West Palm Beach, FL (March 28,2002) - Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Ray Malcom as Sales and Marketing Manager. In this new position, Ray will have primary responsibility for sales and marketing across all of Coastal's market segments including aerospace, machine vision, metrology, biomedical and 3D-theater.

West Palm Beach, FL - The Rose Center for Earth and Space was presented one of the 2001 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), announced in the June 25 issue of Business Week magazine. Encompassing 11 categories from business equipment to furniture and medical devices, the winning designs for both actual and potential products were chosen from 1,260 entries in the annual competition co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week. IDEA 2001 drew a record number of entries in its 22nd year, reinforcing its reputation as the foremost recognition of excellence in industrial design

West Palm Beach, FL - Coastal Optical Systems announced that is the lead sponsor the Planetarium Shows at the Aldrin Planetarium at the South Florida Science Museum. Coastal's support will be used to purchase planetarium shows and specials throughout the year.

West Palm Beach, FL - The South Florida Business Journal has included Coastal Optical Systems on its list of 40 Fastest Growing High-Tech Companies in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Coastal was ranked 32nd on the list with a gross revenue growth of 71.4% from 1998-2000. Coastal Optical Systems was the sixth highest manufacturing company on the 2001 list.

West Palm Beach, FL - Busch Gardens Williamsburg has recently opened its newest and most mythical country, Ireland. The country of Ireland opened on May 19th and features "Corkscrew Hill" a 4-D simulator that will take you through an unforgettable journey to a legendary world of giants.

Coastal Optical Systems, Inc., based in West Palm Beach, FL has collaborated with Electrosonics (www.electrosonic.com) and Kleiser-Walczak (www.kwcc.com) to help bring this Celtic journey to life by creating the custom-made wide angle lenses that project the digital 3-D images. The 3-D effects are second to none and will leave thrill-seekers coming back for more.

San Diego, CA - Coastal Optical Systems presented a paper on "Comparative Performance Survey of Fish-eye lens designs" at the Lens and Optical System Design and Engineering Conference of the SPIE Annual Meeting. The paper was co-authored by Martin Bauer of Internet Pictures (Knoxsville, TN).

West Palm Beach, FL - Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. designed, fabricated and installed the Dynamic Earth Globe Projection Optics to the American Museum of Natural History (New York). The custom design produces high performance imagery over a full 180 degree hemisphere. In order to meet the deadlines for the opening of the Hall of Planet Earth, the projection optics were designed and fabricated by Coastal Optical Systems in 12 weeks.

West Palm Beach, FL - Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. has teamed with Interactive Pictures Corporation (Oak Ridge, TN) to

West Palm Beach, FL - Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. (COSI), under contract with Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) has delivered four space-qualified Advanced Optical Monitoring System (AOMS) for the Observable Protein Crystal Growth Apparatus (OPCGA).