MacDonald Dettwiler

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MDA <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">Image:Logo MDA.gif</td></tr>
Type	Public TSX: MDA
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Richmond, BC <tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Daniel Friedmann (President and CEO)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Information technology services</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>Image:Green Arrow Up.svg$832.9 million CAD (2005)<ref name="factsheet">MDA 2005 Factsheet. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Net income</th><td>Image:Green Arrow Up.svg$68.1 million CAD (2005)<ref name="factsheet" /></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th><td>3,000+ (2006)<ref name="factsheet" /></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Subsidiaries</th><td>MDA Space Missions</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>www.mda.ca</td></tr>

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) is a Richmond based, Canadian information services and products company, employing over 3000 people throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, under the MDA brand name.<ref name="factsheet" />

MDA provides commercial customers, industrial partners, and government, civil, defense, security, space, and R&D agencies with such information systems and solutions as:

space robotics and satellite information and payload systems,
Earth observation, airborne, surveillance, intelligence, and environmental monitoring,
radar and optical satellite imagery and remote sensing,
mapping, and
real estate information.

1 History
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

2006 - acquires Lyttle & Co. (Belfast, Northern Ireland), property and related search information<ref>MDA Acquires Legal Search Firm In Northern Ireland. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2006 - acquires xit2 Ltd. (Nr Charlbury, Oxfordshire, UK), information exchange solutions for lenders and home surveyors and other outsourced service providers<ref>MDA Acquires Leading Provider Of Electronic Exchange Solutions To Lenders And Surveyors In UK. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2006 - acquires Rochford Brady Group (Dublin, Ireland), legal property and company information search
2006 - acquires PropertyFlow (Kent, United Kingdom), property insurance and conveyancing search
2006 - expands into financial services with acquisition of Mindbox, a supplier of advanced decision systems for mortgage lending, for $12.6 million USD, with up to $10.75 million contingent on performance<ref name="ar2005">Annual Report 2005. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2005 - acquires business of EMS Technologies Canada, a major supplier and subcontractor, for $8.9 million<ref name="ar2005" />
2005 - acquires undisclosed supplier of US property information for $300,00 <ref name="ar2005" />
2004 - acquires Marshall & Swift / Boechk for $337.8 million, with $104.9 million contingent on performance.<ref name="ar2005" />
2003 - acquires Millar & Bryce, a commercial provider of land information in Scotland, for $21.32 million, with $1.76 million contingent on performance.<ref>MDA Acquires Leading Land Information Company in Scotland. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2002 - acquires Dynacs for $3.1 million, with an additional $6.8 million contingent on performance<ref name="ar2005" />
2002 - acquires Automated Mining Systems of Aurora, Ontario for $225,000<ref>MDA Acquires Small Robotic Mining Company. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2002 - acquires Earth Satellite; subsidiary becomes MDA Federal
2001 - MDA UK launches National Land Information Service (NLIS)
2000 - enters joint venture with LandAmerica Financial Group to create LandMDA, a provider of property reports to lenders<ref>In Real Estate, Geographic Information and the Internet Changes Everything. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
2000 - acquires Atlantic Technologies of Huntsville, Alabama for $12.5 million on closing and $8.9 million in MDA shares (paid over 3 years); becomes MD Atlantic Technologies
2000 - initial public offering; trades as TSX: MDA
2000 - acquires DataQuick Information Systems
1999 - completes buy-out of Radarsat International from Spar Aerospace, Technology Horizons Ltd., and Lockheed Martin Astronautics
1999 - acquires FDI Forest Dimensions, a provider of forestry-related mapping and forest inventory management
1999 - acquires Space and Advanced Robotics Division of Spar Aerospace; subsidiary becomes MD Robotics
1999 - acquires Terra Surveys (Ottawa)
1997 - MDA led consortium purchases BC Online from Province of British Columbia
1997 - acquires Triathlon Mapping
1997 - acquires Maritime Information Systems business of CANAC/Microtel
1996 - acquires Iotek, a supplier of signal processing and sonar technology for military customers, for undisclosed sum<ref>MDA to Acquire Iotek Inc. of Halifax. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
1995 - MDA acquired by Orbital Sciences for $67 million in stock<ref>"Orbital Sciences Deal", New York Times, 1995-09-06. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.</ref>
1969 - founded by John S. MacDonald and Vern Dettwiler