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.
$600,000.00
Dec 9, 2014
This project entitled ""Dual L and X Band Active Planar Array Antenna for Space-based Radar"" aims to develop the design of a new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna capable of transmitting and receiving on both X and L bands simultaneously with a single aperture. This will include building a prototype subpanel to validate the performance. The targeted application for this technology is for a SAR payload deployed on the International Space Station.
$147,904.00
Dec 15, 2014
This project entitled ""Q7 Camera Boards"" aims to leverage the company's miniaturized data-processing technology with a versatile camera interface board for the new Q7 processor card. It will address a market niche in spacecraft image processing from a wide range of conventional and specialized imagers. Xiphos has also identified market potential for enabling high-throughput video processing algorithms on the Q7 platform.
$99,935.00
Oct 6, 2014
Following the Announcement of Opportunity published on Sep. 27, 2013, the CSA is providing funding via a grant agreement to the University to allow one of its scientists to participate in NASA's Mars InSight mission in the role of co-investigator.
$99,005.00
Oct 6, 2014
Following the Announcement of Opportunity published on Sep. 27, 2013, the CSA is providing funding via a grant agreement to the University to allow one of its scientists to participate in the European Space Agency (ESA) mission ExoMars 2016 in the role of co-investigator.
$100,000.00
Oct 6, 2014
Following the Announcement of Opportunity published on Sep. 27, 2013, the CSA is providing funding via a grant agreement to the University to allow one of its scientists to participate in the European Space Agency (ESA) mission ExoMars 2016 in the role of co-investigator.
$81,995.00
Nov 28, 2014
This project entitled ""Imperator FMS (IFMS) - Flight Management and Control System Software Application for unmanned aerial vehicle & small satellites"" is to design and develop flight management and safety systems to support redundancy and fail-safe measures for small unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites. When completed, this new system will provide additional monitoring of potential failures and allow spacecraft operators or a redundant system to take corrective measures.
$199,997.00
Jan 16, 2015
This project entitled ""Advanced Thermal & Energy Storage Technologies for Survival & Operations of Low-Cost Missions in Deep Space"" will survey and conduct testing of emerging energy storage and thermal management technologies capable of operating at very cold temperatures that will enable future micro- and nano-class space missions to survive in the extreme thermal environment of deep space.
$600,000.00
Jan 26, 2015
This project entitled ""Micro-Spectrometer for Atmospheric Remote Sensing"" will develop a compact spectrometer for the measurement of Green House Gas (GHG) species in the atmosphere. The project will focus on the advancement of previous research to develop an innovative integrated optics platform for affordable atmospheric science and the sensing of chemical concentrations. The proposed approach will provide high spectral resolution and high throughput over a limited wavelength with each device being “tuned” at the point of manufacture to detect a specific gas species (e.g. methane, CO2, etc.). The micro-spectrometer will be compatible with nanosatellite, microsatellite and hosted payload applications as well as aviation and terrestrial applications.
$600,000.00
Jan 26, 2015
This project entitled ""Dyson Spectrometer Prototype Development"" will develop an innovative prototype spectrometer for microsatellite based, hyperspectral imaging applications, that will be able to achieve low distortion performance over a large field-of-view. The proposed approach contains fewer optical elements than other approaches and is configured in a compact format with modest demands for weight, volume, and cooling resources which make it make it very attractive for microsatellite applications as well as for aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle applications.
$600,000.00
Feb 9, 2015
This project entitled ""Flexible Space Situational Awareness Payload Development"" will demonstrate paradigm-changing technologies relating to the viewing, understanding and predicting the physical location of near-earth objects. The project will implement advanced photon detection technologies and advanced image processing methods to improve detection performance and achieve significant reduction in image exposure time. The technologies will be directly applicable to space situational awareness applications as well as applications in space astronomy.