[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1939-E1940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                             HON. BILL SALI

                                of idaho

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. SALI. Madam Speaker, I submit the following for the Record:
  Requesting Member: Bill Sali.
  The bill number: H.R. 2638.
  The account: Army National Guard, other Procurement, Army.
  The legal name of requesting entity: Idaho National Guard.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4040 W. Guard St., Bldg. 600, Gowen 
Field, Boise, ID 83705.
  Description: Provided an appropriation of $1 million to upgrade 
current AB-FIST Trainers for the Idaho National Guard. AB-FIST trainers 
were fielded to the Idaho National Guard during the past decade to 
provide crew gunnery training for M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to all 
units including the Idaho National Guard. Our current AB-FIST Trainers 
will become obsolete and not useable until they are upgraded to work 
with the upgraded Bradley Fighting Vehicles the Idaho National Guard 
will receive. Gunnery training for Bradley Crews is essential for the 
combat readiness of the Idaho National Guard.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Bill Sali.

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  Bill Number: Defense Appropriations Bill, FY09 H.R. 2638.
  Account: Navy, RDT&E.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: BAE Systems.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 33964 N. Main Street, Bayview, ID 
83803.
  Description of Request: Provide an appropriation of $480K in FY 2009 
to fund the development of a shore based Large Scale Vehicle (LSV) 
Operations and Data Acquisition Enhancement at the Naval Surface 
Warfare Center (NSWC), Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD), Bayview, ID.
  Approximately, $140K for labor and $340K for material purchases will 
be required. Labor breakdown is as follows:
  Management: $8,000.
  Engineering Design: $8,000.
  Material Research & Purchasing: $4,000.
  Assembly: $120,000.
  This appropriation will fund a fiber optic link from the LSV radiated 
noise arrays in Lake Pend Oreille to the ARD shore based data 
acquisition laboratory and thereby replace an inefficient floating 
laboratory. This enhancement will greatly improve the utilization of 
resources during project testing at the ARD by eliminating the need for 
scientists and engineers to transit to the operations range on the lake 
for each underway and will improve the ability to monitor LSV range 
ambient conditions, from the ARD, reducing the number of weather 
terminated operations.
  Requesting Member: Bill Sali.
  The bill number: H.R. 2638.
  The account: RTDE,N.
  The legal name of requesting entity: University of Idaho, 
Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute located at 
Buchanan Engineering Laboratory, P.O. Box 441024, Moscow, ID 83844.
  The single most damaging threat to the U.S. Naval Fleet is surface 
and subsurface mines. As noted in a letter from the Naval Surface 
Warfare Center at Carderock, the Navy ``is actively developing 
technologies to enable electric power systems to meet future mission 
and affordability requirements of submarine and surface ships.'' In 
order to be successful, the impact of electric power and propulsion 
systems on electromagnetic (EM) signatures must be understood so that 
ships with such systems can operate successfully against mines and 
detection. The $1,600,000 in requested funds will be used to continue 
research and testing work with the Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment 
(ARD) at Bayview to generate numerical and analytical models of ELF 
signals in shallow and deep water environments in order to mitigate the 
mine threat and to naval vessels that use electric propulsion; these 
models will be verified experimentally at Bayview given the unique 
features of Lake Pend Oreille and the experimental capability of ARD. 
Approximately, $488,000 is for salaries, $105,000 for materials, 
supplies, computers, travel, publications, etc., $290,000 is for 
overhead and $675,000 is for subaward costs and $42,000 for tuition and 
fees. This is the last year of funding for this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Bill Sali.
  Bill Number: Defense Appropriations Bill, FY09 H.R. 2638.
  Account: Navy, RDT&E.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: BAE Systems.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 33964 N. Main Street, Bayview, ID 
83803.
  Description of Request: Provide an appropriation of $1.5 million in 
FY 2009 to fund the development of a Test Support Platform for the 
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Acoustic Research Detachment 
(ARD), Bayview, ID.
  Approximately, $500K for labor and $1.0 million for material 
purchases will be required. Labor breakdown is as follows:
  Management: $20,000.
  Engineering Design: $50,000.
  Material Research & Purchasing: $30,000.
  Assembly: $400,000.
  This appropriation will be used to assemble a platform that will be 
used on Lake Pend Oreille in support of various projects working 
through the ARD. The existing ARD test support platforms are old and 
require significant configuration changes each time these barges are 
utilized for various projects. This request is intended to greatly 
improve the future project support that will be provided by the ARD by 
developing a modern test support platform configured with modern 
systems, acoustically isolated generators, and an effective laboratory 
space.

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