UNITED STATES

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 9, 2006


                             ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC.
               (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


           Missouri                     1-10596                 43-1554045
      (State or Other                 (Commission            (I.R.S. Employer
 Jurisdiction of Incorporation)       File Number)          Identification No.)


9900A Clayton Road, St. Louis, Missouri                              63124-1186
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                             (Zip Code)


        Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 314-213-7200


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ITEM 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal  Officers;  Election of Directors;
          Appointment of Principal  Officers;  Compensatory  Arrangements  of
          Certain Officers

On  November  9, 2006,  the Human  Resources  and  Compensation  Committee  (the
"Committee") of the Registrant's  Board of Directors took the following  actions
with  respect to the  fiscal  year 2007  bonuses to be paid to the  Registrant's
executive officers. Each executive officer's bonus target is divided between two
plans: (i) the Performance Compensation  Plan (the "PCP") and (ii) the Incentive
Compensation Plan For Executive Officers (the "ICP"):

     1.   Under the PCP, the Committee  approved the fiscal year 2007 evaluation
          criteria for the determination of the actual PCP bonuses to be paid to
          the executive officers after the end of the fiscal year. The Committee
          will evaluate and measure the  performance  of the executive  officers
          based on the achievement of various Company and individual objectives,
          weighted as follows:  operating results--20%;  shareholder value--30%;
          economic   profit   improvement--10%;   growth--10%;   and  individual
          objectives--30%.

     2.   Under the ICP, the  Committee  approved the fiscal year 2007  earnings
          per  share  matrix,   which  is  the  evaluation   criterion  for  the
          determination  of the actual ICP  bonuses to be paid to the  executive
          officers after the end of the fiscal year.

Prior to November 9, 2006,  the Committee  had, for each of the PCP and the ICP,
approved  the fiscal year 2007 bonus  targets  for the  executive  officers,  as
follows:  V.L.  Richey--20%  of fiscal  year 2007 total cash  compensation;
G.E.Muenster and A.S. Barclay--15% of fiscal year 2007 total cash compensation.

Actual bonuses to be paid under each of the PCP and the ICP for fiscal year 2007
may vary from their  respective  bonus  targets:  (i) depending on the extent to
which  performance  exceeds  or falls  below the  fiscal  year  2007  evaluation
criteria  described in paragraph 1 above, in the case of the PCP; and (ii) based
upon the  application  of the fiscal  year 2007 ICP  earnings  per share  matrix
described in paragraph 2 above, in the case of the ICP.



                                    SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                                     ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC.




Dated:     November 15, 2006                   By:   /s/ G.E. Muenster
                                                     G.E. Muenster
                                                     Senior Vice President and
                                                     Chief Financial Officer