IDEaS Recipients – Second Round of Competitive Projects
Competitive Projects – Call #2 - Recipients of first funding component (up to $200,000 contract award)
There have been 168 proposals submitted to 9 challenges from 154 different participants. The following table outlines the number of applicants from different areas, the amount of proposals submitted and the number of contracts issued.
| Participants | Proposals | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
Academia |
17% |
28% |
Small & Medium Industry (< 500) |
68% |
52% |
Large Industry |
15 (9%) |
16% |
Non-for-profit organizations |
8 (5%) |
2% |
Individual Participants |
2 (1%) |
1% |
Please note that submission titles appear in the language in which they were originally submitted. Also, awarded amounts listed on the Government of Canada’s Proactive Disclosure and Buy and Sell websites will take precedence.
| Challenge | Project Title (submission titles appear in the language in which they were originally published) |
Innovator | Awarded Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Detection of concealed explosives |
Detection of Concealed Explosives by Extraction and Classification of Micro Doppler Signatures Arising from Induced Acoustic Vibration |
$229,810.25 |
|
Combining Al with SWIR |
$229,998.91 | ||
Ultra-Sensitive MEMS PhotoAcoustic Spectroscopy for Real-Time Explosive Detection |
$224,744.10 | ||
Microwave-based Nose Radar System toward Stand off Detection of IED |
$228,850.00 |
||
Respiratory protection for DND/CAF members with facial hair |
Respirator Hood Over Pressure System |
$229,909.93 |
|
An integrated human resources data management solution |
Blockchain HR |
$229,977.00 | |
A Federated Cloud HR Service |
$226,699.50 | ||
DND HR Trusted Information Exchange Service |
$228,562.50 |
||
Tehama & Bitnobi Partner for HR Management Trust |
$220,742.50 |
||
Understanding cyber intent |
EET: Electromechanical Emissions Tripwires |
$229,988.04 |
|
A Context-Aware and Machine Learning Approach to Predict, Detect and Differentiate Cyber-Attacks |
$207,487.60 | ||
Machine intelligence / AI augmented cyber intent discovery engine |
$179,480.50 |
||
Malicious Cyber Intent Detection Through Behavioral Analysis |
$224,529.45 |
||
AI-powered Assembly Code Analytics for Discerning Malware Intent |
$230,000.00 |
||
Attribution platform for monitoring Internet communication |
$229,325.81 | ||
Cyber Threat & Intent Detection System (CYTHREIDS) |
$229,942.50 |
||
Honeybird: A low-cost gateway to an AI-powered honeypot to lure and capture covert attackers |
$229,987.32 |
||
Verification of full motion video integrity |
C4ISR Private IPFS Blockchain Media Vault Network |
$229,434.20 |
|
Truste Full Motion Video, Images, Audio and Text |
$226,958.48 |
||
Advanced Detection And Prevention of Tampering |
$229,810.25 | ||
Verification Environment Recognizing Tampered Images And Sequences (VERTIAS) |
$229,037.04 | ||
Deepfake-Resistant Video Forensic Analysis Platform |
$230,000.00 |
||
When video forensics meet high-level vision tasks: a deep learning approaches |
$181,089.35 |
||
Deep learning tools for integrity verification of full motion video |
$974,510.00 |
||
Leveraging Archival and Engineering Theory and Blockchain Technology for Full Motion Video Integrity |
$228,850.00 | ||
Ares Full Motion Video Integrity |
$229,310.00 |
||
Detecting and responding to hostile information activities |
Detection of Malicious Information Noted Online (DOMINO) |
$229,786.85 |
|
Development of concepts and tools to enhance DND/CAF resilience against and capabilities for dealing with hostile influence activities. |
$229,550.36 |
||
Semi-automated machine learning tools to detect and respond to hostile information activities |
$229,540.00 | ||
Motivational Analysis in AI Detection of Hostile Information Activity |
$200,013.75 | ||
Deep-Defender: A Real-time System for Online Hostile Activities Prevention, Detection, Mitigation, and Visualization |
$229,885.00 |
||
A Social Media Framework for Modelling Human Needs and Identifying, Assessing, and Responding to Hostile Influence Activities |
$225,285.00 |
||
Hostile Information Activity Multi-Relational Graph Based Detection and Analysis Tool |
$207,487.60 | ||
The Dark Crawler: Detecting and responding to hostile information activities via textual analysis, sentiment analysis, and machine learning |
$189,699.40 | ||
Persistent maritime surface sensor system |
Maerospace Persistent Multi-Sensor Predictive Platform |
$222,046.60 | |
Persistent Maritime Surveillance System |
$229,827.50 |
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Ionosphere characterization for maritime HF environments |
$191,475.00 |
||
Persistent Maritime Surface Underwater Sensor System (PMSUSS) |
$229,425.00 | ||
Persistent Maritime Surface Sensor System |
$229,999.25 | ||
MWIR active imaging through fog for maritime surveillance |
$229,001.11 | ||
Rapidly Deployable Persistent Maritime Threat Detection System |
$229,902.63 |
||
Full spectrum communications in the Arctic |
Arctic Critical Communications Engineered for full Spectrum Solutions (ACCESS) |
$229,902.63 |
|
Aerostat Network for Arctic Communications |
$230,000.00 | ||
|
$227,545.76 |
||
Laser-Guide-Stars for Optical Communications in the Canadian Arctic |
$229,996.95 | ||
All weather power supply for high arctic |
$225,273.50 | ||
Advance the “Sitallite” G-HAPS payload platform concept toward SRL 6 |
$225 273.50 |