[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 93 (Friday, June 19, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1513-E1514]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. ROB BISHOP

                                of utah

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 19, 2009

  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Madam Speaker, consistent with the Republican 
Leadership's policy on earmarks, I am submitting the following earmark 
disclosure information regarding project funding I had requested and 
which was included within the legislation H.R. 2647, as reported. To 
the best of my knowledge, none of these six requests: (1) are directed 
to an entity or program that will be named after a sitting Member of 
Congress; (2) are not intended to be used by an entity to secure funds 
for other entities unless the use of funding is consistent with the 
specified purpose of the earmark; and (3) meet or exceed all statutory 
requirements for matching funds where applicable. I further certify 
that neither my spouse, nor I, have any personal financial interests in 
these requests.
  Project Title: Optimizing Natural Language Processing of Open Source 
Intelligence (OSINT)
  Amount: $1.5 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Army
  Address of Requesting Entity: Attensity, Inc., 90 South 400 West, 
Suite 600, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project, in conjunction 
with the University of New York at Buffalo, would fund research and 
development of an ``all-source'' fusion tool for collecting open-source 
data from the web, blogs, social networking sites, and RRS feeds, to 
provide more effective defense intelligence analysis and improving 
military decision making in asymmetric warfare situations
  Project Title: PCC Apron NW End Taxiway A
  Amount: $5.1 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Military Construction, Air Force
  Address of Requesting Entity: Hill AFB, Utah. 75th Air Base Wing, 
Hill AFB, Utah 84056
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project would correct 
runway deficiencies and allow for more aircraft to be prepared for 
flight at the same time that airstrip landing and take-off operations 
are being conducted, increasing military readiness, safety, and 
reducing jet fuel costs
  Project Title: Propellant Conversion to Fertilizer Program for Tooele 
Army Depot
  Amount: $3.4 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Army
  Address of Requesting Entity: Archtech, Inc., 14100 Park Meadow 
Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project would fund new 
conventional ammunition demilitarization method at Tooele Army Depot, 
Utah, as an environmentally-responsible alternative to the Army's 
current ``open-pit, open-burn'' method of disposal
  Project Title: Repair Technology Insertion Program (RepTIP)
  Amount: $5.2 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Air Force
  Address of Requesting Entity: General Atomics Inc., 16969 Mesamint 
Street, San Diego, CA 92127
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project would fund the 
development of repair

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and overhaul technologies that increase productivity and reduce the 
cost of sustaining weapons systems in military depots, and incorporates 
Level II roller bearing refurbishment, heat tolerant tube fabrication, 
inside-diameter protective coatings to metals, heat-treat, and foundry 
process improvements for the 309th Maintenance Wing, Ogden Air 
Logistics Center, at Hill AFB, Utah
  Project Title: Small Responsive Spacecraft at Low-Cost (SRSL)
  Amount: $4.5 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Air Force
  Address of Requesting Entity: Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State 
University, 1695 North Research Park Way, North Logan, Utah 84341
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project would continue 
previous-years' efforts in conjunction with the Air Force Research Labs 
to develop and demonstrate technologies for new, low-cost space systems 
with military utility. Current space-based reconnaissance assets are 
cost-prohibitive and too massive to be used in a quick-reaction 
tactical environment. This effort could lead to providing local field 
commanders a dedicated space asset for tactical actionable intelligence 
under the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) construct
  Project Title: UAV Sensor and Maintenance Development Center
  Amount: $5.5 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Air Force
  Address of Requesting Entity: Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State 
University, 1695 North Research Park Way, North Logan, Utah 84341
  Matching Funds: None
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable
  Description and Justification of Funding: Project would provide 
technical assistance to the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, 
Utah, in the areas of developing, calibrating, and integrating sensors 
and other payloads onto Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which will 
facilitate future development of UAV capability within the military

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