NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 19, 2010) -  PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PINKSHEETS: PSFT) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI) (www.ampti.net) has been competitively selected by NASA for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project. This project has a value of approximately $600,000 for this phase and is titled "High Performance Negative Feedback Near Infrared Single Photon Counting Detectors & Arrays."

"We are extremely gratified that NASA continues to support our breakthrough near infra-red technology," said Jack Mayer, President of Powersafe. "We are proud of our highly talented team, and look forward to this project which will help us continue to improve and develop our unparalleled solid state devices for a broad range of applications."

"The project is focused on developing innovative photodetector solutions to free space optical communications," said Avery Kornbluth, COO of ATI. "The performance characteristics of the devices and arrays to be developed should be highly desirable in many other applications including scientific instrumentation, remote sensing, 3D imaging, secure communication and possibly night vision."

About PowerSafe Technology Corp. (PINKSHEETS: PSFT)
PowerSafe Technology Inc. (www.psftotc.com) seeks to transform the field of low-level signal detection. The company's patented platform semiconductor technology has the potential to offer unparalleled and far-reaching benefits to industries such as medical diagnostics, remote sensing, aerospace, scientific instrumentation and homeland security. The technology has been successfully used to develop extremely sensitive detectors of low levels of light and the company believes its detectors will be used in many existing applications as well as open up new markets. The technology is also patented to encompass detection of signals other than light, and could in principle be used to create highly sensitive biological, radiological, electrical, and chemical sensors.

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