Rohit Braggs Joins Iridium as Positioning, Navigation & Timing VP

MCLEAN, VA., April 29, 2025 – Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) today announced that Rohit Braggs has joined as Vice President of Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT). In his role, he will direct Iridium’s commercial PNT strategy and execution amid growing demand for resilient alternatives to GPS and GNSS, specifically Iridium Satellite Time and Location® (Iridium STL®).

For more than a decade, Braggs held several leadership roles—most recently Chief Executive Officer—with Safran Trusted 4D (previously Orolia), a leading provider of resilient PNT solutions. For six years, he served on the Board of Directors of Satelles, which Iridium acquired in 2024.

Rohit Braggs, Vice President of Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (PNT)

“Rohit is one of the world’s foremost experts in PNT and has long been an advocate of the unique benefits of Iridium STL,” said Dr. Michael O’Connor, Executive Vice President of PNT at Iridium. “His business experience and knowledge of the PNT industry make him the perfect person to lead this business, which is poised for dramatic growth.”

Braggs will present the keynote, “The Technology Issues of Providing PNT from LEO Satellite Systems,” May 14 at the ATIS Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) May 14 in Savannah, Georgia.

Braggs holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai, a master’s degree from Syracuse University, and an Executive MBA from Rutgers University.

About Iridium STL

Enabled by Iridium’s crosslinked Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network architecture, Iridium STL delivers truly global secure time and location signals that are 1,000 times more powerful than GNSS constellations, work indoors, and continue to operate during regional GNSS system outages. Iridium STL also helps secure GPS and other GNSS-reliant systems’ time-synchronized applications from vulnerabilities like spoofing and jamming using small, low-cost hardware that does not require outdoor antennas. The solution helps secure critical infrastructure, data centers, 5G base stations, and applications across the aviation, maritime, land mobile, and IoT sectors.

About Iridium Communications Inc.

Iridium® is the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. Iridium enables connections between people, organizations, and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. Together with its ecosystem of partner companies, Iridium delivers an innovative and rich portfolio of reliable solutions for markets that require truly global communications. In 2024, Iridium acquired Satelles and announced the Iridium Satellite Time and Location service. Iridium Communications Inc. is headquartered in McLean, Va., U.S.A., and its common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol IRDM. For more information about Iridium products, services, and partner solutions, visit www.iridium.com.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure

Statements in this press release that are not purely historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company has based these statements on its current expectations and the information currently available to us. Forward-looking statements in this press release include statements regarding the expectation of PNT growth. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the words “anticipates,” “may,” “can,” “believes,” “expects,” “projects,” “intends,” “likely,” “will,” “to be” and other expressions that are predictions or indicate future events, trends or prospects. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Iridium to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the development of and market for the Company’s PNT products and services the company’s ability to maintain the health, capacity and content of its satellite constellation, as well as general industry and economic conditions, and competitive, legal, governmental and technological factors. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements include those factors listed under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 13, 2025, as well as other filings Iridium makes with the SEC from time to time. There is no assurance that Iridium’s expectations will be realized. If one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if Iridium’s underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those expected, estimated or projected. Iridium’s forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Iridium undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

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