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.

Found 10 records

$3,165.00

Nov 18, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

CIIP PDA – N.G.C. Aérospatiale ltée – 2025-26

Agreement Number:

7472412 P017152001

Duration: from Nov 18, 2025 to Feb 20, 2026
Description:

The purpose of the Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) grant agreement is to support Canadian SMEs identify international partners in CIIP target countries for industrial research and development collaboration that has good potential for commercialization.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Program Name: Grant Canadian Inter. Innovation Prog
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA

$30,000.00

Jan 8, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

YOUTH - Space

Agreement Number:

1012366

Duration: from Jan 8, 2024 to Jul 14, 2024
Description:

NGC Aerospace is looking to hire a new engineering graduate to support its efforts in developing guidance, navigation and control technologies for ground-based satellites.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$30,000.00

Apr 1, 2023

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Youth Space

Agreement Number:

1003856

Duration: from Apr 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2023
Description:

Support the development of technologies related to autonomous navigation of lunar space vehicles.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$75,000.00

Nov 16, 2021

For-profit organization

Agreement:

ARP - Flying obstacle detection and avoidance system integrated with a self-piloting aircraft system

Agreement Number:

982840

Duration: from Nov 16, 2021 to Mar 31, 2024
Description:

Flying obstacle detection and avoidance system (cooperative or not) integrated with a self-piloting aircraft system.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$38,316.00

Aug 2, 2021

For-profit organization

Agreement:

YEP - Software

Agreement Number:

975495

Duration: from Aug 2, 2021 to Mar 31, 2022
Description:

The objective of this project will be to quantify, validate and improve the performance and robustness of the self-piloting technology currently under development at NGC.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$840,153.00

Oct 7, 2020

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Crater-Based Absolute Navigation Demonstration

Agreement Number:

1CAPDEMO20

Duration: from Oct 7, 2020 to Mar 31, 2024
Description:

Space agencies, research institutes and private organizations are looking for commercial landing services in order to reach sites of interest on the Moon. The landing systems will need to be equipped with high-accuracy navigation systems to accurately reach their target. Since there is no GPS constellation around the Moon for real-time localisation, or other readily available commercial systems to answer this need, a novel approach is needed to provide positioning of orbiters or landers around the Moon.

The “Crater-Based Absolute Navigation Demonstration” project aims at filling this need by demonstrating a GPS-like system in support for future Moon exploration missions. This system will use features on the ground – Moon craters – as references to autonomously determine the position of orbiters and landers in Moon geographical coordinates. This will increase the accuracy at touchdown by orders of magnitude with respect to current capabilities and help meet the challenging requirements of future Moon precision landing missions.

Organization: Canadian Space Agency
Program Name: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$630,000.00

May 11, 2020

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Development of an autopilot system

Agreement Number:

951880

Duration: from May 11, 2020 to Mar 31, 2024
Description:

The project aims at developing and validating a flexible and robust autopilot system for unmanned aerial vehicles operating either with pilot assistance or with full autonomy nearby obstacles and beyond visual line of sight.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$43,250.00

Jan 28, 2019

For-profit organization

Agreement:

ARP - Autopilot System Components Survey, Selection and Interface Definition

Agreement Number:

923281

Duration: from Jan 28, 2019 to Jul 19, 2019
Description:

The project aims at investigating and selecting potential development paths of an innovative autopilot system for unmanned aerial vehicles operating nearby obstacles and beyond visual line of sight.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Shellbrook, Quebec, CA J1L 2T9

$160,295.00

Dec 4, 2014
Description:

This project entitled ""Geometric Error Source Identification and Quantification (GESIQ)"" has the objective to improve the knowledge of the spacecraft parameters by identifying and quantifying the geometric errors sources in satellite data starting from known geometric errors previously determined using ground control points (GCP). It will allow NGC to have a tool to support customers in the diagnostic of geometric error sources in Earth-observation satellite imagery.

Organization: Canadian Space Agency
Program Name: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA

$199,414.00

Dec 4, 2014
Description:

This project entitled ""Autonomous Navigation & Mapping (ANIMA)"" has the objective to develop and validate an innovative navigation and mapping technology to be integrated onboard exploration rover systems. This technological product aims at solving a problem that is often encountered in space and also in many terrestrial applications: to enable the navigation, the mapping and the localization of mobile vehicle systems operating in unknown or poorly known environments where Global Positioning System (GPS) or other absolute navigation infrastructure are not reliable or even available.

Organization: Canadian Space Agency
Program Name: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA