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.
$169,000.00
Feb 2, 2026
For-profit organization
Multisource Space Data Fusion for Operational Decision Making
RD-044
Funding under the Innovator Stream will support continued research and development of solutions under National Defence’s Funding for Canadian Innovators and Accelerators of DIANA (FCIA-DIANA) program.
$75,000.00
Dec 1, 2025
For-profit organization
Wide-FOV, High-Resolution Passive Camera System for Space Situational Awareness
1037729
The Firm proposes to develop a novel, wide field-of-view (WFOV), high-resolution passive camera system that delivers unprecedented observation throughput and high-precision-class positional accuracy for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary (GEO) applications.
$995,062.00
Sep 3, 2025
For-profit organization
Advancing SSA Data Processing Performance
25STDPX31
NorthStar will advance the critical capability to identify hundreds of thousands of unknown space objects by processing millions of space-based optical observations per day. Achieving this to commercial standards requires innovative adaptations of Initial Orbit Determination algorithms and massively parallel data processing pipeline methods configured in novel architectures. This project will adapt new Big Data methods to process unknown objects with a system that will scale appropriately as the NorthStar constellation expands, while still meeting latency and security requirements.
$3,250.00
Mar 6, 2020
For-profit organization
CIIP PDA - NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. - 19/20
7419451 P009090001
The purpose of this Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support organizations and to identify specific projects or partnerships between the Recipient and international partners in CIIP target countries that could lead to industrial research and development cooperation with potential for commercialization.
$9,500,000.00
Sep 4, 2018
For-profit organization
811037
811037
Global space debris tracking and hyperspectral earth intelligence system