Former Army Secretary Dr. Francis Harvey Appointed to VIASPACE Advisory Board
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:30 AM
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PASADENA, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a company dedicated to commercializing proven
technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, announced today that
Dr. Francis Harvey has joined its Advisory Board. Dr. Harvey served as the
19th Secretary of the Army from November 2004 to March 2007. As Secretary, he
was responsible for the Department of the Army's annual budget, which in
Fiscal Year 2007 was over $200 billion. He led a consolidated work force of
over one million active duty, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve Soldiers,
240,000 Department of the Army civilian employees and approximately 200,000
contracted service personnel. Dr. Harvey traveled extensively to visit
soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and at over 150 Army installations, camps and
forward operating bases in the United States, Europe and Asia during his
tenure.

The majority of Dr. Harvey's prior business career was spent with the
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which he joined in 1969 as a senior
engineer and retired from in 1997 as the Chief Operating Officer of the
Industries and Technology Group. During the course of his Westinghouse
career, he held several senior leadership position including General Manager
of the Electrical Systems Division, General Manager of the Marine Division,
Vice President of Science and Technology, President of the Government and
Environmental Services Company and President of the Defense and Electronics
Systems Group

Dr. Harvey earned his doctorate in Metallurgy and Material Sciences from
the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical
Engineering and Material Science from the University of Notre Dame.

VIASPACE CEO Dr. Carl Kukkonen stated, "Dr. Harvey will have an immediate
impact in speeding the implementation of the company's strategy for global
security products. The SHINE inference engine and sensor fusion technologies
in our VIASPACE Security Group have tremendous synergy with Dr. Harvey's
background and experience. We are delighted to add Dr. Harvey to our Advisory
Board and look forward to his assistance and advice for years to come."


About VIASPACE: Originally founded in 1998 with the objective of
transforming proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the
Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's
complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software
licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For
more information, please visit our website at http://www.VIASPACE.com, or
contact for Investor Relations, Dr. Jan Vandersande, Director of
Communications at 800-517-8050, or IR@VIASPACE.com.


This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-
looking statements relate to future events or our future performance and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. Such factors include the risks outlined in our periodic filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-KSB, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, and
our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2007, as
well as general economic and business conditions, the ability to acquire and
develop specific projects and technologies, the ability to fund operations,
changes in consumer and business consumption habits, and other factors over
which VIASPACE has little or no control.


SOURCE VIASPACE Inc.


 
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