SALT LAKE CITY -- Citing 2005 as "a year of great progress" CirTran Corp. founder and president Iehab J. Hawatmeh said today that the EMS provider was on track for record sales.

"It was a record sales year for CirTran, with more than $80 million in business won, giving us a strong backlog going into 2006," he said.

For the first time as a public company, CirTran reported back-to-back profitable quarters. The thirds quarter was the company's sixth straight quarter of sales growth. In the third quarter, CirTran reported a profit of $575,042, up 204% over the same period in fiscal 2004.

For the nine months ended Sept. 30, CirTran reported a net profit of $839,543, up 278%. The company has pushed into the homeland security and gaming markets, Hawatmeh said.

Total assets reached $10.7 million, up 12% sequentially and 148% year-on-year.

Hawatmeh said CirTran, which is traded over the counter, is aiming to move to the American Stock Exchange in 2006. "That is a stated goal," he said. "We are working to move closer to meeting the minimum listing requirements and have the Amex in our sights."