{"id":85930,"date":"2010-10-29T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-uav-orders-push-mda-backlog-over-the-1-billion-mark\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:19:52","slug":"satellite-uav-orders-push-mda-backlog-over-the-1-billion-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-uav-orders-push-mda-backlog-over-the-1-billion-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite, UAV Orders Push MDA Backlog Over the $1 Billion Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-29-10] Increased activity in communication satellite and UAV surveillance sectors has pushed <strong>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates<\/strong>\u2019 (MDA) backlog up to $1.19 billion in the third quarter of 2010 from $928 million in the same period last year, the company announced in its latest results, issued Oct. 28.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MDA said its space-related divsions performed well during the quarter. The company\u2019s Information Systems division revenues increased $30 million to $142 million, while MDA\u2019s Information Products revenues remained flat at $121 million. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; MDA operating earnings were up 28 percent over the same period last year. At the end of September, MDA\u2019s cash balances were $165 million after paying off a revolving loan during the quarter. The company\u2019s long-term debt stands at $203 million, consisting of two term loans maturing in 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-29-10] Increased activity in communication satellite and UAV surveillance sectors has pushed MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates\u2019 (MDA) backlog up to $1.19 billion in the third quarter of 2010 from $928 million in the same period last year, the company announced in its latest results, issued Oct. 28. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MDA said its space-related divsions performed well [&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-85930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85930"}],"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=85930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}