ORTEC^® DETECTIVE RECEIVES SAFETY ACT DESIGNATION
FOR ITS HIGH-RESOLUTION RADIATION DETECTION TECHNOLOGY

 Oak Ridge, TN, October 9, 2006 -- The ORTEC Products Group of AMETEK has earned Designation as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology under the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002 ("Safety Act") for its high-resolution ORTEC® Detective handheld radiation detectors.

"We are pleased that the ORTEC DETECTIVE family of portable isotope identifiers detectors has met the stringent requirements needed to receive the Safety Act designation. We believe that these high-resolution instruments represent the best available technology for accurately and reliably identifying the presence of nuclear material and quickly determining whether or not it poses a threat," comments Dan Upp, Vice President of ORTEC.

"The DETECTIVE, first introduced in 2003, represents the state of the art in radiation detection technology. It has reduced existing bulky laboratory equipment into an expert system: a self-contained, lightweight, battery-powered portable device that is able to positively identify nuclear materials without expert intervention. It employs a high-purity germanium (HPGe) gamma-ray detector. HPGe represents the Gold Standard in radioisotope identification," he added.

Since 2003, hundreds of DETECTIVEs, including the latest versions—the DETECTIVE 100 and DETECTIVE EX-100, have been field deployed and proven by the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense and Homeland Security and various law enforcement and public safety agencies and their counterparts around the world.

AMETEK’s ORTEC Products Group has more than 40 years of experience in the design and manufacture of highly sensitive radiation detectors and is one of only two manufacturers worldwide with the ability to produce both high-purity Germanium and high-resolution radiation detectors from it.