{"id":85244,"date":"2011-03-09T01:55:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-wins-additional-nga-maritime-navigation-order\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:55:36","slug":"mda-wins-additional-nga-maritime-navigation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-wins-additional-nga-maritime-navigation-order\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Wins Additional NGA Maritime Navigation Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<strong>U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency&nbsp;<\/strong>(NGA) exercised an option under its existing indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity order with&nbsp;<strong>MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates&nbsp;<\/strong>(MDA), the Canadian information solutions provider announced Feb. 22.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The multi-million dollar option will see MDA provide additional information derived from Radarsat-2, which will be used to create ice charts to improve the safety of maritime navigation.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In November, MDA sold its property information division, including information distribution service BC OnLine, to private equity firm TPG Capital for $850 million to support its contracts with the&nbsp;<strong>Canadian Space Agency<\/strong>&nbsp;to provide technical systems for the Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 surveillance satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency&nbsp;(NGA) exercised an option under its existing indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity order with&nbsp;MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates&nbsp;(MDA), the Canadian information solutions provider announced Feb. 22. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The multi-million dollar option will see MDA provide additional information derived from Radarsat-2, which will be used to create ice charts to improve the safety of maritime navigation.&nbsp; [&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-85244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244"}],"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=85244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}