Exhibit 1.01

Conflict Minerals Report

For the Year Ended December 31, 2015

This Conflict Minerals Report (this “Report” or “CMR”) for Intevac, Inc. (the “Company”) covers the reporting period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, and is presented in accordance with Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act or 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”).

This Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to the Company’s Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (the “Form”), and a copy of this Report and the Form are publicly available at www.intevac.com .

Introduction

In 2010, the United States enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”). Section 1502 of the Act is specifically related to conflict minerals and required the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to promulgate regulations requiring companies covered under the Act to annually file a Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD with the SEC to disclose whether certain specified conflict minerals (as defined below) used in their products directly or indirectly benefitted armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining counties (collectively, the “Covered Countries”). This Report, which is an exhibit to the Form, describes the design of Intevac’s conflict minerals due diligence measures and provides an account of how these measures were implemented in 2015 to determine, to our knowledge, the source mines, the county of origin and the facilities used to process the conflict minerals used in our products. For purposes of this Report, “Conflict Minerals” are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan), gold, wolframite, or their derivatives, which is limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (“3TG”).

Our products covered by this Report are listed in the table below.

Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry Process

In accordance with Rule 13p-1 and Form SD, Intevac determined that 3TG are necessary to the functionality or production of our products, and are incorporated into our products during the manufacturing process. Accordingly, Intevac was required to undertake a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) with respect to conflict minerals that is reasonably designed to determine whether any of the conflict minerals originated in the Covered Countries. In designing our RCOI, Intevac employed a combination of measures to determine whether the 3TG in Intevac’s products originated from the Covered Countries, and surveyed direct suppliers of raw materials and components that contain 3TG. For 2015, we expanded our Conflict Minerals Program and conducted a second phase which included surveying certain sub-tier suppliers to the Company’s printed circuit board assembly and cable assembly suppliers.

RCOI for the 2015 Reporting Year

For 2015, we conducted a supply-chain survey with our direct suppliers and certain sub-tier suppliers to obtain country of origin information for the necessary 3TG in our products using the template developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”) (the Conflict Mineral Report Template or “CMRT”). The CMRT requests suppliers to identify the smelters and refiners and countries of origin of the 3TG in products they supply to Intevac. We summarized the country of origin information as provided on the CMRTs for the smelters and refiners identified by the supply-chain survey.

We also compared the smelters and refiners identified in the surveys against the lists of facilities which have received a “conflict free” designation by the Conflict-Free Smelter Program (“CFSP”) or other independent third party audit program such as the London Bullion Market Association’s (“LBMA”) Responsible Gold Programme and the Responsible Jewellery Council’s (“RJC”) Chain-of-Custody Certification program.

There is significant overlap between our RCOI efforts and our due diligence measures performed. Our due diligence measures performed are discussed further in this Report.

Below is a summary of the country of origin information collected as a result of our RCOI efforts.

Due Diligence Process

Design of Due Diligence

In accordance with Rule 13p-1 and the Form, Intevac undertook due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TG used in Intevac Thin-film Equipment and Photonics products. In conducting its due diligence, Intevac implemented the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (Second Edition, OECD 2013) and the related Supplements (collectively, the “OECD Guidance”), an internationally recognized due diligence framework.

Management Systems

Internal Team

Our Conflict Minerals Program is overseen by our Senior Vice President of Operations. We assembled a conflict minerals project team with representatives from engineering, procurement, environmental health & safety and finance from both of our business units, Thin-film Equipment and Photonics, to develop and execute our conflict minerals program. The results of due diligence and compliance processes were addressed by the conflict minerals project team as necessary.

Control Systems

As a manufacturer, Intevac is several levels removed from the actual mining of 3TG. Intevac’s Thin-film Equipment and Photonics business units do not make purchases of raw ore or unrefined 3TG and make no purchases in the Covered Countries. We used resources available from industry-wide initiatives to obtain sourcing information related to upstream actors in the supply chain, including the EICC-GeSI and the CFSP.

To establish a system of controls and transparency over the 3TG supply chain, we incorporated into our supplier due diligence procedures a requirement for suppliers to provide information regarding the smelters or refineries in their supply chain utilizing the CMRT. We used this information to make the RCOI conclusion in this CMR.

As we typically do not have a direct relationship with 3TG smelters and refineries, we rely on our surveyed suppliers to provide us with up-to-date and accurate smelter and refinery sourcing information. Our adoption and utilization of the industry standard CFSI templates, tools and auditing program aids us in establishing consistency and transparency throughout our supply chain.

Controls include, but are not limited to, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics which outlines expected behaviors for all Intevac employees and our Conflict Minerals Policy which outlines our commitment to minimize the use of 3TG that finance or benefit armed groups.

Supplier Engagement

Intevac includes requirements related to gathering 3TG information in our purchase order terms and conditions for suppliers to encourage greater cooperation by the companies in our supply chain.

We periodically communicate our expectations to our direct suppliers concerning performance, transparency, reporting requirements, and sourcing of materials and components containing 3TG and continue to engage with them to improve the completeness and accuracy of information provided to us.

Grievance Mechanism

Intevac has multiple grievance mechanisms whereby employees and suppliers can report violations of Intevac’s policies including contacting the Company’s Compliance Hotline at 1-800-826-6762.

Records Maintenance

We have retained all relevant documentation from our RCOI and due diligence. We established a conflict minerals library on the Company’s network to retain information relevant to our conflict minerals compliance process electronically.

Identify and Assess Risk in the Supply Chain

Our engineers and procurement group reviewed our parts inventory records and active suppliers and identified 61 direct suppliers in our Thin-film Equipment business and 26 direct suppliers in our Photonics business who supply components to us containing 3TG. These suppliers represent approximately 56% of our total 2015 direct product-related sourcing expenditures. We rely on these suppliers to provide us with information through the CMRT surveys about the source of 3TG in the components supplied to us. Our direct suppliers are similarly reliant upon information provided by their suppliers.

For 2015, we expanded our Conflict Minerals Program and conducted a second phase which included surveying 192 sub-tier suppliers to the Company’s printed circuit board assembly and cable assembly suppliers. These sub-tier suppliers were identified by reviewing the bills of materials of outsourced assemblies that are manufactured for us by contract manufacturers.

We obtained a 95% response rate for our CMRT surveys.

Design and Implement a Strategy and Respond to Risks

The conflict minerals project team undertook the following due diligence measures in 2015:

Carry Out Independent Third Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain

As noted above, Intevac is several levels removed from the actual mining of 3TG and we do not have a direct relationship with smelters and refiners and do not perform direct audits of these entities within our supply chain.

Reporting on Supply Chain Due Diligence

As noted above, in 2016, we filed this Form and this Report with the SEC and a copy of this Report and the Form are publicly available at http://investor.intevac.com/sec.cfm.

Findings

The table below lists the smelter information provided by our suppliers:

For calendar year 2015, Intevac identified 321 smelters and refiners as potential sources of 3TG that were reported to be in its supply chain at some point during the year. Of those 321 smelters and refiners, 219 have been verified as conflict-free as determined through third party verification by the CFSI, LBMA or RJC, and an additional 51 have begun the audit process.

The number of smelters and refiners in Intevac’s supply chain as of December 31, 2015 that are verified as conflict-free or in the audit process increased over the prior year.

See Appendix A for the list of names of the smelters and the country where the facilities are located.

Efforts to Determine Mine Location

For 2015, our efforts to determine the mines of origin were limited to information obtained from the CMRTs or reported by the facilities on their websites.

Conflict Minerals Policy

Our Conflict Minerals Policy is available at: www.intevac.com . We are committed to minimizing the use of conflict minerals that finance or benefit armed groups. We actively engage with our suppliers to promote responsible sourcing practices and encourage our suppliers to seek conflict-free sources for 3TG used in our products.

Steps to Improve Due Diligence and Mitigate Risk

We will continue to work to increase the response rate of our suppliers and encourage them to complete the CMRT. Our survey response rate was 95% in both 2015 and 2014 and 69% in 2013. 266 surveyed suppliers completed declaration statements in 2015 compared to 52 suppliers in 2014 and compared to 24 suppliers in 2013. And 229 surveyed suppliers completed the CMRT providing smelter information in 2015 compared to 36 suppliers in 2014 and compared to 8 suppliers in 2013. We believe that the quantity and quality of information related to sourcing and traceability of materials in the supply chain will continue to improve in the years to come.

We recognize that we have ongoing obligations under the reporting requirements of Rule 13p-1 and our Conflict Minerals Policy, and will seek to take additional steps in 2016 to continue and improve our good faith RCOI and due diligence processes. We expect to take the following steps, among others, to improve our due diligence measures and to further mitigate the risk that the 3TG contained in our products are financing conflict in the Covered Countries:

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