Exhibit 3.77
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
EOTECH ACQUISITION CORP.
ARTICLE I
The name of this corporation is EOTech Acquisition Corp. (the “Corporation”).
ARTICLE II
The registered agent and the address of the registered office in the State of Delaware are: Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19808, County of New Castle.
ARTICLE III
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
ARTICLE IV
The Corporation is authorized to issue one class of stock to be designated Common Stock (“Common Stock”). The total number of shares of capital stock this Corporation is authorized to issue is ten thousand (10,000). The Common Stock shall have a par value of $.01 per share.
ARTICLE V
The Board of Directors is authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by ballot.
ARTICLE VI
The name and mailing address of the incorporator is:
A. Verona Dorch
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
1600 Tysons Boulevard
McLean, VA 22102
ARTICLE VII
The Corporation reserves the right to adopt, repeal, rescind or amend in any respect any provisions contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or
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hereafter prescribed by applicable law, and all rights conferred on stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
ARTICLE VIII
To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages of breach of fiduciary duty as director.
(a)Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators;provided,however, that, except as provided in paragraph (c) hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.
(b)Right to Advancement of Expenses. The right to indemnification conferred in paragraph (a) of this Article shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any proceeding for which such right to indemnification is applicable in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”);provided,however, that, if the Delaware General Corporation Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Article or otherwise.
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(c)Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Article shall be contract rights. If a claim under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Article is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty (60) days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty (20) days, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, its independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, its independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
(d)Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article shall not be exclusive of any other right that any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
(e)Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
(f)Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification, and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.
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(g)Amendment. Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VIII, nor the adoption of any provision of the Corporation’s Certificate of incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VIII in respect of any matter occurring, or action or proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VIII, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the incorporator herein before named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Laws of the State of Delaware, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of July, 2002.
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| | /s/ A. Verona Dorch | |
| | A. Verona Dorch | |
| | Incorporator | |
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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
EOTECH ACQUISITION CORP.
The undersigned hereby certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is EOTech Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”).
SECOND: The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, filed on July 23, 2002 (the “Certificate”), is hereby amended by striking out Article IV thereof and by substituting in lieu of said Article the following new Article:
| | | | “ARTICLE IV: The Corporation is authorized to issue one class of stock to be designated Common Stock (“Common Stock”). The total number of shares of capital stock this Corporation is authorized to issue is three million (3,000,000). The Common Stock shall have a par value of $.01 per share.” |
THIRD: The Corporation has not received any payment for any of its stock.
FOURTH: The amendment of the Certificate herein certified has been duly adopted and written consent has been given in accordance with the provisions of Section 241 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate of Amendment as of the 23rd day of September, 2002.
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| | /s/ Rick Berger | |
| | Name: | Rick Berger | |
| | Title: | Director | |
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| | /s/ Keith Blakely | |
| | Name: | Keith Blakely | |
| | Title: | Director | |
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| | /s/ L.J. Evans. Jr. | |
| | Name: | L.J. Evans, Jr. | |
| | Title: | Director | |
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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EOTech Acquisition Corp., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
FIRST: That the Board of Directors of said corporation, by written consent without a meeting, adopted a resolution proposing and declaring advisable the following amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation:
RESOLVED, that Article I of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation be amended to read as follows:
“The name of the corporation is L-3 Communications EOTech, Inc. (the “Corporation”).”
SECOND: That in lieu of a meeting and vote of stockholders, the stockholders have given unanimous written consent to said amendment in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
THIRD: That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on November 8, 2005.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said EOTech Acquisition Corp. has caused this certificate to be signed by Christopher C. Cambria, its Vice President and Secretary, this 8th day of November, 2005.
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| | EOTECH ACQUISITION CORP.
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| | | Vice President and Secretary | |
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