---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001377789-22-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVNW"
cik: "0001377789"
company_name: "AVIAT NETWORKS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T23:07:47.753327+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aviat Networks appoints Bruce Taten to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Bruce Taten appointed to Board, effective March 9, 2022; will serve until 2022 Annual Meeting.
- Taten brings ESG, M&A, compliance expertise; previously SVP/GC at Cooper Industries and VP/GC at Nabors Industries.
- Taten is independent; receives standard non-employee director compensation; no related party transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001377789-22-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVNW
- cik: 0001377789
- company_name: AVIAT NETWORKS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1377789/000137778922000012/0001377789-22-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1377789/000137778922000012/avnw-20220309.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001377789-22-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001377789-22-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001377789-22-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce Taten was appointed as Director at AVIAT NETWORKS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 9, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Aviat Networks, Inc. (“Aviat” or the “Company”) approved the appointment of Mr. Bruce Taten as a director of the Board, effective immediately until the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1377789/000137778922000012/0001377789-22-000012-index.htm

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