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.
$30,000.00
Dec 18, 2025
For-profit organization
In-house AI Gen -Part 3
1037774
The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as
part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.
$30,000.00
Dec 3, 2025
For-profit organization
Inhouse GenAI Interface (Part 2)
1037311
The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as
part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.
$30,000.00
Dec 1, 2025
For-profit organization
Inhouse GenAI Interface (Part 1)
1037310
The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.
$2,254,917.31
Mar 4, 2025
For-profit organization
Sustainable Infrastructure Maintenance and Traffic Optimization Using Smart Fleets
1029024
Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Visual Defence is a market leader in the implementation of AI and smart cameras for optimizing municipal operations. Developed in partnership with more than 150 cities, Visual Defence’s ROVER AI in-vehicle cameras help cities operate in a sustainable manner, allowing cities to share resources, extend the life of infrastructure, provide public services effectively, keep the roads well maintained and traffic moving, and accomplish more with existing staff levels. Under this project, with the support of SDTC, Visual Defence will work together with Canadian cities representing over one million Canadians to accomplish even more in a smart and sustainable manner.
$75,000.00
Feb 17, 2025
For-profit organization
Expanding Visual Defence’s AI Capabilities
1027393
Visual Defence is currently managing dozens of internal AI projects related to performing various research and business functions which use different machine learning frameworks, environments, data pipelines, architectures and datasets. Under this AI assist project, Visual Defence will review, plan and implement processes and technologies to streamline the management of its AI computing infrastructure and project portfolio, which will allow the company to accelerate and scale its AI capacity.
$20,000.00
Jul 1, 2024
For-profit organization
IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy Engagement
1019931
The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm
$173,000.00
May 1, 2024
For-profit organization
City Rover Future Transit
1018216
In this project, Visual Defence expand the CityROVER technology to cover additional innovative use cases in transit.
$30,000.00
May 8, 2023
For-profit organization
Data Annotation and Analysis
1004713
Visual Defence will train youth to implement data annotation and quality processes that transform raw data and turn it into machine usable data to allow a supervised learning algorithm. Youth will learn about different types of data, data balancing, data quality, and data metrics related to AI.
$60,000.00
Dec 12, 2022
For-profit organization
Visual Defence Road mapping Technology - PH2- Female Youth
998510
Visual Defence is continuously developing and improving its computer vision AI and machine learning algorithms. The transformation of real-world data into a usable form which the computer understands is key to Visual Defence’s business. A trainee will learn data transformation, annotation, and quality techniques to support the development and improvement of AI models and algorithms.
$21,000.00
Jun 12, 2022
For-profit organization
Visual Defence Inc.-2022-2023-994184
994184
The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.