Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-165436
Chunk: 34

Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 effect, and we may continue to grant awards under the Equity Plan, subject to its terms, conditions and limitations, using the shares of our common stock available for issuance thereunder. Summary of the Restated Equity Plan The following is a summary of the Restated Equity Plan. This summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Restated Equity Plan, a copy of which is attached as Appendix Ato this proxy statement.

| 2025 Proxy Statement   23 |

PROPOSAL 4: • Amendment and Restatement of the 1996 Equity Participation Plan General Nature and Purpose. The Restated Equity Plan was adopted (1) to further our growth, development and financial success by providing additional incentives to some of our key employees who have been or will be given responsibility for the management or administration of our business affairs, by assisting them to become owners of our capital stock and thus to benefit directly from our growth, development and financial success, and (2) to enable us to retain the services of the type of professional, technical and managerial employees considered essential to our long-range success, by providing and offering them the opportunity to become owners of our capital stock. The Restated Equity Plan provides for the grant to our executive officers, other employees, consultants and non-employeedirectors of a broad variety of stock-based compensation alternatives such as non-qualifiedstock options, incentive stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalents, stock payments, stock appreciation rights and performance awards. Administration. The Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board will administer the Restated Equity Plan. The full Board will administer the Restated Equity Plan with respect to awards to non-employeedirectors. The Compensation and Human Resources Committee and the Board, as applicable, are referred to in this summary as the plan administrator. In addition to administering the Restated Equity Plan, the plan administrator is also authorized to adopt, amend and rescind rules relating to the administration of the Restated Equity Plan. Shares Subject to Restated Equity Plan. If this Proposal 4 is approved, subject to the share counting provisions under the Restated Equity Plan, as of the Restatement Effective Date, the aggregate number of shares which will be available for grant under the Restated Equity Plan will be equal to:

| • |     | 6,410,000 shares; minus |

In June 2025, our Compensation and Human Resources Committee authorized the Committed Award Pool, an annual award