Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Viasat, said the satellite communications industry is seeing an increased variety of tactics, techniques and procedures for deploying electronic warfare and electromagnetic interference. Speaking at the Space Symposium, Cowen-Hirsch said there is an increasing amount of targeted and intentional electromagnetic interference, signaling a need for intervention and information exchange to come up with a different approach to countering threats.

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According to Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Viasat, the commercial satellite communications industry views the inclusion of a $134 million line item for commercial satcom integration within the proposed fiscal year 2025 Pentagon budget as a positive development. "We're hopeful this means DoD is getting more serious about leveraging commercial capabilities," Viasat's senior vice president for government strategy and policy told SpaceNews in a recent interview.

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Viasat has selected Rocket Lab to build and deliver a satellite bus for a flight communications demonstration mission that would showcase the ability of the former's multi-band space-relay capabilities to support low Earth orbit missions. Rocket Lab's spacecraft bus will provide communications, propulsion and attitude control for the flight demonstration scheduled for launch in 2026 as part of Viasat's two contracts under NASA's Communications Services Project worth $80 million in total, Viasat said Thursday.

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Viasat has secured a four-year contract from Northrop Grumman to provide a company-built satellite system in support of a U.S. Air Force initiative that seeks to connect commercial space internet services for military users. As part of the deal, Viasat said Thursday it will supply its ViaSat-3 Satellite Communications Network to facilitate high-bandwidth satellite internet connectivity on existing aircraft or ground vehicles for the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet Call 003 program.

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Viasat completed the first of 105 installations of communication infrastructure for ships under the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command. Viasat said Tuesday that the project is part of the 10-year Next Generation Wideband contract awarded in 2022 by the Defense Information Systems Agency to Inmarsat.

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Viasat has launched GX LITE, a flat panel user terminal designed to provide land expeditionary forces with global network connectivity to support their various missions. The GX LITE terminal serves Global Xpress network, the company’s high-throughput commercial Ka-band network available worldwide.

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Viasat will continue manufacturing VM300-M cards and delivering the shipboard application components to the U.S. Navy under a new modification that increased the value of the existing contract to $57.5 million. The first delivery order is for 79 VM300-M cards and associated operations and maintenance services.

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Viasat’s Inmarsat Government business will provide space relay services and other proliferated low-Earth orbit satellite-based services for the U.S. Space Force, defense agencies, combatant commands, other federal agencies and international allies under a potential 10-year, $900 million contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. Inmarsat Government is one of the 16 vendors that won […] More

Viasat’s Inmarsat Government business will provide space relay services and other proliferated low-Earth orbit satellite-based services for the U.S. Space Force, defense agencies, combatant commands, other federal agencies and international allies under a potential 10-year, $900 million contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. More

California-based communications company Viasat has booked more than $80 million in awards for the development of phased array antenna systems to be integrated into military platforms. In a statement published Monday, Jeanne Atwell, general manager for Arizona operations at Viasat, said the awards will be utilized to advance multi-function Active Electronically Scanned Arrays. The AESAs will be […] More

Viasat has introduced a family of software defined radio modem platforms designed to enable military users to securely transmit data and meet beyond line-of-sight communications requirements in support of mission-critical operations. The Black ICE SDR product line supports OpenAMIP for antenna management and Xilinx and Intel Field Programmable Gate Array architectures in Ka- and L-bands, […] More

Viasat will contribute on-orbit space relay communications to an Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at demonstrating connectivity between military spacecraft on low Earth orbit and commercial geostationary platforms. The global communications company said Wednesday it will provide a Ka-band space relay payload for an AFRL mission spacecraft in support of the ARBALEST program. Viasat […] More