Point Roberts, WA - June 21, 2011 – Investorideas.com, an investor research portal covering multiple stock sectors including defense and security stocks, presents a sector close up on defense and security stocks June 21, 2011. Defense stocks were mostly up in morning trading.

Defense and Security Stocks Snapshot

• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NasdaqGS: KTOS) trading up at $11.62, up 0.43 (3.84%) 11:58AM EDT
• L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc (NYSE: LLL ) trading at $82.41, up 0.04 (0.05%) 12:00PM EDT

• Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT ) trading at$ 80.71, up 0.37 (0.46%) 11:59AM EDT
• Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC ) trading at $ 66.69, up 0.96 (1.46%) 11:55AM EDT
• Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) trading at $49.64, up 0.62 (1.26%) 11:58AM EDT
• Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL) trading at $ 0.225

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Market Snapshot

• Dow 12,183.62 +103.24 +0.85%
• Nasdaq 2,678.64 +48.98 +1.86%
• S&P 500 1,294.41 +16.05 +1.26%
• 10 Yr Bond (%) 2.9890% +0.0026
• Oil 93.56 +0.30 +0.32%
• Gold 1,544.00 +2.50 +0.16%

Defense News:

Raytheon Awarded $24.7 Million Global Hawk Ground Station Sustainment Contract

PARIS, June 21, 2011 - Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) has been awarded a one-year subcontract worth $24.7 million for support services of the ground station elements of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system.

Full news: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Raytheon-Awarded-247-Million-prnews-1232330208.html?x=0&.v=1

Security Industry News; Visualant (OTCBB:VSUL) CEO Presents at Emerging Growth Equities Summit

SEATTLE - June 21, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), an emerging leader in authentication systems technology, announced today that Ron Erickson, Company Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2011 Emerging Growth Equities Summit being held in New York City on Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

Ron Erickson, Visualant CEO, said, "We are pleased to present an overview of the Visualant Spectral Pattern Technology and Visualant's corporate strategy to the participants in the Emerging Growth Equities Summit."

Following the Summit, Erickson's presentation will be available to be viewed on the Visualant website at www.visualant.net.

Company Snapshot:

About Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL)

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Visualant, Inc. develops low-cost, high speed, light-based security and quality control solutions for use in homeland security, anti-counterfeiting, forgery/fraud prevention, brand protection and process control applications. Its patent-pending technology uses controlled illumination with specific bands of light, to establish a unique spectral signature for both individual and classes of items. When matched against existing databases, these spectral signatures allow precise identification and authentication of any item or substance. This breakthrough optical sensing and data capture technology is called Spectral Pattern Matching (SPM). SPM technology can be miniaturized and is easily integrated into a variety of hand-held or fixed mount configurations, and can be combined in the same package as a bar-code or biometric scanner. www.visulant.net

Through its wholly owned subsidiary, TransTech Systems, Inc., the Company provides security and authentication solutions to security and law enforcement markets throughout the United States. www.ttsys.com

Contact Visualant, Inc. Lynn Felsinger, 206-903-1341 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Investor RelationsCore Consulting Group Paul DeRiso, 925-465-6088 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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