Grants and Contributions

The project will implement an action plan to promote the legal language professions in Canada. The recipient proposes to launch the Alliance in Winnipeg, holding online conferences to attract the next generation of people studying translation or law, for example. There will be a competition for the next generation of candidates, which will allow the winners to participate in a bootcamp in Ottawa in the fall of 2026.

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.

Carelynk will engage a youth graduate to support the research, design, development, testing, and maintenance of its healthcare staffing marketplace platform.

While quantum magnetometers have achieved remarkable sensitivity, accuracy and stability can be key to real-world deployment. The Project exploits the quantum states of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to target development of a portable vector magnetometer with best-in-class accuracy. Comprising experts in NV physics, quantum control and optimization, and machine learning, along with scientists from startup SBQuantum skilled in magnetometer design, calibration and deployment, the Project team tackles this challenge across multiple fronts, from improved fundamental physical models to optimized control and state-of-the-art machine learning calibrations. Highly accurate vector magnetometry opens the door to stable sensor arrays that can detect and differentiate magnetic and conductive materials, a key capability for security technology. The Project team examines optimal strategies to recently developed deploy accurate vector magnetometers for remote threat detection, laying the groundwork for commercial and defence applications that could significantly impact Canadian society.

This project will support TinyBox to evaluate and adapt a rapidly deployable modular building system for use in remote operational environments relevant to Canada’s defence and northern sovereignty needs. Activities include engagement with operational sites, validation of infrastructure challenges in austere locations, participation in specialized defence forums, and technical demonstrations to build trust in safety-critical contexts, and development of designs to improve resilience, transportability, and autonomy.

Acquire knowledge necessary for the development and commercialization of an airborne hyperspectral platform capable of visualizing and analyzing objects difficult to perceive with current technologies (petroleum or chemical products, camouflage), and seeing through degraded or obscured environments.

The project will result in a commercialization and innovation strategy to guide future growth in the defence market.

The goal of this project is to support the development of a robust, sovereign modular battery designed for extreme Canadian environments. This technology is also suitable for the electrification of deployable defence platforms and micro-grids, while having civilian applications.

This project aims to explore, adapt, and validate advanced radio frequency (RF) component technologies and RF filter design automation software for adjacent markets

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.