Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-077138
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Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 6
Chunk 15
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 purpose LEO and MEO satellites and other small satellite platforms.•Tactical networking, which provides resilient communications designed for on-the-move or on-the-pause operations in a multi-domain battlespace with friendly force tracking and narrowband solutions. Tactical networking includes the products and services offered by TrellisWare.•Advanced technologies and other, which includes commercial communication satellite product development, orchestration of sovereign and multi-orbit solutions, products focused on emerging growth markets (such as direct-to-device) and intellectual property licensing revenues.Factors and Trends Affecting our Results of OperationsWe believe that the performance of our business and our results of operations in a given period are driven by various factors, including:•increasing levels of competition in the markets in which we compete;•the extent and stage of our satellite design, construction and launch activities, the associated level of investment required, the impact of any construction or launch delays, operational or launch failures or satellite anomalies or deployment issues, and the impact of bringing newly launched satellites into commercial service and associated ramp-up activities and costs (see the discussion below under “Satellite-Related Activities”); •our ability to manage available bandwidth ahead of new satellites entering commercial service;•our ability to maintain the health, capacity, control and level of service of our satellite fleet, or the existence or occurrence of any malfunctions or anomalies in or other disruptions to our satellites;•the availability of third-party satellite bandwidth and network infrastructure that we rely on to provide our services;•the extent of growth in uptake of our in-flight services by commercial airlines and business jets, the number of aircraft retrofitted or installed with our IFC systems, and the rate of revenue growth in our IFC-related businesses in our communication services segment, as well as the impact of the grounding or slowdown in manufacture of aircraft related to aircraft safety, maintenance, OEM delays or other issues;•the rate of growth in worldwide demand for mobile and fixed broadband connectivity, including growth in the number of aircraft and vessels in service, passengers, internet users, applications and connected devices;•the rate of technological innovation and change in the industries in which we operate, and the introduction of new competing technologies, products and services by new and existing competitors; 

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•the global business environment and economic conditions, including changes in interest rates, credit conditions, debt levels, consumer confidence, discretionary spending levels, rates of inflation, unemployment rates, energy costs, geopolitical issues, tariffs and other macro-economic factors;•changes in the levels of our R&D spending, including