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.
$500,000.00
Apr 1, 2026
For-profit organization
Developing Ruggedized, Submerged Electronics for Direct Integration within Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).
1043178
This project focuses on developing ruggedized, submerged electronics designed for direct integration within Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). The Firm's current objective is, therefore, to perform research and development for hardware and software configurations to integrate ROAM in AUV payload chambers.
$70,000.00
Feb 2, 2026
For-profit organization
Light-Weight Software Defined Environment for Marecomms Underwater Acoustic Modems
1039961
In this project, our objective is to perform the preliminary work to transform our existing software-defined modem environment into a lower-complexity one. Specifically, we will perform the required research and development to assess how much power can be saved if we run our modem software on a light-weight operating system.
$75,000.00
Nov 3, 2025
For-profit organization
Software Development for High Frequency Modems
1036798
In this project, we will work on the development of software to use the dual frequency modems with an emphasis on versatile transmission capability. Specifically, the software will be capable of switching the transmissions between the Left-Channel or Right-Channels based on the desired transmission frequency without any work on the hardware. We will account for a wide range of frequencies between 19 KHz to 60 KHz. This will enable us to build on the versatile, broad frequency modem hardware that we have researched and developed and bring us closer to transmitting visuals under the water in near real time.
$75,000.00
May 1, 2025
For-profit organization
Advanced Source Compression for Underwater Horizontal Video Transmissions
1030291
In this project, Marecomms will investigate near-optimal source compression schemes for underwater video transmissions in horizontal environments.
$208,000.00
Feb 27, 2025
For-profit organization
226963
226963
Hire new employees to support commercialization and product development
$75,000.00
Jan 14, 2025
For-profit organization
Energy-Efficient Underwater Video Transmission in Horizontal, Shallow-Water Environments
1026651
In this project, we wish to prove that we can achieve 30 Kilobits/s at 750 m of horizontal shallow-water range at an underwater power consumption of 8 Watts or less with up to 4 hydrophone elements. When presented to the offshore inspection market, this new technology will eliminate the requirement for ship-borne inspection. Thus, the size of crew and time spent on boats will be significantly reduced, saving large amounts of money.
$75,000.00
May 1, 2024
For-profit organization
Low-Cost Hydrophone Receiver Design
1018423
This project entails the development of a low-cost, low-power hydrophone system with digitization taking place on the edge. More specifically, the project focuses of developing a state-of-the-art, cost-effective digital underwater acoustic receiver.
$50,000.00
Sep 29, 2023
225014
225014
Engage science and software expertise to further develop software and hardware technology
$75,000.00
Apr 3, 2023
For-profit organization
Acoustic Transform and Modulation Development
1005744
The goal of the project is to develop a new spatial modulation and digital transducer control technology in order to further improve the throughputs of Marecomms' AQUABAND technology.
$49,845.00
Aug 24, 2022
For-profit organization
Power System, Spatial Diversity and Error Correction Enhancement for Underwater Acoustic Data Transmission
994508
The project goal is to increase the power efficiency, connection speed and communication range of our current near-production prototype. One aspect of the project is exploring a new power distribution and control method using subsea battery packs. Another aspect is to use multiple transducer elements at the transmit side and leverage transmit spatial diversity. This will lead to a more favourable trade-off between connection speed and reliability, which in turn, will enable the user of our system to accomplish higher transmission distances at larger throughputs.