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SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental
Tectonics Corporation's (Amex: ETC) Simulation Division, located in Orlando,
FL, today announced the acceptance of the multi-million dollar Incident
Command and Driving Simulator located at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. ETC was selected by the City of Chicago to produce a comprehensive training system to allow its fire department personnel based at one of the busiest airports in the world -- O'Hare International-- to train for aircraft incidents and driver training involving safety and security-related incidents. The simulator training facility at O'Hare International is the first of its kind in the world to be located at an airport. Along with state-of-the- art computerized training stations which will be used by the airport emergency response personnel, the system is also equipped with a virtual reality-based full scale simulator that allows for a real-time experience of real-life-like aircraft incidents involving fire, hazmat and other disasters. ETC utilized its Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS™) technology to construct this advanced training facility for the Department of Aviation. Using the ADMS training system the airport can involve an entire team of emergency response personnel in practicing the communications and coordination skills between departments and organizations while interacting with the virtual incident and making their own decisions, as they would at a real incident. The training center is also capable of training the fire and law enforcement personnel for terrorist incidents. This multi-year contract, which includes installation, training and options for long-term maintenance and equipment enhancement, makes Chicago O'Hare International Airport a world leader in the field of Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) training and adds its name to an elite list of ETC's airport customers that already include Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville International, Honolulu International, Baltimore/Washington International and Orlando Sanford International. Shabbir Merchant, President of the Simulation Division, stated, "With more than 400 airports in the U.S. airport system alone, ETC believes Chicago O'Hare, the second busiest airport in the world according to Airport Council International statistics on passenger throughput, will not only pave the way to the future of how ARFF training is conducted at airports but also provide an example for all other airports to follow. Considering the unfortunate terrorist events we have been exposed to all over the world, the vision of Chicago O'Hare was not only timely but also extremely proactive in pursuit of Homeland Defense initiatives." ETC designs, develops, installs, and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing, homeland security and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers. This press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Company that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any other future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "continue," or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, contract cancellations, failure to obtain new contracts, political unrest in customer countries, unfavorable results in litigation, general economic conditions, and those issues identified from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other public documents, including, without limitation, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 27, 2004. |
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