[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 125 (Tuesday, September 8, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2201-E2203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. JERRY LEWIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, September 8, 2009

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
  Project name: Synchrotron-Based Scanning Research
  Requested amount: $6,000,000.00
  Recipient: Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11175 Campus Drive, 
Loma Linda, CA 92354
  Purpose: The Synchrotron-based Neuroscience and Proton Institute 
(NSPI) is pioneering new possibilities in medical technology and 
neuroscience for the service of patients with previously untreatable 
benign diseases. The potential of the NSPI is to expand efforts in the 
treatment of people with uncontrollable serious behavioral conditions, 
including military personnel and veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic 
Stress Disorder as well as persons who are currently incarcerated in 
prisons and who volunteer for this treatment. Eventually the treatment 
would be an available medical option to all persons seeking a non-
invasive, non-drug alternative to behavioral disorders, both in the 
military and civilian populations.
  Project name: Center for Innovative Geospatial Technology-
  Requested amount: $7,000,000.00
  Recipient: ESRI, 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373
  Purpose: Geospatial support to the warfighter has proven its value on 
the battlefield. Successes to date, together with advances in GIS 
technology, create the demand and the opportunity to apply geospatial 
analysis to a much larger set of military intelligence issues, and to 
embed advanced geospatial analysis techniques in critical warfighter 
support systems. These tasks can also help to integrate the national 
intelligence, defense intelligence, and military operational 
communities, all of which are heavily invested in geospatial technology 
and applications. Building on widely used information systems will 
expedite the work, facilitate ready application to new problems, create 
a foundation for sharing, and in the process create opportunities for 
economies. For the taxpayer, this means more efficient use of 
intelligence assets and resources to support military and other 
government operations, and lower operating costs in the intelligence 
community due to better integration of intelligence information and 
better quality of information to a large number of intelligence users.
  Project name: Facility Security using Tactical Surveys
  Requested amount: $4,500,000.00
  Recipient: TSG, 301 Vanderbilt Way, San Bernardino, California 92408
  Purpose: The Tactical Survey System is an innovative computer-based, 
interactive tool that provides crisis personnel access to a vast 
database of reliable pre-incident information on a facility, thereby 
enhancing their ability to effectively respond to an emergency 
situation. The Tactical Survey System includes immersive imagery with 
embedded tactical intelligence including hazardous material types and 
locations, aerial photos, ingress and egress videos, key personnel, 
building construction information, utility shutoff locations with 
instructions, communications infrastructure, fire fighting assets, fire 
and security alarm systems, and perimeter control systems. Completion 
of a survey at a federal installation allows precise advanced planning 
of emergency response, conduct of realistic exercises, and detailed 
training of individuals.
  Project name: Commercialization of Advanced Technology
  Requested amount: $2,500,000.00
  Recipient: California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 
University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393
  Purpose: A collaborative partnership between California State 
University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) and San Diego State University, with 
the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, other 
government, academic, and industry representatives, offers a proven 
process for accelerating technology to meet priority military and 
homeland defense requirements. Key focus is on commercializing 
technologies developed in government labs and/ or funded under the SBIR 
program, transitioning technologies from the commercial sector to meet 
government priorities. The need for advanced technological solutions 
for personnel protection, enhanced situational awareness, NBCR 
protection, and critical military operations is paramount.
  Project name: Integrated Information Technology Policy Analysis 
Research and Technology Commercialization and Management Network
  Requested amount: $4,000,000.00
  Recipient: California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 
University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393
  Purpose: Integrated Information Technology Policy Analysis Research 
creates a more strategic, adaptive IT policy to advance the Army's 
Network Centric Operations vision for the future force, especially with 
regard to providing situational intelligence to soldiers on the 
battlefield. Technology Commercialization and Management Network 
accelerates DoD spiraling technologies acquisition strategy, lowers 
defense costs by accelerating government technologies, promotes higher 
educational institutions & small businesses technological innovation, 
increases commercial application of innovations derived from DoD R&D.
  Project name: Research to Treat Cancerous Brain Tumors using Neural 
Stem Cells
  Requested amount: $2,000,000.00
  Recipient: Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11175 Campus Drive, 
Loma Linda, CA 92354
  Purpose: Current cancer treatments do not work on a majority of brain 
tumors. New breakthrough research has led to the theory that cancerous 
brain tumors develop and are propagated by a small sub-population of 
rogue transformed neural stem cells that are highly resistant to 
existing cancer therapies due to their self-renewal capacity.
  With the proposed project, Loma Linda seeks to partner with the 
Department of Defense and a leading industry research company to 
achieve the following goals over the next four years: 1. Establish an 
in vitro brain tumor stem cell model sufficient for systematic 
screening of potential agents with anti-tumor activity; 2. Search for 
potential anti-tumor agents that block tumor-activating proteins or 
enhance tumor-suppressing proteins in the human neural stem cell model 
of brain tumor; 3. Create an animal model of human glioblastoma for 
efficacy testing of potential anti-tumor agents; 4. Create a drug form 
or route of administration of the anti-tumor agent that can be 
selectively delivered to the brain without exposing peripheral organs 
to potentially high toxic dose; 5. Demonstrate a proof-of-principle 
anti-tumor activity with the most promising test agent in the animal 
model.
  Project name: Norton AFB Infrastructure Improvements
  Requested amount: $6,000,000.00
  Recipient: Inland Valley Development Agency (IVDA), 294 South Leland 
Norton Way, Suite #1, San Bernardino, CA 92408-0131
  Purpose: The Office of Economic Adjustment in the Department of 
Defense is tasked

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to assist communities that are adversely impacted by Defense program 
changes, including base closures or realignments, base expansions, and 
contract or program cancellations. The San Bernardino International 
Airport, formerly Norton Air Force Base, is a 2,100-acre facility, 
wholly within the jurisdiction of the City of San Bernardino. 
Officially closed as a military base in March of 1994, the former Base 
has been operated by two joint powers authorities, the Inland Valley 
Development Agency (IVDA) which was formed in 1990, and the San 
Bernardino International Airport Authority (SBIAA) which was formed in 
1992. The IVDA and the SBIAA are in the process of replacing and 
upgrading the infrastructure of the former Norton Air Force Base. These 
improvements include ongoing base structure repair and environmental 
remediation, water system improvements and base floodwater runoff 
mitigation. In addition to the federal funds requested, the IVDA and 
the SBIAA are committing their own significant financial resources to 
the various projects.
  Project name: Spintronics Memory Storage Technology
  Requested amount: $3,500,000.00
  Recipient: University of California, Riverside, 900 University 
Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521
  Purpose: This project aims to take advantage of recent advances in 
nanomaterials, nanodevices and spintronics to bring about revolutionary 
advances in magnetic storage technologies and to develop chip-scale 
packaging and thermal dissipation solutions for this new generation of 
devices. Current hard disk drives are now contending with the 
superparamagnetic limit, which limits the magnetic grain size for 
recording information. This effort will explore the use of multilevel 
recording techniques and examine the use of new nanomaterials for the 
development of highly efficient thermal interface materials in order to 
accommodate the high thermal dissipation required in compact devices.
  Project name: Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Near Infrared Detector
  Requested amount: $2,000,000.00
  Recipient: Carbon Solutions, Inc., 1200 Columbia Avenue, Riverside, 
CA 92507
  Purpose: There is an urgent need for improved infrared (IR) detectors 
for use in thermal imaging, night vision and other military, homeland 
and border security applications. This project aims to build on the 
revolutionary discovery of the broad spectrum bolometric response of 
carbon nanotube thin films to develop a new generation of near infrared 
detectors. This breakthrough by California scientists offers the 
possibility of broadly available, room temperature, low cost imaging 
devices that could find widespread military applications.
  Project name: Magneto Inductive Remote Activation Munitions System 
(MI-RAMS) M156/M39 Kits and M40 Receivers
  Requested amount: $9,000,000.00
  Recipient: Magneto Inductive USA, 115 North Del Rosa Drive, Suite A, 
San Bernardino, California 92408
  Purpose: The purpose of the request is to ensure timely deployment of 
this cutting edge MI-RAMS technology to US warfighters, enabling them 
to gain significant tactical advantage in difficult urban, cave and 
tunnel environments where they are required to undertake demolition 
missions. Continued funding at the requested level will save lives by 
fielding this technology identified as critical to the safety of the 
Army Combat Engineers and Special Operations Forces as soon as 
possible. This project will also save taxpayer dollars by ensuring that 
the unique industrial base established in San Bernardino, California to 
manufacture this equipment remains active, preventing line closures and 
layoffs and be able to respond to the high demand from the warfighters 
for this important technology in 2011 and beyond.
  Project name: Cyber Threat Analytics
  Requested amount: $3,000,000.00
  Recipient: MetaFlows, 22N 6th Street A, Redlands, CA 92373
  Purpose: Cyber-TA is a research project to develop the next-
generation of real-time national-scale Internet-threat analysis 
technologies, and conduct critical deployment evaluation and 
operational transition of new research concepts in large-scale network 
defense to protect critical DoD and IC networks. Cyber-TA has brought 
together many of the world's most established researchers across the 
fields of data privacy, cryptography, malware and intrusion detection 
research, as well as operational experts in Internet-scale sensor 
management, to develop leading edge solutions to the evolving threat of 
increasingly virulent and widespread self-propagating malicious 
software.
  Project name: Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Education (O&M)
  Requested amount: $1,000,000.00
  Recipient: University of Redlands, 1200 E Colton Ave, Redlands, CA 
92374
  Purpose: This project supports continuing efforts to strategically 
enhance the human and scientific infrastructure of the Intelligence 
Community (IC), as well as other federal agencies which employ staff 
who should be using advanced Geospatial Analysis methods. The effort 
involves collaborating with the Intelligence and Federal Geospatial 
Communities in the design, development, and implementation of a 
graduate program, including research, short courses and basic studies 
in geographic information science (GIS). A key objective is to equip 
officers at federal agencies with advanced geospatial analysis skills.
  Project name: Integrated Propulsion Analysis and Spacecraft 
Engineering Tools (IPAT/ISET)
  Requested amount: $6,000,000.00
  Recipient: Advatech Pacific Inc., 1849 N. Wabash Avenue, Redlands, CA 
92374
  Purpose: IPAT directly supports many of the Air Force's new major 
system acquisitions including Land-based Strategic Deterrent, Prompt 
Global Strike and Operationally Responsive Spacelift and is a key tool 
to support our nation's world leadership in space.
  The ISET radically improves AFRL's ability to quickly assess advanced 
spacecraft design concepts' strengths, weaknesses, costs, and viability 
in support of Air Force Space Command, Air Force Space & Missile 
Systems Center, and U.S. Strategic Command requirements.
  Project name: Advanced Technology Sensors and Payloads/Unattended 
SIGINT Node
  Requested amount: $6,000,000.00
  Recipient: Trident Systems, 1615 Orange Tree Lane, Ste 104, Redlands, 
CA 92374
  Purpose: This program is urgently required to address the growing 
complexity of ground operations associated with Unmanned Aerial 
Vehicle-based surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. There are 
multiple types of small unmanned aerial vehicles operating in theater, 
each with its own unique command and control, payload management, and 
status monitoring interface systems. These UAVs generally carry only an 
EO/IR camera payload due to the size and weight of existing multiband 
radars. ATSP provides a common ground station, simplified integration 
environment for new sensor payload capabilities and unprecedented 
communications range plus agility around interference. This project 
provides critically-needed capabilities to extend the reach and 
operational flexibility of UAVs in theater. By developing and deploying 
this project, our Armed Forces will be equipped with technology 
enabling them to accelerate intelligence, surveillance and 
reconnaissance missions, improve a vital communications link and 
increase overall safety and survivability. Information superiority has 
become a key factor in force protection and operational effectiveness. 
The use of commercial communications technology has enabled even 
unsophisticated adversaries to coordinate their efforts, narrowing the 
tactical advantage that US forces achieved in the previous decade and 
allowing new threats like IEDs. This use of commercial communications 
assets can be countered with signals intelligence & communications 
intelligence techniques, helping to restore the information superiority 
tactical advantage. This project will proved an affordable miniature 
wide band, SIGINT/COMINT payload for employment on small and mid-size 
UAV platforms and in ground sensors.
  Project name: Enhancing Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (CJMTK)
  Requested amount: $4,000,000.00
  Recipient: ESRI, 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373
  Purpose: Integrating ESRI's Network Analyst technology in the CJMTK 
baseline affords a rapid and very cost effective path for meeting 
urgent requirements of the U.S. Army, and affording the same 
capabilities to the other military services and the U.S. Coast Guard. 
Several DOD programs have explored independently adding Network Analyst 
capabilities to their systems, and have determined that the cost for 
each would range in the tens of millions of dollars. Providing Network 
Analyst capabilities through CJMTK, then, is extremely cost effective; 
will enable rapid, parallel adoption of these capabilities in multiple 
DOD systems; and will provide a common standard for analyzing movements 
across all of their systems, thereby supporting interoperability and 
joint/combined operations. For the taxpayer, this means that these Army 
systems will be more efficient. It also means better decisions can be 
made by government officials, and the annual cost of Army systems will 
be lower through the infusion of modern analytical software tools.
  Project name: Flow Path Analysis Tool (FPAT)
  Requested amount: $2,000,000.00
  Recipient: Advatech Pacific, Inc., 1849 N. Wabash Avenue, Redlands, 
CA 92374
  Purpose: The Flow Path Analysis Tool (FPAT) is the first tool to 
accurately model the complex physics of the gas flow through a 
hypersonic ramjet/scramjet engine. This tool will save many millions of 
dollars by evaluating feasibility, predicting performance, and 
eliminating non-viable or too costly design concepts for future Navy 
weapon systems--all without having to actually build them (or scale

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models of them) for testing. The Flow Path Analysis Tool effort is an 
ongoing, but under-funded, program at the Navy's High Speed Weapons 
Center at China Lake. Previous funding has demonstrated the viability 
of the approach and is providing the first increment of computational 
fluid dynamics modeling of the ramjet/scramjet air inlet. The FPAT 
project, when completed, will provide the Navy's High Speed Weapons 
Center at China Lake and other DoD organizations with computational 
fluid dynamics capabilities to analyze and predict performance 
characteristics of future weapon systems that use ramjet/scramjet 
hypersonic engine technology. FPAT will capture an unprecedented amount 
of engine hypersonic flow data from the air inlet, through the engine, 
and out the exhaust. The cost benefits of physics-based tools that 
integrate modern design and analysis codes have been well documented.
  Project name: Rare Earth Mining Separation and Metal Production
  Requested amount: $3,000,000.00
  Recipient: Molycorp, 67750 Bailey Road, Mountain Pass, CA 92366
  Purpose: Rare earth metals and magnets are vital to a wide variety of 
Department of Defense applications. These metals and magnets are used 
in virtually all advanced military systems and clean energy 
technologies, yet currently, China controls nearly 100% of the world's 
rare earth metal production. This funding will speed the development of 
the critical manufacturing technologies necessary to revitalize U.S. 
domestic rare earth separation and metal production for DOD 
applications. To this end, the appropriated funds will be leveraged 
against more than $20 million in private capital to accelerate the 
engineering and scale of this work.
  Project name: National Eye Evaluation and Research Network
  Requested amount: $3,000,000.00
  Recipient: Foundation Fighting Blindness, 11435 Cronhill Drive, 
Owings Mills, MD, 21117-2220
  Purpose: NEER will directly benefit the warfighter by providing a 
readily available source to screen, enroll, and follow military 
patients and their families through clinical trials. Additionally, NEER 
will continue to interact with the newly formed DOD Vision Center of 
Excellence, which will eventually be housed at the Bethesda National 
Naval Medical Center. Many of the diseases to be studied are orphan 
diseases, impacting small populations. Consequently, they do not 
receive the attention of major government and private research and 
pharmaceutical organizations. Additionally, much of the research 
conducted on degenerative retinal diseases has a direct benefit to 
ongoing traumatic brain injury research to better understand the vision 
deficits associated with TBI.
  Project name: Inter Turbine Burner for Turbo Shaft Engines
  Requested amount: $3,000,000.00
  Recipient: Advanced Projects Research, Incorporated, 2850 U Street, 
San Bernardino, CA 92408
  Purpose: The Inter Turbine Burner is an engine alteration that adds a 
second combustor within a turbo shaft engine to increase power output 
and engine efficiency. This technology can be used as an upgrade to 
existing engines to provide greater power and performance in response 
to increased air or ground vehicle capability requirements and can be 
incorporated in new engine designs to provide both higher performance 
and greater fuel efficiency at lower engine speeds. This technology can 
be used on helicopters such as the UH-60 Blackhawk and military ground 
vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank to increase fuel efficiency and 
peak power, which are critical in the Global War on Terror.

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