ECC International Corp. Announces Additional Awards for the Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 Program.

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ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2001

ECC International Corp. (AMEX:ECC) announced today that it has received an additional award for the Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 (EST 2000).

The EST 2000 is the only United States Army Infantry School (USAIS) validated small arms training system. Under this program, ECC is delivering small arms training systems to the U.S. Army, National Guard and Army Reserve forces. As the most accurate weapons training system available today, this device trains marksmanship skills, squad level collective defense, and judgmental shoot-don't shoot tactics. It enables training on a variety of weapons including rifles, pistols, machineguns, shotguns, anti-tank, and grenade launchers. When fully fielded, the EST 2000 will train more soldiers each year than any other Army training system.

According to Dr. James C. Garrett, president and chief executive officer, "We have fielded 76 systems and currently have 44 more under contract at this time. A total of over 1,100 systems are expected to be issued through 2004. However, with the recent terrorist events, ECC is evaluating how quickly additional training systems could be deployed if required by the U.S. Armed Forces. We look forward to demonstrating the EST 2000 system capability at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, DC this month."

The U.S. Army Simulation and Training Command (STRICOM) has structured the contract to serve the weapons training needs of other U.S. Armed forces and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies as well as foreign armed forces through the Foreign Military Sales program.

ECC International Corp. is a leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of training devices and simulators for the U.S. Armed Forces in support of individual, crew, team and higher level collective training in both operator and maintainer skills and tasks. The company also has provided military training devices for more than 25 countries.

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