American Defense Systems, Inc. Completes $750,000 Contract to Armor the 555th MEB.FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- American Defense Systems, Inc., of Hicksville, New York Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 41,260 at the 2000 census. Hicksville may well have been named after Elias Hicks the great Quaker preacher whose daughter married her cousin, Valentine Hicks. , a global leader and innovator in the design, manufacture and installation of transparent armor, security doors, windows and curtain wall curtain wall Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies systems, recently supplied the 555th Mobility Enhancement Brigade, the "Triple Nickel," with a wide array of add-on armor kits, including transparent armor, for several types of construction vehicles in the unit's order of battle. The 555th MEB MEB Marine Expeditionary Brigade MEB Medical Evaluation Board (also abbreviated as MEBD) MEB Milli Egitim Bakanligi MEB Muscle-Eye-Brain Disease MEB Micro Enterprise Bank (Kosovo) , based at Fort Lewis, Washington, received armor kits for the Clark 175B Bucket Loader, the Caterpillar 621B Scraper See scraping. , the Caterpillar 130G Grader, and the Case MW24C Bucket Loader. Soft armor kits, without transparent armor, were provided for the FLU419 SEE. Even though armor kits were specifically designed and engineered to fit the 555th array of vehicles, American Defense Systems, Inc., satisfied the contract and produced the kits in under seventy-five days. The armor has been sent to the 864th Engineering Battalion, currently deployed to Afghanistan. Anthony Piscitelli, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of American Defense Systems, Inc., said, "It was imperative for us to complete the project as quickly as possible not because of any contractual or monetary considerations, but because the primary objective here at American Defense Systems is to protect those men and women who are protecting us, and getting our boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. behind armored equipment while they served in harm's way, was of the utmost importance." Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of American Defense Systems, Inc. to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. http://www.americandefensesystems.net |
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