[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1930-E1933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EARMARK DECLARATION
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HON. JERRY LEWIS
of california
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Mr. LEWIS of California. Madam Speaker, pursuant to Republican
earmark guidance, I am submitting the following:
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Advanced Technology Sensors and Payloads.
Account: RDTE, DW.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trident Systems.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1615 Orange Tree Lane #104, Redlands,
CA 92374.
Description of Request: This funding will be used to research the
production of a suite of
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new communications, control and data exploitation capabilities for use
with multiple existing and planned Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
This project will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) and other
end-users with an Advanced, Miniaturized, Frequency-Agile Communication
& Control (AMFACC) system, consisting of a secure, long-range, high-
bandwidth, frequency-agile communications link; a common payload
control and data exploitation capability for use across multiple
payloads (e.g., cameras, radar systems, infrared sensors); and a
streamlined vehicle control interface. This project will provide
several critically-needed capabilities to extend the reach and
operational flexibility of UAVs in theater.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Devices for Portable Power.
Account: RDTE, Defense Wide.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of California, Riverside.
Address of Requesting Entity: 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA
92521.
Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue the
research and development carbon nanotube technology for portable power.
Recently scientists at the Center for Nanoscience for Defense at the
University of California-Riverside have introduced a revolutionary
improvement to hydrogen fuel cells by fabricating some of the important
components from thin films of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The UltraCell
fuel cell platform has already been selected by the Army and if the CNT
fuel cell technology could be adapted to this system there is the
possibility of a new generation of simpler and more compact fuel cells,
which will reliably deliver power at lower cost than conventional fuel
cells. In order to bring these two technologies together it is
necessary to engineer high temperature membranes in combination with
gas diffusion electrodes composed of thin films of carbon nanotubes.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology.
Account: RDTE, N.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San
Bernardino.
Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San
Bernardino, CA 92407.
Description of Request: This funding will be used to further a
collaborative partnership with California State University, San
Bernardino (CSUSB), San Diego State University, and the Space and Naval
Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, along with other government,
academic, and industry representatives. This partnership offers a
proven process for accelerating technology to meet priority military
and homeland defense requirements. It integrates current technology
transfer and commercialization efforts. Find high-tech solutions for
DoD, national priorities to assist researchers in laboratories in
commercializing new technologies, and develop educational
infrastructure to train managers and entrepreneurs. The
commercialization of advanced technology promotes business and
entrepreneurial ventures. Key focus on commercializing technologies
developed in government labs and/ or funded under the SBIR program,
transitioning technologies from the commercial sector to meet
government priorities. With continued military efforts in the War on
Terrorism, Homeland Defense initiatives, the need for advanced
technological solutions for personnel protection, enhanced situational
awareness, NBCR protection, and critical military operations is
paramount.
Amount: 2,500,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Conventional Strike Mission Integration Demonstration.
Account: RDTE, Air Force.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northrop Grumman.
Address of Requesting Entity: 862 Hospitality Lane, #100, San
Bernardino, CA.
Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue the
research and development of the Conventional Strike Mission Integration
Demonstration. The Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), has
expressed great interest in a capability for prompt conventional-weapon
strike against time-urgent high value targets such as Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMDs) at global ranges from the U.S. The objective is to
provide military options at times of national crisis, or when our
homeland or our allies are threatened by an imminent and devastating
attack. A conventionally armed ballistic missile provides a
transformational capability with the promptness and assured defense
penetration to defeat small numbers of extremely time critical targets.
This funding will produce demonstrations which will provide validation
of Prompt Global Strike (PGS) command and control concepts to ensure
mission success, while addressing the constraints of missile-based
conventional warfare, including maintenance of a ``clear bright line''
between nuclear and conventional capabilities.
Amount: $6,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Cyber Threat Analytics.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Metaflows/SRI.
Address of Requesting Entity: 22 N. 6th Street, Redlands, CA 92373.
Description of Request: Cyber-TA is a research project to develop the
next-generation of real-time national-scale Internet-threat analysis
technologies, and conduct critical deployment evaluation and
operational transition of new research concepts in large-scale network
defense to protect critical DoD and IC networks. Cyber-TA has brought
together many of the world's most established researchers across the
fields of data privacy, cryptography, malware and intrusion detection
research, as well as operational experts in Internet-scale sensor
management, to develop leading edge solutions to the evolving threat of
increasingly virulent and wide-spread self-propagating malicious
software.
Amount: $3,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Center for Innovative Geospatial Technology.
Account: Intelligence Activities.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: ESRI.
Address of Requesting Entity: 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA
92373.
Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue
activities such as modeling homeland security hazard assessments and
responses at the Center for Innovative Geospatial Technology.
Amount: $10,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Collaboration Gateway.
Account: RDTE, DW.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trident Systems.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1615 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA
92374.
Description of Request: This project fulfills an urgent need to
establish effective, certified cross-domain collaboration among
multiple security domains at different security levels in a Coalition
operations context. Building on successful research conducted under
SBIR topic AF05-093, this project will provide the software, hardware,
and certification testing necessary to enable multiple Coalition
nations to collaborate while enforcing each nation's security
requirements. The product of this research will be a complete Coalition
Cross-Domain Collaboration environment, including all software,
hardware, documentation, and test results to support certification of
the final product by the Unified Cross Domain Management Office
(UCDMO). This project will also support installation, tailoring, and
site accreditation for a Coalition environment of interest.
Amount: $1,500,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Integrated Information Technology Policy Analysis
Research.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San
Bernardino.
Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San
Bernardino, CA 92407.
Description of Request: This is a collaborative effort, California
State University, San Bernardino with the Army Research Laboratory,
advancing the Army's transformation to Network Centric Operations
(NCO)/Network Centric Warfare through Integrated Information Technology
Policy Analysis Research. The objective is to translate an information
advantage into a warfighting advantage through robust networking of
geographically dispersed forces. This project seeks to provide analyses
of policy barriers and enhance web-based technology for commanders to
effectively get needed information to soldiers expeditiously. The Army
faces ongoing challenges in implementing NCO which demands continuous
and rapid transition of information technology into defense systems.
The Army must keep policy impacting IT security in sync with those
technology advances. In terms of access to classified data, a
tremendous gap exists between technological capability and legal and
governmental doctrine.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Inter Turbine Burner for Turbo Shaft Engines.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advanced Projects Research
Incorporated.
Address of Requesting Entity: 26770 W Street, San Bernardino, CA
92408.
Description of Request: The Inter Turbine Burner is an engine
alteration that adds a second combustor within a turbo shaft engine to
increase power output and engine.efficiency.
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This technology can be used as an upgrade to existing engines to
provide greater power and performance in response to increased air or
ground vehicle capability requirements and can be incorporated in new
engine designs to provide both higher performance and greater fuel
efficiency at lower engine speeds. This technology can be used on
helicopters such as the UH-60 Blackhawk and military ground vehicles
such as the Ml Abrams tank to increase fuel efficiency and peak power.
Amount: $4,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Integrated Propulsion Analysis Tool.
Account: RDTE, AF.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1849 N. Wabash Ave., Redlands, CA
92374.
Description of Request: The Integrated Propulsion Analysis Tool
(IPAT) is an engineering software application for the design and
analysis of spacecraft launch vehicles. IPAT currently provides the Air
Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base with critical launch
vehicle analytical capabilities that include complex, competing
alternatives analysis and selection; design risk identification and
mitigation; concepts of operation development; and life-cycle system
cost, schedule, and performance trade-off analysis. The Integrated
Propulsion Analysis Tool directly supports many of the Air Force's new
major system acquisition programs including Conventional Ballistic
Missile, Prompt Global Strike, and Operationally Responsive Space. IPAT
is the premier integrated analysis tool supporting this nation's
leadership role in developing propulsion technologies, aerospace
vehicles, tactical and strategic missiles, re-entry vehicles, and
spacecraft.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Integrated Spacecraft Engineering Tool.
Account: RDTE, Air Force.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1849 N. Wabash Ave., Redlands, CA
92374.
Description of Request: This funding will further research on life
cycle cost/risk modeling software. This software accurately
characterizes the cost of a space program and allows Air Force
acquisition leadership to understand the impacts of design decisions
during the very early phases of the program when knowledge-based
decisions yield the highest life-cycle cost savings. The Integrated
Spacecraft Engineering Tool (ISET) program quantifies a program's cost/
risk uncertainties statistically, with particular focus upon technology
readiness levels and their relevant cost and risk impacts.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Synchrotron-Based Scanning Research Neuroscience and
Proton Institute.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Loma Linda University Medical
Center.
Address of Requesting Entity: 11175 Campus Drive, Loma Linda, CA
92354.
Description of Request: The Synchrotron-based Neuroscience and Proton
Institute (NSPI) is pioneering new possibilities in medical technology
and neuroscience for the service of patients with previously
untreatable benign diseases. The potential of the NSPI is to
successfully expand efforts in the treatment of people with currently
uncontrollable serious behavioral conditions, including military
personnel and veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as
well as persons who are currently incarcerated in prisons and who
volunteer for this treatment. Eventually the treatment would be an
available medical option to all persons seeking a non-invasive, non-
drug alternative to behavioral disorders and reactions, both in the
military and civilian populations.
Amount: $5,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: M156 MI-RAMS.
Account: P, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Magneto Inductive Systems Limited.
Address of Requesting Entity: 115 Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, CA
92408.
Description of Request: The Magneto Inductive Remote Activation
Munitions System (MI-RAMS) provides command and control of land based
ordnance, including tactical demolitions, munitions, signals, active
barriers required for terrain dominance by US Army Combat Engineer
Forces and Army and Navy Special Operations Forces (SEALs) in the harsh
urban, littoral, dense jungle, blue water (to include ice fields),
desert, and arctic conditions. It provides the ability to remotely
initiate and/or control tactical ordnance items for target
neutralization through buildings, concrete, metal, subterranean
structures, tunnels, caves, and under water which current radio
frequency devices cannot accomplish.
Amount: $3,500,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: MI-RAMS.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Magneto Inductive Systems Limited.
Address of Requesting Entity: 115 Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, CA
92408.
Description of Request: The Magneto Inductive Remote Activation
Munition System (MI-RAMS) provides command and control of land based
ordnance, including tactical demolitions, munitions, signals, active
barriers required for terrain dominance by US Army Combat Engineer
Forces and Army and Navy Special Operations Forces (SEALs) in the harsh
urban, littoral, dense jungle, blue water (to include ice fields),
desert, and arctic conditions. It provides the ability to remotely
initiate and/or control tactical ordnance items for target
neutralization through buildings, concrete, metal, subterranean
structures, tunnels, caves, and under water which current radio
frequency devices cannot accomplish. Funding will provide for LRIP/Type
Classification efforts of a dual frequency hybrid B receiver and key
system enhancements to increase functionality to include a digital
display to enhance ease-of-use for combat engineers.
Amount: $3,500,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Norton AFB Infrastructure Improvements.
Account: OM, Defense Wide.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Inland Valley Development Agency.
Address of Requesting Entity: 294 S. Leland Norton Way, Suite 1, San
Bernardino, CA 92408.
Description of Request: The OEA in the Department of Defense is
tasked to assist communities that are adversely impacted by Defense
program changes, including base closures or realignments, base
expansions, and contract or program cancellations. The San Bernardino
International Airport, formerly Norton Air Force Base, is a 2,100-acre
facility, wholly within the jurisdiction of the City of San Bernardino.
Officially closed as a military base in March of 1994, the former Base
has been operated by two joint powers authorities, the Inland Valley
Development Agency (IVDA) which was formed in 1990, and the San
Bernardino International Airport Authority (SBIAA) which was formed in
1992. The IVDA and the SBIAA are in the process of replacing and
upgrading the infrastructure of the former Norton Air Force Base. These
improvements include ongoing base structure repair and environmental
remediation, water system improvements and base floodwater runoff
mitigation. In addition to the federal funds requested, the IVDA and
the SBIAA are committing their own significant financial resources to
the various projects.
Amount: $6,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Spintronics Memory Storage Technology.
Account: RDTE, Defense Wide.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of California, Riverside.
Address of Requesting Entity: 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA
92521.
Description of Request: This project aims to take advantage of recent
advances in nanomaterials, nanodevices and spintronics to bring about
revolutionary advances in magnetic storage technologies and to develop
chip-scale packaging and thermal dissipation solutions for this new
generation of devices. Current hard disk drives are now contending with
the superparamagnetic limit which limits the magnetic grain size for
recording information. In this effort we will explore the use of
multilevel recording techniques and examine the use of new
nanomaterials for the development of highly efficient thermal interface
materials in order to accommodate the high thermal dissipation required
in compact devices.
Amount: $3,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Advanced Starting Systems.
Account: OM, Army National Guard.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northstar JPS.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1675 Cabrera Ave, San Bernardino, CA
92411.
Description of Request: The funding would be used for the production
of air and ground multiple start advanced starting systems for the Army
National Guard.
Amount: $500,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Technology Commercialization and Management Network.
Account: RDTE, Army.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San
Bernardino.
Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San
Bernardino, CA 92407.
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Description of Request: In collaboration with the Army Research
Laboratory (ARL) California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB)
supports Technology Commercialization and Management Network through
the Integrated Technology Transfer Network (ITTN). The program
strengthens the Army's capacity in defense by identifying and fast-
tracking the transfer of technology, improving situational intelligence
for commanders and soldiers in the field, and leveraging and enabling
interdependent and network-centric warfare. The future
commercialization of technologies will require a special combination of
skills that traverse the boundaries of entrepreneurship, business, and
science. The ITTN program addresses this by implementing a
comprehensive program of training, to perform research and work in the
Army Laboratory and technology companies. Students acquire special
skills needed through an intensive applied curriculum of business and
entrepreneurship courses, experiential learning through apprenticeships
and mentoring with CSUSB faculty and the Army Research Laboratory.
Amount: $2,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Facility Security using Tactical Surveys.
Account: RDTE, DW.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Tactical Survey Group.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2800 North Little Mountain Drive, Bldg
D, San Bernardino, CA 92405.
Description of Request: The Tactical Survey System is an innovative
computer-based, interactive tool that provides crisis personnel access
to a vast database of reliable pre-incident information on a facility,
thereby enhancing their ability to effectively respond to an emergency
situation. The Tactical Survey System includes immersive imagery with
embedded tactical intelligence including hazardous material types and
locations, aerial photos, ingress and egress videos, key personnel,
building construction information, utility shutoff locations with
instructions, communications infrastructure, fire fighting assets, fire
and security alarm systems, and perimeter control systems. Completion
of a survey at a federal installation also then allows precise advanced
planning of emergency response, conduct of realistic exercises, and
detailed training of individuals.
Amount: $3,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Tactical Video Capture System.
Account: P, Marine Corps.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: L3 Communications.
Address of Requesting Entity: 600 Third Ave, NY, NY 10016.
Description of Request: Initiated by DARPA research funds, the
Tactical Video Capture System (TVCS) was developed as the first
intelligent video system that provides Real-Time Visualization,
Situation Awareness, and After Action Review for the USMC Pre-
Deployment Training Program and particularly for urban warfare training
operations. Praetorian is an operating system that stitches live or
recorded video onto a textured 3D model of the training site's terrain
and infrastructure. TVCS provides intuitive, easily understood
situational awareness in 3D context from large numbers of video feeds
on a single screen. Praetorian also allows an on-the-ground trainer to
see video on mobile PDA's, so they are equipped with actionable
information. From remote TVCS stations, trainers will have the ability
to effortlessly move through the width, depth, and height of the
training area with full visual awareness of events as they unfold.
Amount: $4,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Education.
Account: Intelligence Activities.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Redlands.
Address of Requesting Entity: 1200 East Colton Ave, PO Box 3080,
Redlands, CA 92373.
Description of Request: This project supports continuing efforts to
strategically enhance the human and scientific infrastructure of the
Intelligence Community (IC), as well as other federal agencies which
employ staff who should be using advanced Geospatial Analysis methods.
The effort involves collaborating with the Intelligence and Federal
Geospatial Communities in the design, development, and implementation
of a professionally-oriented graduate education program, including
research, short courses and basic studies in geographic information
science (GIS). A key objective is to equip officers at federal agencies
with advanced geospatial analysis skills.
Amount: $1,000,000.00.
Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
Project Name: Micro-Satellite Serial Manufacturing.
Account: RDTE, Air Force.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Southern California.
Address of Requesting Entity: USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Description of Request: USC is requesting continuation of the
Microsatellite Serial Manufacturing project initiated as a
demonstration project in fiscal years 2006, 2007 and continued in 2008.
The project is having success in developing new serial manufacturing
methodologies that produce microsatellites more quickly, thereby
allowing the U.S. to be responsive to national security space needs.
Serial methods build families of microsatellites where the knowledge of
the prior designs is harnessed serially on the next microsatellite;
short cycle times (approximately 1015 months) that give important
insights into the entire satellite construction process, something
impossible in today's typical 10-year cycles. The project's educational
outreach component supports National Security Space (NSS) and the
Intelligence Community (IC) in order to provide much-needed and
security-cleared graduate and undergraduate engineers for the future
national security workforce.
Amount: $1,000,000.00.
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