YLA and MuEps Software Announce Radome and Specialty Material Collaboration

Benicia, California, August, 2007 – YLA Incorporated, a leading advanced composites manufacturer, and MuEps Software, a supplier of electromagnetic design software and services, announce an ongoing collaboration for radome and specialty composite material development.

YLA is an industry leader for advanced materials in the aerospace market and has developed various materials for use in radomes. The company maintains a carbon-free manufacturing line for its electromagnetic window production. The company’s offerings include low dielectric constant low loss cyanate ester/ quartz prepregs, syntactic films that can be layed up into foam core sandwich structures, film adhesives and specialty products for use in radar transparent or lossy structures. For highly classified government projects, YLA facilities maintain security clearances by the Department of Defense.

MuEps Software offers stack optimization software and material property measurement software, Visual Basic Ram/Radome Optimization Program, or VBROP. VBROP is a software code which can optimize stackups of composite materials for optimum radar transmitting or absorbing performance.

As part of the collaboration, MuEps will provide custom radome designs utilizing YLA material properties and will supply YLA’s customers, material property measurements for use in these designs. The companies will also partner in the development of materials with special electromagnetic properties tailored to YLA’s customers’ requirements.

YLA, Inc. is a growing, recognized leader in development and manufacture of innovative, high performance composite materials for extreme temperature and environmental exposure. The world’s largest manufacturers of aerospace, satellite, aircraft, naval/marine structures and other major industries rely on YLA to develop their precise advanced composite formulations. YLA is proud to have won numerous customer awards for Quality and service excellence. Learn more about YLA by calling the company at (707) 747-2750, or visit www.ylainc.com.

MuEps Software provides software and services for the measurement, analysis, and prediction of material properties based upon the permittivity and permeability of those materials. The company offers web based and telephone support training, interface optimization and custom design or measurement. For more information, please call 760-213-2308 or visit www.mueps.com.