[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 192 (Thursday, December 17, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E3031-E3032]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. GREGG HARPER

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 16, 2009

  Mr. HARPER. 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--Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 2010.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: Regional Counter-Drug Training Academy--Meridian
  Project Amount: $2,800,000
  Account: Operating Forces Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug 
Activities, Defense
  Recipient and Address: MS National Guard, Naval Air Station, 219 
Fuller Road, Meridian, Mississippi
  Description of Request: The National Guard Bureau identified a Fiscal 
Year 2009 unfunded requirement of $24.2M for Counterdrug (CD) Schools. 
With appropriate funding, CD schools will be better positioned to 
provide counter narcotics-based training programs critical to domestic 
law enforcement against narcoterrorism. The RCTA Meridian budget has 
shown little growth since FY2000, yet the costs associated with 
training law enforcement officers have increased by approximately 20 
percent.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: On-Board Hybrid Power Unit (OBHPU)
  Project Amount: $1,040,000
  Account: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army
  Recipient and Address: Diversified Technology, 476 Highland Colony 
Parkway, Ridgeland, MS 39157
  Description of Request: 2010 funding will ensure the completion of, 
field-testing, development, integration plan and a training program for 
the production version of the OBHPU 10 KW system. The Space and Missile 
Defense Command (SMDC) supports the OBHPU program to provide on-board 
electric power to deployed radar and missile systems, and is applicable 
in many other fields.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: Simulation Based Reliability and Safety (SimBRS) 
Program
  Project Amount: $4,900,000
  Account: Army, Combat Vehicle and Automotive Advanced Technology
  Recipient and Address: Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 6301, 
Mississippi State, MS 39762.
  Description of Request: SimBRS engages in synergized research and 
development experimentally validated cradle-to-grave modeling and 
simulation capabilities to optimize reliability in vehicular components 
and systems with consideration of uncertainties in input loads, 
manufacturing, operations and maintenance, and material properties to 
decrease weight and cost, and yet increase the performance, durability, 
and safety of the warfighter. This initiative is a follow-on effort to 
ongoing Mississippi State University simulation based reliability 
systems research.

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  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: VePro--Health Usage Monitoring and Vehicle Prognostics
  Project Amount: $2,880,000
  Account: Army, Combat Vehicle and Automotive Advanced Technology
  Recipient and Address: nCode International, 200 Research Blvd., 
Starkville, MS 39759
  Description of Request: Better understanding of operational usage 
severity is critical for vehicle designs to reliably meet needs at 
minimum cost and weight. VePro will save billions of dollars spent 
annually on maintaining U.S. Army equipment, improve readiness and 
reduce danger to soldiers from unexpected vehicle failures. The next 
stage is to evolve these into scalable, robust cost effective pre-
production Vehicle Health Management Systems (VHMS)--technology 
configuration, manufacturing, assembly and testing for pre-production 
systems.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: F-15C AESA Classified Demo
  Project Amount: $8,000,000
  Account: Air Force, F-15E Squadrons
  Recipient and Address: Raytheon, Forest Consolidated Manufacturing 
Center, 19859 Highway 80, Forest, MS 39074
  Description of Request: Funding will be used for the final year of a 
3-year development effort to demonstrate APG-63(V)3 Active 
Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) classified capability with a Radar 
Common Data Link (RCDL). ANG and USAF F-15s are the backbone of forces 
assigned to perform a significant portion of the Nation's Homeland 
Defense mission, protecting the United States from attack by an 
airborne threat. FY10 funding will complete the third and final phase 
of the 3-year RCDL demonstration program.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: Silicon Carbide Electronics Material Producibility 
Initiative
  Project Amount: $2,400,000
  Account: Air Force, Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems
  Recipient and Address: II-VI Wide Band Gap Materials Group, 201 
Research Blvd., Starkville, MS 39759
  Description of Request: Funding will be used to develop technology, 
and establish production capability, along with evaluation and testing 
of SiC materials and integrated circuits for use in high power, high 
frequency DoD weapons systems and platforms. Future mission 
requirements dictate a range of current and next-generation U.S. 
Military systems requiring critical high frequency and high power 
components with dramatically enhanced capabilities which are 
unattainable with current technology.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gregg Harper
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Project Name: Advanced, Long Endurance Unattended Ground Sensor 
Technologies
  Project Amount: $3,920,000
  Account: Defense-Wide, Special Operations Intelligence Systems 
Development
  Recipient and Address: Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 6301, 
Mississippi State, MS 39762
  Description of Request: A significant challenge in modern military 
operations is the ability to achieve and maintain real-time battlefield 
situational awareness. Achieving battlefield situational awareness 
requires the ability to robustly and persistently monitor the movements 
of the adversary in near real-time across a wide range of operational 
environments including foliage, mountainous, and urban terrain. This 
initiative is a follow-on effort to ongoing Mississippi State 
University Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) research and development in 
support of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

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