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Alliance to Develop Light/Strong Aerospace Products with RMT™ Technologies

Vienna, VA - April 24, 2007 - Three high-tech companies have joined forces to bring Reflexive Materials Technologies (RMT™ technologies) to the market. Recently designated a priority “national interest technology,” RMT™ technologies can cut weight by more than 40 percent while increasing strength by more than 50 percent for products made with most metals and plastics. This alliance brings together the technology, design capability, and prototype engineering skills needed to commercialize RMT™ technologies.

The Memorandum of Understanding that created this alliance was signed by UniStates, LLC, Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), and Stratasys, Inc. UniStates provides a background and understanding of its proprietary RMT™ technologies. CTC has the professional staff with the requisite experience, knowledge, and resources to utilize science and technology to create practical applications. Stratasys is a recognized leader in the design, production, and use of rapid manufacturing and prototyping systems.

Together, these respected companies will be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of RMT™ technologies to design replacement parts, and the corresponding processes to produce these parts, for existing military and industrial applications. “Our planned alliance presents an enormous range of potential products for the aerospace industry and other industries where lighter and stronger components are critical,” said CTC Director of Materials Sciences and Engineering Timothy P. Lowman. “While our joint efforts will benefit each of our organizations, the real winner will be the American public,” he added.

“Imagine replacing a vast number of heavy parts in airplanes and autos with identical parts that are much stronger and much lighter. That’s just one small example of how this collaboration could help save energy, reduce pollution, and make the world a better place with RMT™ technologies,” said UniStates’ Manager, Charles R. Owens.

“Stratasys is eager to be a part of this collaboration,” said company CEO Scott Crump. “This is bigger than just making components stronger and lighter. In the larger scheme of things, this could have a profound impact on the lives of Americans for generations.”

Upon successfully demonstrating acceptable material performance with RMT™ technologies, UniStates, Stratasys, and CTC anticipate entering into strategic relationships to utilize RMT™ technologies to design strong, lightweight components for aerospace and other industries to be mass produced by licensed manufacturers.

About CTC

CTC, an independent nonprofit organization, serves as a national resource to the industrial base in achieving world-class agility and competitiveness. Through ongoing relationships with industry, government and academia, CTC executes research, development, deployment, training and education activities in the solution of problems for a broad range of clients. CTC provides technical leadership to achieve agile industrial performance through concurrent product and process design and development, environmentally conscious enhancements, information management, training and education.

About Stratasys

Stratasys Inc., Minneapolis, makes rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing systems. Stratasys equipment is used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense, medical, and consumer products. In 2005, the company installed 34 percent of all systems sold worldwide, making it the unit market leader for the fourth consecutive year, according to Wohlers Report 2006. Stratasys patented the rapid prototyping process known as fused deposition modeling (FDM®). The process creates prototypes or parts for end use directly from any 3D CAD program using plastics, such as ABS, polycarbonate, PPSF or other materials. The company holds 175 granted or pending global prototyping patents. In addition to manufacturing products, Stratasys is the exclusive North American distributor of Arcam EBM systems that manufacture prototypes or parts from metal. On the Web: www.stratasys.com.

About UniStates

UniStates, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, is an 18 year-old technology company that enables the use of RMT™ technologies to re-engineer a vast range of industrial, military, and consumer products to be lighter, stronger, stiffer, and tougher (see “Industrial Trials”). RMTSM manufacturing technologies enable production of a virtually limitless list of products made with metals, plastics, ceramics, and other materials, typically without major capital investments in manufacturing plants and facilities (see “RMT Design & Manufacture”). RMT™ technologies are particularly advantageous where lighter weight, superior strength, greater durability, and affordability are important. For more about material and energy savings with RMT™ technologies see “RMT™ Technologies and the Environment” in the Download Center at unistates.com.

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