[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21919-21922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. JERRY LEWIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Madam Speaker, pursuant to Republican 
earmark guidance, I am submitting the following:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Advanced Technology Sensors and Payloads.
  Account: RDTE, DW.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trident Systems.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1615 Orange Tree Lane #104, Redlands, 
CA 92374.
  Description of Request: This funding will be used to research the 
production of a suite of new communications, control and data 
exploitation capabilities for use with multiple existing and planned 
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This project will provide Special 
Operations Forces (SOF) and other end-users with an Advanced, 
Miniaturized, Frequency-Agile Communication & Control (AMFACC) system, 
consisting of a secure, long-range, high-bandwidth, frequency-agile 
communications link; a common payload control and data exploitation 
capability for use across multiple payloads (e.g., cameras, radar 
systems, infrared sensors); and a streamlined vehicle control 
interface. This project will provide several critically-needed 
capabilities to extend the reach and operational flexibility of UAVs in 
theater.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Devices for Portable Power.
  Account: RDTE, Defense Wide.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of California, Riverside.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 
92521.
  Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue the 
research and development carbon nanotube technology for portable power. 
Recently scientists at the Center for Nanoscience for Defense at the 
University of California-Riverside have introduced a revolutionary 
improvement to hydrogen fuel cells by fabricating some of the important 
components from thin films of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The UltraCell 
fuel cell platform has already been selected by the Army and if the CNT 
fuel cell technology could be adapted to this system there is the 
possibility of a new generation of simpler and more compact fuel cells, 
which will reliably deliver power at lower cost than conventional fuel 
cells. In order to bring these two technologies together it is 
necessary to engineer high temperature membranes in combination with 
gas diffusion electrodes composed of thin films of carbon nanotubes.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology.
  Account: RDTE, N.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San 
Bernardino.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San 
Bernardino, CA 92407.
  Description of Request: This funding will be used to further a 
collaborative partnership with California State University, San 
Bernardino (CSUSB), San Diego State University, and the Space and Naval 
Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, along with other government, 
academic, and industry representatives. This partnership offers a 
proven process for accelerating technology to meet priority military 
and homeland defense requirements. It integrates current technology 
transfer and commercialization efforts. Find high-tech solutions for 
DoD, national priorities to assist researchers in laboratories in 
commercializing new technologies, and develop educational 
infrastructure to train managers and entrepreneurs. The 
commercialization of advanced technology promotes business and 
entrepreneurial ventures. Key focus on commercializing technologies 
developed in government labs and/ or funded under the SBIR program,

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transitioning technologies from the commercial sector to meet 
government priorities. With continued military efforts in the War on 
Terrorism, Homeland Defense initiatives, the need for advanced 
technological solutions for personnel protection, enhanced situational 
awareness, NBCR protection, and critical military operations is 
paramount.
  Amount: 2,500,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Conventional Strike Mission Integration Demonstration.
  Account: RDTE, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northrop Grumman.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 862 Hospitality Lane, #100, San 
Bernardino, CA.
  Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue the 
research and development of the Conventional Strike Mission Integration 
Demonstration. The Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), has 
expressed great interest in a capability for prompt conventional-weapon 
strike against time-urgent high value targets such as Weapons of Mass 
Destruction (WMDs) at global ranges from the U.S. The objective is to 
provide military options at times of national crisis, or when our 
homeland or our allies are threatened by an imminent and devastating 
attack. A conventionally armed ballistic missile provides a 
transformational capability with the promptness and assured defense 
penetration to defeat small numbers of extremely time critical targets. 
This funding will produce demonstrations which will provide validation 
of Prompt Global Strike (PGS) command and control concepts to ensure 
mission success, while addressing the constraints of missile-based 
conventional warfare, including maintenance of a ``clear bright line'' 
between nuclear and conventional capabilities.
  Amount: $6,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Cyber Threat Analytics.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Metaflows/SRI.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 22 N. 6th Street, Redlands, CA 92373.
  Description of Request: 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 wide-spread self-propagating malicious 
software.
  Amount: $3,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Center for Innovative Geospatial Technology.
  Account: Intelligence Activities.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: ESRI.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 
92373.
  Description of Request: This funding will be used to continue 
activities such as modeling homeland security hazard assessments and 
responses at the Center for Innovative Geospatial Technology.
  Amount: $10,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Collaboration Gateway.
  Account: RDTE, DW.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trident Systems.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1615 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 
92374.
  Description of Request: This project fulfills an urgent need to 
establish effective, certified cross-domain collaboration among 
multiple security domains at different security levels in a Coalition 
operations context. Building on successful research conducted under 
SBIR topic AF05-093, this project will provide the software, hardware, 
and certification testing necessary to enable multiple Coalition 
nations to collaborate while enforcing each nation's security 
requirements. The product of this research will be a complete Coalition 
Cross-Domain Collaboration environment, including all software, 
hardware, documentation, and test results to support certification of 
the final product by the Unified Cross Domain Management Office 
(UCDMO). This project will also support installation, tailoring, and 
site accreditation for a Coalition environment of interest.
  Amount: $1,500,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Integrated Information Technology Policy Analysis 
Research.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San 
Bernardino.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San 
Bernardino, CA 92407.
  Description of Request: This is a collaborative effort, California 
State University, San Bernardino with the Army Research Laboratory, 
advancing the Army's transformation to Network Centric Operations 
(NCO)/Network Centric Warfare through Integrated Information Technology 
Policy Analysis Research. The objective is to translate an information 
advantage into a warfighting advantage through robust networking of 
geographically dispersed forces. This project seeks to provide analyses 
of policy barriers and enhance web-based technology for commanders to 
effectively get needed information to soldiers expeditiously. The Army 
faces ongoing challenges in implementing NCO which demands continuous 
and rapid transition of information technology into defense systems. 
The Army must keep policy impacting IT security in sync with those 
technology advances. In terms of access to classified data, a 
tremendous gap exists between technological capability and legal and 
governmental doctrine.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Inter Turbine Burner for Turbo Shaft Engines.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advanced Projects Research 
Incorporated.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 26770 W Street, San Bernardino, CA 
92408.
  Description of Request: 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 Ml Abrams tank to 
increase fuel efficiency and peak power.
  Amount: $4,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Integrated Propulsion Analysis Tool.
  Account: RDTE, AF.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1849 N. Wabash Ave., Redlands, CA 
92374.
  Description of Request: The Integrated Propulsion Analysis Tool 
(IPAT) is an engineering software application for the design and 
analysis of spacecraft launch vehicles. IPAT currently provides the Air 
Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base with critical launch 
vehicle analytical capabilities that include complex, competing 
alternatives analysis and selection; design risk identification and 
mitigation; concepts of operation development; and life-cycle system 
cost, schedule, and performance trade-off analysis. The Integrated 
Propulsion Analysis Tool directly supports many of the Air Force's new 
major system acquisition programs including Conventional Ballistic 
Missile, Prompt Global Strike, and Operationally Responsive Space. IPAT 
is the premier integrated analysis tool supporting this nation's 
leadership role in developing propulsion technologies, aerospace 
vehicles, tactical and strategic missiles, re-entry vehicles, and 
spacecraft.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
   Project Name: Integrated Spacecraft Engineering Tool.
  Account: RDTE, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1849 N. Wabash Ave., Redlands, CA 
92374.
  Description of Request: This funding will further research on life 
cycle cost/risk modeling software. This software accurately 
characterizes the cost of a space program and allows Air Force 
acquisition leadership to understand the impacts of design decisions 
during the very early phases of the program when knowledge-based 
decisions yield the highest life-cycle cost savings. The Integrated 
Spacecraft Engineering Tool (ISET) program quantifies a program's cost/
risk uncertainties statistically, with particular focus upon technology 
readiness levels and their relevant cost and risk impacts.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.

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  Project Name: Synchrotron-Based Scanning Research Neuroscience and 
Proton Institute.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Loma Linda University Medical 
Center.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 11175 Campus Drive, Loma Linda, CA 
92354.
  Description of Request: 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 
successfully expand efforts in the treatment of people with currently 
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 and reactions, both in the 
military and civilian populations.
  Amount: $5,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: M156 MI-RAMS.
  Account: P, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Magneto Inductive Systems Limited.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 115 Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, CA 
92408.
  Description of Request: The Magneto Inductive Remote Activation 
Munitions System (MI-RAMS) provides command and control of land based 
ordnance, including tactical demolitions, munitions, signals, active 
barriers required for terrain dominance by US Army Combat Engineer 
Forces and Army and Navy Special Operations Forces (SEALs) in the harsh 
urban, littoral, dense jungle, blue water (to include ice fields), 
desert, and arctic conditions. It provides the ability to remotely 
initiate and/or control tactical ordnance items for target 
neutralization through buildings, concrete, metal, subterranean 
structures, tunnels, caves, and under water which current radio 
frequency devices cannot accomplish.
  Amount: $3,500,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: MI-RAMS.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Magneto Inductive Systems Limited.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 115 Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, CA 
92408.
  Description of Request: The Magneto Inductive Remote Activation 
Munition System (MI-RAMS) provides command and control of land based 
ordnance, including tactical demolitions, munitions, signals, active 
barriers required for terrain dominance by US Army Combat Engineer 
Forces and Army and Navy Special Operations Forces (SEALs) in the harsh 
urban, littoral, dense jungle, blue water (to include ice fields), 
desert, and arctic conditions. It provides the ability to remotely 
initiate and/or control tactical ordnance items for target 
neutralization through buildings, concrete, metal, subterranean 
structures, tunnels, caves, and under water which current radio 
frequency devices cannot accomplish. Funding will provide for LRIP/Type 
Classification efforts of a dual frequency hybrid B receiver and key 
system enhancements to increase functionality to include a digital 
display to enhance ease-of-use for combat engineers.
  Amount: $3,500,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Norton AFB Infrastructure Improvements.
  Account: OM, Defense Wide.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Inland Valley Development Agency.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 294 S. Leland Norton Way, Suite 1, San 
Bernardino, CA 92408.
  Description of Request: The OEA in the Department of Defense is 
tasked 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.
  Amount: $6,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Spintronics Memory Storage Technology.
  Account: RDTE, Defense Wide.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of California, Riverside.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 
92521.
  Description of Request: 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. In this effort we 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.
  Amount: $3,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Advanced Starting Systems.
  Account: OM, Army National Guard.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northstar JPS.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1675 Cabrera Ave, San Bernardino, CA 
92411.
  Description of Request: The funding would be used for the production 
of air and ground multiple start advanced starting systems for the Army 
National Guard.
  Amount: $500,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Technology Commercialization and Management Network.
  Account: RDTE, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, San 
Bernardino.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 5500 University Parkway, San 
Bernardino, CA 92407.
  Description of Request: In collaboration with the Army Research 
Laboratory (ARL) California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) 
supports Technology Commercialization and Management Network through 
the Integrated Technology Transfer Network (ITTN). The program 
strengthens the Army's capacity in defense by identifying and fast-
tracking the transfer of technology, improving situational intelligence 
for commanders and soldiers in the field, and leveraging and enabling 
interdependent and network-centric warfare. The future 
commercialization of technologies will require a special combination of 
skills that traverse the boundaries of entrepreneurship, business, and 
science. The ITTN program addresses this by implementing a 
comprehensive program of training, to perform research and work in the 
Army Laboratory and technology companies. Students acquire special 
skills needed through an intensive applied curriculum of business and 
entrepreneurship courses, experiential learning through apprenticeships 
and mentoring with CSUSB faculty and the Army Research Laboratory.
  Amount: $2,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Facility Security using Tactical Surveys.
  Account: RDTE, DW.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Tactical Survey Group.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 2800 North Little Mountain Drive, Bldg 
D, San Bernardino, CA 92405.
  Description of Request: 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 also then allows precise advanced 
planning of emergency response, conduct of realistic exercises, and 
detailed training of individuals.
  Amount: $3,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.

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  Project Name: Tactical Video Capture System.
  Account: P, Marine Corps.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: L3 Communications.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 600 Third Ave, NY, NY 10016.
  Description of Request: Initiated by DARPA research funds, the 
Tactical Video Capture System (TVCS) was developed as the first 
intelligent video system that provides Real-Time Visualization, 
Situation Awareness, and After Action Review for the USMC Pre-
Deployment Training Program and particularly for urban warfare training 
operations. Praetorian is an operating system that stitches live or 
recorded video onto a textured 3D model of the training site's terrain 
and infrastructure. TVCS provides intuitive, easily understood 
situational awareness in 3D context from large numbers of video feeds 
on a single screen. Praetorian also allows an on-the-ground trainer to 
see video on mobile PDA's, so they are equipped with actionable 
information. From remote TVCS stations, trainers will have the ability 
to effortlessly move through the width, depth, and height of the 
training area with full visual awareness of events as they unfold.
  Amount: $4,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Education.
  Account: Intelligence Activities.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Redlands.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1200 East Colton Ave, PO Box 3080, 
Redlands, CA 92373.
  Description of Request: 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 professionally-oriented graduate education 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.
  Amount: $1,000,000.00.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Jerry Lewis.
  Project Name: Micro-Satellite Serial Manufacturing.
  Account: RDTE, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Southern California.
  Address of Requesting Entity: USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
  Description of Request: USC is requesting continuation of the 
Microsatellite Serial Manufacturing project initiated as a 
demonstration project in fiscal years 2006, 2007 and continued in 2008. 
The project is having success in developing new serial manufacturing 
methodologies that produce microsatellites more quickly, thereby 
allowing the U.S. to be responsive to national security space needs. 
Serial methods build families of microsatellites where the knowledge of 
the prior designs is harnessed serially on the next microsatellite; 
short cycle times (approximately 1015 months) that give important 
insights into the entire satellite construction process, something 
impossible in today's typical 10-year cycles. The project's educational 
outreach component supports National Security Space (NSS) and the 
Intelligence Community (IC) in order to provide much-needed and 
security-cleared graduate and undergraduate engineers for the future 
national security workforce.
  Amount: $1,000,000.00.

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