Sixth Amendment, dated March 1, 2012



 Exhibit 10.1 
 SIXTH AMENDMENT 
 THIS SIXTH AMENDMENT (this “Amendment”)
is made as of the 1st day of March, 2012 by and between KVH Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business located at 50 Enterprise Center, Middletown, Rhode Island (the “Borrower”), and Bank
of America, N.A. (successor-by-merger with Fleet National Bank and assignee of Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC [itself a successor-by-merger with Fleet Capital Corporation]), a national banking association with a place of business
located at 111 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island (the “Lender”). 
 PURPOSE: 

On July 17, 2003, the Borrower, Fleet Capital Corporation (predecessor-in-interest to Banc of America Leasing & Capital,
LLC) and Fleet National Bank (predecessor-in-interest to the Lender, as issuing lender and cash management bank) entered into, among other things, that certain Amended and Restated Credit and Security Agreement (as amended to date, the “Credit
Agreement”) providing for a $15,000,000 line of credit (the “Line”) to the Borrower. 
 As further evidence of
the Line, the Borrower executed and delivered to Fleet Capital Corporation that certain Revolving Credit Note dated July 17, 2003 in the amount of $15,000,000 (as amended to date, the “Note”). 

Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC assigned all of its rights in and to the Credit Agreement and the Note, together with any and
all other documents executed and/or prepared in connection therewith (collectively, the “Loan Documents”), to the Lender pursuant to that certain Assignment and Assumption and Amendment and Note Modification Agreement dated as of
July 17, 2006, by and among the Borrower, Bank of America Leasing & Capital, LLC and the Lender. On December 28, 2006, the parties hereto entered into that certain Second Amendment and Note Modification Agreement, on
August 20, 2007, the parties hereto entered into that certain Third Amendment and Note Modification Agreement, on December 31, 2008, the parties hereto entered into that certain Fourth Amendment and Note Modification Agreement
and on June 9, 2011, the parties hereto entered into that certain Fifth Amendment and Note Modification Agreement (the “Fifth Amendment”). 
 The Lender and the Borrower are desirous of making certain modifications to the Credit Agreement. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the terms and conditions herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows (capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement): 







 1. The introductory paragraph of Section 2.1(g) of the Credit Agreement is hereby
amended to read as follows: 
 (g) Term Loan(s) Conversion. Subject to the terms hereof and so long as no
Default or Event of Default has occurred which is continuing, the Lender agrees to make one or more term loans (or other appropriate term loan structures as mutually agreed to by Borrower and Lender) and, upon sufficient prior written notice to the
Lender to enable the Lender to determine that all conditions precedent have been satisfied, the Borrower may convert all or any portion of a Revolving Loan into such term loan(s), on any Business Day occurring on or before
September 30, 2012 (which, in the case of a conversion of a Revolving Loan bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate into a term loan, shall be the last day of the LIBOR Interest Period applicable to such Revolving Loan), provided that:

 2. Except as modified hereby, the Borrower hereby affirms and restates all of the covenants and agreements made and set forth
in the Loan Documents and any and all other documents executed in connection therewith. 
 3. All references to the Credit
Agreement appearing in the Note, the Loan Documents and any and all other documents executed in connection therewith shall be deemed to mean the Credit Agreement as amended hereby. 

4. Borrower represents and warrants to Lender that: (a) Borrower has the full power and authority to execute, deliver and perform
its respective obligations under, the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, (b) the execution and delivery of this Amendment have been duly authorized by all necessary action of the Board of Directors of Borrower; (c) the
representations and warranties contained or referred to in the Credit Agreement are true and accurate in all material respects as of the date of this Amendment (except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an
earlier date or have been publicly disclosed in a prior filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission); and (d) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or will result after giving effect to this Amendment and the transactions
contemplated by this Amendment and the Credit Agreement. 
 5. This Amendment shall take effect upon the receipt by the Lender
of (a) this Amendment duly executed by the Borrower and Lender; (b) payment to the Lender of the $12,500 balance of the amendment fee set forth in the Fifth Amendment upon the first to occur of the extension of the term loan(s) described in
Section 2.1(g) of the Credit Agreement or September 30, 2012; and (c) payment of all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, the reasonable costs and expenses of Lender’s counsel) incurred by
Lender in connection with this Amendment. 
 6. Any provision of this Amendment which is prohibited or unenforceable under any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective, to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other
jurisdiction. 

  
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 7. This Amendment is intended by the parties hereto as a final expression of this Amendment
and is also intended as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms hereof. No course of dealing, course of performance or trade usage, and no patrol or evidence of any nature shall be used to supplement or modify any terms hereof. 

8. This Amendment has been negotiated, executed, and delivered in, and shall be deemed to have been made in the State of Rhode Island,
and the validity of this Amendment, its construction, interpretation and enforcement, and the rights of the parties hereunder shall be determined under, governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws (and not the law of conflicts) of
the State of Rhode Island. 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed on the date
first above written. 
  

							
	WITNESS:	 		 	KVH Industries, Inc.
				
	 Eileen Pribula
	 		 	By:	 	 Patrick J. Spratt

		 		 	 Name:

Title:
	 	 Patrick J. Spratt
 Chief
Financial Officer and Accounting Officer

			
		 		 	Bank of America, N.A.
				
		 		 	By:	 	 Donald C. McQueen

		 		 	 Name:

Title:
	 	 Donald C. McQueen
 Senior
Vice President


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