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.
$20,000.00
May 23, 2024
For-profit organization
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024
Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is seeking CUAS solutions that can detect and/or defeat Micro and Mini UAS with systems that can be integrated into the broader military command and control systems.
$375,000.00
Aug 6, 2024
For-profit organization
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024 - Diamond in the Rough
Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is seeking CUAS solutions that can detect and/or defeat Micro and Mini UAS with systems that can be integrated into the broader military command and control systems.
$20,000.00
May 23, 2024
For-profit organization
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024
Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2024. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is seeking CUAS solutions that can detect and/or defeat Micro and Mini UAS with systems that can be integrated into the broader military command and control systems.
$1,000,000.00
Nov 4, 2024
For-profit organization
SWARMSCAN
Funding will support concept development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Safer passage during minefield breaching operations in Ukraine. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking early-stage solutions for detecting mines and other obstacles in modern minefields, and clearing a route through the minefield by defeating them in some manner. Technologies developed will support capabilities in Ukraine as well as advance the capabilities of the CAF in future minefield breaching or clearance initiatives.
$999,895.00
Nov 15, 2024
For-profit organization
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Polarimetric Ground Penetrating Radar
Funding will support concept development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Safer passage during minefield breaching operations in Ukraine. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking early-stage solutions for detecting mines and other obstacles in modern minefields, and clearing a route through the minefield by defeating them in some manner. Technologies developed will support capabilities in Ukraine as well as advance the capabilities of the CAF in future minefield breaching or clearance initiatives.
$1,999,750.00
Oct 4, 2024
For-profit organization
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Cognitive Electronic Warfare System
Funding will support concept development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Concept Development 2023. Defence Research and Development Canada and its defence and security partners are seeking Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems solutions that can detect and/or defeat Micro and Mini Uncrewed Aerial Systems with systems that can be integrated into the broader military command and control systems.
$2,000,000.00
Oct 8, 2024
For-profit organization
InDro Cortex
Funding will support advancements in mobility, manipulation, sensing, localization of threats, advanced modeling, information synthesis, or by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, supervised autonomy, techniques to reduce the operator involvement in the task.
$25,000.00
Mar 11, 2025
For-profit organization
Predictive Analytic and Trustworthy AI software
Funding will support research to National Defence's Fast Forward: Forecasting global emerging threats Challenge. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking innovative forecasting models that leverage the power of publicly available information, statistical methods, and machine learning models to assist DND with forecasting flashpoints and emerging threats around the world.
$25,000.00
Mar 11, 2025
For-profit organization
Dynamically Forecasting Global Emerging Threats Using a Hybrid Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model
Funding will support research to National Defence's Fast Forward: Forecasting global emerging threats Challenge. The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are seeking innovative forecasting models that leverage the power of publicly available information, statistical methods, and machine learning models to assist DND with forecasting flashpoints and emerging threats around the world.
$578,220.00
Jun 12, 2025
Indigenous recipients
Izhinan Detect and Defeat
Funding will support concept development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Concept (CUAS) Development 2024. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners are seeking CUAS solutions that can detect and/or defeat Micro and Mini Unncrewed Aerial Systems with systems that can be integrated into the broader military command and control systems.