Luna Innovations Accredited as Trusted Integrated Circuit Supplier

 Company a source of trustworthy design services

ROANOKE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 13, 2012--Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) today announced that the company has been fully accredited as a Trusted Integrated Circuit Supplier through itsSecure Computing and Communications(SCC) group.

As a trusted supplier, accredited by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), an organization within theU.S. Department of Defense, Luna is certified as a trustworthy design service provider at a time when the global integrated circuit supply chain is dominated by foreign sources and as demand grows for high-performance, application-specific integrated circuits used by military and national security agencies.

The accreditation program is part of Department of Defense’s strategy to ensure that electronic components used in U.S. military and national security applications keep defense microelectronic systems trusted, safe and mission ready. The service that Luna provides is related to unique trust technologies developed by SCC to verify FPGA (field programmable gate array) designs and devices.

“The Department of Defense has determined that Luna can be trusted to perform integrated circuit design services that help ensure critical government systems maintain the highest level of assurance and integrity,” saidBarry Polakowski, vice president of SCC. “This accreditation demonstrates that SCC is committed to preventing problems involving the globalization of the microelectronic integrated circuit supply chain.”

Luna was accredited to Trusted Category 1A, which meets Mission Assurance Category 1, a level that requires the most stringent protection measures.

“This prestigious accreditation is an important step in our ongoing efforts to be the leading choice for ensuring the integrity of integrated circuits used in defense systems,” said Luna CEOMy Chung.

The company has developed technology that uses reverse engineering of FPGA bitstream files to ensure design trust, enable high-reliability verification, and migrate designs from obsolete parts to new integrated circuits. Luna is currently offeringTrust ServicestoDepartment of Defenseorganizations and contractors who wish to validate trust in their digital designs or to recover designs from obsolete parts to retarget them to modern microelectronic devices.

About Luna Innovations

Luna Innovations Incorporated(www.lunainnovations.com) focuses on sensing and instrumentation. Luna develops and manufactures new-generation products for the healthcare, telecommunications, energy and defense markets. The company's products are used to measure, monitor, protect and improve critical processes in the markets it serves.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT

This release includes information that constitutes "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding, but not limited to: the uniqueness of Luna’s technological capabilities, product capabilities, market acceptance, technological attributes, advantages and applications, and customer use. Statements that describe the company's business strategy, goals, prospects, opportunities, outlook, plans or intentions are also forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including technological challenges in specific applications and risks and uncertainties set forth in the company's periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such filings are available at the SEC'swebsite at http://www.sec.gov, and at the company's website at http://www.lunainnovations.com. The statements made in this release are based on information available to the company as of the date of this release andLuna Innovations undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

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