EMRISE COMMENTS ON PERFORMANCE OF ITS ACC SUBSIDIARY

ACC Sales Up 81 % Over a Year-Ago

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California – March 10, 2009 - EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, said today that for the six full months of operations ended February 28, 2009, its Advanced Control Components, Inc (ACC) subsidiary, acquired by EMRISE in August 2008, has met its six-month business plan goals, which included increasing sales approximately 81 percent to $9.3 million from $5.1 million in the same year-ago period. ACC, headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, is a supplier of high performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave devices and subsystems serving the military, aerospace, commercial and instrumentation markets.

EMRISE President and Chief Executive Officer Carmine T. Oliva said the sales increases at ACC were driven by an increasing volume of orders for both commercial and military applications including orders with an aggregate value of approximately $5 million for RF devices for use in vehicle-mounted signal jamming systems designed to prevent the detonation of remote-controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIED).

“Acquiring ACC was a key strategic step in our drive to position EMRISE to expand its business through increasing its core business resources,” Oliva added. “We previously said we believed ACC would generate $17 to $18 million in revenue in the first 12 months after the acquisition. And, I am pleased to report that based on ACC’s results at the half way mark, we are more convinced than ever that by the end of the 12-month period ACC will achieve $17 to $18 million in revenues, meet its other business plan goals and continue to make the favorable contributions to our overall results we expected when we made the acquisition.”

ACC has provided EMRISE with the geographic presence, additional resources and new products to increase its sales to the United States military and other government and commercial organizations. Through ACC, EMRISE has gained access to the U.S. military market for RF devices, a market from which it had been previously excluded because its RF manufacturing was located outside the U.S. And, because of ACC’s New Jersey location EMRISE now has a base of operations in the center of the East Coast military customer corridor.

“I would also like to comment briefly on two other topics of interest,” Oliva said. “First, we are making excellent progress in pursuing our strategy to divest non-core businesses as we are increasing our focus on our core businesses and competencies. I am confident we will be in a position to provide further details on that progress in the near future. Second, EMRISE is currently in the process of finalizing our 2008 results, including the integration of ACC into our year-end results and the accounting associated with that acquisition. We are planning to release our audited 2008 financial results and hold a conference call towards the end of this month, and we expect to send out a news release announcing the date and time of those activities within the next two weeks.”

About EMRISE Corporation

EMRISE designs, manufactures and markets electronic devices, sub-systems and equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications markets. EMRISE products perform key functions such as power supply and power conversion; RF and microwave transmission; digital and rotary switching; network access and timing and synchronization of communications networks. Primary growth driver applications for EMRISE products include commercial avionic “In-Flight Entertainment and Communications” products and communications “Network Timing and Synchronization” equipment. EMRISE serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through operations in the United States, England, France and Japan. The Company has built a worldwide base of customers including a majority of the Fortune 100 in the U.S. that do business in markets served by EMRISE and many similar-size companies in Europe and Asia. For more information go to www.emrise.com.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, including without limitation EMRISE’s ability to ship the balance of the $5 million in RF device orders, ability to expand its business through increasing its core business resources, that ACC will achieve $17 to $18 million in revenues, meet its other business plan goals and continue to make the favorable contributions to our overall results we expected when we made the acquisition, ability for EMRISE to increase its sales to the U.S. military and other government and commercial organizations, the ability to provide further details regarding our strategy to divest non-core businesses and product lines in the near future, the ability to release our audited 2008 financial results and hold a conference call towards the end of this month, and ability to send out a news release announcing the date and time of those activities within the next two weeks are all forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of EMRISE CORPORATION could differ from those statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, unforeseen technical issues, unforeseen changes in customer demand, unforeseen delays in receipt of materials from our vendors, inability of our products to meet customer specifications, changes in the economic, industry or political climate that may negatively impact demand for our future products, failure for ACC to continue to book orders and/or to ship at the levels achieved in the first full six months since the acquisition, inability to disclose the status of our strategy to divest non-core businesses and product lines in the timeframe expected, inability to release our audited 2008 financial results and hold a conference call towards the end of this month and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” Section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and other Company filings.