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.
$443,827.00
Dec 10, 2014
This project entitled ""Advanced Channel Combiner Technologies"" is to create more efficient and advanced Ku band channel combiner to improve telecommunications satellites performance. Ku band is used in particular to deliver internet and television signals to end-users and is therefore in high demand. Advancements like those proposed in this activity will increase capacity and feasibility of novel combiner configurations.
$458,411.00
Dec 9, 2014
This project entitled ""Smart Switch Interface"" is to develop new interface options for COM DEV's switch space product family. The primary objective is to allow the switch products to become CANBus compatible - where CANBus, an already widely accepted communications protocol designed for many electronic products used in aerospace, automotive, maritime, medical and industrial automation equipments, is now being more broadly reviewed for space payload incorporation – therein offering “smart switch” product portfolio enhancement.
$362,724.00
Dec 9, 2014
Current manufacturing techniques for waveguide switches are difficult, take multiple machines and setups and are challenging to manufacture.
$200,000.00
Dec 9, 2014
This project entitled ""New Iso-Divider Product"" has the objective: to develop a product that will combine and integrate space worthy Isolators and Power Dividers within the same package, saving space and mass in satellite designs. This product will be used for satellite communication purposes.
$600,000.00
Dec 9, 2014
This project entitled ""On-Board Autonomous Cross-Cueing of EO Sensor Systems for Maritime Domain Awareness and Tasking Optimization"" has the objective to develop a unique space-borne on-board autonomous cross-cueing and collection tasking system, allowing for optimized high-resolution optical image acquisition yields and downlink capacity utilizations. The operational applications for such a system would be low-latency ship detection and identification reporting, and cloud-free target imaging.
$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.
$416,886.00
Dec 4, 2014
This project entitled ""G-Band - The Next Generation of Cloud Profiling Radars"" focuses on the development of G-band radar technology dedicated to do cloud profiling. Ka- and W-band radars are currently being used to better understand clouds and cloud processes, and their representation in global atmospheric circulation models. There are still gaps in the ability to probe clouds. Using a G-band radar could significantly improve current profiling capabilities in boundary layer clouds, cirrus and mid-level ice clouds, and precipitating snow.
$471,769.00
Dec 4, 2014
This project entitled ""End-to-End Space-Ground Communication"" will focus on the development and the study of key advancements in satellite on-board processing technology in order to improve the level of integration of an end-to-end communications network. The idea is to provide a fully integrated approach where the utilization of ground and space segments are maximized.
$160,295.00
Dec 4, 2014
This project entitled ""Geometric Error Source Identification and Quantification (GESIQ)"" has the objective to improve the knowledge of the spacecraft parameters by identifying and quantifying the geometric errors sources in satellite data starting from known geometric errors previously determined using ground control points (GCP). It will allow NGC to have a tool to support customers in the diagnostic of geometric error sources in Earth-observation satellite imagery.
$199,414.00
Dec 4, 2014
This project entitled ""Autonomous Navigation & Mapping (ANIMA)"" has the objective to develop and validate an innovative navigation and mapping technology to be integrated onboard exploration rover systems. This technological product aims at solving a problem that is often encountered in space and also in many terrestrial applications: to enable the navigation, the mapping and the localization of mobile vehicle systems operating in unknown or poorly known environments where Global Positioning System (GPS) or other absolute navigation infrastructure are not reliable or even available.