Viisage Receives One Year $2.9 Million Contract Extension to Produce Secure Digital Drivers' Licenses

    LITTLETON, Mass.--April 21, 2003--Viisage Technology, Inc. , the leader in identity verification, announced today that the company received a contract extension from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to manufacture secure digital drivers' licenses and state identification documents valued at $2.9 million. With this one-year state contract extension, Viisage Technology is serving a total of 19 U.S. states with drivers' license solutions, facial recognition technology and other secure identity verification products.
    "Viisage remains committed to providing customers with innovative and secure identification technology, reliable quality support and exceptional value," said Bernard Bailey, president and CEO of Viisage Technology. "This is our second contract extension thus far in 2003, and it speaks to the achievements of our secure ID solutions business. In total, 19 states rely on our technology to meet the complex requirements for state IDs. These extensions prove that our customers are highly-satisfied with the quality service, support and technical solutions that Viisage delivers."
    Viisage's digital identification card systems capture face images and other information in digital format through Viisage's proprietary PC-based Image Capture Workstation. Compact and self-contained, Viisage workstations can easily be linked to a central image storage device, central card production unit and other remote devices. This flexibility makes the workstation ideal for instant issue, central production, mobile use and multiple site systems. Viisage's secure identification solutions are extremely reliable and backed by world-class service and support.
    Additional components such as Viisage's FaceEXPLORER face recognition technology can be added to Viisage's end-to-end digital driver's license solutions at any time as an added component to combat identity theft. FaceEXPLORER, deployed in seven U.S. states, helps law enforcers quickly uncover identity fraud and apprehend criminals while protecting the identity of individuals.

    About Viisage Technology

    Viisage Technology, Inc. is the world leader in identity verification technology. Viisage's solutions help law enforcement, state and federal government agencies as well as commercial businesses verify identities in order to enhance security, reduce fraud and protect personal privacy. The Company's core facial recognition technology, based on technology developed at MIT, is accurate, non-intrusive and cost-effective--especially in extremely large database applications. Through 1,625 U.S. systems in almost 1,500 locations in 19 states, Viisage delivers more than 28 million digital-identification documents annually. Visit Viisage's Website at www.viisage.com.

    This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this document and those made from time to time by the Company through its senior management are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements concerning future plans or results are necessarily only estimates and actual results could differ materially from expectations. Certain factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things, potential fluctuations in quarterly results, the size and timing of award and performance on contracts, dependence on large contracts and a limited number of customers, lengthy sales and implementation cycles, changes in management estimates incident to accounting for contracts, availability and cost of key components, market acceptance of new or enhanced products and services, proprietary technology and changing competitive conditions, system performance, management of growth, dependence on key personnel, ability to obtain project financing, general economic and political conditions and other factors affecting spending by customers and other risks, uncertainties and factors including those described from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, the company's Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2002 and its quarterly reports on Form 10Q.