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.
$2,832.00
Nov 18, 2025
For-profit organization
CIIP PDA – Square Peg Communications Inc. – 2025-26
7472422 P017156001
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.
$719,935.00
May 16, 2019
The availability of high-speed Internet, including in the underserved areas of Canada's northern and rural regions, will be greatly improved with proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellites. These satellites will use wider bandwidth radio signals than existing geosynchronous satellites, in a challenging environment that includes additive white noise, time-varying path delay, loss and Doppler frequency shift, and other propagation effects.
The objective of the project is to design and implement a platform that simulates LEO satellite channel impairments, as seen by a terminal frequently switching between satellites in order to maintain a communications path. By emulating the effects on the wideband radio signals, the satellite radio test system will allow developers to test their technologies under realistic conditions in a controlled lab environment before launch. The test platform will ensure that solutions providing broadband services to a large number of users are reliable, and capable of meeting the demanding requirements for applications such as remote backhaul, secure low latency end-to-end communications, and high-speed Internet access.
$584,775.00
Jan 3, 2018
Computer processors have increased in power dramatically over the last several years. This means that processing functions that used to require dedicated hardware can now be handled by much simpler hardware, such as the Central Processing Unit (CPU) found in a typical general-purpose computer.
Square Peg Communications will adapt signal processing operations fundamental to satellite communications so that they no longer require specialized hardware. This approach will allow for a less costly and complex system, greatly increase system capacity, and avoid obsolescence for the foreseeable future.
$600,000.00
Dec 4, 2014
This project entitled ""Development of 3G/4G Satcom Tester Technology"" will develop a network simulator for third and fourth generation (3G/4G) mobile satellite terminals. This will facilitate the development of new terminals and applications that extend the capabilities of 3G/4G terrestrial wireless systems to users on land, at sea or in the air.