[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1527]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. GREGG HARPER

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2009

  Mr. HARPER. Madam Speaker, consistent with House Republican Earmark 
Standards, I am submitting the following earmark disclosure and 
certification information for one project authorization request that I 
made and which was included within the text of H.R. 2647--National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper.
  Project: Advanced, Long Endurance Unattended Ground Sensor 
Technologies.
  Project Amount: $8 million
  Account: Defense-wide (DoD); RDT&E Special Operations Intelligence 
Systems Development.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Mississippi State University.
  Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 6301, Mississippi State, 
Mississippi 39762.
  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. This 
initiative is a follow-on effort to ongoing Mississippi State 
University Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) research and development in 
support of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

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