Arotech Corporation announced that its executive chairman of the board, Robert S. Ehrlich, has delivered a written notice to the secretary of the board announcing his intention not to seek reelection to his position on the board at the company's 2016 annual meeting of stockholders. Upon his leaving the board, Mr. Ehrlich will no longer serve as the executive chairman of the board of directors but will continue to be employed by the company as the chairman of company's Iron Flow Storage development program through the end of his current employment agreement. The company also announced that upon recommendation of the nominating committee, the board has nominated each of Steven Esses, Kenneth Cappell and Rear Admiral James J. Quinn, USN (Ret.), to stand for election as class III directors at the company's 2016 annual meeting of the stockholders.

If elected, the class III directors will serve until the company's annual meeting of stockholders in 2019 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Messrs. Esses and Cappell currently serve as class III directors of the board.