SEATTLE - August 4, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), a pioneer provider of industry-leading identification solutions, is pleased to announce today that its subsidiary, TransTech Systems, was recently awarded a renewal maintenance contract for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) for Staff Identification Card Systems (“SICS”).

TransTech Systems has been providing service to CDCR since 2000. Jim Gingo, President of TransTech Systems, stated, “SICS is critical to the efficient operation of the CDCR headquarters, its four parole offices as well as 45 prison and youth correctional facility locations in California. At TransTech, we recognize the importance of the SICS. We offer CDCR continual support to ensure their ability to provide appropriate credentials at all times to its more than 65,000 employees.

We are pleased that CDCR has reaffirmed its relationship with TransTech. It is a testament to our ability to provide the best in technical expertise to CDCR in order to keep their systems successfully operational in these times of fiscal difficulties that confront many government agencies."

About Visualant, Inc.

Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL) 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. Our 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.

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.

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