[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 177 (Thursday, November 20, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2290]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                   HON. CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 19, 2008

  Mr. PICKERING. Madam Speaker, consistent with House Republican 
Earmark Standards, I submit the following earmark disclosure and 
certification information for one project request I made included 
within the text of H.R. 2638, the ``The Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009.''
  Requesting Member: Congressman Chip Pickering.
  Bill Number: FY 09 Defense Appropriations Bill.
  Project: Advanced, Long Endurance Unattended Ground Sensor 
Technologies.
  Project Amount: $3.6 million.
  Account: Defense-wide; RDT&E.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Special Operations Command.
  Address of Requesting Entity: Tampa, Florida.
  Description of Request: A significant challenge in modern military 
operations is the ability to achieve and maintain real-time battlefield 
situational awareness. Achieving battlefield situation awareness 
requires the ability to robustly and persistently monitor the movements 
of the adversary in near real-time across a wide range of operational 
environments including foliage, mountainous, and urban terrain.
  The funding will continue the research and development of small, low 
power UGS technologies that support critical USSOCOM reconnaissance and 
surveillance missions by providing robust: (1) target detection, 
classification and tracking; (2) high bandwidth, covert communication 
of data, voice and video, and (3) data/information exfiltration via 
satellite communications (SATCOM) for displaying advanced visualization 
technologies. The proposed UGS capability will provide USSOCOM with the 
ability to relay critical, actionable intelligence from remote areas of 
interest to analysts and commanders worldwide in near real-time--
ultimately allowing special operations forces (SOF) to think and react 
more quickly than the adversary. The proposed research program will 
also have applications in other areas such as border patrol.

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