EMS Technologies has announced the Board of Directors has appointed John B. Mowell, Chairman of the Board, to the additional position of Executive Director. This appointment responds to requirements of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) with respect to the senior management of companies that perform classified U.S. government work, and was necessary to maintain the Company’s Facility Clearance License for its Defense & Space division.

To hold the Facility Clearance License, the Company is required to have as its most-senior management official an individual who holds a U.S. security clearance. While the Company’s recently elected President and CEO, Neilson A. Mackay, holds a NATO clearance, he is currently a Canadian citizen and is not eligible for a U.S. clearance until he completes the process, currently underway, of becoming a U.S. citizen. In order to meet the NISPOM requirements in the short term, the Board elected Mr. Mowell as Executive Director, which under the Company’s recently amended Bylaws is its most-senior management position. Dr. Mackay will continue to hold the titles of President and Chief Executive Officer, and will have primary responsibility for the management of the Company’s commercial businesses. The Company’s Board has requested, and Mr. Mowell has agreed, to serve as Executive Director on an interim basis only. For the longer term, the Company is reorganizing the Defense & Space division’s classified work into a separate subsidiary that will be permitted to hold its own Facility Clearance License. Once that process is completed, it is expected that Mr. Mowell will step down as Executive Director and Dr. Mackay will then become the Company’s most-senior management executive and principal executive officer. “independent” status, and he will again be eligible to serve on those Committees.