EMRISE RECEIVES $850,000 ORDER FOR CUSTOM POWER SUPPLY UNITS FOR MARINE APPLICATION IN EUROPE

For Ongoing Support of Systems Currently in Service, Part of Multi-Year Program

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California - April 21, 2009 - EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced that it has received an $850,000 follow-on order for custom power supply units to be used in a shipboard application for a multi-year marine program in Europe. The order, which was received from a prime multi-national customer, is for the continuing support of systems currently in service and is to be delivered during 2009 and 2010.

EMRISE Chairman, President and CEO Carmine T. Oliva said the order was received by the Company’s Xcel Power Systems Ltd subsidiary located in England, and is representative of the type of multi-year, multi-million dollar opportunities the Company has for commercial, government and military business from a number of its major European customers. “We expect to receive additional orders for this program and believe they will be significant near-term and long-term contributors to revenues,” Oliva added.

“Securing the business for this program was the result of Xcel’s investing in working closely with this longstanding customer to develop a high quality, custom power solution to meet its requirements,” Oliva said. “Orders such as this further demonstrate the Company’s ability to win and make timely deliveries on large, multi-year contracts for custom-designed and custom-built products. This is further evidence of the buoyancy of the European military business, similar to what we are experiencing in the USA.”

About Xcel Power Systems, Ltd

XCEL Power Systems Ltd, located in Ashford, Kent, England, provides an extensive range of custom military and semi-custom and standard high voltage power supply products. It products are used in harsh environment applications across a wide range of equipment, and its key customers operate in the Defense, Aerospace, Medical, Transportation and Telecommunications markets.

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 signal processing; network access and timing and synchronization of communications networks. Primary growth driver applications for EMRISE products include “Radio Frequency Devices for Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Jamming Systems” and “Edge Network Timing and Synchronization” equipment. EMRISE serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through operations in the United States, England and France. 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 begin or to complete shipments of the products described in this release during 2009 and 2010, receive or deliver on multi-year, multi-million dollar opportunities from European customers, to receive additional orders for this program, for such orders to be significant near-term or long-term contributors to revenue, to win and make timely deliveries, and the buoyancy of the European military business, 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, and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” Section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, and other Company filings.