Ionatron to be Sponsor at Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Ionatron, Inc., a next generation controlled directed energy weapon technology company (OTCBB: IOTN.BB), today announced it will be one of seven Gold Sponsors at the Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium conducted by The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS). The Symposium is being held from October 18-21 in Rockville, Maryland. Additional details regarding the symposium are available at www.deps.org

DEPS was founded in 1999 to foster research and development of Directed Energy technology for national defense and civil applications through professional communication and education. The goal of DEPS is to be the premier organization for the exchange of information on the development and application of Directed Energy.

The Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium brings together researchers, managers, and policy makers from government offices, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and other national laboratories, program offices, the intelligence community, industry, universities, and other scientific and engineering institutions for discussions of current programs, technology efforts, and the future of Directed Energy. This annual Symposium provides a forum for the exchange of technical information in fields related to the development, testing, and fielding of High Energy Laser and High Power Microwave systems.

"We are very pleased to be a Gold Sponsor for the Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium," stated Thomas Dearmin, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ionatron, Inc. "This event represents an ideal opportunity for Ionatron to showcase its controlled directed energy weapon technology to a broad spectrum of officials from government, industry and academia while providing company management with additional insights into the future of directed energy technology."

The DEPS symposium is expected to bring together more than 700 participants seeking valuable information on Directed Energy technology from more than 15 booths and 2 events, including general sessions, speaker luncheons, plenary sessions, poster sessions and presentation and exhibitor tracks.

More than 6 Ionatron representatives will be present to promote the organization as well as answer questions. In addition, Ionatron Human Resources recruiters will be present to assist prospective employee candidates and to encourage interest in joining the company.

About Ionatron, Inc.

Ionatron, Inc. develops and markets Directed Energy Weapon technology products initially for sale to the U.S. Government. The goal of the Company is to produce products that incorporate our technology initially for specific U.S. Government customer applications and platforms. Ionatron and the U.S. Government have entered into several contracts for products and services as well as Cooperative Research and Development Agreements for joint research on LIPC based directed energy weapons. We expect to offer U.S. Government approved versions of our products for commercial security applications in the future. During 2003 and 2002, the Company engaged in research and development and business development activities. Ionatron has demonstrated its laser guided man-made lightning directed energy technology in the laboratory and now has government contracts for effects testing, compact laser source development and the delivery of a system on a mobile platform for field demonstration and testing. We are a new technology company working under contracts with agencies of the U.S. Government concerned with national security that has developed and demonstrated in our laboratory a novel internally developed directed energy weapon technology called LIPC, our technology controls and directs electrical energy down a laser created plasma channel to a specific target. Our business strategy is to continue long-term development of the technology for multiple national security and defense applications, as well as to in parallel develop, applications in other commercial sectors. Many short-term military applications have already been demonstrated to our customers. Our immediate plan is to manufacture transportable demonstrators for those applications for various U.S. Government organizations, in order to demonstrate the field utility of the technology.

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