General Dynamics and Force Protection Agree to Terms of Acquisition

- Force Protection shareholders to receive 31% premium over recent share price.
- Transaction expected to be accretive to General Dynamics' earnings in 2012.

General Dynamics (NYSE:GD - News) and Force Protection, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRPT - News) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which General Dynamics will acquire Force Protection for a price of $5.52 per share of common stock, or approximately $360 million.

Force Protection will become a part of General Dynamics Land Systems, the Sterling Heights, Mich.-based designer and manufacturer of Abrams main battle tanks and Stryker infantry combat vehicles.

Point Roberts, WA - November 3, 2011 - Investorideas.com, an investor research portal covering multiple stock sectors including defense and security stocks, reports on Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD) $6.8 Million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop a therapeutic device to reduce the incidence of sepsis, a fatal bloodstream infection that is often the cause of death in combat-injured soldiers.

 Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD), the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, announced in October that it has been awarded a $6.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a therapeutic device to reduce the incidence of sepsis, a fatal bloodstream infection that is often the cause of death in combat-injured soldiers.

London, 1st November 2011 - Responding to research claiming to show that almost a third of executives have rogue mobile devices linked to their organisation's network, Cryptzone says that this a symptom of the falling cost of technology and the increasing use of personal portable devices in the workplace.

According to Grant Taylor, the European threat mitigation specialist's VP, with the Deloitte research also showing that 87 per cent of respondents thinking that their organisation is at risk of an attack due to a lapse in mobile security, it is clear that the consumerisation of IT – and portable devices in particular – now poses a potentially major security problem for most IT security professionals.

Point Roberts, WA - September 27, 2011  Investorideas.com, an investor research portal covering multiple stock sectors including defense and security stocks, presents a sector close up on small and large cap defense and security stocks September 26th.

In an overall strong day in the market, defense and security stocks made some notable gains. In Tuesday's morning trading session , several of the defense stocks are continuing with yesterday's gains.

Security Company, Visualant, Incorporated (OTC:VSUL) closed at $0.0900. Recently, the company said that it has received its first patent on its Spectral Pattern Matching ("SPM") technology.