[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 17 (Thursday, February 4, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E166-E167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, February 4, 2010

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, in accordance with the 
Republican Conference standards regarding Member initiatives, I am 
submitting the following information for publication in the 
Congressional Record regarding projects received as part of the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Mike Rogers (Alabama)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326, Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 Account: RDT&E, Army.
  Legal Name of Receiving Entity: Auburn University/Frontier 
Technology, Inc.
  Address of Receiving Entity: 102 Samford Hall, Auburn, AL 36849/1400 
Commerce Blvd., #27, Anniston, AL 36207
  Description of Request: Provide $2,800,000 for the Enhanced Military 
Vehicle Maintenance System Demonstration Project. Auburn University and 
partner Frontier Technology, Inc. will partner and use these funding 
will go towards system analysis, development, integration, validation 
and training, as well as toward field installation, optimization and 
support. Additionally, these efforts should create new high tech jobs, 
and will continue to demonstrate that Auburn University is a premier 
research and development university. The Enhanced Military Vehicle 
Maintenance System identities difficult to detect failure modes that 
must be serviced while the vehicle is undergoing maintenance. It models 
vehicle conditions to ensure that the vehicle is restored to an optimum 
state of operation prior to return to service. This technology can be 
modified for various military vehicles to detect problems not typically 
reported using threshold or trend systems. It detects problems before 
they happen, preventing breakdowns in battlefield environments. The 
system successfully verifies that vehicles repaired at the Depot have 
been restored to an optimum state of operation prior to redeployment. 
The system provides the cutting edge, cost effective technology that 
helps ensure more rapid and reliable deployment of critical military 
vehicles during this period when our equipment is under extreme and 
extended use. Auburn and FTI are now starting to implement the system 
at Anniston.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Mike Rogers (Alabama)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326, Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 Account: OM, Army
  Legal Name of Receiving Entity: Intergraph Corporation
  Address of Receiving Entity: 170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL 35758
  Description of Request: Provide $4,000,000 for the Fort Benning 
National Incident Management System (NIMS)--Compliant Installation 
Operations Center. Funding will be used to establish a NIMS-compliant 
installation operations center, hardware, software, services and 
training at Fort Benning, Georgia. This funding will go towards meeting 
the implementation of a NIMS-compliant installation operations center 
that will directly support Homeland Security Presidential Directive 
(HSPD)-5 by providing interoperability and cross-jurisdiction 
capabilities among local and multi-state response agencies. The request 
will allow Fort Benning to create a NIMS-compliant state-of-the-art 
operations center. This system will provide Fort Benning with the 
critically needed capability to track and protect new incidents and 
existing activities. The final solution will integrate first responder 
force protection and the fire fighting common operational picture into 
one comprehensive command and control/decision support capability that 
will provide visibility to the commander to gain status and direct 
response, analyze the current anti-terrorism and force protection 
mission, and allow for appropriate reporting to other operations 
centers throughout the country.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Mike Rogers (Alabama)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326, Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 Account: RDT&E, Army
  Legal Name of Receiving Entity: John C. Calhoun Community College
  Address of Receiving Entity: P.O. Box 2216, Decatur, Alabama 35609
  Description of Request: Provide $3,360,000 for the ART-SAM (Adaptive 
Robotics Technology for Space, Air and Missiles). Funding will be used 
to establish a national robotics Research and Development center at the 
Robotics Technology Park, located at Calhoun Community College, to 
develop robotics capability for space, air, and missile defense 
missions for a variety of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense 
Command (SMDC) projects, programs, and core mission needs. This funding 
will go towards implementation of the infrastructure and development of 
robotic hardware and software. This includes evaluating initial 
concepts for implementation, establishing operational capability, and 
demonstrating initial operational capability. This is the first year 
funding will be needed; this project will be accomplished over a three 
year funding cycle. Alabama's 3rd District will be impacted indirectly, 
and the opportunities for job creation and workforce development across 
the state are considerable. Additionally, the strong military-oriented 
mission for ART-SAM should apply directly to military operations and 
associated personnel in District 3. The implications of the ART-SAM 
vision will be readily apparent to any District 3 constituent already 
involved in battlefield simulation and robotics.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Mike Rogers (Alabama)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326, Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 Account: RDT&E, Army
  Legal Name of Receiving Entity: QinetiQ North America--Systems 
Engineering Group
  Address of Receiving Entity: 890 Explorer Blvd., Huntsville, AL 35806
  Description of Request: Provide $3,360,000 for Scenario Generation 
for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Evaluation. This funding will be 
used for the Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and 
Engineering Center, Software Engineering Directorate (SED) for 
development of ground test scenarios required to execute the Integrated 
Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System Milestone B Test 
and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP). Funding for this scenario 
development effort addresses a portion of a documented AMD UFR 
associated with System of Systems development and acquisition funding 
profile. Investment in this scenario development during FY10 will 
maintain the critical milestone schedule, including Milestone C and 
Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
  Requesting Member: Congressman Mike Rogers (Alabama)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326, Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 Account: RDT&E, Army
  Legal Name of Receiving Entity: PeopleTec, Inc.

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  Address of Receiving Entity: 4901-D Corporate Drive, Huntsville, AL 
35806
  Description of Request: Provide $3,120,001 for the Enhanced Rapid 
Tactical Integration for Fielding of Systems (ERTIFS). Funding will 
leverage and evolve ERTIFS developed Aviation and Missile 
interoperability technologies and systems. Funding will be used for 
engineering and development of the Army Battle Command System--Brigade 
Architecture (ABCS-BA), procurement, integration and testing of the 
ABCS-BA hardware, and ABCS-BA project to support four additional types 
of required interoperability Tests: 1) Individual System, 2) System of 
Systems (e.g., Software Blocking), 3) Backwards Compatibility--
Interoperability and 4) Regression Testing.

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