[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21924-21925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                     HON. HOWARD P. ``BUCK'' McKEON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. McKEON. 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. 2638, ``The Consolidated 
Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. 
This submission is in addition to my prior submission of an earmark 
contained in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009.''
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard ``Buck'' McKeon. 
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Account: Research Development Test and Evaluation, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Advatech Pacific, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 950 E. Palmdale Blvd., Suite C, 
Palmdale, CA 93550.
  Description of Request: At my request, $1.2 million for the continued 
operation of the Advanced Vehicle Propulsion Center (AVPC) is included 
in the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009. The AVPC, which 
provides the Air Force with a unique, world-class engineering modeling 
and simulation environment for analysis and engineering of current and 
future space vehicles, missiles, and advanced weapon concepts. The AVPC 
leverages and integrates the best engineering, analysis, and cost tools 
from government, industry, and academia. The AVPC directly supports 
analyses of alternatives, the fundamental first step in the formal DOD 
weapon systems acquisition process and plays a key role directly 
supporting the following Air Force Research Laboratory programs at 
Edwards Air Force Base: Prompt Global Strike, Common Aero Vehicle, 
Operationally Responsive Space for strategic and tactical commanders, 
and Conventional Ballistic Missile. AVPCs detailed technical 
engineering analysis also provides cost versus risk trade-off analysis 
across missions, systems, operations, and infrastructures.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard ``Buck'' McKeon. 
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Account: Research Development Test and Evaluation, Air Force.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Aerojet-General Corporation.
  Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 13222, Sacramento, CA 95813-
6000, USA.
  Description of Request: At my request, $1.4 million to help return 
the Hydrocarbon Boost Technology Demonstrator program to its initial 
programmed funding level is included in the Defense Appropriations Act 
for Fiscal Year 2009. This critical, next-generation liquid rocket 
engine development effort run by the Air Force Research Laboratory at 
Edwards AFB will not only provide the highest performing hydrocarbon 
engines ever developed in the United States, but also will provide 
higher operability, lower costs and greater safety with higher 
reliability than any liquid booster engine ever made in the U.S. and 
perhaps the world. Since the federal government is the primary end-
user, it is logical that federal funding support the initiative. While 
a match is not required, during the past eight years, Aerojet has 
invested approximately $30 million in internal research and development 
funding on this technology and intends continued support in FY09.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard ``Buck'' McKeon.

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  Bill Number: H.R. 2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Account: Research Development Test and Evaluation, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded 
Computing.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 28965 Avenue Penn, Santa Clarita, CA 
91355, USA.
  Description of Request: At my request, $2.4 million to develop a 
Common Ground Combat System electronic architecture prototype is 
included in the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009. This 
project will include replacement of legacy military standard based 
data-bus components with modem commercial standards based network 
centric capable components, the consolidation of obsolete electronic 
subsystems into common electronic modules and assemblies providing 
greatly reduced space, weight, and power consumption and the 
implementation of a two-level maintenance approach using newly 
standardized commercial electronic module technology. Funding is 
intended to be spent on program management, electronics obsolescence 
study, electronics commonality study, design concept development, 
design concept demonstrators, and a heavy brigade combat team Modular 
Open Systems Approach (MOSA) application report. The advantage of this 
approach to the Department of the Army is an evolutionary capability 
migration allowing the Future Force to operate with the current force. 
This project can be completed in FY09.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard ``Buck'' McKeon.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Account: Research Development Test and Evaluation, Navy.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Aerojet-General Corporation.
  Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 13222, Sacramento, CA 95813-
6000.
  Description of Request: At my request, $800,000 in project funding 
for risk reduction of the High Speed Anti-Radiation Demonstration 
(HSAD) is included in the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
2009. Following a successful test flight of the HSAD, this funding will 
be spent for Navy program management, tactical missile component design 
development and analysis, lightweight ramjet engine component testing, 
ramjet engine safety engineering and analysis, guidance system 
conceptual design, and operational analysis. The basic HSAD program 
focuses on demonstrating the feasibility and viability of using 
variable flow ducted rocket propulsion technology for the propulsion 
portion of planned advanced weapon systems. This request is consistent 
with the intended and authorized purpose of the account and the project 
is under the direction of the Naval Air Warfare Center.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Howard ``Buck'' McKeon.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Account: Other Procurement, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: General Atomics.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3550 General Atomics, San Diego, CA 
92186-5606.
  Description of Request: At my request, $1.6 million in project 
funding for the U.S. Army Warrior UAV program is included in the 
Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009. SAR/GMTI radar is an 
integral part of the U.S. Army Warrior program. A current buy of six 
Warrior Block 0 aircraft has no provision for radars. Included funding 
will be used for to procure Lynx II SAR/GMTI radars and spares for the 
Army's six Warrior Block 0 aircraft. Integration of Lynx II on the 
Warrior Block 0 aircraft will provide a fleet of aircraft with common 
radar and the highest level of all weather, broad area surveillance 
capability.

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