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.
$261,535.00
May 23, 2024
For-profit organization
Guidance for Characterization of SMR Building Materials
ENBL-SMR-066
To provide a guidance document to small modular reactor (SMR) vendors and planned owners or operators in Canada, that outlines the characterization of radiological elements in building materials for the construction of new SMR facilities.
$970,420.00
Jun 12, 2020
For-profit organization
Ultra Wideband Satellite Modem
20STDPK19
(20STDPK19) The ultra-wideband satellite modem envisioned by this project extends what is possible for providing extremely high throughput data services for next generation extremely high data rate satellite systems.
This project investigates transmitting and receiving an extremely wide satellite signal with a bandwidth up to 2.5 GHz. The design will use the latest in FPGA and processing technology utilizing embedded processors and high-speed ADC/DACs to offer flexible single and multi-channel operation over the supported bandwidth.
Providing flexibility will enable operators to utilize a greater portion of their assigned spectrum from a single unit to offer services and realize revenues, while reducing the amount of equipment required.
This technology development will directly benefit Canadian satellite operators and service providers to offer high-speed internet services anywhere in Canada.
$798,884.00
May 10, 2019
Satellite operators lease out bandwidth for uses like cellular networks and internet services. The bandwidth provided by a satellite becomes fragmented over time, as leases expire and are replaced by new leases that do not always use exactly the same bandwidth. This results in portions of the bandwidth being unattractive to new users, because it is not sufficient for their needs.
This project will explore how to use channel bonding to combine this under-used bandwidth and improve satellite operations. It will design and produce a prototype of a channel bonded modem that gathers under-used bandwidth on satellite modems to produce high output signals to increase communication performance. This project will benefit satellite operators and end users by allowing under-used bandwidth to be sold at preferred rates, which in turn would provide a cost-effective option for remote communities that are reliant on satellite communications. In addition, extra communication security will result from spreading signals across multiple channels and satellites, which makes it harder to intercept sensitive government or defense communications.
$18,300.00
Jun 12, 2018
Identifying the Barriers Facing Women Service Members and Veterans in Cyber Technology
This grant supports a four-month coordinated research and information sharing initiative that will engage women who are presently serving and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces to identify the real and perceived barriers to female participation in the cyber and network security industries.
$854,746.00
Feb 18, 2016
This project entitled « Design and Development of a Q/V Band Composite Reflector Antenna System » consists of designing and developing a novel ground-based antenna prototype for satellite communications (Satcom) applications. The frequency parmeters for this antenna system have been chosen to be compatible with proposed next-generation of Stacom systems.
$159,131.00
Dec 22, 2014
This project entitled ""Multi-channel Modulator Pre-Compensation"" consists of the design, development and implementation of an innovative algorithm that will allow satellites to send more data at a reduced cost.