[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EARMARK DECLARATION
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HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG
of florida
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
Requesting Member: Congressman C.W. Bill Young.
Bill Number: H.R. 2638--Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance,
and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009
Account: Military Construction, Army National Guard.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Florida Army National Guard.
Address of Requesting Entity: 400 S. Monroe Street, Tallahassee,
Florida 32399.
Description of Request: Provides $20,907,000 for construction of
Phase IV of the Regional Training Institute (RTI), Project Number
120191, located at Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida 32091. It is my
understanding that the Florida Army National Guard (FLARNG) and Army
National Guard readiness will be affected if the school cannot educate
and train soldiers. This final phase will finish construction of the
remaining 65,000 square feet of billeting, all remaining
infrastructure, supporting facilities, and all necessary work not
completed in the prior phases to support and house students attending
the courses at the training institute.
Requesting Member: Congressman C.W. Bill Young.
Bill Number: H.R. 2638--Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance,
and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
Account: Navy Aircraft Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Alliant Techsystems (ATK), Inc.
Address of Requesting Entity: 13133 34th Street North, Clearwater FL
33762.
Description of Request: Provides $3,200,000 for an AAR-47 Missile
Advance Warning System. The AAR-47 is an extremely effective, low cost,
missile warning system that provides significant timely warning of
missile and laser threats to U.S. aircraft. This program will provide
upgrades for new requirements based on emerging threats in the Global
War on Terrorism, and it will address long-term performance
improvements for emerging threats. This system is currently fielded in
a wide variety of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft currently being
used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lessons learned from years of combat
operations and subsequent upgrades to this system will enhance the
ability of aircraft to avoid being shot down.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Enser Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 5430 70th Avenue North, Pinellas Park
FL 33781.
Description of Request: Provides $2,300,000 for Advanced Battery
Technology (ABT). This program is intended to establish a U.S. owned
thermal battery capability to support advanced weapons systems to meet
production requirements of next generation weapon systems for strategic
defense and advanced guided munitions, smart bombs and missiles.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Eclipse Energy Systems Inc.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2345 Anvil St. North, St. Petersburg FL
33710.
Description of Request: Provides $3,500,000 for the Advanced
Conductivity Program (ACP). This program is designed to meet an urgent
need for manufacture of patented advanced nanotechnology films that
offer enhancements over current film systems in order to reduce solar
loading of vehicles, and provide greater multi-functionality in
transparent armor.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Alaka'i Consulting & Engineering,
Inc.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7887 Bryan Dairy Rd, Suite 220, Largo
FL 33777.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Advanced Detection of
Explosives (ADE). ADE will improve current counter-IED technology and
detect improvised explosives devices (IEDs) at safe standoff distance.
Account: Army Aircraft Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Conax Florida Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2801 75th Street North, St. Petersburg
FL 33710.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for the Air Warrior--
Joint Service Vacuum Packed Life Raft (AW-JSVPLR) which will provide
the Army with a small, compact, maintenance free raft for helicopter
crews in the event of an emergency egress. The Air Warrior Block I
ensemble specification includes a requirement for an Over-Water-Gear
Container (OWGC) and vacuum packed, low profile life raft for over-
water missions and for personnel safety/survival in the event of a
water landing or eject.
Account: Navy ONR RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for Autonomous Marine
Sensors and Networks for Rapid Littoral Assessment. This program
continues development of advanced underwater sensing systems and
associated networks that provide rapid assessment of near shore ocean
environments.
Account: Army Reserve Operation & Maintenance.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Reserve.
Address of Requesting Entity: St. Petersburg-Clearwater International
Airport, Clearwater FL 33762.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 to address the immediate
military need for aviation facilities supporting the United States Army
Transformation and rapid fielding of the new USAR Air Ambulance Company
in Clearwater, FL. The USAR Air Ambulance Company is the first in a
series of unit activations required to implement the Army's directive
to increase the air ambulance structure in the modular force and
mitigate the critical medical evacuation shortfall with the OIF/OEF
rotational requirements.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Honeywell.
Address of Requesting Entity: 13350 U.S. Highway 19 North, Clearwater
FL 33764-7290.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Ballistic Missile
Technology. This project will help develop and mature the current
Minuteman III program, the Navy's Trident D-5 Life Extension and Prompt
Global Strike mission.
Account: Navy/Marine Corps RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: SAIC.
Address of Requesting Entity: Central Avenue, Suite 1370, St.
Petersburg FL 33701.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Battlefield Sensor
Netting (BSN). BSN will provide the warfighter with unparalleled access
to mission critical, real-time sensor data. Although tremendous
progress has been made in the advancement of sensors, there has not
been a corresponding advancement in data link network technologies that
can effectively disseminate, display and exploit the tremendous amounts
of
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data generated by modern sensor systems. The Battlefield Sensor Netting
program bridges the sensor to shooter gap. It would provide a high
bandwidth data network that combines the advantages of low cost, highly
capable commercial wireless technologies with the extended range,
jamming resistance and security provided by phased array antennas,
military encryption systems and network software.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: DRS Technologies.
Address of Requesting Entity: 6200 118th Avenue North, Largo FL
33773.
Description of Request: Provides $4,000,000 for C-Band Radar
Replacement Development. The C-Band active array radar is capable of
replacing several in-service ship radars facing obsolescence and
escalating maintenance costs. This program is intended to be the Air
Traffic Control/Marshalling radar for amphibious ships. It will replace
the obsolete and difficult to maintain SPS-67. At half the cost of
similar radars, CBAAR will provide surface search, air traffic control,
anti-ship missile defense and navigation.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Honeywell.
Address of Requesting Entity: 13350 U.S. Highway 19 North, Clearwater
FL 33764-7290.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for a Chip Scale Atomic
Clock project. Atomic clocks allow for accurate time reference for
communications and navigation systems. However, most atomic clocks are
very heavy (100 lbs or more), too large for handheld or compact
electronic systems and also too costly. This project will miniaturize
the atomic clocks for inclusion on the battlefield, help prevent IED
jammers from interfering with each other and will provide position
accuracy even in areas where GPS is unavailable or denied.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Cure Search.
Address of Requesting Entity: 440 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 400
Arcadia, CA 91006-3776.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for the Children's
Oncology Group (COG) treats 90 percent of children in the U.S.
diagnosed with cancer, including hundreds of children of the men and
women serving in our armed forces. In order to meet the needs of
military families who have children with cancer, the COG developed the
Uniformed Services Oncology Consortium (USOC). The USOC is a group of
military institutions within the COG. Because of the COG network,
children are able to receive state of the art care in COG institutions
throughout the country and are often treated at institutions other than
those on a military base because of the increased availability of care.
This funding will expand on ongoing research by COG with the Department
of Defense and improve investigations of the genetic, epigenetic and
signal transduction pathways.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: DRS Technologies.
Address of Requesting Entity: 6200 118th Avenue North, Largo FL
33773.
Description of Request: Provides $3,200,000 for a Common Below Decks
Architecture. Legacy shipboard surveillance radars operating at various
frequencies cannot sustain operational effectiveness or realize their
full performance potential without a marked improvement in below decks
signal/data processing. This program is intended to provide a common
architectural approach to unique below decks signal/data processing
requirements which can benefit 120 radars installed on 74 ships.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Custom Manufacturing and
Engineering.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2904 44th Avenue North, St. Petersburg
FL 33714.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for a Compact MVCC
Soldier Cooling System. This project will combat heat stress in troops
by using a unique miniature refrigeration system and cooling garment to
regulate their body temperature while wearing body armor and other
protective gear. This project will greatly reduce heat stress and heat
injury in our troops, especially those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: SRI International.
Address of Requesting Entity: 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg FL
33701.
Description of Request: Provides $4,500,000 for a Comprehensive
Maritime Domain Awareness. This funding would continue an ongoing
successful program to detect, deter or prevent terrorist attacks
against our ports as well as support a broad group of local and
regional law enforcement agencies, national and defense assets tasked
with protecting ports, waterways, and the general maritime commerce.
The program is developing a comprehensive, networked, waterside and
landside port and maritime domain awareness system. The initiative
applies the latest available technology and develops new capabilities
to fill deficiencies in existing systems. Technology used to support
the effort takes advantage of the latest advances in micro-systems and
nano-materials for sensors and communications.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Constellation Technology
Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7887 Bryan Dairy Road, Suite 100,
Largo, FL 33777.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for Continuation of
Advanced Materials (Mercuric Iodide) Research for Nuclear Detection,
Counter-Proliferation and Imaging for Special Operations. This project
will enable the development of radiation detection equipment with
significantly improved resolution and detection efficiency which
provides improved ability to find and identify radiological threats.
Mercuric Iodide continues to demonstrate great promise in meeting the
Defense Threat Reduction Agency's mission and that of the various
intelligence gathering organizations to quantify the impact of CBRNE
threats.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Constellation Technology
Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7887 Bryan Dairy Road, Suite 100,
Largo, FL 33777.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for Continuation of
Industry Based Research into Biological Agent Identifiers without Wet
Reagents. This project will greatly reduce consumable costs and
logistical footprint associated with transport, storage, and use of
``wet'' reagents in a battlefield environment.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Raytheon.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7401 22nd Avenue North Building D, St.
Petersburg, FL 33710.
Description of Request: Provides $4,800,000 for the Cooperative
Engagement Capability (CEC). CEC is a high priority, anti-air warfare
program for the Navy that forms real-time networking among land, ship
and airborne sensors and sends target information to every CEC-equipped
platform. It combines all sensor data into a high-resolution, fire-
control quality, composite track air picture. CEC is currently deployed
on over 95 ships and aircraft, and is a transformational program
identified in the Joint Forces Command ``Joint Battle Management
Command and Control road map.''
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Countermeasures to
Chemical Biological Threats. Prior to the anthrax laden letters of late
2001, USF and the other 10 institutions which comprise the State
University System of Florida were working on preparing the United
States for an unannounced bioterrorist attack. Until then, basic
microbiologic research had not been widely transferred from the
laboratory to actual application in the field. It is in this
environment that the State University System of Florida with the USF
College of Public Health as the lead and coordinator was awarded
Congressional project funds.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: CTC Tampa Bay Inc.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7887 Bryan Dairy Road, Suite 220,
Largo, FL 33777.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Combating Terrorism
Technical Support Office (CTTSO) and STAR-TEC Partnership. Disruptive
technologies for potential solutions in combating terrorism are
frequently created by small, fragile start up enterprises with highly
unique skills. Historically, 80 percent of these emerging technology
companies fail before their fifth birthday due to an unbalanced focus
on product development and insufficient attention to fiscal operational
management. Statistically, 87 percent of small companies mentored by
professional business incubators succeed. This project seeks to meld
STAR-TEC's business incubation and acceleration expertise with CTTSO's
mission to rapidly field new combating terrorism technology solutions
to ensure the fiscal health of the domestic, small business partners
selected by CTTSO for technology acceleration.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Raytheon.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7401 22nd Avenue North, Building D, St.
Petersburg, FL 33710.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for CV-22 Helmet Mounted
Display. This program will replace the current Helmet Mounted Display
(HMD) and night vision goggles with an integrated, panoramic, HMD/night
vision daylight readable capability. This will allow our CV-22 aviators
to more safely operate this new aircraft. Since most
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helicopter flights in Iraq and Afghanistan happen during darkness, it
is vital that our pilots have this new capability for these wars and
also in training.
Account: Defense Wide Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: National Forensic Science Technology
Center.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7881 114th Avenue North, Largo, FL
33773.
Description of Request: Provides $3,200,000 for Expansion of the
Mobile Forensic Labs and Technical Assistance and Training Support in
Largo, Florida. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency developed and
fielded one mobile forensics laboratory to be used in the U.S. for
weapons of mass destruction and explosives. FY 2009 funds are needed to
provide additional systems for international deployment. These state of
the art modular laboratories provide rapid analysis and exploitation of
forensic evidence recovered during missions thereby enhancing
intelligence for ongoing operations as well as evidence.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Honeywell.
Address of Requesting Entity: 13350 U.S. Highway 19 North,
Clearwater, FL 33764-7290.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for Florida National
Guard Missile Range Safety Technology (MRST). MRST funding supports the
114th Range Operations Squadron of the Florida Air National Guard. This
unit provides Command and Control of local and down-range assets in
support of Air Force space launch operations as well as providing a
wartime surge capability for the 45th Operations Group, 45th Space Wing
at Patrick AFB, Florida. MRST is GPS-based mobile range safety system
which offers an advanced capability, increased flexibility and cost
savings to support range operations. For instance, the 114th ROS
provides a mobile range tracking and command truck that can track and
if necessary destroy errant ballistic missiles on firing range
facilities. Providing this mobile capability will reduce costs by
replacing the need to build permanent fixed sights at each missile
range.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $2,500,000 for Health Informatics.
Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods
required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of
information in health and biomedicine. This project continues research
and development of new software applications that will be applied to
advanced health informatics training programs. This will help the DOD
better manage its healthcare systems and expand post-doctoral training
of future researchers.
Account: Defense Production Act Purchases.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Enser Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 5430 70th Avenue North, Pinellas Park,
FL 33781.
Description of Request: Provides $3,000,000 for a High Performance
Thermal Battery Infrastructure Project. Thermal batteries provide high
technology power used for current and next generation strategic weapons
systems as well as USAF tactical missiles. This project's goal is to
scale up and optimize manufacturing processes to increase the
production rate while taking advantage of economies of scale to
facilitate operations as a viable business supporting the DOD.
Account: Army Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: CONAX Florida Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2801 75th Street North, St. Petersburg,
FL 33710.
Description of Request: Provides $3,200,000 for a HMMWV Restraint
System. This program will procure and install upgrade kits for
restraint systems on Army HMMWV and other tactical vehicle fleets.
Furthermore, it will incorporate a ``no snag'' design for rapid vehicle
egress while making it much easier for troops to fasten and unfasten
safety belts while in full combat protective gear.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Information Manufacturing LLC.
Address of Requesting Entity: 11300 Dr. M.L. King Jr. Street, Suite
315, St. Petersburg FL 33716.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Improved Information
Transfer for SOCOM. This program will fulfill an urgent need to apply
real-time knowledge management tools using new and emerging
technologies that allow for the indexing and correlation of data from
non-formatted data and divergent sources. This technology supports both
written and spoken language translation covering multiple Arabic
language dialects, with the capability to add additional languages over
time. It will have the capability to apply artificial intelligence to
automatically select and distribute information based on user needs as
well as automatically discover un-seen relationships between data
entries. With these advances, the system will collect, store, and index
multi-media data, and perform meta-data searches.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for an Integrated
Functional Materials Project. This project focuses on the synthesis and
characterization of new materials and devices, optimizing and
integrating their functionality, and theoretical modeling for military
and commercial applications. It will allow troops easy and immediate
access to superior body armor, power generators, self-medication,
communication devices, and reconnaissance tools while reducing bulky
and redundant equipment.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Pinellas County Sheriff Office.
Address of Requesting Entity: 10750 Ulmerton Road, Largo FL 33778.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for a Law Enforcement
Counterterrorism Test Bed. Civilian law enforcement professionals have
unique skills in investigations, crime scene forensics and evidence
gathering that are hard to find in the DOD. The test bed program allows
DOD to increase an operational unit's ability to conduct 11
counterinsurgency and counterterrorism missions through interaction and
training with the law enforcement community.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: SAIC.
Address of Requesting Entity: 360 Central Avenue, Suite 1370, St.
Petersburg FL 33701.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for a Layered
Surveillance/Sensing project. This program links advanced Navy and
Marine Corps sensors, providing a layered network of real-time fire
control quality data together with on-demand situational awareness
information distributed across near real-time subnets. This will
enhance the Marine Corps' ability to perform real-time battle
surveillance as well as battle damage assessments.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for a Lean Management
System Research Initiative. This program helps military managers and
leaders improve efficiency in business systems and practices by
removing non-value activities to improve system performance. Cost
savings will be realized by further lean systems research and
implementation by US Air Force business leaders.
Account: Air Force Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: SRI.
Address of Requesting Entity: 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg
FL 33701.
Description of Request: Provides $1,000,000 for a MacDill AFB
Waterside Security System. This project seeks to develop a new
networked, waterside surveillance and reporting system to provide
waterside security for MacDill AFB. This will directly assist MacDill
AFB in executing its anti-terrorism and force protection
responsibilities in providing security for two vital combatant commands
and two component commands directly involved in executing the Global
War On Terrorism (GWOT).
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: SRI International.
Address of Requesting Entity: 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg
FL 33701.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for a Micro-systems
Nanotechnology for Advanced Technology Development project.
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are small integrated devices or
systems that combine electrical and mechanical components. This will
continue funding research into new leading-edge microelectromechanical
system (MEMS), microsensor and nanotechnologies that support warfighter
needs. This initiative supports research, development and production of
highly advanced microsystems and advanced materials for harsh
environments in defense and homeland security applications.
Account: Navy Operation and Maintenance.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of West Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola FL
32514.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for a Mobile Distance
Learning for Military Personnel project. This program will provide
alternative instructional systems, course, and certificates to enable
deployed service members the same educational opportunities afforded
while deployed or at home. This will help military personnel continue
their education while deployed by providing mobile language learning
initiatives.
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Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Custom Manufacturing and
Engineering.
Address of Requesting Entity: 2904 44th Avenue North, St. Petersburg
FL 33714.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for Modular Universal
Tactical Operations Center (TOC) Packages for Vehicles and Shelters.
This project provides enabling design approaches to new ways of
modularizing mission equipment into small reconfigurable and plug play
packages that can be cost effectively installed in host Tactical
Operations Center (TOC) platforms. This project develops, integrates,
and demonstrates modular, reconfigurable TOC mission and support
equipment into flexible host platforms so commanders can maintain pace
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Account: Defense Wide Procurement.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Raytheon.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7401 22nd Avenue North Building D, St.
Petersburg FL 33710.
Description of Request: Provides $2,000,000 for Multi-Band Multi-
Mission Radio (MBMMR) which are the special operations standard man-
portable tactical UHF frequency satellite communications terminal. It
is the primary mission radio used by SOCOM units, providing worldwide
and tactical connectivity. This program will procure an additional 400
MBMMR radios for U.S. Special Forces.
Account: Drugs Counter-Drugs And Drug Interdiction.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: St. Petersburg College.
Address of Requesting Entity: 6021 142nd Avenue North, Largo FL
33760.
Description of Request: Provides $3,000,000 for Multi-Jurisdictional
Counter-Drug Task Force Training (MCTFT). This program is a federally
funded partnership with the Department of Defense's National Guard
Bureau, the Florida National Guard and St. Petersburg College. This
program offers in-depth courses covering aspects of counter-drug law
enforcement using conventional classroom and scenario models as well as
distance learning technologies.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Moffitt Cancer Center.
Address of Requesting Entity: 12902 Magnolia Drive Tampa, FL 33612.
Description of Request: Provides $6,000,000 for The National
Functional Genomics Center. This new funding would establish a tissue
bank and related bio-informatics database that will become the national
standard for storing, retrieving, and updating tumor data, validating
new molecular signatures, focusing on colon cancer, and promote
academic, governmental and corporate collaborations.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: St. Petersburg College.
Address of Requesting Entity: 6021 142nd Avenue North, Largo FL
33760.
Description of Request: Provides $3,000,000 for the National
Terrorism Preparedness Institute Anti-Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism
Technology Development and Training project. This project provides the
DOD with technology and training development in the four pillars of
combating terrorism: intelligence support, counter-terrorism, anti-
terrorism, and consequence management. The National Terrorism
Preparedness Institute (NPTI) will continue to provide training to the
DOD, emergency responders, and policy makers. This program will
continue research and development of technology and training.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Revenge Advanced Composites.
Address of Requesting Entity: 12705 Clearwater Drive, Clearwater FL
33762.
Description of Request: Provides $2,400,000 for a Next Generation
Scalable Lean Initiative. This program will expand the U.S. defense
industrial base to manufacture large light weight monolithic structures
(e.g., light weight, heat resistant flight decks) to satisfy the needs
of USSOCOM and the U.S. Navy. SOCOM would like to partner with the
private sector to do applied research and development to support
scalable engineering and manufacturing capabilities for SOF platforms.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Coda Octopus.
Address of Requesting Entity: 100 14th Avenue S, St. Petersburg FL
33701.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for a Port and Hull
Security 3D, Real Time Sonar System--Echoscope. This project will allow
for 3D surveillance of ports and hulls to detect potential seaborne
threats in the Global War on Terrorism. The Echoscope provides
significant protection of fixed assets such as bridges, piers, harbors,
underwater installations as well as vessels.
Account: Air Force RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: General Electric.
Address of Requesting Entity: 14200 Roosevelt Blvd, Clearwater FL
33762.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for Precision Image
Tracking and Registration. Acquiring, tracking and striking multiple
moving targets is an expressly stated operational requirement of U.S.
Combatant Commanders. This program will continue to develop and
operationally validate a highly reliable precision locating system with
the capability to accurately track multiple moving targets of
opportunity.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Honeywell.
Address of Requesting Entity: 13350 U.S. Highway 19 North, Clearwater
FL 33764.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for Precision Terrain
Aided Navigation. The PTAN gives the tomahawk missile a redundant
navigation capability in the event of GPS disruption. This project will
provide on-missile mission planning and better navigation precision for
the Tomahawk missile.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for Rehabilitation and
Assistive Technologies to Enhance Life of Individuals with
Disabilities. This program pursues research and development into
advanced innovative assistive and rehabilitation technologies relating
to traumatic battlefield injuries. Its goal is to develop technology
for military veterans and civilian employees requiring prosthetic,
orthotic or robotic services. This will improve the quality of life,
increase functional independence, and community integration for our
severely injured veterans.
Account: Navy RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of South Florida.
Address of Requesting Entity: 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL
33620.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for Reparative Core
Medicine. This program creates and expands a core laboratory with
related support devoted to developing regenerative and cellular
therapeutics to treat devastating diseases and injury from armed
conflict. This will provide needed medical research relative to combat
and civilian related injuries and the availability of red blood cell
transfusions.
Account: Army National Guard.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Florida National Guard.
Address of Requesting Entity: 400 South Monroe St, Tallahassee FL
32399.
Description of Request: Provides $4,200,000 for a Second Civil
Support Team for the State of Florida. This program would continue
funding for a second Civil Support Team in Florida, and provide an
increased response capability to match the potential terrorist and
natural disaster threats in the state of Florida.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Concurrent Technologies Corporation.
Address of Requesting Entity: 7995 114th Avenue, Largo FL 33773.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for SOF Mission Training
and Preparation Systems Interoperability. This project will enable
conventional and special operations warfighters around the world to
conduct real-time, virtual and interactive pre-combat rehearsals. SOF
Mission Training and Preparation Systems includes all training,
planning, preview, and rehearsal systems used by SOF regardless of
whether they are used during mission execution, conduct of command and
control, mission rehearsal or training.
Account: Defense Wide Operation & Maintenance.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Information Manufacturing LLC.
Address of Requesting Entity: 11300 Dr. M.L. King Jr. Street, Suite
315, St. Petersburg FL 33716.
Description of Request: Provides $800,000 for a SOCOM Enterprise Wide
Data and Knowledge Management System. This program would address an
urgent need to link SOCOM active legacy date repositories into a modern
knowledge management system. Its goal is to build a robust and modern
knowledge management system for SOCOM to better support information
sharing.
Account: Army RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: General Dynamics.
Address of Requesting Entity: 11399 16th Court North, St. Petersburg
FL 33716.
Description of Request: Provides $4,500,000 for the Super High
Accuracy Range Kit (SHARK). This program has the potential to improve
the accuracy of the 105mm artillery projectiles from the existing 200
meter circular error probable (CEP) to less than 10 meters. This
technology incorporates proven GPS technology with a gun hardened
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Actuator System (CAS) that has been successfully demonstrated on the
155mm Excalibur program.
Account: Defense Wide RDT&E.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Global Technical Services.
Address of Requesting Entity: 6901 Bryan Dairy Road, Largo FL 33777.
Description of Request: Provides $1,600,000 for an X-Band/W-Band
Solid State Power Amplifier. This program will design, develop and test
a solid state power amplifier at X-Band/W-Band to replace the current
Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT), in order to provide a higher mean time
before replacement.
Requesting Member: Congressman C.W. Bill Young.
Bill Number: H.R. 2638--Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance,
and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
Account: FEMA.
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Pinellas County Board of County
Commissioners.
Address of Requesting Entity: 315 Court Street, Clearwater FL 33756.
Description of Request: Provides $1,000,000 for infrastructure
hardening of the Pinellas County facility housing its Emergency Medical
Services operations, which in times of emergency serves as the
countywide base-of-operations.
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