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As Boeing and its engineering union prepare to sit down next Tuesday for intensive contract talks, the perennially contentious issue of outsourcing looms alongside the bread-and-butter questions of pay and benefits.

BEDFORD, MA (MARKET WIRE) InterSense Inc., a market leader in precision motion technology, has received additional funding from NASA to expand development of a commercial cockpit vision system based on the company's hybrid inertial-optical motion tracking technology. This contract follows a Phase III SBIR awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) in 2007 to deliver a miniaturized IS-1200 head-tracking system integrated with a see-through head-mounted display to provide virtual flight guidance information to commercial pilots across their full field of view.

BALTIMORE, MD (MARKET WIRE) View systems, Inc. (OTCBB: VSYM), a leading homeland defense solutions provider, announced today that the ViewScan Concealed Weapons Detection Portal System was selected for the fourth time by T&M Protection Resources for use at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York which took place at the end of September 2008. Seven units were deployed for this event. View's supplementary screening product, the LAW Handheld Metal Detector, was also utilized and View systems personnel were onsite to assist with the operation of the units.

PARSIPPANY, NJ (MARKET WIRE) DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that it received multiple contract awards worth approximately $91 million from the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey to manufacture more than 5,000 Tactical Quiet Generators (TQG) in various sizes.

PISCATAWAY, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Power.org, the organization that promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture(R) technology, announced today that Power Architecture technology has played an integral role in more than a dozen United States' space missions, most recently the Mars Phoenix Polar Lander. The use of Power Architecture embedded processors in the aerospace market exemplifies its diversity and underscores its continued, widespread market share leadership, as noted in a recent IDC webcast delivered to Power.org members.

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Universal Detection technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT) (Frankfurt: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, responds to the effectiveness of anthrax emergency in the US until 2015.

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Today Vigilos announced that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $50,000 by Sound & Sea technology. The contract is in support of Sound & Sea's contract with the U.S. Navy for the Harbor/Waterside Security Program.

PARSIPPANY, NJ (MARKET WIRE) DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) Military families separated by thousands of miles are able to "share the same room" as a result of the collaboration between government, non-profit and industry. The Space and Naval Warfare systems Center -- Atlantic (SPAWAR), Freedom Calls Foundation, and DRS Technologies combined their resources and technical skills to provide five military families a quality meeting experience using a high resolution satellite video link.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Venga Aerospace systems Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VAV) (PINK SHEETS: VNGAF) (the "Company" or "Venga") is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") has accepted for filing documentation with respect to a Non-Brokered Private Placement (the "Offering" or the "Placement") previously announced in press releases dated, October 10 and October 17, 2008. Pursuant to this acceptance, on closing, the Company will, be issuing 10,900,000 common shares at $0.05 per share for gross proceeds of $545,000.00. The closing of the Offering is expected to occur within the next several weeks and