AML Oceanographic Ltd.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Sidney, British Columbia|Sidney, Colombie-Britannique · in the contract register · grants and contributions register · Saanich–Gulf Islands

AML Oceanographic Ltd.: federal grants and contributions: 9 agreements; $2.1M value; 2 departments; 4 programs.

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9agreements
$2.1Mvalue
2departments
4programs

Largest agreements

227501$581Kvalue2025start2026end

Expand a new production facility to support growth plan

Agreement$487Kvalue2013start–end
227501$275Kvalue2025start2026end

Expansion to a new production facility to support growth plan

Unmanned Moving Vessel Profiler with Integrated Launch and Recovery$185Kvalue2020start2022end

Remotely operated, semi-autonomous vessels have become an important tool within hydrographic survey fleets by allowing the seafloor to be mapped up to 10 X faster. The efficiency gains by using unmanned surface vessels (USVs) are impressive. However, USVs are still relying on their mothership to perform regular sound velocity profiles. The goal of this project is to redesign an existing sound velocity profiling winch to operate on USVs and further unlocking their potential in order to transition the Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) to an important hydrographic survey platform with growing market.

Agreement$160Kvalue2017start–end
End-to-End Underway Profiling System for medium-sized USV Platforms$141Kvalue2026start2027end

AML is developing an autonomous underway profiling system for medium-sized Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs). The project is to develop a small-scale winch system and accompanying remote Launch And Recovery System (LARS) that meets the size, weight, and reliability stipulations of unmanned platforms operating under long term mission deployments.

Agreement$100Kvalue2017start–end
Wirelessly-Charged Oceanographic Instrumentation$98.0Kvalue2024start2025end

This project aims to address existing limitations by developing an inductive charging capability for oceanographic instrument package. This capability will allow an unmanned surface vessel to utilize its on-board power capacity to charge the instrument package, resulting in indefinite (from an instrument perspective) mission endurance.

In-Field Marine Sensor Calibration$60.0Kvalue2017start2018end

Adaptation of existing oceanographic data logging instrument to enable sensor-to-sensor calibration over the web.

Departments

National Research Council Canada7agreements$1.2Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency2agreements$856Kvalue2programs
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII)
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity

All grants from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Years

20261agreements$141Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20252agreements$856Kvalue2programs
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII)
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
20241agreements$98.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20201agreements$185Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20173agreements$320Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20131agreements$487Kvalue0programs

    Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.