| SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental
Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) has been selected by NIBRA to provide a
virtual reality (VR) based multi-user training system. As the National Fire
Institute of Netherlands, NIBRA is responsible for setting standards for the
whole country and has chosen ETC's unique VR simulator technology to develop
and deliver comprehensive training programs that will allow individual fire
officers, incident managers and other emergency response personnel to work
together and most importantly, train together as an "integrated team". Prior
to the introduction of ETC's Advanced Disaster Management Simulator technology
(ADMS™) such training was only possible via live mock up drills, which
though useful to increase awareness, provide very limited training. Dealing with disasters -- fire related, bio-chemical incidents or terrorist acts of destruction, require the fire services and emergency teams to put themselves in harms way. Mitigating the losses, saving lives and property demands the highest level of preparedness possible -- training has proven to be one of the leading contributors to increasing the preparedness level and ADMS™ provides the most affective and affordable means to achieve this essential goal. The interactive capability of ADMS™ Intelligent VR technology allows the exercise to be driven by the decision-making process, providing for a very progressive way to develop skills and enhance the competency level. ETC's simulation systems are designed and utilized to provide both safety and security training and its key customers include the likes of Chicago O'Hare and Minneapolis Airports, South Carolina State and Osceola County Emergency Management Agencies, Florida State Fire College. Now with this unprecedented multi year, three phase contract the ADMS™ is being integrated into a National Training program from the highest level of Emergency Response and Fire Services. Through this program VR training will eventually become available to thousands of fire fighters all across Netherlands. William F Mitchell, the CEO and President of ETC stated, "ADMS™ is a culmination of over a decade of innovation and creative software development. It fuses unique technologies together and having one of Europe's leading disaster institutions -- NIBRA, recognize this fact helps further establish ETC as the leading suppliers of VR technology to the emergency response industry." ETC also designs, develops, installs, and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers. This report contains certain "forward-looking" statements including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes", "anticipates", "intends", "expects", and words of similar import relating to the company's operation. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements including contract cancellations, political unrest in customer countries, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Environmental Tectonics Corporation's periodic reports filed with the securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 23, 2001. |
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