Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Dartmouth|Dartmouth, NS · grants and contributions register · Dartmouth–Cole Harbour

Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 25 agreements; $4.7M value; 4 departments; 12 programs.

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25agreements
$4.7Mvalue
4departments
12programs

Largest agreements

228322$952Kvalue2026start2027end

Expand team and facility to expedite scale-up in the Defence sector

212265$500Kvalue2019start2020end

Develop advanced vessel management tools

215216$500Kvalue2020start2022end

Commercialize additional features for maritime risk management tool

220682$500Kvalue2022start2022end

Scale up of maritime artificial intelligence platform

Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Information Retrieval and Inference for Maritime Analytics$441Kvalue2023start2024end

This project will review and implement state of the art large language model (LLM) applications to support natural language querying for OCIANA users. Natural language interfaces are not being used in the maritime domain. This work will support natural language querying and evaluate use cases for UI deployment.

Dark Vessel Detection Through Path Forecast and Adversarial Attacks Monitoring$350Kvalue2022start2023end

This project aims to improve the information that is fed to the OCIANA™’s Sequence Planning Tool and ETA prediction tool to account for vessels that are turning their AIS transponders off. This will be accomplished by monitoring vessels en route to ports in the east coast of North America. Vessels will be monitored through a combination of S-AIS data, satellite imagery and algorithms to predict vessels' position, such as path prediction, data fusion and social media monitoring. A combination of AI methodologies will be applied across the project using best practice approaches, including MLOps

On-Board AI Computer Vision Solution Architecture for Space Applications$201Kvalue2020start2021end

Computer vision (CV) tasks (e.g. image classification and object detection) enable autonomous decision-making for a range of space applications and platforms, such as rovers, landers, and service vehicles, and reduce the workload and risks associated with humans in any decision-making loop. Such applications rely on high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability. Recent advancements in AI have leveraged the nearly limitless computational resources of cloud computing, and as such the resultant solutions are not inherently transferrable, or optimally designed, to be hosted onboard sat

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Predicting Vessel Trajectories Through AI and Data Fusion$185Kvalue2021start2022end

This project improves OCIANA™ by predicting berth availability through data fusion of satellite optical, radar and S-AIS; and through the generation of port models using selected KPIs. Berth availability information will be used as input to a simulation tool.

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Global Routing Optimization for Weather (GROW)$149Kvalue2021start2021end

This project will develop a new adaptive environmental routing model that minimizes vessel fuel consumption and distance travelled while accounting for seakeeping performances in all conditions. This work will draw upon satellite automatic identification system (S-AIS) data together with environmental data harvested by satellites to develop and integrate a coherent model that incorporates how environmental conditions affect vessel routing.

Improving Arrival Optimization and Risk Management with Artificial Intelligence Explainability and Machine Learning Operations$149Kvalue2021start2022end

This project improves OCIANA™ by incorporating best practices in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) into two key capabilities: Vessel Arrival Optimization and Risk Management.

DI assist - GSTS$138Kvalue2025start2026end

Advancements in risk prediction models, vessel path forecasting, and estimated time of arrival analysis to enhance responsiveness to emerging maritime threats.

227636$108Kvalue2025start2026end

Develop and test new version of its maritime vessel tracking A.I. platform

Project for Global Maritime Emission Reduction Through Trans-oceanic AI Vessels Analysis and Optimization$100Kvalue2019start2020end

Clean Transportation System, Research and Development - To support research and knowledge-sharing activities, and improved solutions that contribute to reducing or measuring emissions, or improving emission intensity.

Agreement$54.7Kvalue2010start–end
214256$50.0Kvalue2020start2021end

Hire a Data Scientist

221830$50.0Kvalue2022start2023end

Hire a Chief Financial Officer

226163$50.0Kvalue2024start2025end

Engage business development expertise to expand internationally within the shipping sector

ICAP 2024 – International Co-Innovation Action Plan$44.0Kvalue2024start2024end

International Co-Innovation Action Plan (ICAP) project. Having gained considerable traction within Canadian civil, defense and commercial entities, GSTS is preparing to expand into global markets. GSTS is a Maritime focused AI company, delivering solutions to enhance decision making across the marine security and maritime logistics industries. GSTS is looking to identify European co-innovation partners who require marine data analytics solutions or providers of unique data sets, to support decision-makers in both the commercial and defence spheres. Specifically, GSTS is looking to enhance its

225221$41.2Kvalue2023start2024end

Engage business development expertise to develop sales processes and new growth strategies

Agreement$39.6Kvalue2010start–end
Agreement$38.2Kvalue2012start–end
Youth - AI Team$30.0Kvalue2024start2025end

This project will develop a novel simulation tool for understanding shocks to the maritime supply chain in Canada. The project will evaluate past disruptions and how they impacted vessel traffic and use these insights to generate a novel model for anticipating changes to future events. A maritime network derived from previous positional reports of vessels at global scale will be used to visualize and understand changes in port calls, schedules, and overall volume at a local and aggregate level. A user interface will be developed to operate and generate insights from the model when deployed on

Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc.-2026-2027-1041919$27.0Kvalue2026start2026end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc.-2023-2024-1013015$20.0Kvalue2023start2024end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Business Innovation Growth Project for Global Commercialisation$0value2024start2024end

To establish a novel sales and marketing approach for a new disruptive technology that impacts maritime safety, security, environmental and compliance management, climate change and logistics on a global scale. This capability will enable the company to scale at a global level and lead market share capture.

Departments

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency9agreements$2.8Mvalue5programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII)
  • REGI - Business Scale-Up and Prod (Jobs and Growth)
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills

All grants from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

National Research Council Canada14agreements$1.7Mvalue5programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport
  • CanExport SME

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Canadian Space Agency1agreements$201Kvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology

All grants from Canadian Space Agency

Transport Canada1agreements$100Kvalue1programs
  • Clean Transportation Systems - Research and Development

All grants from Transport Canada

Years

20262agreements$980Kvalue2programs
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII)
  • CanExport
20252agreements$246Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
20244agreements$124Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20233agreements$502Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
  • CanExport SME
20223agreements$900Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-Up and Prod (Jobs and Growth)
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
20213agreements$483Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20203agreements$751Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
20192agreements$600Kvalue2programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Clean Transportation Systems - Research and Development
20121agreements$38.2Kvalue0programs
    20102agreements$94.3Kvalue0programs

      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.