Government Operations committee  The biggest thing for me would be having that single point of contact, someone to go to who would know what to do.

Government Operations committee  It's the only product we've developed, and there are others in the pipeline.

Government Operations committee  One of the limitations of the underwater laser scanner is the need to have it stationary, relative to whatever it is that you're scanning. To overcome that, and this sort of talks back to Mr. Hayes' discussion about the university's involvement, through another government program

Government Operations committee  I'll probably have to get you to repeat them as we go. One of the real benefits we've seen is getting that first reference customer. It's critical for small start-up companies to have that initial purchase. I know we talked about persistent patience being something that was not

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  Other benefits will, I suspect, come up as the program continues on, because we delivered the system relatively recently to them. So the next step for the overall project is a testing component in which Defence Research and Development Canada is going to take the system and compa

Government Operations committee  If there had been more mentorship. I suppose one of the main things missing, as far as I was concerned, was a single point of contact. We were passed from person to person throughout this process. I never understood exactly who I was supposed to be talking to and listening to. We

Government Operations committee  Certainly one challenge was going through the application process. I wouldn't say it was a negative to the project, but it was a challenge we had to go through.

Government Operations committee  The program was definitely geared toward companies that were in the very late stages of development. There are a lot of programs already that help you get to the stage we're at. It's the only one I'm aware of that really helps you get that first customer, which is critical for sm

Government Operations committee  Close.

Government Operations committee  It came to me through Communitech, which is sort of a local Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph organization that supports small and medium-sized enterprises and connects them with a variety of things. They're not a venture capital organization, but are a not-for-profit organizat

Government Operations committee  Images of Austin Powers often come to people's heads when they hear about this. It's a sensor that can be deployed onto robotic submarines. It will create what's called a point cloud of the underwater asset it's looking at. If this microphone, say, were under water, the robot cou

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Going through that process for me.... We applied through the MERX electronic tendering system. That's how we had to apply for this project. At that point it was fairly straightforward. There was an online application form. We completed that and then submitted it, just like we wou