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British Columbia Technology Industry Association

High-profile members of the BCTIA include companies such as Sierra Wireless, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, PMC-Sierra, Bell Mobility, Electronic Arts (Canada) Inc., IBM Canada, Maximizer Software, the Microsoft Canada Development Centre, Nokia, Sony Canada, Sun Microsystems, Telus, and Ballard Power Systems.

Intelligent Systems Challenge

The Challenge problem for 2009, titled Protecting Canada's Coastal Border, was proposed by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the aerospace and financial products company that built the Canadarm, Radarsat-2 and image processing systems used for Google Earth.


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Radarsat-2

To carry out this new project, the satellite's owner MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., was awarded $25-million contract to carry out upgrades (called project Polar Epsilon) to enhance the satellites capabilities to detect surface ships.