[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8] [Extensions of Remarks] [Page 10921] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]EARMARK DECLARATION ______ HON. CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING of mississippi in the house of representatives Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Mr. PICKERING. Madam Speaker, consistent with House Republican Earmark Standards, I am submitting the following earmark disclosure and certification information for one project authorization request that I made and which was included within the text of H.R. 5658, the ``Duncan Hunter Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009.'' Requesting Member: Congressman Chip Pickering. Project: Advanced, Long Endurance Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies. Project Amount: $4.2 million. Account: Defense-wide (DoD); RDT&E; Special Operations Intelligence Systems Development. Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Special Operations Command. Address of Requesting Entity: 7701 Tampa Point Boulevard, Florida. Description of Request: A significant challenge in modern military operations is the ability to achieve and maintain real-time battlefield situational awareness. Achieving battlefield situation awareness requires the ability to robustly and persistently monitor the movements of the adversary in near real-time across a wide range of operational environments including foliage, mountainous, and urban terrain. The funding will continue the research and development of small, low power UGS technologies that support critical USSOCOM reconnaissance and surveillance missions by providing robust: (1) target detection, classification and tracking; (2) high bandwidth, covert communication of data, voice and video, and (3) data/information exfiltration via satellite communications (SATCOM) for displaying advanced visualization technologies. The proposed UGS capability will provide USSOCOM with the ability to relay critical, actionable intelligence from remote areas of interest to analysts and commanders worldwide in near real-time- ultimately allowing special operations forces (SOF) to think and react more quickly than the adversary. The proposed research program will also have applications in other areas such as border patrol. ____________________