[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 21, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E994-E995]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. JEFF MILLER

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 20, 2008

  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Madam Speaker, consistent with Republican 
earmark standards, the following are detailed finance plans for each of 
my requested projects in the Duncan

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Hunter National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2009, 
H.R.5658.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jeff Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658
  Project name: FPS-16 Radar Mobilization upgrade
  Account: USAF, RDT&E
  Legal Name of Entity Receiving Earmark: BAE Systems
  Address of Entity: 557 Mary Esther Cut-Off, Fort Walton Beach, 
Florida, 32548
  Description: Provide an earmark of $6,000,000 to The Air Armament 
Center (AAC) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida for enhanced range 
instrumentation coverage. Due to the ever evolving performance 
characteristics of the systems under test it has become increasingly 
necessary to extend the instrumentation infrastructure of the test 
range by providing flexibility and increased coverage in test support. 
Funding for upgrading FPS-16 radars to BAE Systems RIR-980 
configuration, will consist of a set of digital radar electronics based 
upon an expandable open system VME-based architecture housed in a skid-
mounted shelter that can be transported by a flat-bed trailer. The 
electronics shelter will interconnect to the antenna and tracking 
pedestal that may also be transported by trailer.
  Finance plan: The total package will provide a precision long range 
tracking radar that may be relocated to prepared sites for optimum test 
coverage and support on a project-to-project basis. 25 percent of the 
funding is required for engineering efforts, 40 percent of the cost is 
for material and manufacturing, 15 percent for mobility and 20 percent 
for locating the system, training and test.
  Justification for use of taxpayer dollars: This enhanced, mobile 
radar tracking capability will provide AAC the flexibility required to 
support testing of current and emerging weapon systems and platforms. 
This new capability will attract test programs to the AAC test range 
that cannot presently be supported, provide expanded instrumentation 
coverage for the range, reduce encroachment concerns, and provide more 
comprehensive coverage and support to all test programs. This added 
instrumentation asset will result in more cost effective and timely 
test support for the U.S. Air Force and ultimately in fielding systems 
for the war fighter in a more timely manner.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jeff Miller
  Project name: Moving Target Strike
  Account: RDT&E, Air Force
  Legal Name of Entity Receiving Earmark: Alpha Data Corporation/
General Atomics
  Address of entity: Alpha Data Corp 1326 Lewis Turner Blvd Fort Walton 
Beach, FL 32547 General Atomics 3350 General Atomics Court San Diego, 
CA 92121
  Description: Moving Target Strike works to demonstrate a low cost GPS 
guided weapons system with improved accuracy (less than three meters) 
and the ability to strike moving targets.
  Finance Plan: If the request is fully funded in FY09, the obligation 
breakdown ($M) of labor and materials per quarter:
  Modification of small weapon--$1.2M
  Interface development of weapon to sensor--$1.0M
  Simulation and con-ops development--$0.5M
  Datalink procurement and integration--$1.0 M
  Manned aircraft integration of datalink and sensor--$0.2 M
  Manned flight test/demo. (static weapon, no live drop)--$0.4 M
  Predator integration engineering--$0.6 M
  Program managemenVsystem engineering--$1.1 M
  Total--$6.0M
  Justification for use of taxpayer dollars: The ability to extend the 
capability of GPS guided weapons to moving targets will significantly 
enhance the effectiveness of weapons platforms that use GPS guided 
systems. The enemy knows that currently if he keeps moving he is safe 
from many of our current weapon systems. The ability to strike movers 
from a variety of platforms with GPS guided weapons will greatly reduce 
the enemy's ability to avoid our weapons.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jeff Miller
  Project Name: Joint Gulf Range Complex Upgrade
  Account: RDT&E, Defense Wide
  Legal name of entity receiving earmark: The Boeing Company
  Address of entity: 634 Anchors St, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548
  Description: The services lack infrastructure to collaboratively 
address operational issues associated with the Global War on Terror. 
The 46 Test Wing at Eglin AFB, in concert with Air Force Special 
Operations Command and United States Special Operations Command use the 
range to conduct mission readiness qualification and weapons testing. 
This program will develop a prototype live virtual and constructive 
(LVC) range that will enable testing of new net centric weapons and 
support realistic joint special operations training. This LVC range 
will facilitate the fielding of weapon systems that possess a net 
centric capability enabling conventional systems to directly 
communicate with special operations via data link for the time 
sensitive targeting of ``terrorist type'' targets including car bomb 
factories and training sites.
  Justification for use of taxpayer dollars: The upgrade will result in 
improved training and mission readiness.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jeff Miller
  Project Name: Gulf Range Mobile Instrumentation Capability (GR-MIC)
  Account: Defense Wide OSD/Central Test and Evaluation Investment 
Development (CTEIP)
  Legal name of entity receiving earmark: Prologic
  Address of entity: 9400 Innovation Dr. Manassas, VA 20110
  Description: The 46th Range Group (46 RANG) has a need for a Gulf 
Range Mobile Instrumentation Capability (GR-MIC) that can provide a 
platform for remote test, collection, storage and relay of various data 
types. This capability is needed to support test events which require 
extreme sized land and water mission operating spaces to accomplish 
their goals such as distributed Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) test 
events, large footprint weapons testing, Directed Energy (DE) testing 
and hypersonic weapons testing.
  Justification for use of taxpayer dollars: By developing a GR-MIC we 
will be able to integrate the simultaneous employment of many advanced 
weapons/platforms into a single test or exercise/training events. This 
effort connects test and evaluation ranges that use many communication 
and data requirements to interact between geographically separated 
ranges, making valuable information available to everyone who requires 
it. The result is ranges becoming interconnected and consequently 
creating a greater training experience.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jeff Miller
  Project name: Eglin Air Force Base Range Operations Control Center 
(ROCC) Initiative
  Account: RDT&E, AIR FORCE
  Legal name of entity receiving earmark: Cubic Applications, Inc.
  Address of entity: 6 Eleventh Avenue, Suite H-3, Shalimar, FL 32579
  Description: The 46th Test Wing has an Improvement Modernization 
initiative, termed ``super ROCC''. It provides for more effective 
control which will better optimize range scheduling and increase 
flexibility in meeting test and training missions.
  Justification for use of taxpayer dollars: Considering the effects of 
BRAC, emerging Joint Test and Training missions, and increased 
operations tempo, this initiative will address the current Eglin AFB 
shortfalls in infrastructure to provide safe, efficient, effective 
control of range resources. Eglin AFB initiated a phased approach 
(Super ROCC) to address these shortfalls, and this project will 
initiate the action by addressing movement and control of people and 
equipment and relevant security issues. This Initiative will help the 
Air Force increase the operations tempo at the Eglin Range by 
addressing the movement and control of people and equipment as well as 
relevant security issues. Through this initiative, the Air Force will 
greatly improve its ability to track all players on the Eglin Range 
thereby significantly increase its efficiency in an increased ops tempo 
environment. Driven by BRAC and safety imperatives, this further 
provides for more effective control which will better optimize range 
scheduling and increase flexibility in meeting test and training 
missions. Simply by knowing the locations of all entities on the range, 
more flexibility in reassigning missions to ground and air space 
previously under utilized will be achieved.

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