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$46,269,543

General Services Administration·Federal Acquisition Service

to VIASAT INC

telecomactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-05-28·LATEST ACTION2026-04-15·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_47QFLA25F0054_4732_47QFLA25D0001_4732
Award description

VIASAT TO16

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: medium
In plain English

Modification to satellite broadband task order that began in 2025 for federal agencies.

Sub-sectors
satellite-broadbandfederal-connectivityongoing-modification
Why this matters

ViaSat satellite infrastructure supports federal broadband resilience and rural connectivity, critical for government operations during terrestrial network disruptions.

Supply-chain signal

Federal reliance on ViaSat creates dependencies on satellite manufacturers, launch providers, and ground-station operators.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. satellite broadband infrastructure reduces reliance on foreign networks and counters Chinese satellite constellation expansion.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-11. Cost: $0.016079.

Period of performance
Start
2025-05-28
End
2030-05-27
Status
activein 1414 days
Sources

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