[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1533-E1534]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                     HON. HOWARD P. ``BUCK'' McKEON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2009

  Mr. McKEON. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding Member priority requests I received as part of H.R. 2647, the 
``National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.''
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Air Force Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northrop Grumman Corporation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1840 Century Park East, Los Angeles, 
California 90067-2199
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $14,600,000 for Advanced Tactical Data 
Links (ATDLs) for the U.S. Air Force B-2 Stealth. This data link would 
profoundly alter how these stealth aircraft like the B-2, F-35, and F-
22 communicate with each other in a high threat environment by allowing 
all three types of aircraft to communicate and share threat 
information. Sharing real-time threat information would improve 
lethality, increase survivability, reduce operating and support costs, 
and increase efficiencies.
  The USAF has acknowledged the need for such a critical capability and 
has provided funding to integrate a common data link into the F-35 and 
F-22. However, funding for integration of such a link on the B-2 has 
not occurred. This initiative would provide these significant 
improvements in the capability two to three years sooner than currently 
planned. These upgrades will enable our strategic bombers to be more 
effective in projecting American power abroad and providing battlefield 
support for our troops.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Army Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded 
Computing
  Address of Requesting Entity: 28965 Avenue Penn, Santa Clarita, CA 
91355
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $2,400,000 for U.S. Army Vehicle 
Electronics Optimization. This project provides advanced technological 
components to a variety of Army systems such as tanks, armored 
personnel carriers, and artillery pieces that are smaller, save power, 
weigh less, and require less cooling while improving performance and 
reducing life cycle cost. This would help the Army's accelerated 
fielding of new systems by reducing complexity and risk associated with 
these electronics upgrades. Enhancements will help our soldiers in 
combat be more effective and responsive.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Air Force Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 950 E. Palmdale Blvd., Suite C, 
Palmdale, CA 93550
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $3,000,000 for the U.S. Air Force 
Advanced Vehicle Propulsion Center (AVPC), a unique, world-class center 
at Edwards Air Force Base that allows experts to examine current and 
future engineering, design, and development of propulsion systems, 
space vehicles, missiles, and advanced weapon concepts. The Center's 
efforts are estimated to save the Air Force millions of dollars in 
future program costs through the integration of the best engineering, 
design, analysis, and cost tools from government, industry, and 
academia.
  Funding would allow the Center's engineers to incorporate recent 
technological advances

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into future Air Force space and missile systems, virtually 
demonstrating whether proposed designs are sound from operational, 
infrastructure, schedule, cost, reliability, and risk perspectives. 
This research will enable our warfighter to be more effective, and will 
free up limited resources to fund other defense priorities.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Navy Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake
  Address of Requesting Entity: HSAD Program Office, Naval Air Warfare 
Center, China Lake, CA 93555-6100
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $1,900,000 for the U.S. Navy/U.S. Air 
Force High Speed Anti-Radiation Demonstrator established at China Lake 
Naval Air Weapons Station in 2002 to demonstrate an advanced rocket 
propulsion system that can provide either twice the distance or half 
the time to target over solid propellant rocket motors. With flight 
testing successfully accomplished and propulsion system technology 
demonstrated, this funding request would allow the transition of HSAD 
designs into a tactical missile configuration for future use in Navy/
USAF advanced weapon systems. In addition, funds would be used to 
develop next generation solid ramjet fuels and provide performance data 
to support missile performance. In the future this research will 
benefit the warfighter by providing better performing missiles and 
missile defenses critical to our air superiority and homeland defense.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: MILCON, Navy
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare 
Training Center
  Address of Requesting Entity: U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare 
Training Center, Bridgeport, CA, 93517
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $8,600,000 for a new commissary at the 
U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. This project would 
construct a permanent commissary at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain 
Warfare Training Center. Due to the remote location of the base outside 
Bridgeport, California, military members and their families travel 
dozens of miles over steep and sometimes impassable roadways to buy 
groceries and supplies. This project would eliminate that drive and 
provide an improved quality of life on base, especially during the 
winter months.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Air Force Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Andrews Space
  Address of Requesting Entity: 25133 Avenue Tibbitts, Unit A, 
Valencia, CA 91355
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $2,000,000 to promote research into 
smaller, lower cost, and rapidly deployable satellites called 
``cubesats'' that would provide imagery, advanced warning, navigation, 
and intelligence to our military and other national security agencies. 
Currently, a domestic provider of cubesat components does not exist.
  Funding would allow the DoD Cubesat Program to continue fundamental 
research, development, testing, of domestic source, low cost components 
such as flight computers, power hardware, and spacecraft navigation and 
control hardware. These efforts would help enable domestic mass 
production of cubesats in the near future. Cubsats are an integral part 
of the Department of Defense's plan to provide more, less expensive, 
timely intelligence to support the warfighter.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010''
  Account: Navy Research and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University Long 
Beach
  Address of Requesting Entity: 6300 State University Drive, Ste 332, 
Long Beach, CA 90815
  Description of Request: I requested and received a Member priority 
authorization request totaling $2,000,000 for a Department of Defense 
Strategic Mobility Logistics Study. This project, headed by Cal State 
University Long Beach and Cal State University San Bernardino at the 
Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA), would allow the 
continuation of educational training, logistics modeling, and the 
development of defense training courses supporting the U.S. Army, U.S. 
Navy, and several major commands. These courses are designed to make 
Defense Department logistics more efficient, less expensive, and 
provide greater inventory control while creating a more cognizant 
military and civilian logistics workforce. This program also plays a 
key training role creating jobs in the defense industry.

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