AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems and ViaSat Enter Strategic Alliance
Aligns State-of-the-Art UAS with Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications and Network SecurityHunt Valley, Md. and Carlsbad, Calif. — January 23, 2012 — AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, and ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) announced today that the organizations have entered into a strategic alliance to align AAI’s advanced unmanned aircraft and command and control technologies with ViaSat integrated airborne and terrestrial satellite communications, as well as its Internet Protocol-based networking and security technology.