[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1979]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. JIM RAMSTAD

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. RAMSTAD. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I rise today to inform the House about earmarks 
that were included in H.R. 2638, The Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. Here is a brief 
description of my requests:
  Humanetics Corporation, 10400 Viking Drive, Suite 1000, Eden Prairie, 
MN 55344--$800,000 from the DHP account, to the Humanetics Corporation 
for Pharmacological Countermeasures to Ionizing Radiation. This 
research project is in the final phases of a public/private effort to 
develop orally administered drugs that will prevent harm and decrease 
casualties caused by exposure to ionizing radiation resulting from a 
terrorist attack or nuclear incident.
  Funding Plan: Development Items FY09--Single dose, dose escalation, 
safety study: $1,000,000; Pilot Study #1: $500,000; Pilot Study #2: 
$500,000; Pilot Study #3: $500,000; Safety Study in Humans at Highest 
Dose: $5,000,000; and Pivotal Study (IM): $2,000,000.
  Minnesota National Guard, 20 West 12th Street, St. Paul, MN 55155--
$2,000,000 from the OM account, to the Minnesota National Guard for 
their Minnesota Beyond Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. The program 
provides a comprehensive approach that insures deploying members and 
their families are prepared for the challenges for mobilization, 
receive access to support and resources during their mobilization and 
receive vital reintegration training.
  Funding Plan--IDT Travel: $1,390,000; ITOs: $150,000; Materials: 
$60,000; Mil Orders: $50,000; Daycare: $5,000; Food: $65,000; and 
Contracts: $275,000.
  Eaton Corporation 14615 Loan Oak Road, Eden Prairie, MN 55344: 
$2,000,000 from the RDTE account, to Eaton Corporation for their 
Advanced Digital Hydraulic Hybrid Drive System. This is a multi-phase 
program designed in collaboration with the U.S. Army NAC to develop a 
production-intent hybrid hydraulic tactical wheeled vehicle. Eaton has 
begun successful preliminary work on Phase I and the funds received 
will go to beginning Phase II.
  Funding Plan:
  20 percent--$400,000--Advanced component testing--Full Authority Pump 
Motor demonstration.
  20 percent--$400,000--System Testing--Lab scale test for insertion of 
advanced technologies.
  10 percent--$200,000--Materials--Full Authority Pump Motor & Next 
Generation Accumulators:
  50 percent--$1,000,000--Labor--Design to develop a retrofit system, 
Next generation accumulators proof of concept, Develop detailed vehicle 
model, Develop supervisory control architecture, Develop preliminary 
controls software.
  Third Wave Systems, 7900 West 78th Street, Eden Prairie, MN 55439--
$800,000 from the RDTE account, to Third Wave Systems for their 
Advanced Modeling Technology for Large Structure Titanium Machining 
Initiative. The funding will complete the three year effort to develop 
the current titanium machining technology for structures and components 
of Manned Ground Vehicles.
  Parallel finite element software development for Large Structures 
(FCS Manned Ground Vehicles)--$400,000.
  Development and integration with tool path optimization software for 
large design models--$300,000.
  Subscale production demonstration--$50,000.
  Production validation (machining demonstration) on actual FCS 
components--$50,000.
  Ll-Identity Solutions, 5705 West Old Shakopee Road, Suite 100, 
Bloomington, MN 55437--$1,600,000 from the RDTE account to Ll for 
Biometric Terrorist Watch-List Data Base Management Development. The 
Terrorist Watch-List will provide operational enhancements and 
technology improvements to biometrics-based identification tracking and 
analysis capabilities in order to ensure real-time actionable 
intelligence to the war fighter, as well as to the broader community 
combating terrorism.
  Technical Capability #1: Interoperability of Enterprise Data 
Sharing--Develop system design: $225,000; Develop web-based 
applications & schema: $265,000; Develop architecture for data sharing: 
$250,000; and Develop proof of concept: $260,000.
  Technical Capability #2: Enhancing Mobile Collection & Field ID 
Capabilities--Explore engineering trade space $65,000; Preliminary 
hardware design: $250,000; Software development: $225,000; Integration: 
$160,000; and Other Direct Costs: $300,000.
  Technical Capability #3: Next Generation Algorithms for Face & Iris 
at a Distance: Algorithm research: $480,000; Software development: 
$200,000; Small form factor algorithm conversion research: $prototype 
development: $90,000; and Other Direct Costs: $30,000.

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