Mike D'Ottavio

July 2008

Mike D'Ottavio has joined the the CRANE/Azonix group as the Director for  Azonix's Military Business Segment. Azonix, a controls business within the Crane Corporation, is responsible for a number of product and market segments with Mike and his team focusing on displays, display processing and computing solutions for the military customer base. Mike's role encompasses the responsibility for total business segment performance including: P&L, product definition and development, customer satisfaction, and all forward looking sales and business development efforts.

Prior to his joining Azonix, Mike held a number of growth and business management roles for Honeywell Defense and Space. These roles included leading the Boeing Military Fixed Wing Aircraft programs; product line management for Honeywell's display business and various management roles in the area of business development.

D'Ottavio is a retired United States Air Force Officer and enjoyed assignments which varied from Flight Test engineering, Chief of Engineering, and Program Management roles for acquisition and test efforts.

Mike retired from the USAF in 1997 and joined Honeywell as a business development manager in Honeywell's Sensor and Guidance Product group. His primary responsibilities included sales and marketing of Honeywell sensor, control and navigation products to Boeing in St. Louis, Long Beach and Seal Beach.

In 1999, D'Ottavio expanded his role to cover integrated flight systems, displays, and flight controls across an expanded customer base.  While in Clearwater, he also took on the role of strategic product alignment and development for the navigation product line - A shared position with Strategic Planning.

D'Ottavio was named Business Area Leader in 2001 to cover a new customer segment - the USAF.  In this role, he was responsible for direct sales, marketing and business development for the Defense and Space Electronic Systems family of products into the DoD community. Besides the USAF, D'Ottavio managed a team with responsibility for covering all services and their individual acquisition communities.

In December 2002, Mike accepted the position of Director, National Account Team Leader for the Boeing customer complex responsible for customer satisfaction and voice of the customer reporting and forward looking sales and business development efforts with Boeing IDS. This role positioned Mike for his next step - Director, Boeing Military Fixed Wing programs.

D'Ottavio holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and has received awards from Honeywell in Six Sigma and sales achievements (Top Performer - 1999 for expanded sales into the Boeing complex) to complement his award in Engineering Achievement in Flight Test.

Mike has three children, and enjoys spending time with them and playing golf when he can find the time.

• May 21, 2008

• February 5, 2007 ProPanel® PD2500 (IST) – LAST TIME BUY ANNOUNCEMENT

• Azonix Corporation successfully re-qualified MIL-S-901D testing and MIL- STD-461E on the MP2030C product offering.

Comments from the HMI Product Manager:

“We are sensitive to the balance between the Navy demand of long-term product support and the natural occurrence of obsolescence of components in the computer industry. Our design philosophy is modular to be able to adapt newer high-performance processors, components that go obsolete, or new devices without requiring a major design change.”

“Eight years after the launch of the MP2030C Azonix upgraded some key components in the platform. We re-qualified the system for shock and EMI/RFI. Our goal this time around was to push the limit and try to pass the light-weight shock test hard-mounted directly to the bulkhead as compared to using shock mounts. The ProPanel® systems are designed to meet extreme environmental conditions, therefore we continuously strive to push the capability to our customers benefit.”

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Hi-Test Certification

• The Azonix team would like to congratulate Maneesh Bhatnagar, Azonix Quality Manager, for graduating from the Crane Lean Black Belt Training in Stamford CT. Maneesh is the 2nd black belt on the Azonix staff. Maneesh was our representative attending this training program over the past 7 months and he graduated with flying colors, making us proud! Maneesh gave a great presentation and certainly is respected by his peers for the hard work he has put forth.

Azonix, a unit of Crane Company, continuously strives to improve quality in all aspects of our business. We are driving the lean philosophy throughout the organization not only on our production floor but in engineering, accounting and even sales. The more efficient we become, the more time we can spend on customer value- added activities, reducing costs to make us more competitive in the marketplace.

We congratulate Maneesh for a job well done and look forward to giving him full support in further implementing LEAN and Six Sigma practices across Azonix.