# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000797721
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-287000
**Filing Date:** 2025-11
**Character Count:** 5279
**Document Hash:** bc4db43644f2d6ae2e351a56c709858c
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-287000.hdr.sgml**: 20251119

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-287000

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251117

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251119

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251119

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** VIASAT INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000797721
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** COMMUNICATION SERVICES, NEC [4899]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 330174996
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0331

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-21767
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251496671

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 6155 EL CAMINO REAL
- **CITY:** CARLSBAD
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92009
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 760-476-2200

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 6155 EL CAMINO REAL
- **CITY:** CARLSBAD
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92009

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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT

#### Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

#### of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

#### Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 17, 2025
![LOGO](g845120g1118062836568.jpg)

## VIASAT, INC.

#### (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| Delaware | 000-21767 | 33-0174996 |
| (State or other jurisdiction<br>of incorporation) | **(Commission**<br> **File No.)** | (I.R.S. Employer<br>Identification No.) |

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#### 6155 El Camino Real

#### Carlsbad, California 92009

#### (Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

#### Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (760) 476-2200
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **(Title of Each Class)** | **(Trading**<br> **Symbol)** | **(Name of Each Exchange**<br> **on which Registered)** |
| Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share | VSAT | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 5.02.** | **Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**  |

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On November 17, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Viasat, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Barbara Frenkel as a director. Ms. Frenkel will serve as a Class I director, with an initial term expiring at the Company's 2027 annual meeting of stockholders. With the appointment of Ms. Frenkel, the Board now consists of eight members, six of whom are independent directors.

Ms. Frenkel, 62, has held various roles at Porsche AG since 2001. Most recently, she served as a member of the Executive Board – Procurement from August 2021 to August 2025. From January 2019 to August 2021, Ms. Frenkel served as a member of the Supervisory Board, and she previously served as Vice President, European Region; Vice President, Network Management and Development; Director, Global Sales Training; and Director, Quality Systems and Methods. She has also been responsible for sustainability activities at Porsche AG. Ms. Frenkel earned a vordiplom from Universitat Bayreuth in Chemistry and a diploma from Leibniz University Hannover in Rubber Technology.

Ms. Frenkel will be compensated under the Company's non-employee director compensation policy as in effect from time to time. Ms. Frenkel will also enter into the Company's standard form of director and officer indemnification agreement.

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#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | VIASAT, INC. | VIASAT, INC. |
| Date: November 19, 2025 | By: | /s/ Brett Church |
|  | Name: | Brett Church |
|  | Title: | Associate General Counsel |

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