Spectrum Control Receives $2.8 Million Order for RCIED Jammer Upgrades

FAIRVIEW, Pa., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spectrum Control, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPEC), a leading designer and manufacturer of electronic components, today announced that its Microwave Business Segment has received a $2.8 million order for a complex assembly product used in an upgrade of a fielded RCIED (Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices) Jammer System. Product deliveries should start immediately and continue through mid-year 2009, with additional orders expected throughout the next twelve months. These complex assembly products will be manufactured at the Company's facilities in Delmar, DE; Philadelphia, PA; and State College, PA.

Dick Southworth, Spectrum Control's President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "This order reinforces our customer's confidence in our high-rate production capability for complex radio frequency and microwave products, and the commitment of our Company and employees to the success of all RCIED Jammer programs for the safety of our troops worldwide."

Forward-Looking Information

This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors and risks discussed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.

About Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control, Inc. designs and manufacturers a wide range of components used to condition, regulate, transmit, receive, or govern electronic performance. The Company's largest individual markets are military/defense and communications equipment, with applications in secure communications, smart weapons and munitions, countermeasures for improvised explosive devices, missile defense systems, wireless base stations, broadband switching gear, and global positioning systems. For more information about Spectrum Control and its products, please visit the Company's website at http://www.spectrumcontrol.com.

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