Grants and Contributions

The project proposes to leverage the expertise of three independent senior executives from defence industry to produce a white paper on how to improve the defence procurement process. The paper will describe the motivation of defence companies and recommend strategies to better align government/industry interest, on the basis of success measures used by industry.

The applicant proposes developing an enhanced online communications opportunity for students and scholars with interest in defence and security via the Queens University Servicewomen's Salute Portal Project. The portal will allow Government of Canada, as well as defence and security organizations to support next generation scholars. It will help curate more “next gen” insights into the MINDS policy challenges.

A two-day conference in November 2019. The conference would promote exchanges between academics and policymakers working on capacity building and provide analysis, including on the future of capacity building and Canada's defence relationships.

The objective of this Micro-net is to develop innovative advanced materials, disruptive technologies and devices for military applications and provide a fundamental insight of the underlying processes governing materials and device performance. The proposed research includes materials processing and patterning, device fabrication and advanced characterization of fundamental materials properties.

The ever-increasing need to improve the effectiveness of Canadian military missions through increased protection and survivability of personnel and platforms urgently requires the development of advanced materials with enhanced properties to combat the various forms of kinetic and non-kinetic threats, without sacrificing mobility and maneuverability. This proposed research focuses on addressing this key challenge.

The Micro-net brings together a multidisciplinary team of research experts to implement tunable compact photonic platform on emerging group IV SiGeSn semiconductors to address current challenges facing the development of silicon-integrated light sources, detectors, and sensors operating in the part of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum covering from the terahertz to the mid-infrared.
The proposed innovative materials and devices provide direct access to scalable photonic systems in the THz-to-MIR range. This capability will facilitate photonic emitters and detectors and create a viable path for ultra-broadband compact photonic technologies

A novel technology for detection avoidance of military personal and platforms is proposed by taking inspiration from octopus camouflaging strategy, where they tune their spectral signature to that of their surroundings to become effectively invisible. Their sensing, processing and reconfiguring capability will be mimicked using engineered electromagnetic (EM) metasurfaces. These reconfigurable metasurfaces will be equipped with smart sensing networks for environment monitoring and autonomous decision making powers based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), i.e. a biomimetic metasurface.

The objective of the proposed research is to develop these biomimetic metasurfaces in various spectral bands from RF to optics, based on various exotic physical effects, with multi-spectral operation capabilities.

The Project aims to increase dismounted soldier protection from both kinetic and non-kinetic threats in complex urban environments, while simultaneously decreasing overall soldier discomfort.

The project aims to strengthen research on advanced materials for detection avoidance and physical protection by focusing on electronic and photonic materials for application in flexible and stretchable devices for electromagnetic shielding and camouflage featuring self-healing and biodegradability.

The project aims to increase dismounted soldier protection from both kinetic and non-kinetic threats in complex urban environments, while simultaneously decreasing overall soldier discomfort. Investigate innovations in thermal regulation, moisture management, all-weather protection, flexible and breathable armour gel, and how each of these innovations interact with one another and with overall soldier comfort.