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.
$74,600.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
Enhancing Canadian Defence PNT Resilience through BPS. Market Analysis and Procurement Navigation.
1040544
Avateq Corp is assessing the integration of its Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) into the Canadian defence sector. This project focuses on market analysis and navigating procurement pathways to enhance Canadian industrial capacity in critical technologies.
$25,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
Academia
Single-photon 3D imaging: depth sensing under extreme illumination
1040548
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$75,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
Defence Market Insight and Strategy Development
1040558
GBatteries Energy Canada Inc., is advancing Smart Battery Pulse Charging and Advanced Battery Management technologies that enable rapid cold-weather battery heating, fast charging and extended battery life, and improved safety for drones and electrified mobility platforms. Manufacturing in Canada, GBatteries’ technology directly align with CAF and NATO priorities, including energy resilience, Arctic operability, and electrification of unmanned and autonomous platforms. The technology also supports dual‑use civilian markets such as drones and electric aviation.
$75,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
Adapting/Adopting Engineered Product Technologies
1040577
Adapting/Adopting Engineered Product Technologies
$75,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
Explore technical capability of the firm’s bifacial solar arrays for defence applications
1040582
Lumera Solar identified an opportunity to develop a deployable solar array for use within resource mining and secondary military operations. Electrical power generation in remote locations can be challenging, with current solutions requiring fuel or easily damaged flexible solar panels. Lumera Solar intends to research military markets, including specific needs, procurement processes, storage capacities, portability requirements, product durability, and distribution stipulations in order to better prepare for product research and development.
$456,830.00
Mar 18, 2026
Academia
Next Generation Single-Photon Detectors
1040899
The Project goal is to enhance the single-photon detection efficiency of semiconductor single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) in the shortwave infrared region by integrating metasurface designs with the high quality InGaAs/InP APD heterostructures grown at NRC. The Project’s metasurface design, based on an array of semiconductor nanostructures, allows for enhancing the absorption efficiency and controlling the spatial absorption profile within a thinner absorption region than conventional SPADs. These features of metasurface SPADs will enable enhanced single-photon detection efficiency of ~80%, while also improving the timing resolution by an order of magnitude to tens of picoseconds. Surface passivation techniques will be developed for the metasurface SPAD device architecture to achieve the proposed device metrics. The portable, metasurface-based SPADs with enhanced efficiency and timing resolution impacts a broad range of applications including quantum lidar and imaging, quantum sensing, quantum networks, and defense.
$960,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
PC0011259
PC0011259
Accelerate mineral exploration by scaling-up production of hyperspectral scanners
$589,149.00
Mar 18, 2026
Aboriginal recipient
PC0011507
PC0011507
Mercury 3D Concrete Printing: Scaling Innovative 3D Concrete Printing
$2,554,685.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
PC0011868
PC0011868
Accelerate Adoption of AI-Powered Waste Sorting Systems in BC
$1,000,000.00
Mar 18, 2026
For-profit organization
PC0012447
PC0012447
Expand operations into extreme high speed laser cladding (EHLA)