Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP)

The Canadian Safety and Security Program is a federally funded applied science and technology program coordinated by the Centre for Security Science within Defence Research and Development Canada. It sits under the Department of National Defence Canada, but delivery runs through DRDC and PSPC procurement channels rather than a standard grant office. The current call is active, with a project window of roughly 45 months starting from 2025-01-01. CSSP is built around contribution and contract-based funding rather than a simple open grant. The public notice does not publish a dollar range, so applicants need to read the call documentation for budget detail. The program is aimed at federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, and Indigenous government partners, with academia and industry participating as project partners or leads inside collaborative consortia. Its priority themes include paramedic, fire, and law enforcement service support, disaster prevention and response, critical infrastructure protection, counter-terrorism, and related public-safety domains. The best fit is a consortium that can solve a public-safety problem with an applied research plan and deliver against a defined federal procurement or contribution process. Success depends on collaborative scope, a credible implementation path, and alignment with the public-safety themes rather than a narrow commercial pitch. The live call is published through CanadaBuys and MERX, which makes the procurement framing part of the application strategy from the start.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.