[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2045-E2046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. MARY FALLIN

                              of oklahoma

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 28, 2009

  Ms. FALLIN. 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 Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act of 2010.''
  Title of Project: Advanced Autonomous Robotic Inspections for Aging 
Aircraft
  Amount of Project: $2,000,000
  Account: Air Force, Operations & Maintenance
  Project Recipient: Veracity Technology Solutions, LLC, 2701 Liberty 
Parkway, Suite 311, Midwest City, OK 73001
  At my request, $2,000,000 was included in H.R. 3326, for Veracity 
Solutions in Midwest City, OK, to implement a fully automated 
autonomous robotic vehicle that has the capability to inspect for 
corrosion, as well as crack detection around fasteners for the KC-135 
aircraft. Current inspection methods are both antiquated and time 
consuming, which has increased maintenance downtime and unnecessary 
refurbishment. A state-of-the-art nondestructive inspection system and 
training, which decreases maintenance costs and improves safety, will 
have the ability to detect corrosion and cracking on the KC-135 wing 
skins (and other aging aircraft). This system will allow for condition 
assessment of aircraft structures, as well as continuous assessment 
through the historical comparison of previous and present inspection 
results.
  Specifically, the funding will be used for the technical personnel, 
facilities, and equipment required to develop an integrated system that 
includes a medical grade ultrasonic inspection system, an advanced 
impedance plane analysis eddy current unit, and an autonomous 
inspection vehicle that will allow engineers and depot crews to 
accurately and instantly identify defects and that are currently 
undetectable with traditional nondestructive inspection methods. The 
end product will provide a permanent record of the structural member 
which can be stored on the network for future comparison.
  Title of Project: Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System Enhancements
  Amount of Project: $2,500,000
  Account: Army, Research, Development, Test & Evaluation
  Project Recipient: Creative Technologies, 6255 West Sunset Boulevard, 
Suite 716, Los Angeles, CA

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  At my request, $2,500,000 was included in H.R. 3326 to provide 
upgrades to the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS) located 
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The current immersive simulation training 
capability suffers from one significant drawback--the one-to-one 
instructor/student requirement. The funding provided for this project 
would increase the ability for this program to upgrade the voice 
recognition technology of JFETS and allow a single instructor to manage 
nine concurrent calls for fire training sessions in the Open Terrain 
module simultaneously and improve efficiency by 800 percent. 
Additionally, the project will develop an interactive application to 
drill soldiers in the five essential elements of accurate predictive 
fires to prepare them before they train in the immersive environment 
and reinforce the training before they deploy.
  Title of Project: Weapons of Mass Destruction Multi-Sensor Response 
and Infrastructure Project System
  Amount of Project: $2,000,000
  Account:
  Project Recipient: Triarii Scientific, LLC, 7118 South Colombia 
Place, Tulsa, OK 74136
  At my request, $2,000,000 was included in H.R. 3326 for Triarii 
Scientific of Tulsa, Oklahoma to provide funding to enhance and improve 
the Oklahoma National Guard's (OKNG) 63rd Weapons of Mass Destruction 
(WMD) Civil Support Team's (CST) ability to prevent and respond to 
terrorist attacks. The OKNG-CST requires next generation capability 
that improves their ability to respond to WMD-related threats while 
systematically identifying truly critical vulnerabilities; thus, render 
state and national infrastructures less exposed.
  This funding will be used to upgrade existing CST equipment to a 
fully integrated and mobile system that combines communications, 
sensors, vulnerability and engineering assessments of critical 
infrastructure facilities via the Homeland Defense Operational Planning 
System (HOPS), and a command and control suite.
  The upgraded mobile system will provide complete command and control 
abilities, interoperable wireless communications, a suite of Acoustic, 
Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (ACBRN-E) and Command, 
Control, Communications, Computers and Cyber for Intelligence, 
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) sensors. All system 
integration, test, certification, infrastructure and vulnerability 
assessments will be executed in conjunction with the Oklahoma State 
University Multispectral Laboratories (OSU-UML) and Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratories (LLNL) with operational testing overseen by the 
Joint Interoperability Test Command (ETC).

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