Exhibit 1.01

Conflict Minerals Report

For the Year Ended December 31, 2014

This Conflict Minerals Report (this “Report” or “CMR”) for Intevac, Inc. (the “Company”) covers the reporting period from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014, 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 Stated enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”). Section 1502 of the Act 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 2014 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 3TG that is reasonably designed to determine whether any of the 3TG 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 would survey direct suppliers of raw materials and components that contain Conflict Minerals. Our RCOI primarily consisted of submitting letters of inquiry to our suppliers of raw materials, components and subassemblies. Responses were reviewed for completeness and consistency and we routinely followed up with our suppliers for corrections and clarifications as needed.

RCOI for the 2014 Reporting Year

For 2014, we conducted a supply chain survey with our direct suppliers to obtain country of origin information for the necessary conflict minerals in our products using the template developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”) (the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template or “CMRT”). That CMRT requests direct suppliers to identify the smelters and refiners and countries of origin of the Conflict Minerals in products they supply to Intevac. We 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 Responsible Gold Programme and the Responsible Jewellery Council’s Chain-of-Custody Certification program, which designations provide country of origin information on the Conflict Minerals sourced by such facilities. We documented country of origin information for the smelters and refiners identified by the supply-chain survey as provided from multiple sources including the supply-chain survey and independent third party audit programs.

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 Vice President of Operations. We assembled a conflict minerals project team with representatives from engineering, procurement 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 utilized 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 is now in the process of including provisions related to gathering 3TG information in our supply contracts to encourage greater cooperation by the companies in our supply chain.

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 intranet to retain information relevant to our conflict minerals compliance process electronically.

Identify and Assess Risk in the Supply Chain

Because of our size, the complexity of our products, and the depth, breadth, and constant evolution of our supply chain, it is difficult to identify actors upstream from our direct suppliers. As the first step in our good faith RCOI, we worked to identify suppliers that we believed were potentially providing materials and components that contain 3TG. Our engineers and procurement group reviewed our parts inventory records and active suppliers and identified 28 direct suppliers in our Thin-film Equipment business and 27 direct suppliers in our Photonics business who supply components to us containing 3TG. These suppliers represent approximately 35% of our total 2014 direct product-related sourcing expenditures. We rely on these suppliers to provide us with information about the source of 3TG in the components supplied to us. Our direct suppliers are similarly reliant upon information provided by their suppliers. Several of our suppliers are SEC registrants and subject to the conflict minerals reporting requirement. For those suppliers subject to the reporting requirement we obtained and read their 2013 CMR filed with Form SD.

Below is a summary of the responses received to our survey.

Design and Implement a Strategy and Respond to Risks

The conflict minerals project team undertook the following due diligence measures in 2014:

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 2015, 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 2014, Intevac identified 269 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 269 smelters and refiners, 166 have been verified as conflict-free, and an additional 37 have begun the audit process.

The number of smelters and refiners in Intevac’s supply chain as of December 31, 2014 that are verified as conflict-free or in the audit process is more than double the comparable number for the prior year.

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

In the course of our RCOI and due diligence we discovered that certain suppliers provided us with components containing 3TG sourced from the Covered Countries.

Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry, Duoluoshan, F&X Electro-Materials Ltd., Global Advanced Metals Boyertown, H.C. Starck Co., Ltd., H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar, H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg, H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG, Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd., Ulba and Zhuzhou Cement Carbide are CFSP compliant smelters that source from conflict-free mines for Tantalum from the Covered Countries.

Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) and Thaisarco are CFSP compliant smelters that source from conflict-free mines for Tin from the Covered Countries.

Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. is a CFSP compliant smelter that sources from conflict-free mines for Tungsten from the Covered Countries.

Conclusion

Primarily due to incomplete responses and non-responses provided by the surveyed suppliers, we have concluded that our products are DRC Conflict Undeterminable for calendar year 2014. Based on the information obtained pursuant to the good faith RCOI and due diligence processes described above, for 2014, we do not have sufficient information with respect to the 3TG to determine the country of origin of all of the 3TG we use to manufacture our products and thus are unable to determine whether any of the 3TG originated in the Covered Countries and, if so, whether the 3TG were from recycled or scrap sources, financed conflict in the Covered Countries or did not finance conflict in the Covered Countries.

Despite our efforts to follow up with our suppliers, we did not receive responses from all surveyed suppliers, and the surveyed suppliers who responded showed varying degrees of cooperation with our inquiries. In addition, we encountered the following challenges in obtaining and analyzing the responses we received:

As a result, we have not been able to identify all of the smelters from which our suppliers sourced 3TG.

Efforts to Determine Mine Location

As previously noted, 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. Consequently identifying with certainty, the smelters, refiners and recyclers and the source of the 3TG they process is an extraordinary challenge. In 2014, the primary focus of our due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TG in our supply chain was on the collection and assessment of data gathered, consolidated and provided by our direct suppliers. As a downstream supplier, we base our due diligence program on current industry guidance and practices for implementing the OECD Framework, which leads us to investigate the smelters and refiners in our supply chain, and to compare these to independently verified lists (such as the CFSP list.) Intevac’s primary means of determining country of origin of 3TG necessary to the functionality and production of our products was by conducting a supply-chain survey with our direct suppliers. We expect to gather the necessary information to determine mine location through CFSP audits.

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 improved from 69% in 2013 to 95% in 2014. 52 surveyed suppliers completed declaration statements in 2014 compared to 24 suppliers in 2013. And 36 surveyed suppliers completed the CMRT providing smelter information in 2014 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 2015 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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