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Arotech Training & Simulation
Division Announces Acquisition of Realtime Technologies, Inc. for
$1,350,000
February
19, 2008 - Arotech Corporation (NasdaqGM: ARTX) announced today
that its Training and Simulation Division has acquired Realtime
Technologies, Inc. (RTI), a privately-owned corporation headquartered
in Royal Oak, Michigan, close to the headquarters of the rest of
Arotech’s Training and Simulation Division. Since its founding
in 1998, RTI has specialized in multi-body vehicle dynamics modeling
and graphical simulation solutions. RTI offers simulation software
applications, consulting services, custom engineering solutions,
and software and hardware development. The purchase price is $1,350,000
($1,250,000 in cash and $100,000 in stock) with a 2008 earn-out
(maximum of $250,000) based on 2008 net profit.
RTI’s 2007 revenues (unaudited) totaled
over $1.6 million with a net profit of $200,000. Richard Romano,
RTI’s President, will remain with the company and continue
to manage RTI as a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAAC Incorporated.
The cash portion of the transaction is being financed using FAAC’s
working capital.
RTI has delivered software and engineering solutions
to a large number of major ground vehicle simulator developers.
This includes extensive consulting and development support to the
US Army TACOM. RTI is also the producer of SimCreator – a
graphical, hierarchical, real time simulation and modeling system
enabling users to develop distributed simulation models with speed
and ease. RTI’s customer base includes university researchers
throughout the U.S. and Canada, international, government and private
entities. Founded in 1998, RTI is based in Royal Oak, Mich., and
has satellite offices in Lafayette, Colo., and South Jordan, Utah.
“RTI will not only be additive to our
revenues and profitability but, just as importantly, will expand
our organizational simulation experience,” said Robert S.
Ehrlich, Arotech’s Chairman and CEO. “This acquisition
represents logical growth of our simulation capabilities to include
sophisticated engineering level solutions.”
“Arotech Training and Simulation is excited
to add Realtime Technologies to our existing simulation companies,
FAAC and IES,” said Dean Krutty, Arotech Training & Simulation
President. “RTI’s rich product portfolio will provide
us with the opportunity to economically add new features to the
many driver training products that FAAC sells while we combine research
and development innovations benefiting both companies. At the same
time, RTI will immediately gain a much broader market exposure and
the resources needed to continue its growth.”
About Arotech’s Training and Simulation
Division
Arotech’s Training and Simulation Division (ATSD) provides
world class simulation based training solutions. ATSD develops,
manufactures, and markets advanced high-tech multimedia and interactive
digital solutions for engineering, use-of-force, and driver training
simulations for military, law enforcement, security, municipal and
private industry personnel. The division’s fully interactive
driver-training systems feature state-of-the-art vehicle simulator
technology enabling training in situation awareness, risk analysis
and decision-making, emergency reaction and avoidance procedures,
and conscientious equipment operation. The division’s use-of-force
training products and services allow organizations to train their
personnel in safe, productive, and realistic environments. The division
provides consulting and developmental support for engineering simulation
solutions. The division also supplies pilot decision-making support
software for the F-15, F-16, F-18, and JSF aircraft, as well as
simulation models for the ACMI/TACTS air combat training ranges.
Arotech’s Training and Simulation Division
consists of FAAC Incorporated (www.faac.com), IES Interactive Training
Inc. (www.ies-usa.com), and Realtime Technologies, Inc. (www.simcreator.com).
About Arotech Corporation
Arotech Corporation is a leading provider of quality defense and
security products for the military, law enforcement and homeland
security markets, including multimedia interactive simulators/trainers,
lightweight armoring and advanced zinc-air and lithium batteries
and chargers. Arotech operates through three major business divisions:
Training and Simulation, Armor, and Battery and Power Systems.
Arotech is incorporated in Delaware, with corporate
offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and research, development and production
subsidiaries in Alabama, Michigan, and Israel. For more information
on Arotech, please visit Arotech’s website at www.arotech.com.
Except for the historical information herein,
the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking
statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995, including the results of our restructuring program.
Forward-looking statements reflect management’s current knowledge,
assumptions, judgment and expectations regarding future performance
or events. Although management believes that the expectations reflected
in such statements are reasonable, readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as they
are subject to various risks and uncertainties that may cause actual
results to vary materially. These risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to, risks relating to: product and technology
development; the uncertainty of the market for Arotech’s products;
changing economic conditions; delay, cancellation or non-renewal,
in whole or in part, of contracts or of purchase orders; and other
risk factors detailed in Arotech’s most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, as amended,
and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arotech
assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
Reference to the Company’s website above does not constitute
incorporation of any of the information thereon into this press
release.
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