Curtiss-Wright Corporation Signs Exclusive Agreement With Viisage Technology to Market Its Face-Recognition Technology.

Business/Technology Editors

LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002

Alliance Expands Security Solution Offerings to the Power Plant

and Pipeline Industries

Viisage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:VISG), the leader in face-recognition technology and identification systems and solutions, announced today that the company has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW; CW.B), based in Lyndhurst, NJ, to market and sell Viisage's face recognition solutions for surveillance and access control applications to the power plant and pipeline industries worldwide.

An established global leader in these industries, Curtiss-Wright plans to offer Viisage's face recognition products as an integral component of an overall security systems offering that it will furnish to its customers at nuclear power plants and petrochemical facilities around the world.

"This exclusive agreement allows us to further develop our relationship with Curtiss-Wright. Furthermore, it confirms that a global leader like Curtiss-Wright recognizes the importance of integrating biometrics, specifically our face-recognition technology, into the overall security systems they will provide to their customers to help protect against any potential security threats," states Tom Colatosti, CEO and President of Viisage Technology. "Together, we are committed to providing the most effective solutions to enhance security."

Martin R. Benante, Chairman and CEO of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, "Today, there are Curtiss-Wright products and personnel in every nuclear power plant around the world. Our products are also in petro-chemical plants and fossil fuel power generation plants. This alliance joins two industry forces, allowing us to expand our role in offering complete security solutions to our customers.

About Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a diversified company headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The Company designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications and additionally is a provider of metal treatment services. The firm employs approximately 2,600 people. More information on Curtiss-Wright can be found on the Internet at www.curtisswright.com .

About Viisage Technology

Viisage Technology is the world leader in biometric face-recognition technology and identification systems and solutions that enhance consumer convenience, improve security and protect personal privacy. Originally developed at MIT, Viisage's patented, accurate, non-intrusive and cost-effective face-recognition technology is widely acknowledged for its unmatched performance including speed in real-time applications, scalability for managing large image databases, and systems integration for complete customer solutions.

Viisage delivers annually through 1,500 U.S. systems in 1,200 locations in 15 states, more than 25 million high-quality and high-security digital-identification documents for government agencies responsible for issuing drivers' licenses, social services cards and law enforcement credentials.

Viisage provides a full family of face recognition products. FaceEXPLORER(TM) is a powerful and scalable image retrieval and analysis database product, used to combat identity fraud - it is implemented in the world's largest face recognition system with more than 8 million enrolled images. FaceFINDER(TM), acclaimed for its processing speed, is the industry's most widely implemented surveillance and identification system - it is installed in more than 100 casinos worldwide and has been deployed to improve security at premier sporting events. FacePASS(TM) (for PC, Mobile, & Internet) provides secure authentication for PC, Internet and e-commerce connections. FacePIN(TM) offers consumers convenient and private verification for point-of-sale transactions such as ATMs. FacePASS(TM) (keyless entry/physical access) is a practical security solution for keyless entry to secure facilities, such as offices, dormitories and government facilities. FaceTOOLS(TM) is a leadership Software Developers Kit that enables application providers the ability to develop and customize unique customer and market applications.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this document and those made from time to time by the Company through its senior management are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements concerning future plans or results are necessarily only estimates and actual results could differ materially from expectations. Certain factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things, potential fluctuations in quarterly results, the size and timing of award and performance on contracts, dependence on large contracts and a limited number of customers, lengthy sales and implementation cycles, changes in management estimates incident to accounting for contracts, availability and cost of key components, market acceptance of new or enhanced products and services, proprietary technology and changing competitive conditions, system performance, management of growth, dependence on key personnel, ability to obtain project financing, general economic and political conditions and other factors affecting spending by customers and other risks, uncertainties and factors including those described from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, the company's Form 10K for the year ending December 31, 2000 and its quarterly reports on Form 10Q.