{"id":84494,"date":"2011-07-25T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/faa-extends-mdas-nextgen-infrastructure-upgrade-contract\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T10:04:14","slug":"faa-extends-mdas-nextgen-infrastructure-upgrade-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/faa-extends-mdas-nextgen-infrastructure-upgrade-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Extends MDA\u2019s NextGen Infrastructure Upgrade Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-25-11]&nbsp;Canadian satellite information solutions company<b> MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)<\/b> has received $7.9 million in follow-on contracts from the <b>U.S. Federal Aviation Administration <\/b>(FAA), the company announced July 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;MDA will continue to upgrade the FAA\u2019s Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS) as part of an enterprise-wide automation program, which aims to align IPDS with the requirements of the FAA\u2019s NextGen program.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The IPDS, part of a joint initiative between the FAA and the <b>U.S. Department of Defense<\/b>, also provides both agencies with the capability to design terminal area flight routes that take advantage of next-generation navigation equipment.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; MDA has been providing on-going services related to implementation and integration of the upgrades to FAA\u2019s existing flight information management enterprise since its initial contract was awarded in January 2007.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-25-11]&nbsp;Canadian satellite information solutions company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has received $7.9 million in follow-on contracts from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced July 22. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;MDA will continue to upgrade the FAA\u2019s Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS) as part of an enterprise-wide automation program, which aims to align IPDS with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}