Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-165436
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Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 will continue to hold an advisory say-on-payvote on an annual basis unless otherwise disclosed. Following this year’s advisory vote, the next scheduled advisory say-on-payvote will take place at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Recommendation of the Board The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “ FOR” the approval of the compensation of our Named Executive Officers as disclosed in this proxy statement.

| 2025 Proxy Statement   17 |

PROPOSAL 4: Amendment and Restatement of the 1996 Equity Participation Plan Overview We are requesting that our stockholders approve the amendment and restatement of our existing 1996 Equity Participation Plan, or the Equity Plan. In this proxy statement, we sometimes refer to the proposed amended and restated 1996 Equity Participation Plan as the Restated Equity Plan. On July 7, 2025, our Board approved the Restated Equity Plan, subject to stockholder approval at the annual meeting. The Restated Equity Plan will become effective on the day of the annual meeting, assuming approval of this Proposal 4 by our stockholders (the “Restatement Effective Date”). Business Case for This Proposal. The Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board oversees management’s efforts to forecast and effectively manage shares available for future grant under our equity plans. These activities require that we continuously evaluate the effectiveness of our equity program, ensuring alignment with our evolving business, talent and performance needs. In connection with previously announced organizational changes involving our Government business and other changes, we delayed the fiscal year 2026 annual grant from June 2025 to August 2025. The delay in grant timing provided additional time for management to assess our approach to equity compensation and recommend changes to the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, which were approved. We expect to resume administration of our annual grant cycles in June of each year beginning in fiscal year 2027. We intend to grant equity awards with respect to 6,000,000 shares from the Equity Plan for the fiscal year 2026 annual grant cycle no later than August 17, 2025. The shares to be used to satisfy the fiscal year 2026 annual grants are referred to in this proposal as the “Committed Award Pool.” The shares subject to the awards to be granted from the Committed Award Pool will be granted under the Equity Plan out of the shares currently available for issuance thereunder, which was 13,222,240 shares as of July 1, 2025, and will reduce the share reserve under the Equity