ViaSat Receives $13.8 M Follow-on Delivery Orders for BFT-2

• Orders affirm government desire to transition to enhanced BFT-2 systems as quickly as possible

CARLSBAD, Calif. - ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has received delivery orders from PM Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below totaling $13.8 million under its Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) IDIQ contract. These contracts include the installation and test of production satellite ground station and satellite network control center equipment as well as L-band bandwidth leasing, network ground equipment, and thousands of additional production vehicular transceivers. These next generation BFT-2 systems are designed to enable much faster situational awareness updates and higher transmission speeds.

"These follow on task orders demonstrate our customer's commitment to our new system and the desire to transition to the BFT-2 architecture as quickly as possible," said Phil Berry, vice president of ViaSat Command and Control Situational Awareness (C2SA). "We're working closely with the FBCB2 program team to ensure successful fielding of this network upgrade."


The ViaSat BFT-2 network offers situational awareness updates and increased data throughput. The next generation BFT-2 network is expected to improve situational awareness latency from minutes to just seconds.

The new BFT-2 system is derived from ViaSat mobile satellite communication technology, which enables fast, efficient network access using very small antennas. These systems provide communications-on-the-move (COTM) service to both military and commercial customers.

Source : ViaSat Inc.