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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.
$1,430,000.00
Mar 26, 2013
Academia
Martian geology exploration support for MSL and the APX instrument : Value added science from technology
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The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Martian geology exploration support for MSL and the APXS instrument : Value-added science from technology will involve thorough literature reviews of existing research articles and the examination of existing imagery and spectral databases, as well as incorporating new MSL APXS and related datasets as they become available. An improved comprehension of the above will directly benefit the MSL mission and, more specifically, the deployment of the Canadian-built APXS instrument and interpretation of the results from this important technology. An increased knowledge of these areas of research will add to our understanding of Mars in general, and better position Canada to address future Mars exploration initiatives via the development of science-enabling technologies and instrumentation.
$45,717.00
Feb 27, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" The SatCODE Project - Building a Concurrent Design Model of Satellite Platforms "" has the objective (s): The objective of phase 1 of the satCODE project aims to setup in Canada the tools required to conduct Concurrent Design activities for spacecraft platform development projects. Once these tools are in place at the end of Phase 1, we intend to engage in the further use of Concurrent Design with Canadian partners (e.g. industry, government, or academia) in targeted spacecraft platform design projects (Phase 2), and eventually be ready to provide our Concurrent Design services on a recurrent basis (Phase 3), also expanding to other space engineering domains such as instrument or ground segment design.
The more specific objectives of satCODE Phase 1 covered by this proposal are:
-To make available a complete spacecraft platform data model to Canadian industry and academia;
-To increase ADGA's Canadian staff competence in Concurrent Design tools and methodology for spacecraft
platforms design;
-To train Canadian professionals in the use of Concurrent Design applied to spacecraft platform projects
$70,000.00
Feb 20, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Measurement of Diffusion and Thermal Diffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent Mixtures with Negative Separation Ratios "" has the objective (s): This project will publish new scientific knowledge from fluid science research in the priority area of space fluids behavior. It will increase Canada's understanding in liquid container technology development and mission requirements necessary and approved for human spaceflight, and pursue Canada's lead in understanding the role of g-jitter on space experiments onboard long-duration orbiting space platforms.
$100,000.00
Feb 1, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Relative Navigation for Active Debris Removal "" has the objective (s):
The solution put forward involves the use of active sensors to measure the relative pose of debris. However, this measurement contains sensor noise. Furthermore, it does not directly provide information regarding the angular rate or the velocity of the target, information which is critical to the proximity and synchronisation operations. Since the sensor in itself does not provide a complete measurement of all the critical states, the estimation of the complete relative state vector needs to be performed by software functions, from a succession of relative pose measurements provided by the sensor. It is the purpose of the proposed project to design and test a Relative Navigation State Estimation Software (RENSES) system and to quantify its level of performance for a realistic operational scenario.
The debris removal scenario, for which the properties of the target and its dynamical conditions are unknown, is by far the most challenging scenario. However the RENSES system will also prove extremely valuable to all missions involving proximity operations with cooperative or non-cooperative targets or autonomous rendezvous operations.
Another critical technology NGC wants to develop as part of this project consists in Automated Tools for Tuning of State-Estimation (Kalman) Software (ATTSES).
$100,000.00
Feb 1, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" High Accuracy, High Agility Attitude Determination and Control System for Earth Satellite "" has the objective (s):
The proposed work intends to further advance Canada's capability in this field especially for High Accuracy and High Agility (HAHA) missions.
At Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) software level:
• Pointing accuracy can be improved by reducing the error between the estimated and the true orientation; the error between the desired target and on-board computed target; the error between the target and the true orientation; the stability of the pointing over a specific time window.
• Agility can be improved by optimising the utilisation of available actuators and by designing optimal guidance laws.
NGC identified Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) solutions that can significantly improve the pointing accuracy and agility of spacecraft. Thus, the project aims at the design and validation of innovative GNC functions required to provide high accuracy and high agility capabilities to meet the demanding payload requirements of future Earth satellites.
This project will design, implement in a high fidelity simulator and assess the performance of the new algorithms using as reference missions the PROBA-3 mission and the PROBA-NEXT mission which represents the next missions requiring non-existing (or low-TRL) HAHA technologies.
$97,525.00
Jan 24, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Q6 -LOCOOS "" has the objective (s): The project being funded under this contribution entails integrating the LOCOOS (Low-Cost Orbit and Orientation State estimation) software developed by NGC Aerospace Ltd. with Xiphos' Q6 processor and deploying the resulting Q6-LOCOOS product on one of three possible satellite opportunities. The Q6-LOCOOS product will offer superior technical ADCS and GNC performance and capabilities, at a compelling price point, to microsat, nanosat and cubesat platforms. Xiphos' experience with this development pattern provides NGC and the LOCOOS software a perfect vehicle for delivery of an innovative and leading-edge GNC and ADCS product to a broad market.
$100,000.00
Jan 24, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Q7 "" has the objective (s): The primary objective of the project is to create a disruptive technology as the next evolution to Xiphos' Q-card family. At the heart of the new Q7 Q-Card will be a new type of computing device, known as an Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) or All-Programmable System-on-Chip (AP SoC). These devices are typically multi-core CPUs supported by massive programmable logic resources and a wide array of hardware interfaces. This forward-looking project will establish the feasibility of the Q7 product through a rigorous process of breadboard technology validation and preliminary design, resulting in a TRL4 status.
$200,000.00
Jan 21, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled ""Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign: Extended Phase Validation of SCISAT and OSIRIS for 2013"" will provide an Arctic springtime dataset for the ongoing validation of two Canadian satellite missions: the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) on the SCISAT satellite and the Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System (OSIRIS) instrument on the Odin satellite. The project has the following objectives:
The primary scientific objective of this campaign project is to provide total column measurements and, where possible, vertical profiles or partial columns of trace gases, atmospheric and aerosol extinction, temperature and pressure for validating the ACE and OSIRIS satellite data under the perturbed conditions present in the springtime Arctic stratosphere.
The secondary scientific objective is to use the campaign data set for scientific studies. As we are able to continue the series of ACE campaigns, this extends our multi-year Arctic data set to ten years. The data record is now getting long enough to examine the inter-annual variability of trace gases over Eureka.
The training objective of this campaign is to provide Arctic field experience for graduate students and other highly qualified personnel in the area of atmospheric observations and scientific experience in the area of validation analyses and data interpretation.
$8,713,989.02
Jan 4, 2013
Canada's annual assessed contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) General Budget under the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement, for the calendar year 2013.
$49,500.00
Dec 12, 2012
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled ""Skeletal muscle gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation during bedrest with and without countermeasures"" has the objective (s): to describe and analyze systematically the nature and magnitude of changes seen in gene expression in skeletal muscles from humans subjected to bedrest.