[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1919-E1920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. GEOFF DAVIS

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican 
Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following 
information regarding earmarks I secured as part of S. 3001:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Geoff Davis.
  BM Number: S. 3001.
  Account: Other Procurement, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: DRS Technologies, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 7375 Industrial Road, Florence, KY 
41042-2911.
  Description of Request: Appropriate $2,400,000 for procurement of 
Multi-Temperature Refrigerated Container Systems (MTRCS). MTRCS is the 
follow-on generation of refrigeration systems. It provides the 
capability to transport and store both refrigerated and frozen products 
in a single container. It consists of an insulated 8' x 8' x 20' 
International Organization for Standardization shipping container with 
an engine-driven refrigeration unit that will allow operation on the 
move. The two compartments are separated by a moveable partition 
varying proportions of refrigerated versus frozen products, resulting 
in maximum loading of the container.
  MTRCS is used principally by subsistence units. It will also be used 
by medical units for transport and storage of refrigerated medical 
supplies, including blood products.
  The benefit to DOD is more efficient space utilization and reduced 
transportation requirements. Fewer vehicles will be required to 
transport food on the battlefield, reducing the number of soldiers 
exposed to danger from IEDs.
  The Army Acquisition Objective for MTRCS is 4,432 systems, but only 
1,050 are funded in the FY08-13 Future Years Defense Plan. This earmark 
would authorize procurement of an additional twenty systems.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Geoff Davis.
  Bill Number: S. 3001.
  Account: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Ashland Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 50 E. River Center Blvd., Covington, KY 
41012-0391.
  Description of Request: Appropriate $800,000 to continue development 
of advanced coolant and lubricant systems utilizing nano-particle 
systems to enhance the capabilities of military ground vehicles and 
simplify

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supply logistics. FY09 will be the third year of this project. The 
focus will be on transition to commercial production and final testing 
of stable nanofluids with improved cooling and lubrication properties 
while meeting all environmental requirements and making these processes 
commercially scalable.
  Funds will be used for (1) transition production from development to 
commercial scale; (2) engine and vehicle dynamometer testing; and (3) 
field demonstrations. A dynamometer is a device that absorbs the power 
of an engine in the absence of a vehicle to move. The test engine to be 
used is the new production engine for the HMMVW that has been the 
engine of choice for that vehicle for the past several years. A test 
cell is a physical container or room that is properly outfitted for 
housing an engine-dynamometer combination for controlled and safe 
operations. Field testing of the nanofluids will occur through use of 
the HMMWV vehicle with the Optimizer 6500 Turbo-Diesel engine under 
extreme arctic and desert conditions.
  Military vehicles are designed to meet exceedingly strict and arduous 
cooling, lubrication and overall performance requirements. One of the 
goals of the Tank Automotive Command is to increase the performance and 
durability of engines, power trains and their component parts to 
support Army transformation in the areas of system mobility, 
durability, reliability and survivability and may ultimately serve to 
reduce the logistics cost burden for the Objective Force.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Geoff Davis.
  Bill Number: S. 3001.
  Account: Operations & Maintenance, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: TiER1 Performance Solutions, LLC.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 6 East 5th Street, Suite 400, 
Covington, KY 41011.
  Description of Request: Appropriate $1,600,000 for the Engineering 
Training and Knowledge Preservation System (ETKPS). The Air Force is 
facing significant turnover in its senior technical personnel. The Air 
Force Materiel Command (AFMC) could lose as many as sixty percent of 
its top engineers over the next three to five years.
  Preserving the knowledge base is essential to AFMC and will be a 
massive undertaking requiring processes and tools to capture 
operational, technical, and critical thinking knowledge. Integrating 
the ability to capture, store, align, and transfer knowledge to the 
next generation workforce through a single, secure Web-based knowledge 
and training portal is necessary. Functionality of this solution must 
include the ability to track an individual's skills across competencies 
throughout his/her career; evaluate all existing training and compare 
the cost-benefits of competing training approaches; allow experienced 
personnel to easily create new training and knowledge content in 
accordance with pre-defined standards; plug into existing defined 
competencies and skill requirements and capture knowledge from subject-
matter-experts to address these; link novices to experts in real-time 
through a virtual Web Center; categorize, organize and search all 
knowledge and information across the enterprise; deliver assessments to 
determine skill proficiencies; deliver information in a variety of 
ways--through distance learning, on-line reference systems, technical 
manuals, job aids, mobile devices and other tools. FY 09 will be year 
four of this ongoing project.
  Funds will be used for (1) requirements analysis; (2) functional 
design; (3) enhanced feature development; (4) USAF system integration; 
(5) user acceptance testing; and (6) USAF selected site development. 
Requirements analysis is an ongoing rigorous process to ensure the 
product meets the very specific needs of the Air Force Materiel Command 
(AFMC). Functional design results in a document used to inform and gain 
agreement that what is being developed will satisfy the AFMC user 
requirements. Enhanced feature development results in a prototype 
developed per the functional design which is presented to AFMC for 
testing and feedback. USAF system integration establishes proper 
interfaces between the ETKPS system and existing Air Force IT systems. 
User acceptance testing is used to evaluate the quality and usability 
of the product. USAF selected site development will result in the 
deployment of ETKPS to six Air Force bases, ensuring consistency across 
all bases.
  These system capabilities will enable AFMC to organize and align 
information to support ongoing training and development of its total 
workforce. Funding for this effort is critical to AFMC for maximizing 
the effectiveness and efficiency of retaining existing knowledge 
capital and for building effective training programs that support the 
development of new personnel.

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