April 08, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. Partners with RCMP and Wins Federal Funding for Surveillance Study

Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. (Accipiter) in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been awarded $200,000 to lead a study to examine the feasibility of using radar networks for surveillance on the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes. The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, and the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety, announced the funding today in Ottawa.

The research project is funded under the Public Security Technical Program (PSTP) managed by Defence Research and Development Canada, an agency of the Department of National Defence. Through PSTP, the Government of Canada is investing $2 million for 10 new research projects to advance Canada’s capability to prevent and prepare for safety and security threats, whether caused by terrorist or criminal activity, accident, or natural disaster.

"These projects will provide DND’s partners in the public security community with the necessary tools to fight threats to the safety of Canadians", said the Honourable Peter MacKay. "This funding will also act as a catalyst for innovations in cutting edge technology."

"We are both pleased and honoured to be able to expand our existing partnerships with RCMP and DRDC to bring Accipiter’s surveillance resources and expertise to bear on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River regions to improve the safety and security of Canadians." said Dr. Tim J. Nohara, President & CEO of Accipiter. "I applaud DRDC for its recognition of the importance of such partnerships in ensuring that technology development is accurately targeted at real-world problems."

About Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc.

Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. offers the world's most advanced, tracking surveillance radars using affordable PC-based processing to the Homeland Security and Aviation Safety markets worldwide. The Accipiter&reg product family encompasses the complete wide-area radar surveillance solution including target data acquisition, storage, management, analysis, distribution and visualization. Accipiter has won the business of the world's most demanding customers including the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, every branch of the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies and corporations on both sides of the U.S. / Canada border.

About the RCMP

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the Canadian national police service and an agency of the Ministry of Public Safety Canada. The RCMP is unique in the world since it is a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body. We provide a total federal policing service to all Canadians and policing services under contract to the three territories, eight provinces (except Ontario and Quebec), more than 190 municipalities, 184 Aboriginal communities and three international airports.

About the Public Security Technical Program

The Public Security Technical Program (PSTP) is an initiative of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) that aims to develop a coordinated program to enhance collaboration across government and to deliver science and technology (S&T) solutions across many dimensions of public security. PSTP will mobilize S&T resources to address challenges to public security and critical infrastructure protection by integrating expertise across disciplines and departments. PSTP will work with partners from academia, industry, the responder and operational communities, and government departments and agencies at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels.

For further information please contact:

Dr Tim J Nohara, President & CEO
Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc.
Tel: 905-228-6888
Fax: 905 892-2249

tnohara@AccipiterRadar.com
www.accipiterradar.com

RCMP Public Affairs and Communications Services
National Headquarters, 1200 Vanier Parkway
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
Tel: (613) 993-2999
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca

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Martin Champoux, DRDC
Tel: (613) 992-7237