Viasat has partnered with AeroVironment to enable flying small UAS platforms to deploy a robust, on-demand, highly-secure communications network under a contract awarded under the U.S. Army Reconfigurable Communications for Small Unmanned Systems (RCSUS) initiative, Viasat reported on Thursday. Viasat will work with AeroVironment to develop and demonstrate advanced, encrypted communications for AeroVironment's portable, hand-launched Puma AE tactical UAS. 

Viasat has unveiled a new configuration for its handheld Link 16 radio product designed to help military users communicate during ground or air missions. The National Security Agency cleared the updated AN/PRC-161 Battlefield Awareness and Targeting System – Dismounted radio technology to support communications of U.S. general purpose forces, coalition troops and members of the “five eyes” international consortium, the company said Wednesday.

Viasat has presented a satellite communications networking technology during a recent virtual event that was hosted by the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX outfit and featured presentations from 30 industry teams.

Viasat has secured a four-year, $75.4M contract modification to update multifunctional information distribution system terminals for three U.S. military branches and foreign military sales customers.

Viasat has delivered the 200th unit of a compact multi-network communications tool designed to transmit real-time tactical situational awareness data and secure voice messages with Link 16 systems.

Viasat has received a five-year contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with handheld radios designed to accommodate Link 16 communications, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday.

Viasat has launched a modification kit that will help third-party satellite terminal providers access and align with a variety of government-used architectures.

Blue Canyon Technologies will support Viasat’s effort to test a low-Earth orbit spacecraft designed to access the Link 16 military data link, which is used to transmit data between military vessels.

AFWERX, a U.S. Air Force innovation program, has selected Viasat to exhibit a multi-network satellite communications concept at a technology event in Las Vegas.

The Army Forces Strategic Command has cleared Viasat's software-based modem technology for U.S. military use on a satellite network built to support communications across land, air and sea domains.

Viasat is now offering its new GAT-5518 Ka-band Global Aero Terminal that provides in-flight connectivity services to government and private aircraft. 

Viasat has received a contract from the Space Enterprise Consortium to provide and demonstrate a satellite designed to deliver extended situational awareness for service members.