Irvine Sensors Receives Extension to Regain Nasdaq Listing Compliance

COSTA MESA, Calif. (Map) - COSTA MESA, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Irvine Sensors Corporation (Nasdaq: IRSN) today announced that a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has granted the Company's request for continued listing, subject to the Company publicly disclosing on or before October 27, 2009 an income statement (which may be unaudited) that evidences net income from continuing operations of greater than $500,000 for the 2009 fiscal year, or demonstrating compliance with one of Nasdaq's alternative listing criteria. Irvine Sensors' 2009 fiscal year will end September 27, 2009. As of March 29, 2009, the mid-point of the 2009 fiscal year, the Company had reported income from continuing operations of nearly $3 million.

Irvine Sensors Corporation (www.irvine-sensors.com), headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, is a vision systems company engaged in the development and sale of miniaturized infrared and electro-optical cameras, image processors and stacked chip assemblies and sale of higher level systems incorporating such products and research and development related to high density electronics, miniaturized sensors, optical interconnection technology, high speed network security, image processing and low-power analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for diverse systems applications.

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