UNITED STATES

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                                    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, 2007


                             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 Certain  Officers;  Election of  Directors;
           Appointment  of  Certain  Officers;  Compensatory  Arrangements  of
           Certain Officers

On  November  9, 2007,  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 2008  bonuses to be paid to the  Registrant's
executive  officers  after  the end of the  fiscal  year  2008.  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  deferred  action on  establishing  the fiscal
     year 2008  evaluation  criteria  for the  determination  of the  actual PCP
     bonuses to be paid to the executive  officers  after the end of fiscal year
     2008. The Committee  expects to take such action no later than December 31,
     2007.

2.   Under the ICP, the  Committee  approved  the fiscal year 2008  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 fiscal year 2008.

Prior to November 9, 2007, the Committee had, for the PCP and the ICP,  approved
the fiscal year 2008 bonus targets for the executive officers,  as follows:
V.L. Richey 20% of fiscal year 2008 total cash  compensation; G.E. Muenster and
A.S. Barclay 15% of fiscal year 2008 total cash compensation.

Actual bonuses to be paid under each of the PCP and the ICP for fiscal year 2008
may vary from their  respective  bonus  targets:  (i) depending on the extent to
which  performance  exceeds  or falls  below the  fiscal  year  2008  evaluation
criteria  which are yet to be  established  by the  Committee  as  indicated  in
paragraph 1 above,  in the case of the PCP; and (ii) based upon the  application
of the fiscal year 2008 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 14, 2007                     By:
                                                     /s/G.E. Muenster
                                                     Senior Vice President and
                                                     Chief Financial Officer