[SatNews] ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded a $5.75 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ), firm-fixed-price contract for tactical data link and satellite communications equipment and engineering support services from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C. The contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (75 percent), and the government of the Republic of Turkey (25 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program.

The contract has an initial ceiling of $5.75 million through June 30, 2011, and all work will be funded and authorized by separate delivery orders. This award includes contract options that, if exercised, would bring the cumulative ceiling of this contract to an estimated $29,999,500. If all options are exercised, work could continue until June 2015.