Axsun Technologies Announces
New $2.5M U.S. Army Contract

Billerica, MA, October 18, 2005 – Axsun Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of micro-optoelectronic products that improve quality, performance, and productivity in a variety of industries, today announced that the company has received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop and implement technologies for automated assembly of micro-mechanical devices. Axsun is currently working with the Army to develop advanced versions of the LIGA process, a technology for fabricating highly precise micro components from metals and plastics.

Axsun's Livermore, California facility produces many of the LIGA mounting structures used in Axsun's IntegraSpec NIR spectrometer and OMx telecommunications monitors as well as miniature devices and components for a wide variety of commercial and military applications.

"This contract extends the work we are doing for the US Army, developing a low cost safe and arming answer for improved munitions," explained Jack Kay, Axsun's President and CEO. Kay continued, "With experience from the Army development, the processes being developed at Axsun will improve micro-parts manufacturing technology for a wide variety of applications."

The Axsun-West LIGA foundry has been shipping high precision metal components to corporate and government customers at a rate in excess of 10,000 devices and components per month and is expanding its capabilities to create micron-scale feature fidelity. For more information on Axsun's LIGA manufacturing capability, contact Bill Bonivert, at 925-373-3174, extension 101.

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