[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1538-E1539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. JOHN M. McHUGH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2009

  Mr. McHUGH. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 2647, the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Military Construction, Army
  Name of Military Installation: Fort Drum
  Address of Requesting Entity: Fort Drum, New York 13601
  Provide an earmark of $8,200,000 in MCA to build an All Weather 
Marksmanship Facility at Fort Drum, New York. Currently, Fort Drum has 
only one operational All Weather Marksmanship Facility. The project is 
required to provide year round live fire training to more efficiently 
support soldiers in meeting weapons proficiency and qualification 
standards, and minimize the amount of time required to complete 
training. The Light Infantry Doctrine and the missions of the 10th 
Mountain Division require higher than normal levels of marksmanship 
proficiency and fire discipline.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Defense Health Program
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Fort Drum Regional Health Planning 
Organization (FDRHPO)
  Address of Requesting Entity: 120 Washington Street, Suite 302, 
Watertown, NY 13601
  Provide an earmark of $430,000 to enable the FDRHPO to hire the 
necessary staff and conduct the required assessments. The health care 
delivery model for federal beneficiaries at Fort Drum is unique as the 
only MEDDAC with a division and no inpatient capabilities. The model is 
a military-community partnership that joins the Army medical treatment 
facility with community providers to augment the medical treatment 
facilities primary care capability with specialty care and inpatient 
services. Through ongoing collaboration of the FDRHPO, access to 
quality health care will continue to improve, costs will be reduced, 
communication will continue to increase, additional resources will be 
leveraged and innovated cooperative health care arrangements and 
agreements will be tested.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Air Force
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Clarkson University and ITT
  Address of Requesting Entity: Clarkson University (8 Clarkson, 
Potsdam, NY 13699) and ITT AES (474 Phoenix Drive Rome. NY 13441)
  Provide an earmark of $5,000,000 for Cyber Attack and Security 
Environment (CASE). Operating effectively in cyberspace requires a 
Cyber Command and Control (CC2) system to synchronize cyber attack 
operations, facilitate analysis of attack results including measures of 
effectiveness, and deconflict friendly use of cyberspace. The objective 
of ITT's proposed effort is to conceptualize and demonstrate the 
technologies necessary to systematically coordinate, plan, and execute 
offensive cyber campaigns; determine effects associated with an 
offensive cyber weapon; monitor/evaluate events that occur in 
cyberspace; and ultimately achieve situational awareness of cyberspace 
with an overall goal of achieving dominance within that critical realm. 
Alpha and beta testing throughout the lifecycle of this project will 
occur at a secure military installation in upstate New York. A 
significant partner in this effort is Clarkson University through its 
complex networks group, its biometrics group, critical electric power/
large scale systems faculty, and cryptographic protocol analysis 
researchers, who will provide subject matter expertise and project 
research. The results of the CASE effort will help form a strategic 
partnership between AFRL Rome and Air Force's Global Cyberspace 
Integration Center (GCIC) located on LAFB, VA. The addition of $5M in 
FY10 for CASE will demonstrate the technologies necessary to 
systematically coordinate, plan, and execute offensive cyber campaigns 
while maintaining defensive continuity.

  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Navy
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trudeau Institute
  Address of Requesting Entity: Trudeau Institute (154 Algonquin Avenue 
Saranac Lake, NY 12983)
  Provide an earmark of $8,000,000 for the U.S. Navy Pandemic Influenza 
Vaccine Program: Enhancement of Influenza Vaccine Efficacy. Prevention 
of seasonal and pandemic influenza remains a significant unmet need for 
the U.S. armed forces. Influenza in active duty personnel and 
dependents compromises force readiness and impacts training. The 
funding for the proposed project will help advance the development of 
novel techniques for enhancing vaccine efficacy to promote Force 
Readiness and general health of the members of the Armed Services and 
their dependents.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Army
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Syracuse Research Corporation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 7502 Round Pond Road North Syracuse, NY 
13212
  Provide an earmark of $5,000,000 for the Foliage Penetrating, 
Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking, and Engagement Radar 
(FORESTER). U.S. Forces currently have no radar capability to detect 
and track activity under foliage. FORESTER is an airborne sensor system 
that provides standoff and persistent wide-area surveillance of 
dismounted troops and vehicles moving through foliage. The Phase II 
funding will help transition FORESTER to the User community, and apply 
the technology to additional platforms and U.S. border security 
applications, providing U.S. forces a critical new capability to detect 
and track activity under foliage.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Army
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Legend Technologies
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1541 Front Street, Keeseville, New York 
12944
  Provide an earmark of $2,000,000 for the Remote Sighting System. 
Currently available optical technologies are not optimal for the

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various ``Robotic'' platforms currently being fielded. These platforms 
are only as good as their ability to ``See.'' The final funding 
installment will allow for the outfitting of production facility in 
Keeseville, New York, for manufacture of the Remote Sighting System 
from a domestic source. Consistent with current Department of Defense 
mandates and overall goals, the RSS can be used across platforms, which 
results in future savings, increased troop security and safety.

  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Army
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Welch Allyn, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4341 State Street Road, Skaneateles 
Falls, New York 13152
  Provide an earmark of $5,000,000 for the Personal Status Monitor 
(Nightengale). Welch Allyn is actively working on a project to monitor 
the health status of a soldier, remotely communicating the data to 
obtain the most appropriate level of care in a forward combat 
environment, which is essential for medical and military strategic 
decision-making. The Research and Development funding for this project 
will allow Welch Allyn to further develop its smart sensing 
technologies. These technologies provide on-body sensing of physiologic 
parameters that can be relayed to a remote server by means of a series 
of wireless relay devices for notification in the case of a critical or 
life threatening event. Specifically, the technology consists of 
wearable sensors with RF communication to observation stations, 
doctor's offices, electronic patient records, and hospital information 
systems, providing anywhere, anytime access to real-time or archived 
patient information. Applications include deployment on individuals or 
groups of individuals who are subject to catastrophic physiologic 
events such as military personnel, public safety personnel and those 
with cardiovascular disease.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Aircraft Procurement, Army
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: Rockwell Collins, Address: 33 Lewis 
Road, Binghamton, NY 13905 (Hqs: 400 Collins Rd., Cedar Rapids, IA 
52498)
  Provide an earmark of $2,000,000 for the Common Avionics Architecture 
System (CAAS-PVI) CH-47F. The funding for the project will help reduce 
pilot workload to assist Army pilots and crewmembers as they prosecute 
the war on terror. This proposal is to make timely long lasting changes 
to the CAAS cockpit of the CH-47F aircraft through an effective Pilot 
Vehicle Interface program. The results of such activity will reduce 
aircrew workload and deliver a safer more usable system to the field. 
Once completed, the CAAS cockpit will be suitably aligned for future 
integration into all conventional Army rotary wing aircraft.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Operations and Maintenance, Army
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: John Deere
  Address of Requesting Entity: 2000 John Deere Run, Cary, NC 27513
  Provide for an earmark of $2,000,000 for the M-Gator. The M-Gator is 
a proven asset to our troops around the globe in support of the Global 
War on Terror and provides a unique capability that does not exist in 
the Army equipment inventory. M-Gators fill critical equipment 
shortages in Infantry, Aviation, Military Police, Combat and Field 
Service Hospitals, Special Operations, and other Combat Support and 
Combat Service Support units. The M-Gator enjoys an enviable reputation 
because of its ruggedness, load-carrying capability, and reliability. 
It has proven to be a key asset to our troops around the globe in 
support of the Global War on Terror and provides a unique capability 
that does not exist in the Army equipment inventory. Army units, 
including the 10th Mountain Division, have never had sufficient 
operational funds to replace their war-torn M-Gator fleet. The funding 
is to provide M-Gators to the 10th Mountain Division.

  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Navy
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Lockheed Martin
  Address of Requesting Entity: 497 Electronics Parkway, Syracuse, NY 
13088
  Provide an earmark of $4,700,000 for the Future Generation Thinline 
Towed Array (TB-29A). Towed arrays are the primary long range ASW 
sensor systems for search, acoustic intelligence collection, and self-
defense on today's submarines. The Thinline TB-29 series Submarine 
Towed Array is the premier sensor in the submarine fleet today. The TB-
29A delivers enhanced performance at half the acquisition and life 
cycle support costs of its predecessors. It also uses a lightweight tow 
cable allowing operation of the array in a littoral environment. The 
design of the TB-29A has not achieved the desired reliability for 
optimum fleet operations. Telemetry components and connectors are 
primary failure points after frequent reeling in and out of the 
submarine. The funding will help develop a modernized design, resulting 
in a new, low risk thinline submarine towed array that provides 
significant reliability improvements, equal performance and lower life 
cycle cost compared to current arrays.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Sensis Corporation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 85 Collamer Crossings, East Syracuse, 
NY 13057
  Provide an earmark of $2,000,000 for the SOF Craft Integrated 
Backbone. Most SOF craft vehicles have limited space available for 
hardware but continue to require additional systems to complete their 
missions. The SOF Craft Integrated Backbone will provide an integrated 
data processing system in order to consolidate the number of computer 
processors on the vehicle, thus resulting in a reduction of size, 
weight, and power (SWAP) requirements for the craft. The program will 
significantly reduce the physical footprint of the data processing 
system on the craft while maintaining the critical flexibility needed 
to provide for future technology upgrades. FY2010 funding will help 
leverage current sensor technology and open architecture COTS 
processing with vast experience integrating dispirit sensor systems to 
command and control stations. The SOF Craft Integrated Backbone will 
provide SOCOM with a solution prototype for full scale testing within 
12 months.

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