Press Release

AVISTA Expands with New Minneapolis Office

Software Engineering Specialists Bring Avionics and Medical Expertise to Minneapolis Area

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – August 31, 2005 - AVISTA Incorporated, a leader in software engineering outsourcing, has opened a new office in Minnesota. The company has established a satellite office in the Minneapolis suburb of Roseville, Minnesota, to better serve several key medical and avionics device clients with on-site support and special project work.

AVISTA is a software engineering company specializing in life-critical systems software development services, supporting medical device technology clients such as Medtronic, as well as leading avionics companies. AVISTA is committed to providing successful software engineering solutions for all customer projects, and this move into Minnesota helps facilitate even more face-to-face interaction with customers on critical systems projects. The Roseville facility is fully staffed with mid- to senior-level software engineers and project leaders.

“AVISTA's strategy is to grow by providing unparalleled customer service, demonstrating exemplary integrity and earning long-term relationships,” said James T. Schneller, president of AVISTA, Incorporated. “This new office demonstrates AVISTA's commitment to our customers, in addition to establishing our name in the local marketplace as a leading provider of critical software engineering services in the avionics and medical industries. Outsourcing is very competitive, so this presence also enables us to offer unique service advantages to customers with special on-site support and equipment needs without sacrificing the advantages of AVISTA’s program management expertise.”

About AVISTA
AVISTA Incorporated®, a subsidiary of Esterline Technologies Corporation (NYSE:ESL), is a full-lifecycle software engineering services company, specializing in critical systems development projects for avionics and medical device applications. With more than two million project hours completed, AVISTA fields the strongest, most stable, and most capable DO-178B experienced software development team in the industry. The company has completed more than 750 client projects in systems design, requirements capture and analysis, software design and implementation, and software verification and validation. AVISTA, headquartered in Platteville, Wisconsin, is a SEI CMMI Maturity Level 3 rated company, and an ISO 9001:2000 certified company. www.avistainc.com.