National Defence · Contribution program
Innovation for Defence Excellence and and Security
To encourage the creation of new ideas and formulate solutions to Canada’s current and future defence and security requirements
- Total value
- $10.7M
- Agreements
- 50
- Jun 2020 to Feb 2021
- Median agreement
- $200K
- Typical range
- $192K–$200K
- the middle half of agreements
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
Applying? Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS). Taking applications? No intake dates on the official page. The deadline, who can apply and what applicants actually got are on its page.
See every record for this program on the government’s search. How to apply: look up the program on National Defence’s website.
Who got it
Organizations with the most funding under this program.
Plus 1 agreement ($200K) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. It counts in every total above. Why
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
Show the numbers
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $3.5M |
| 2021 | 40 | $7.2M |
By province
Per resident: the total over the whole window divided by the population on 1 July 2026 (Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0009-01). Agreements are placed by the recipient’s address, so a national organization’s funding counts where its office is.
| Province or territory | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | 23 | $5.7M |
| British Columbia | 7 | $1.4M |
| Alberta | 7 | $1.4M |
| Quebec | 7 | $1.2M |
| Saskatchewan | 2 | $400K |
| New Brunswick | 2 | $400K |
| Manitoba | 2 | $305K |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| For-profit organizations | 26 | $6.3M |
| Academia | 20 | $3.6M |
| Not-for-profit organizations and charities | 2 | $400K |
| Government | 1 | $200K |
| Indigenous recipients | 1 | $200K |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2021 | Spectronix Inc. | Contribution | $197,800 |
| Feb 2021 | Evercloak Inc. | Indoor light-activated, self-cleaning surfaces for continuous decontamination of transparent and non-transparent PPE in the fieldContribution | $147,591 |
| Jan 2021 | The University of Western Ontario | Multidimensional assessment of COVID-19-related moral injury: From wounded psyche to brain, mind and bodyContribution | $200,000 |
| Jan 2021 | University Health Network (UHN) | Addressing Moral Injury and Extreme Stress Responses on the Frontline—Further Development of a Transdiagnostic Internet-Delivered Intervention for Mental Health Symptoms Related to COVID-19: RESTOREContribution | $199,525 |
| Jan 2021 | Texavie Technologies Inc. | Sprayable Anti-Viral and Repellent treatment for Reusable Personal Protective Equipment (SAVRR-PPE)Contribution | $189,000 |
| Jan 2021 | Saskatchewan Health Authority | Operationalizing the Concept of Moral Injury within Canadian Frontline Healthcare Workers: An Inductive, Grounded Theory AnalysisContribution | $200,000 |
| Jan 2021 | University of New Brunswick | Reusable Masks with Self-Disinfecting FilterContribution | $199,999 |
| Jan 2021 | University of Guelph | Electromagneto-oxidative disinfection system for PPE, operational clothing and solid objectsContribution | $169,050 |
| Jan 2021 | The University of British Columbia | Modular Personal Protective Ensembles utilizing omniphobic and antimicrobial coatings for enhanced protection against COVID-19Contribution | $199,295 |
| Jan 2021 | Simon Fraser University | Scrubless scrubs: 3D printed materials, clothing, and coatings for self-sterilizing PPE and OCEContribution | $199,525 |
| Jan 2021 | Queen's University | Fast Disinfection of Personal Protective Equipment Exploiting the Microwave Resonance Properties of PathogensContribution | $165,313 |
| Jan 2021 | Laval University | Predict, prevent and manage moral injuries in frontline healthcare workers and leaders facing the COVID-19 pandemic: solutions involving improvements of psychosocial working conditions and individuals' coping skillsContribution | $200,000 |
| Jan 2021 | The Governors of the University of Alberta | Worn down by "Wicked Moral Problems": Digitally-delivering a group moral injury intervention to frontline COVID-19 service personnelContribution | $176,640 |
| Jan 2021 | The Governors of the University of Alberta | Multi-modular Motion-Assisted Memory Desensitization and Reconsolidation (3MDR) with Essential Service Providers: Treating Moral Injuries Sustained in the Course of ServiceContribution | $199,721 |
| Jan 2021 | The Governors of the University of Alberta | Rechargeable, self-decontaminating Personal Protective Equipment and Operational Clothing and Equipment for personnel responding to events involving biological hazardsContribution | $199,755 |
| Jan 2021 | University of Manitoba | Moral Injury in Long-Term Care Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessment & Intervention Development Using An Innovative Multi-Method ApproachContribution | $104,702 |
| Jan 2021 | University of Manitoba | kitatipithitamak mithwayawin: Real-Time Data, Mobile Health, and Indigenous-Led Countermeasures to COVID-19Contribution | $199,986 |
| Jan 2021 | The University of British Columbia | Development of an Air Surveillance Tool for Population-Wide COVID-19 Detection and PredictionContribution | $200,000 |
| Jan 2021 | Thales Digital Solutions | Wastewater-based population infection ML models for early pandemic warning and forecastContribution | $199,139 |
| Jan 2021 | Thales Digital Solutions | Telemonitoring Remote OUTbreak (TROUT)Contribution | $198,691 |
| Jan 2021 | TerraVerdae BioWorks Inc. | A continuously active antimicrobial coating effective against Human Coronavirus 229EContribution | $200,000 |
| Jan 2021 | Sitata Inc | Pandemics: Prevent & ProtectContribution | $184,200 |
| Jan 2021 | Siozen inc. | Développement d'un pulvérisateur électrostatique bipolaire sans filContribution | $15,330 |
| Jan 2021 | Ryerson University | “Geiger counter” for the detection and destruction of aerosolized droplets with genetic materialContribution | $199,997 |
| Jan 2021 | Ryerson University | Multi-Robot Germicidal SystemContribution | $146,050 |