Grants and Contributions
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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.
$1,549,000.00
Apr 28, 2021
For-profit organization
Innovative Lunar Dust Mitigation Technologies - Performance Evaluation on the Moon and in Ground Simulators
20STDPO07
During the Apollo program, lunar surface
operations were hampered by the effects of
fine, pervasive, highly adhesive lunar dust.
The missions have shown challenges like
obscuration of vision, clogging of
equipment, dust covering/abrasion of many
sensitive external surfaces, degradation of
seal and thermal performance. It became
clear that before extensive lunar
exploration efforts can continue, strategies
must be developed to mitigate the effects of
lunar dust.
The project aims at providing a solution to
this challenge by advancing the development
and enhancement of Integrity Testing
Laboratory's (ITL) unique cornerstone lunar
Dust Mitigation Technology for sensitive
materials of external space structures that
will be used in robotic and manned missions
for Moon exploration. One of the major tasks
in this project will include participating
in a coming Lunar mission that will allow
testing ITL samples and prototype
spectrometers in real Lunar environment
conditions. The data from this Lunar dust
exposure experiment will be evaluated and
compared to data from ground-based exposures
of similar samples in ITL's upgraded lunar
environment simulator. Another major task in
the project will see building two prototypes
of portable spectrometers for evaluation of
major thermal optical properties for use in
planetary space environments. The results
from this project will serve as a foundation
for creating greater capacity to simulate
the Moon's dusty environment for further
testing and validation on Earth of Integrity
Testing Laboratory's technologies.
$763,759.00
Jul 13, 2020
For-profit organization
Development of a dual vertical/horizontal loading ion-beam vacuum facility for novel space material processes
20STDPK02
Integrity Testing Laboratory (ITL) is proposing to design and built a unique Dual Vertical/Horizontal Loading Ion-beam Vacuum Facility for Novel Space Material Processes to be located at ITL that will be used for all present and future SMP's and for deposition of thin DLC films and coatings. The project is composed of two major parts:
a) An intensive R&D program on designing/building a unique low-energy industrial ion-beam system, ready for SMP's applications, with horizontal/vertical sample manipulators, and for deposition of high-quality thin films of DLC, SiOx, etc., in clean room conditions.
b) An extensive R&D program adapting the existing and developing new processes to the new system. By conducting all space SMP's in this facility, a unique Canadian source for manufacturing of highly-innovative space materials with unique new properties for use in LEO/GEO/Planetary orbits will be created. Presently, all such materials for GEO and LEO applications are coming from other countries. Combining the developed at ITL SMP's with deposition of thin films, ITL will create a unique Canadian facility with such materials made in Canada.