[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21963-21964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                             HON. TOM DAVIS

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. DAVIS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the Republican 
Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following 
information for publication in the Congressional Record regarding 
earmarks I received as part of H.R. 2638, the Consolidated Security, 
Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Included in H.R. 2638 is funding for the following projects and 
programs that I submitted:
  1. $2,800,000 for Surface ASW in the Navy's Research, Development, 
Test & Evaluation account. The entity to receive funding for this 
project is DDL Omni Engineering, LLC at 8260 Greensboro Drive, Suite 
600, McLean, VA 22102. The funding will be used for the Automated 
Readiness Measurement System (ARMS). ARMS is intended to provide 
commanders a real-time tactical decisionmaking tool with constant 
assessment of the mission readiness of personnel and units. The program 
will include the ability to analyze performance against Navy Mission 
Essential Tasks and will develop the readiness assessment to assist 
commanders in making tactical employment decisions. DDL Omni expects to 
expend any funds provided over a two year period in the development of 
ARMS within the Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Area.
  2. $2,000,000 for Airborne Mine Countermeasures in the Navy's 
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation account. The funding will be 
received by Progeny Systems at 9500 Innovation Drive, Manassas, VA 
20110. The funding will be used for the Airborne Mine Countermeasures 
``Open Architecture'' Technology Insertion. This funding continues a 
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant and will result in 
significantly improved mine countermeasures capabilities. Anti-ship 
mines are becoming the weapon of choice and are not only advancing in 
capability, but are being proliferated to a number of countries and 
terrorist groups who previously could not produce the weapons on their 
own. This poses a significant threat to U.S. forward deployed naval 
forces and battle groups as well as shipborne commercial commerce. To 
meet and keep pace with these threats, the Navy needs improved mine 
detection, classification, and neutralization capabilities that can be 
easily and quickly modernized.
  3. $800,000 for Environmental Technology in the Army's Research, 
Development, Test & Evaluation account. The entity to receive funding 
for this project is Vanguard Research, Inc./EnerSol Technologies, Inc. 
at 1235 South Clark Street, Suite 501, Arlington, VA 22202. The funding 
will be used for the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System (PEPS) Clean Fuels 
project. The PEPS system turns renewable resources such as biomass into 
gas in order to produce alternative transportation biofuels for

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the US Army. These funds will be spent over a one-year period to 
continue plasma torch testing.
  4. $800,000 for Conventional Weapons Technology in the Air Force's 
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation account. The entity to receive 
funding for this project is Aerojet at 5731 Wellington Road, 
Gainesville, VA 20155. The funding will be used for the High Speed 
Anti-radiation Demonstration (HSAD). The High Speed Anti-radiation 
Demonstration (HSAD) program aims to demonstrate the feasibility of 
using an existing Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) to 
create an advanced weapon by replacing the traditional solid rocket 
motor propulsion with advanced air-breathing, hypersonic propulsion. 
Successful demonstration will give the Navy the opportunity to provide 
needed enhanced capabilities to the warfighter sooner. Funding for this 
project would be spent as follows: Navy Program Office: Systems 
engineering ($175K), Operational Analysis ($100K); Aerojet: Tactical 
missile component design development and analysis ($220K), Lightweight 
ramjet engine component testing ($2450K), Ramjet engine safety 
engineering and analysis ($155K); Raytheon: Guidance system conceptual 
design ($600K), Operational analysis ($150K).

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