems Solutions, Inc. has been recognized as one of the industry's top simulation companies in the 7th Annual MT2 Top Simulation Companies ranking by Military Training technology magazine (MT2).

FORT COLLINS, CO (MARKET WIRE) Woodward Governor Company (NASDAQ: WGOV) today announced Woodward and MPC Products Corporation have entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement under which Woodward would acquire MPC in a transaction valued at approximately $383 million. MPC, a privately-held company headquartered in Skokie, Ill., operated under the leadership of Joseph Roberti and Vincent Roberti for more than 45 years. MPC is an industry leader in the manufacture of high-performance electromechanical motion control systems primarily for aerospace applications. MPC's net sales were $195 million for its fiscal year

MARSHALLTOWN, IA (MARKET WIRE) Mechdyne Corporation today announced that it has completed a multi-room computer simulation and visualization center for Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK), a premier advanced weapon and space systems company. The Simulation Center, installed at ATK's Mission Systems headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, features a 40-seat immersive visualization theater with an 8 megapixel (MP) projection system, two team collaboration rooms with stereoscopic display capability and a conference room with high definition (HD)-quality viewing.

ARDEN, NC (MARKET WIRE) Homeland Integrated Security systems, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HISU) announced that the Company has been approved and is now selling its security, data tracking products and accessories to customers nationwide on the GSA Advantage. According to the company, this completes the listing process for the GSA (Government Services Administration). The GSA Advantage is an electronic shopping and ordering system provided by the GSA. The site allows government entities along with other customers to view product information and purchase products online direct from the approved contractor.

OTTAWA, CANADA (MARKET WIRE) Mxi Technologies announced today that the Maintenix(R) software has successfully gone live as the maintenance and engineering system for the entire fleet of aircraft managed and supported by the Seattle-based Derivative Airplane Programs (DAP) business unit of Boeing Integrated Defense systems. The intelligent, integrated software solution will provide DAP with meaningful improvements to labor productivity, leading to reduced costs, improved asset reliability and increased mission readiness; ultimately enabling cost-effective support for customers. The project, which consisted of three

HICKORY, NC (MARKET WIRE) Calvin Humphrey, CEO of River Hawk Aviation, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: RHWI), a regional FBO/MRO and aviation charter and services company, last week discussed the Company's financial results through June 30, 2008 and its expectations for the third quarter of 2008.

SAN DIEGO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Cubic Corporation (AMEX: CUB) today announced that it has filed an application to transfer its stock listing to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from the American Stock Exchange (Amex). Cubic anticipates its common shares will begin trading on the NYSE on September 2, 2008 under its current symbol "CUB." The company's shares will continue to trade on the Amex until the transfer date.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Intel Developer Forum -- Mitrionics, Inc., developer of the Mitrion™ Virtual Processor and the Mitrion software Acceleration Platform, and Nallatech will demonstrate their PCI Express* FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Accelerator Kit at the Intel Developer Forum being held August 19-21, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The FPGA Accelerator Kit is targeted at companies and organizations in defense, High Performance Computing (HPC), and bioinformatics sectors interested in accelerating applications with the use of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products. The hardware portion of the kit

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA and SHANGHAI, CHINA (MARKET WIRE) Worldwide energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc. (OTCBB: WEMU)