Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$127,754.00
Feb 6, 2014
The overall objectives of this contribution are:
To test a prototype SHOW instrument based on the ABB design
To perform atmospheric limb observations with SHOW from a stratospheric balloon platform
To validate the instrument capability for stratospheric water vapour profile retrieval
To increase the instrument Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
$65,000.00
Jan 29, 2014
13SSTABCAN: This project entitled «The Ninth Canada/Norway Student Sounding Rocket (CaNoRock-9)» has the objective(s) :
CaNoRock is a collaboration between the Andoya Rocket Range and seven Canadian and Norwegian Universities to use hands-on rocket activities to train students and attract them to graduate study or the aerospace industry. The successfull three-year pilot program trained 65 Canadian undergraduate students through 7 student rocket courses. Alumni of the program show unprecedented high interest in the aerospace industry (40%), graduate study (77%) and have been employed by companies such as Magellan Aerospace and Boeing. This project will fund one additional CaNoRock campaign to maintain program continuity and the excellent partnership with Norway.
$69,718.00
Jan 22, 2014
13SSTGHGSA: This project entitled «GHGSat-D ADCS Panning Mode» has the objective(s) :
The primary objective of the project is the development of the ADCS Panning Mode of the GHGSat-D satellite with a planned launch date in the second half of 2015. ""Panning mode"" is a spacecraft attitude control mode that is required for GHGSat-D payload observations. Panning mode is similar to a ground target tracking mode in that both modes aim to control the spacecraft attitude with respect to fixed locations on the Earth's surface. In target tracking mode the aim is to keep the ground target stationary in the instrument field of view (“FOV”), ideally at the centre of the image. In Panning mode, the goal is to have the target pass through the FOV within a predefined duration, passing from one side of the image to the other while passing as close as possible to the centre of the FOV in the process. The University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies – Space Flight Laboratory (“UTIAS-SFL”) will design and develop the panning mode; the design will then be simulated in a lab environment by UTIAS-SFL and Xiphos Systems Corporation (“Xiphos”) to attain TRL 4.
$9,392,145.95
Jan 2, 2014
Canada's annual assessed contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) General Budget under the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement, for the calendar year 2014.
$399,970.00
Dec 6, 2013
Measurements of high altitude neutral winds using radars and lidars.
$400,000.00
Dec 6, 2013
Very low frequency radio measurements to characterize particle transport mechanisms in the Earth's magnetic field.
$400,000.00
Dec 6, 2013
Longitudinal multispectral observations of the aurora borealis using photomultipliers.
$729,993.00
Dec 6, 2013
Measurements of the properties of the ionosphere using ionosondes and GPS instruments to monitor ionospheric scintillation.
$730,000.00
Dec 6, 2013
Frequency domain measurement of the magnetic field, and development and deployment of a new type of magnetometer enabling steady-state and low frequency measurements.
$730,000.00
Dec 6, 2013
All sky imaging of the aurora in white light and in a narrow red light band .