We are pleased to announce that the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has approved the funding application of professor Mostafa El Sayed for the Collaborative R&D project with InterTronic Solutions and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Over the next four years, the research team of the ASME-Lab will be working closely with engineers and scientists from InterTronic Solutions and NASA to develop a new generation of VLBI ground stations with ultra-high pointing accuracy under severe environmental conditions including gust turbulence.