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Mr. Agnew is responsible for the Broadband Systems group, which builds high-capacity satellite networking systems that bring economical and efficient broadband to fixed, airborne, and mobile customers.
Prior to leading the Broadband group, Mr. Agnew served ViaSat in a number of roles after first joining the company in 1988. He led the Government Broadband group, was program director for development of ViaSat’s Multifuntional Information Distribution System(MIDS) Link-16 low volume terminal (LVT) program, and led the team that developed Ka-band terminals and gateways for Astrolink, a proposed global broadband system that was one of the first to develop technology based on spot-beam, Ka-band satellites.
As business area director for ViaSat Network Systems he provided strategy and vision for bringing networking products to market serving DoD customers, and co-authored Mil-Std-188-184, the data controller waveform adopted as the standard for packet data over UHF Satcom.
Before joining ViaSat, Mr. Agnew worked for MA/COM Linkabit and Comsat Telesystems. During that time he was the project engineer on several US Navy sponsored small business innovative research (SBIR) programs focused on multi-user, multi-media communications, and a system engineer responsible for requirements verification, integration, and test on the Milstar UHF program.
Mr. Agnew holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University and earned his MSEE at the University of California at Berkeley. | 