{{Infobox Company 
| company_name = MDA
| company_logo = [[Image:Logo MDA.gif|MDA]]
| company_type = [[Public company|Public]]<br />{{tsx|MDA}}
| foundation = [[1969]]
| location = [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond, BC]]
| key_people = Daniel Friedmann (President and CEO)
| industry = [[Information technology]] services
| products = 
| revenue = {{gain}}$832.9 million [[Canadian dollar|CAD]] ([[2005]])<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.mda.ca/investor/mda_q3_2005_factsheet.pdf|title=MDA 2005 Factsheet|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
| operating_income = 
| net_income = {{gain}}$68.1 million CAD (2005)<ref name="factsheet" />
| num_employees = 3,000+ (2006)<ref name="factsheet" />
| parent = 
| subsid = [[MDA Space Missions]]
| homepage = [http://www.mda.ca/ www.mda.ca]
| footnotes =
}}

'''MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.''' ({{tsx|MDA}}) is a [[Richmond, British Columbia|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 [[Research and development|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.

==History==
* 2006 - acquires Lyttle & Co. (Belfast, Northern Ireland), property and related search information<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2006052501.shtml|title=MDA Acquires Legal Search Firm In Northern Ireland|accessdate=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>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2006052201.shtml|title=MDA Acquires Leading Provider Of Electronic Exchange Solutions To Lenders And Surveyors In UK|accessdate=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">{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/investor/mda_2005_annualreport.pdf|title=Annual Report 2005|accessdate=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>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2003021001.html|title=MDA Acquires Leading Land Information Company in Scotland|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
* 2002 - acquires [http://www.dynacs.com/ 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2002041101.html|title=MDA Acquires Small Robotic Mining Company|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
* 2002 - acquires [http://www.earthsat.com/ Earth Satellite]; subsidiary becomes MDA Federal
* 2001 - MDA UK launches [http://www.nlis.org.uk/ National Land Information Service] (NLIS)
* 2000 - enters joint venture with LandAmerica Financial Group to create LandMDA, a provider of property reports to lenders<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eomonline.com/Common/Archives/2000oct/00oct_paul.html|title=In Real Estate, Geographic Information and the Internet Changes Everything|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
* 2000 - acquires [http://www.atlantictech.com 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 [http://www.dataquick.com/ DataQuick Information Systems]
* 1999 - completes buy-out of [http://www.rsi.ca/ 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 [http://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/ BC Online] from Province of British Columbia
* 1997 - acquires [http://www.triathoninc.com 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr1996020701.html|title=MDA to Acquire Iotek Inc. of Halifax|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
* 1995 - MDA acquired by Orbital Sciences for $67 million in stock<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3D81030F935A3575AC0A963958260|title=Orbital Sciences Deal|publisher=[[New York Times]]|date=[[1995-09-06]]|accessdate=2006-07-15}}</ref>
* 1969 - founded by [[John S. MacDonald]] and Vern Dettwiler

==See also==
* [[MDA Space Missions]]

==External links==
* [http://www.mda.ca/ MDA web site]

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