[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2067-E2068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. ELTON GALLEGLY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 29, 2009

  Mr. GALLEGLY. 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, 2010:
  Requesting Member: Rep. Elton Gallegly
  Bill: H.R. 3326, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
  Account: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy; Electronic 
Warfare Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Regional Defense Partnership--21st 
Century
  Address of Requesting Entity: 311 Main Road, Building 1, Point Mugu, 
CA 93042
  Description of Request: Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division 
(NAWCWD) Point Mugu is an Electronic Warfare Center of Excellence for 
the development and maintenance of airborne electronic attack, 
tactical, and assault system platform electronic warfare (EW) systems. 
This request for $4,500,000 is for a laboratory upgrade at Point Mugu 
that would directly support EA-18G, EA-6B, MH-60, and E-2C platform 
development. Additionally, this enhanced capability would provide risk 
reduction to current acquisition programs such as the P-8A multi 
mission aircraft.
  In order to be effective in modern battle scenarios containing 
multiple threats, the EW weapon system requires the exact location and 
type of all the threats in a 360 degree, or four quadrant, field of 
view. The current lab equipment is limited to simulating a 180 degree, 
or 2 quadrant, field of view of the battle space. The EW Center of 
Excellence at NAWCWD Point Mugu utilizes laboratory test equipment to 
simulate this complex electronic battle space. Testing that cannot be 
performed in the laboratory must be done using flight test hours on an 
open air EW range. This not only costs more, it is also very difficult 
to obtain test repeatability and exposes the system under test to 
electronic eavesdropping. No open air range can duplicate the dense 
electromagnetic environment of large numbers of threat and friendly 
emitters encountered in a modern battle scenario. This can only be 
replicated through laboratory simulation.
  Funding is requested to upgrade the EW laboratory facility at NAWCWD 
Point Mugu to a four quadrant simulation capability and acquire the 
AMES III High Speed Calibrator and the Airborne Interceptor Simulator 
for real world threat simulations. The bill provides $4,000,000 in 
funding for this project request.

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