Press Release

AVISTA Promotes Bragg to Vice President

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – November 6, 2006 – AVISTA Incorporated®, a leader in critical systems software engineering services, announces the promotion of Thomas M. Bragg to vice president of Operations. In this new role, Bragg will be involved in a number of strategic business, technology and service initiatives to support AVISTA’s growing client base.

Bragg brings more than fifteen years of experience in aerospace engineering and business management to this role. He first joined AVISTA’s management team in 2004, with responsibility for managing AVISTA’s back-office operations and spearheading process improvement initiatives throughout the organization. Bragg will maintain his responsibilities for AVISTA’s finance, IT, contracts and security functions while assuming management of the quality assurance, sales and marketing operations. Bragg will also focus on establishing strategic partnerships and corporate development programs to support the company’s continued growth.

“Tom came to us shortly after we joined the Esterline family and he has done a great job helping to make the transition seamless for both customers and employees,” says James T. Schneller, president of AVISTA, Incorporated. “We are extremely fortunate to have someone with his experience and track record in performance improvement and business management join the AVISTA executive team. His extensive background will help us to build on the significant business growth that AVISTA experienced over the past two years, and we expect that his appointment will help lead us to new heights in expanding our client and partner relationships.”

Bragg joined AVISTA from a regional manufacturing company, Panltek, LLC, where he held the position of general manager. Prior to Panltek, he worked in a variety of engineering, business and quality management roles for a number of companies, including Parker-Hannifin and Delavan. Bragg started his career as an engineer at Allied-Signal, now part of Honeywell. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University, and an MBA from the University of Dubuque.

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.