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.
$152,000.00
Apr 1, 2026
For-profit organization
X-Ray Tubes Production Automation
1041010
The goal of this project is to increase both the production volume and quality of Proto's X-ray Tubes by automating the existing production processes.
$75,000.00
Mar 16, 2026
For-profit organization
X-ray Diffraction Market Readiness Research and Certifications
1040058
The project will be used to further develop and expand Proto’s footprint in the defense sector. The relevant controlled goods certifications and cyber security procedures will be put in place to ensure data integrity and confidentiality are maintained. A significant effort will also be required from a marketing standpoint so that stakeholders in the various defense related industries are aware of Proto’s capabilities as well as the value these provide as applied to their specific issues. The project will also support research in already identified (currently unfunded) efforts so that technical solutions can be developed and integrated into the defense procurement supply chain.
$75,000.00
Feb 2, 2026
For-profit organization
Axially Focused Miniature X-Ray Tube
1039106
The goal of this project is to design, build, test, produce and make commercially available an Axially Focused miniature x-ray Tube (AFT). The AFT can be utilized in a compact residual stress diffractometer to gain valuable stress information in tight locations and geometries, inherent to military platforms which include but not limited to naval, aero, and land based systems.
$37,000.00
Jun 1, 2025
For-profit organization
Laue FFNN Prototype
1029958
The goal of this project is to develop a fully-automated product for use in the quality inspection of turbine blades using the X-ray Laue technique. For some time, the missing link in bringing such a product to market has been the intervention of an operator when determining the orientations of the grain(s) being imaged. This project would build upon proof-of-concept examples in the literature, whereby a feed-forward neural network is trained to extract the orientations of one or more crystal grains from a synchrotron Laue image, and apply this approach to the analysis of laboratory Laue images (which are qualitatively lower-resolution).
$30,000.00
Jan 20, 2025
For-profit organization
Software Developer
1026894
Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Internship - Improving Legacy Code on our XRD Residual Stress and Laue instrument lines.
$30,000.00
Jan 20, 2025
For-profit organization
Software Developer
1026897
Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Internship - Improving Legacy Code on our Powder X-ray Diffraction instrument lines.
$75,000.00
Sep 5, 2023
For-profit organization
Business Innovation-Improving Proto's Mid-Funnel Lead Retention and Nurturing
1009051
Proto will increase the revenue of its powder XRD line by implementing new lead-retention tools and strategies.
$30,000.00
May 22, 2023
For-profit organization
Graduate Software Developer/Mathematician
1005581
Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Internship - Improving Advanced Powder X-ray Diffraction Applications
$74,733.00
May 8, 2023
For-profit organization
Quantitative Analysis Software Improvements
1005196
Upgrading the Feature Parity of Proto's Quantitative Analysis Tools
$26,000.00
Aug 22, 2021
For-profit organization
Graduate Software Developer
977257
The hire will be working on developing a new X-ray Powder Diffraction Software Package for our AXRD powder diffraction instruments. This suite will have new analysis tools to help us be more competitive against our competitors. The internship is 6 months (26 weeks) in duration.