[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2027-E2028]
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, July 28, 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. 3326, the Fiscal Year 
2010 Defense Appropriations Bill.
  Requesting Member: John M. McHugh
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  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. 3326
  Account: Research and Development, Air Force
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Clarkson University and ITT
  Address of Requesting Entity: Clarkson University (8 Clarkson Ave., 
Potsdam, NY 13699) and ITT AES (474 Phoenix Drive, Rome, NY 13441)
  Provide an earmark of $4,000,000 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 funding 
in Fiscal Year 2010 for CASE will help 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. 3326
  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 $2,000,000 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 US armed forces. Influenza in active duty personnel and dependents 
compromises force readiness and impacts training. The funding

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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. 3326
  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 $2,000,000 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. 3326
  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 $1,000,000 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.

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