Item Name: Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES) 5
Request: $7,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Goodrich Corporation
Location: Hurricane, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Advanced Common Ejection Seat (ACES) is the common ejection seat found on almost every Air Force combat aircraft, including the F-22, F-15, F-16, F-117, A-10, B-1 and B-2. The ACES system has saved more than 500 pilots since the 1970's. ACES 5, can accomplish substantial operations and maintenance cost savings for the Air Force's stealth aircraft to include the B-2, F-22, and F-35. By virtue of the seat's modularity, maintenance personnel can rapidly and efficiently remove seats for repair in four separate parts without the need for escape hatch removal in the case of the B-2 or canopy removal in the case of the F-22. With this modular capability, the aircraft's stealthy skin is not disturbed, thereby saving tens of thousands of dollars per operational or depot level maintenance inspection. Additional benefits include a dramatic decrease in man-hours to perform seat maintenance, which significantly reduces maintenance downtime and enables increased mission readiness rates for the aircraft. Savings would be further increased by leveraging a uniform family of modular ejection seats to minimize maintenance training costs.
Item: Advanced Radiological Threat Imaging Technology
Request: $7,100,000
Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: Varian Medical Systems
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
High-energy x-ray screening using mercuric iodide (HgI2) is capable of penetrating containers, suspect packages, and objects of unknown origin to generate quality images in seconds. X-ray sources are readily available and rugged enough to be carried into the field. However, current "imaging sensors" are fragile and environmentally sensitive to vibration and temperature, limiting the ability to use them in the field. We are proposing to research and eventually manufacture imaging sensors that are low cost, rugged, and environmentally more stable. Our films also require a lower x-ray energy dose while providing higher resolution images. These advantages make it possible to provide Force Protection through enhanced x-ray threat detection that is portable, lighter weight, and cost effective.
Force Protection benefits include: Portable x-ray inspection of CBRNE threats, gate guard inspection of vehicles, inspection of cargo packages and containers, enhanced medical imaging with lower x-ray dosage, and potential Robotic screening of aircraft, vehicles, and people.
Item Name: Advanced Ship Self Defense Technology Testing
Request: $7,400,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: General Atomics
Location: Salt Lake City, UT and San Diego, CA
Purpose/Project Description:
U.S. Navy ships are operating in the littorals around the globe more frequently than ever before, yet defensive weapon systems employed in this challenging environment have not significantly changed in over 25 years. Operations in coastal waters introduce significant challenges for naval vessels: small, high speed boats using increasingly sophisticated technology and tactics; shore based anti-ship cruise missiles; and resurgence in piracy and weapons smuggling. These evolving threats in a vastly different environment demand the development of ship self defense technology that provides greater mobility, flexibility, range and lethality than today's systems.
The Advanced Ship Self Defense Technology Testing project will utilize the results obtained in the initial funding to develop the full scale system ready for testing and, upon successful testing, transition to a production ready capability. The development of the full scale electromagnetic (EM) launcher system, inclusive of the mobile power supply, energy storage, guidance and control systems and loading systems will provide the Navy with a fully demonstrated and testing capability to meet these emerging threats. This EM launcher system application is based upon the Navy's EM Launcher System, but adapted to meet a vastly different threat environment and requirements. These portable systems would complement current self defense systems and provide a significant improvement in ship defense against high speed small boats and even anti-ship cruise missiles.
Item Name: Arc Fault Circuit Breaker (AFCB) with Arc Location System
Request: $4,290,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Live Wire Test Labs
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The US Navy reports that it spends 7.3 maintenance hours per flight hour on wiring alone, experiences an average of two in flight fires per month, and had over 1100 mission aborts in one year. Intermittent electrical faults cause many in-flight problems including fires, loss of control, and a host of other inaccurate electrical responses. Arc fault circuit breakers (AFCB) have been developed to reduce the damage caused by these intermittent faults, including the in flight fires, but their widespread deployment in the fleet is limited by maintenance concerns about how to locate and fix the intermittent fault that caused the breaker to trip. Traditional circuit breakers leave large faults that are easy to find; AFCBs leave small, nearly invisible faults that are difficult to locate. Arc fault Location technology will be integrated with AFCBs arc fault Detection technology to enable their widespread deployment and use. This will improve safety, mission readiness, as well as significantly decrease electrical system maintenance costs.
Item Name: Army Force Generation Synchronization Tool
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Operations and Maintenance, Army
Suggested Recipient: ProModel Corporation
Location: Orem, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
ProModel requests additional funding to expand the use of the Army Force Generation Synchronization Tool because of the US Army's pressing need to enhance its capability to develop more precise predictive estimates of the people, equipment and training needed to fight the Global War on Terror,
This funding would directly serve the warfighter. This software manages the rotation of those troops and other military personnel currently in the field. It helps the Army determine how long to rest troops (brigade level), and when they need new training cycles as well as equipment resets. Most importantly, it allows the Army to manage and plan these scenarios well into the future giving troops, their families and employers (in the case of Guard/Reserves) significantly more notice of deployment cycles and down periods. In the past, the uncertainty of such decisions and decision reversals on short notice were major causes of stress on military families; this software reduces significantly such stresses. With limited deployment of the current software, FORSCOM has already seen benefits and returns on investment from the technology by reducing hundreds of man-hours in producing key products for decision makers and enabling a more rapid, higher quality response to an unlimited number of "what if's" being asked by senior leadership.
Item Name: Automated Aerial Refueling Relative Navigation (AAR/RelNav)
Request: $49,448,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Northrup Grumman
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Air Force is executing an Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) program demonstrating the feasibility of autonomous refueling for current and next-generation Air Force manned and unmanned aircraft. Providing real-time, precise navigation parameters between and among airborne tankers and single or multiple UAVs is a key enabling technology for AAR. RelNav has already been demonstrated successfully in a controlled stand alone environment with manned aircraft. Integration of the demonstration RelNav software algorithms into production inertial navigation system (INS/GPS) flight hardware and subsequent AAR demonstration is currently funded. However, the design, engineering, integration and testing of algorithms meeting the critical Air Force safety, reliability and operational readiness is not currently funded.
Item Name: Automated Composite Technologies and Manufacturing Center Defense Production Act Title III Program
Request: $10,000,000
Account: Defense Production Act Purchases
Suggested Recipient: Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Location: Clearfield, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Current domestic fiber placement industrial production capacity does not support future military program needs, such as those for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. The Automated Composite Technologies and Manufacturing Center (ACTMC) Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program was created to increase affordable and assured domestic fiber placement capacity for items essential for national defense. However, the Title III FY2010 budget contains insufficient funds to conclude the current program, which addresses the need to increase domestic fiber placement industrial production capacity.
Military production programs, such as the JSF program, have placed significant demands on the market for fiber-placed composite products, far exceeding current domestic market supply. The $36 million Title III ACTMC project was initiated to scale-up enhanced fiber placement processing technologies. To date, $20 million in program funding has been provided, focused on acquisition and implementation of fiber placement and tape-laying processing head technologies, including new equipment and support facilities. The project has also included evaluation and modification of current automated production processing capabilities, as well as qualification of new equipment and facilities. At the conclusion of this project, to be co-located with Hill Air Force Base, a world-class center of excellence for fiber placement and tape-laying composite aircraft manufacturing technologies will be created, augmenting Hill's repair depot capabilities. Government benefits include: (a) sufficient domestic fiber placement industrial capacity to support critical military programs, (b) higher performing composite processing equipment, and (c) maintenance of domestic defense production capacity of technically challenging composite parts.
Item Name: AutoScan Under Vehicle Inspection
Request: $6,300,000
Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: Kachemak Research Development (KRD), Inc.
Location: Bountiful, UT and Homer, AK
Purpose/Project Description:
As part of the inspection protocol at every military base, CONUS and OCONUS, the undercarriage of every delivery vehicle must be inspected. Standard inspection protocols have been comprised of a mirror on a stick or search pits. AutoScan makes it possible for inspection personnel to maintain a safe stand-off. Additionally, it stores images for later comparison and analysis if needed. And it provides one, complete, clear image in real-time. AutoScan is a stationary under vehicle inspection system that captures the entire undercarriage image of vehicles, ranging in size from passenger vehicles to semi-trucks. Because of the unique capabilities of AutoScan, vehicles do not need to maintain a constant speed as they travel across the system. Funds will be used for enhancements and beta testing of AutoScan generation 2 and 3 architecture of an under vehicle inspection system developed by KRD. The new system will give units anomaly detection systems which will assist in the identification of security threats placed under vehicles. Additional improvements will be made to provide for robotic use of the system. This development would allow personnel to maneuver the system in advance to search under vehicles parked on or alongside roads. The addition of robotics will make the system maneuverable and greatly enhance its field capabilities.
Item Name: Aviation Initiative Lab
Request: $1,450,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Weber State University
Location: Ogden, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
In March 2008 Weber State University launched the WSU Aviation Initiative. This initiative aims to serve the nation's aviation and aerospace industries by conducting contracted applied research for aviation industry partners and clients. The WSU Aviation Initiative offers solutions for technical problems, employing engineers and scientists who apply their knowledge to contemporary aviation issues.
In one year, the initiative has partnered with regional and national clients to address important applied research projects. Partners for completed and underway projects include ATK, Barnes Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright, Parker Aerospace, Sky West Airlines, the United States Air Force, and the Utah Test and Training Range. With a growing track-record of delivering results, we anticipate the workload of the WSU Aviation Initiative to increase. In addition, growth in the Northern Utah aerospace sector, including the development of the largest enhanced-use lease in the DoD, Falcon Hill, on the west side of Hill Air Force Base, will also result in additional demand for WSU Aviation Initiative services.
The Aviation Initiative Lab has been located in existing facilities on the WSU Ogden Campus. We are now in process of procuring equipment to meet the complex demands of our client base, as well as gaining necessary security levels and clearances required for an increasing number of projects. Congressional investment in lab infrastructure will position the WSU Aviation Initiative Lab to better serve the growing complexity of the Northern Utah aerospace sector as a vital component of the United States efforts to maintain aviation supremacy.
Item Name: Beryllium Supply Industrial Base
Request: $19,500,000
Account: Defense Production Act Purchases
Suggested Recipient: Brush Wellman
Location: Elmore, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Beryllium Supply Industrial Base project will ensure the establishment of a domestic production capability for beryllium metal to meet essential national security requirements. Beryllium is a strategic metal, critical to many advanced weapons systems currently in use by the transformational Armed Services. Its unique combination of light weight, stiffness, and thermal properties makes it the material of choice for components and structural applications in systems ranging from surveillance satellites to hand-held infra-red target designators used by ground troops. Beryllium is also used widely in airborne FLIR's, onboard avionics and countermeasures, components on the missile defense system, etc. In November 2005, a contract was let through the DPA, Title III program to perform the engineering design of a new primary beryllium facility. Construction began mid-summer 2008 with plant start-up in 2010 and full production in 2011.
Item Name: C-17A Globemaster
Request: $4,000,000,000
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: The Boeing Company
Location: Long Beach, CA
Purpose/Project Description:
With a growing need for strategic aircraft to meet global airlift needs additional C-17s are the only solution that meets this critical shortfall in military capability. This request procures 15 C-17s, keeping the only active strategic airlift production line open.
Item Name: CAD/CAM Aircraft Structural Overhaul Work Center
Request: $2,500,000
Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: Mission Support, Inc.
Location: Clearfield, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Structural overhaul for mature aircraft is largely accomplished with tooling and fixtures designed for assembly work during the original manufacture of the aircraft. This tooling is expensive to store, transport, calibrate, and utilize for overhaul of aircraft structures at Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft depots. Computer-aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture (CAD/CAM) technology has reduced costs, shortened turn-around times, and improved quality in the manufacture of new aircraft for DoD.
Item Name: Compliance Tools Development for Metals in Antifouling Paints and Sediments
Request: $4,700,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Kennecott Utah Copper
Location: Magna, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This funding will help develop a bioavailability model for copper in estuarine and marine waters and potential alternative bioavailability-based sediment cleanup targets for metal contaminants to support environmentally protective use of copper-based antifouling coatings on seagoing ships, and develop more site-specific, and thus cost-effective and achievable sediment cleanup targets for metals at Navy and other DoD sites.
By completing the research for a bioavailability model for copper for marine waters and performing all the research needed to develop an estuarine bioavailability model, the Navy will likely retain flexibility in using the most effective antifouling coatings applied at numerous shipyard sites with cost savings in the millions per site. Strategy would follow previous successful approach that developed the scientific basis for the freshwater bioavailability model, and the outreach that reassured EPA it was acceptable to adopt the model as the basis for their 2007 revision of the freshwater Ambient Water Quality Criteria for copper. Other DoD and DoE sites with metal-contaminated sediments would also benefit from similar cost savings.
Item Name: Composite Tail Rotor Blade
Request: $4,800,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Radius Engineering
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Composite cellular technology will combine the proven technology of aluminum cellular bonded structural configuration with the added benefits of composite material properties. Aluminum is a well-characterized isotropic material while composite materials offer the additional benefits of lighter weight and better fatigue resistance. Combining this innovative structural configuration with improved composite material will result in considerable benefits to the warfighter, including lighter weight, ballistic damage tolerance, and greater durability.
Composite cellular tail rotor blade technology offers significant advantages over conventional and emerging composite structures. The cellular design enhances the aeroelastic performance of the rotor blade, which decreases rotor system vibrations and significantly lowers life cycle costs. Two-piece interlocking structure allows composite rotor blades to be structurally optimized and fabricated using a greater spectrum of materials and manufacturing methods. Composite innovations will help maintain U.S. leadership in high performance military aircraft structures while providing high value advanced technology manufacturing jobs.
Item Name: Conductive Composites Nano-Materials Scale-Up Initiative
Request: $4,250,000
Account: Defense Production Act Purchase
Suggested Recipient: Conductive Composites Company
Location: Green River, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to create the domestic production capacity needed to supply electromagnetic shielding materials for critical military weapons platforms. This project will apply the Defense Production Act Title III to the Department of Defense's requirement for an affordable domestic supply of conductive composites. The project will scale up domestic production, complete necessary qualification testing, and expand the application of these materials to a broad range of weapons platforms.
Item Name: Covert Long-rang Illuminating Marker (CLIM)
Request: $2,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Location: Corinne, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Navy and Marine war-fighter lacks an effective all terrain, all weather, standoff, covert target tagging, tracking, and locating capability, and has identified this as a capability gap. ATK has utilized internal research and development dollars to develop related technologies, resulting in a Covert Long-range Illuminating Marker, which would effectively fill this gap.
Safely marking targets from a standoff distance is an identified war fighting capability gap as described in the 2007 Naval S&T Strategic Plan. Laser designation, pyrotechnics, and chalk are the current widely used target marking practices. However, none of these methods are covert, nor are they effective in all terrain or weather conditions.
ATK has developed non-toxic, non-pyrotechnic chemiluminescent formulations that glow in the visible and/or the near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Chemiluminescence is the emission of light with limited emission of heat as the result of a chemical reaction.) ATK calls its chemical technology the Covert Long-range Illuminating Marker (CLIM). In demonstrated prototype rounds, ATK's CLIM formulations were packaged into a 40-mm grenade, and delivered to the target using a grenade launcher. In these tests, targets marked were illuminated for one minute and visible from a mile away.
There is insufficient federal funding available to develop production-ready covert target tagging, tracking, and locating capability rounds that can be launched from a variety of launch platforms. An additional $2 million in RDT&E, Navy funds would be used to further develop the CLIM rounds, and to demonstrate their effectiveness by launching them from a variety of platforms.
Item Name: Distributed, networked Unmanned Ground Systems (DUGS) for enhanced Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition / Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (RSTA/ISR)
Request: $4,750,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: VPI Engineering
Location: Draper, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The 2008 Army Modernization Strategy outlines vital improvements in the Army's capabilities for utilizing space based assets including modernization of Battle Command Systems, improved battlespace awareness (BA), and achieving the DoD vision for net-centricity that the proposed DUGS program will achieve.
The DUGS program is a natural extension of an Air Force program working to dramatically improve satellite Command and Control (C2). DUGS will expand this existing program to meet the unique needs of the Army including improvements in BA and critical support for Future Force Battle Command through the utilization of a low-cost, distributed network of unmanned ground satellite communication systems that can be rapidly deployed in-theater by combat forces or by accessing previous installations at fixed sites.
The fully operable DUGS network would provide near instantaneous C2 of military space assets worldwide, enabling new capabilities for Army forces in information-driven warfare.
DUGS would enable increased capability for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) as well as tightening the decision chains between Battle Command and war fighters. Furthermore, the DUGS system provides a low-cost pathway achieving seamless integration between the Army's forces and the AFSCN and greatly expanding the capabilities of the Army's vision for LandWarNet.
The US Army is interested in developing DUGS through the research and development of technology related to this low-cost, distributed network of unmanned ground satellite communication systems. The DOD FY2010 budget request will provide RDT&E funding for research, prototyping, testing, and evaluation for technology transition.
Item Name: Dugway Field Test Improvements
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences
Location: Dugway, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
DPG is seeking to significantly upgrade its field testing capabilities for monitoring and analyzing chemical aerosol simulant releases in the air and their deposition on surfaces. Additional work needs to be performed on the aerosol referee systems to determine the full capabilities required for accurate aerosol characterization both in the air and on surfaces. ITT will lead the overall chemical aerosol instrumentation R&D efforts and Space Dynamics Laboratory personnel will work closely with Dugway and ITT to help ensure that the systems are optimally deployed, calibrated and cross correlated.
Item Name: Electronic Motion Actuation Systems (EMAS)
Request: $4,000,000
Account: Research and Development, navy
Suggested Recipient: Moog Inc.- FloTork
Location: Orville, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The purpose of the project is to develop shipboard-qualified prototype electric actuators and demonstrate their satisfactory performance in shipboard applications. Actuators convert energy from hydraulic, air, or electric power to achieve mechanical movement and control of heavy or remote devices. Current Navy ships have between 100 to 3,000 actuators each. At present, these actuators typically use old style hydraulic technology. In 1957, FLO-TORK was founded to provide actuators to the Polaris submarine program. The company has maintained that relationship with the Navy and is the sole source provider of hydraulic actuators for numerous submarine classes and aircraft carriers. Over the past three years, by internal investment, the company has made significant advances in the area of electric actuators. These developments have been put into a working model that the Navy has witnessed in laboratory demonstrations. From that model a working prototype has been developed which addresses task objectives of power factor correction, user interface, system diagnostics, and integrated packaging approaches. The prototype is being broadened to address additional service requirements raised by the agency from completed field tests.
Successful completion of the technology will reduce shipboard personnel and reduce repair and maintenance costs. The Department of the Navy has repeatedly stated its desire for an all-electric ship using this technology. The target ship for this concept is the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyer (formerly DD(X)) which is a multi-mission destroyer and the centerpiece of a family of all-electric ships (destroyers, cruisers, and littoral combat ships) that will operate within the construct of the Surface Combatant Navy. Environmental hazards associated with traditional hydraulic systems will also be eliminated by moving to electric actuators. The objective is to begin placement of working units into submarine applications by calendar 2011 and then broaden to the next generation surface ships as typified by the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class in the next two years.
Item Name: Family of Motors Capability Demonstration
Request: $10,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Location: Corinne, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The fielding of next-generation prompt global strike (PGS), operationally responsive space (ORS), land-based strategic deterrence, and missile defense systems are amongst the Department of Defense's (DOD) highest modernization priorities. Yet, the collective expense in developing all of these systems concurrently is insurmountable within the DOD's future projected fiscal resources. For this reason, the Air Force has advocated the application of a "Family of Motors" (FoM) concept to eliminate a significant portion of the booster stack development costs associated with all of these future mission needs. However, there are still several unfunded areas expected where additional funds would help to reduce schedule impacts, increase product fidelity, and reduce overall program costs for the fielding of future FoM-based systems. Some of the unfunded areas that need immediate attention include the domestic case fiber requirement for all strategic systems, increased fidelity modeling and simulation capabilities, and insensitive munitions qualification and testing for all new systems (including large solid rocket motors). Addressing these requirements now with some additional funds will provide much larger cost savings in future systems.
Item Name: FEATHAR - Fusion, Exploitation, Algorithm, Targeting High-Altitude Reconnaissance
Request: $8,700,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Space Dynamics Laboratory
Location: North Logan, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Utah State University/Space Dynamics Laboratory in association with the Navy has developed highly advanced technologies in the areas of reconnaissance systems, advanced sensors, imagery processing/fusion exploitation systems, digital links, tactical UAVs, avionics, and control stations. Building upon this research, FEATHAR will improve upon and integrate these technologies onto airborne platforms to demonstrate, in an operational scenario, the capability to cross-cue sensors allowing for discovery and identification of obscured targets of interest.
A manned or unmanned airborne platform equipped with a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can detect metal objects. These SAR detections can then cue a visible or infrared (IR) sensor to collect high resolution imagery of the area of interest in real-time. The cue along with the imagery can then be linked to the ground, displayed, chipped, and disseminated to the warfighter.
SDL has built and demonstrated prototype SAR, visible, and IR sensors compatible with Tier II unmanned vehicles. Cueing algorithm development and additional sensor integration (such as a small hyperspectral) is required to allow for producible sensor systems for airborne platforms with this advanced technology. With these advanced sensors and algorithms, this new sensor technology will be turned over to the Services for procurement and platform integration.
To demonstrate these advanced FEATHAR capabilities, existing multi-INT sensors and aircraft will be utilized for the operational scenario. In addition, this effort would require development and advancement of sensor control processing, exploitation, fusion, and interactive link systems for the multiple sensor/UAV control, arbitration, exploitation and dissemination in a networked airborne environment.
Item Name: Ground-based Midcourse Defense - Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment
Request: $1,748,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: The Boeing Company
Location: Corinne, UT and Ft. Greely, AK
Purpose/Project Description:
The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element is a key component of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). This element consists of multiple sensors, a complex communications system, fire control capability, and ground-based interceptors capable of intercepting intermediate and long-range ballistic missile threats in their midcourse phase of flight.
Item Name: GSB-88 Preservation of Navy Airfield Asphalt
Request: $4,000,000
Account: Operations and Maintenance, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Asphalt Systems
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Preservation of Navy airfield assets is critical to the Navy's ability to perform its mission. Preservation of airfield assets is significantly more cost effective, and readiness promoting, than costly corrective maintenance, or reconstruction. GAO-03-753 report on corrosion control within the DOD states, "DOD and military services do not have an effective approach to prevent and mitigate corrosion." Within the scope of that report is the significant cost of corrective maintenance to airfield asphalt pavements that could be greatly reduced with inexpensive early preventive maintenance. With 24M sq/yds applied on 160 FAA and DOD airfields, including 150 runways, GSB-88 has demonstrated a unique ability to inexpensively extend asphalt pavements by more than 29%. Navy pavement specialists have estimated that a 25% extended life of Navy airfield pavements would save the Navy more than $125,000,000 over five years and would only cost the Navy approximately $3.7M a year for five years to treat 100% of Navy airfield asphalt. With FY-05 congressional funding, widespread applications of GSB-88 have occurred on Navy airfield pavements. Navy pavement specialists have subsequently evaluated those and other GSB-88 airfield applications with extremely positive results, which has been confirmed by top NAVFAC officials and Asst. Sec. of Navy Buddy Penn.
Item Name: High Temperature Electric Flight Control Project (HTEFC)
Request: $2,475,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Parker Hannifin
Location: Ogden, UT and Irvine, CA
Purpose/Project Description:
Parker Hannifin Corporation seeks federal funding for the High Temperature Electric Flight Control Project (HTEFC) which will enable laboratory demonstration and testing of high temperature, jam-tolerant electric flight control technology that promotes reliable, safe, and energy efficient systems. Developed at Parker Hannifin's private expense, the HTEFC will be used in future military and commercial applications. Validations of designs are required for demonstrating Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6. TRL is a scale which the Department of Defense uses to evaluate a technology's maturity for defense application. TRL 6 is the demonstration of a system or subsystem in a relevant environment.
The advancement of electric flight control systems in aviation will create engineering and manufacturing jobs at Parker facilities in Irvine, California; Ogden, Utah; and Dublin, Georgia.
Item Name: Hypothermic Management Kit
Request: $3,000,000
Account: Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps
Suggested Recipient: Thomas EMS
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Hypothermic Management Kit is an upgrade from the currently deployed hypothermia sets. It contains the new Deployable Active Warming System (DAWS), the DAWS bag (waterproof 50/50) and the Climate Control Case with batteries. The Climate Control Case can be set to maintain stable drug temperatures up to 50 degrees above and below the outside temperature in a secure militarized case. The DAWS is a two part heating system designed for dealing with hypothermia during patient transport. Post trauma patients are highly susceptible to shock following injury or surgery. It's imperative to maintain the patient's body temperature during transport.
Item Name: Minuteman III Motor Life Extension
Request: $31,000,000
Account: Missile Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Location: Corrine, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Current FY2009 plans call for Minuteman III (MMIII) motor production to cease, before enough aging surveillance data can be collected and analyzed to establish potential life-limiting trends. Specifically, the last stage 1 motor will be delivered in March 2009, and the last stage 2 and 3 motors will be delivered in August 2009. After these dates, if any problems are later found with these deployed systems, industry may be incapable of addressing them. As such, the Air Force opted to specially target known MMIII reliability issues using an incremental modernization effort while minimizing new technology insertion that would have driven extensive flight testing. To comply with 2007 NDAA direction extending MMIII through 2030, the Air Force will continue surveillance/sustainment efforts to identify/address emerging issues as systems age past their planned operational life while attempting to reduce total cost of ownership. The Air Force plans to keep the MMIII system operationally deployed through 2030, for a total deployed service life of over 30 years. However, no solid rocket motor weapon system has achieved 20 years of operation without experiencing age related issues. A continuous ICBM solid rocket motor warm line production program will provide that basis for sustaining and maintaining key manufacturing, facility and material skill sets. It will provide an available and experienced workforce to address propulsion issues that arise in the current weapon system. This approach will provide the fundamentals to retain and sustain necessary skill sets.
Item Name: Innovative Copper Applications Initiative
Request: $11,250,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Kennecott Utah Copper
Location: Magna, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Involves the establishment of a formal structure to facilitate communication of material and R&D needs between industry and DoD and accelerate deployment of copper-related technologies for military readiness, energy efficiency, health & environmental protection, and manufacturing sustainability. This will leverage existing private funding to create and manage copper-related RDT&E programs through integrated partnerships among Dept. of Defense (ARL, TATRC, DLA and others), academia, and federal, state and private R&D institutions.
Copper and copper alloys are strategic materials and vital in a wide spectrum of military systems essential to the national defense, including munitions, structural components, electrical and electronic equipment, and heat management. Copper provides increased energy efficiency, enhanced defense readiness, and contributes to the health of the American warfighter through its disease prevention properties. Copper is also critical to the military's surge and sustainment needs such as war stopper items: food, clothing and other nutritional requirements. The military recognizes the essential role copper plays and has produced tangible requests for such a comprehensive and integrated initiative:
Memorandum of Record (MoR): Multiple military commands (ARL, DLA, TATRC, Benet Labs) entered into an MoR explicitly stating need for the ICAI. This MoR defines cooperative efforts and leverages the capabilities and skills of each organization.
Army Research Lab Sponsored Strategic Investment Plan: Outlines research priorities that capitalize on copper's multiple benefits including conductivity, corrosive resistance, energy efficiency and health and safety.
Item Name: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - ICBM
Request: Same as President's Budget
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Northrup Grumman
Location: HAFB, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This program funds modifications to extend the operational capability of the Minuteman ICBM. ICBMs are an important part of America's primary strategic deterrence capability. Modernization efforts will ensure the continuing readiness of this critical weapons system. The ICBM program is managed at Hill AFB, UT with operational bases at F.E. Warren AFB, WY, Malmstrom AFB, MT, and Minot AFB, ND.
The FY07 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by the President directs maintaining a force of 450 Minuteman III missiles to 2030. Minuteman systems are undergoing modification programs to ensure their accuracy, availability, reliability and survivability as our land-based nuclear deterrent through 2030.
Item Name: Respiratory Pathogen Biosurveillance and Clinical Decision Making
Request: $1,300,000
Account: Reserve Personnel, Army
Suggested Recipient: Intermountain Health Care
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This project proposes to develop the Utah Biosurveillance Grid (UBG), a system that will use health information technology to integrate the efforts of the University of Utah's Center of Excellence: Public Health Informatics (COE-PHI), the Intermountain Healthcare System and Idaho Technology, Inc.(ITI), to recognize and track specific viruses in order to assess biothreats.
Item Name: Internal Auxiliary Fuel Tank System (IAFTS 200s)
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Army
Suggested Recipient: Roberston Aviation
Location: Bluffdale, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Army National Guard has a continuing requirement for crashworthy, ballistically self-sealing, single-point pressure refuelable internal auxiliary fuel systems, which have been developed and fielded to H-60 helicopters operated by U.S. Army Special Operations, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue, and certain units of the U.S. Army and National Guard. This project funds the procurement of internal 200 gallon A-kits and B-kits for installation on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters operated by the Army National Guard
Item Name: Kinetic Energy Interceptor, KEI
Request: $500,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: Northrup Grumman
Location: Clearfield, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
KEI is a deployable, early engagement ballistic missile defense weapon system designed to take maximum advantage of its state of the art multi-sensor (including satellite data) fire control to enable the BMDS defense in depth layered architecture.
KEI continues to make excellent progress on the common booster development and testing. The program has completed seven of ten planned stage 1 and stage 2 static fire tests, is completing a comprehensive booster flight pathfinder effort and conducted independent mission assurance audits leading to a booster demonstration flight knowledge point in 2009, completing the planned risk reduction phase. A second booster demonstration flight was added to the schedule in 2008, to be accomplished in 2010. Hardware and software development work on the Fire Control and Launcher elements continue to be deferred pending completion of the booster flight knowledge point.
FY10 PB funding is insufficient to continue to mature the KEI weapon system as recommended by Congress in FY09 and prior budget cycles. Congress has been very supportive of the KEI weapon system through recent plus-ups and language, directing DOD to invest in more mobile and flexible future alternatives for Missile Defense.
Item Name: Laser Phalanx
Request: $12,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Colmek Systems Engineering
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Phalanx is a combat proven system that provides effective and affordable terminal defense against rocket, artillery and mortar threats ashore and small boat, aircraft and anti-ship cruise missile threats at sea. Spiral development and integration of a laser into the existing Phalanx weapon system will significantly increase the capability to meet emerging threats from small boats, UAVs, aircraft and eventually, anti-ship cruise missiles, as well as land-based threats such as rockets, artillery and mortars. Revolutionary technologies will enable Phalanx to fill emerging capability gaps, while also reducing acquisition and ownership costs.
The proposed next generation Phalanx roadmap requires the following for FY10: (1) continuation of spiral development for insertion of a solid state laser weapon into the Phalanx system, to include (a) development of a lightweight, marinized High Energy Laser (HEL) beam director, (b) provisions for the solid state HEL source, (c) development of tracking and fire control enhancements to accommodate the speed-of-light engagement capability, and (d) system demonstrations against UAV`s, small boats, and RAM targets; (2) development of a water cooled chassis for mount servo and power subsystem; and (3) development of infrastructure for future "readiness based" upgrades. These activities will be completed within the context of open computing architecture and network-centric operations while leveraging existing Navy and joint investments. This effort will incorporate cost reduction opportunities in relation to manpower and maintenance requirements.
Item Name: Long Range Supersonic Missile Engine for High Speed Strike
Request: $15,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Williams International
Location: Ogden, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The proposed funding augmentation will be applied to the USAF/DARPA High Speed Turbine Engine Demonstrator (HiSTED) project under Phase II of the Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine (VAATE) program. Under the HiSTED project, Williams International has designed and built a supersonic turbine engine that meets DoD requirements for a Long Range High Speed Strike Missile. The engine has successfully completed its initial static testing phase and will progress to supersonic wind tunnel testing in FY2009. The requested plus-up will provide the funding needed to test the complete engine in FY2010. This testing is a critical requirement that must be accomplished before the new engine technology can transition to a flight demonstration program and support an SDD program for a Time-Critical Strike Missile in 2013. The current funding line under the VAATE/HiSTED program does not include sufficient funding to support the required testing in FY09.
Item Name: Metals Affordability Initiative
Request: $10,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Metals Affordability Initiative Consortium
Location: Provo, UT and Dayton, OH
Purpose/Project Description:
The mission of MAI is to maintain technological leadership in the strategic aerospace metals industrial base in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, thereby preserving domestic jobs in this critical sector, while improving performance and increasing affordability of weapons systems. MAI's membership includes 18 companies, the entire domestic specialty aerospace metals industrial sector, along with our government agency partner - the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). In addition to the consortium members, MAI projects have involved participants from approximately 60 additional industrial companies, including over 45 small businesses, 18 universities, and 3 National Laboratories located in 35 states, truly a national agenda. MAI projects are competitively bid assuring participation by "the best of the best."
This sector includes the entire domestic specialty aerospace metals industrial manufacturing base, which produce the strategic metals aluminum, beryllium, nickel-base superalloys and titanium, the backbone of military systems comprising over 65% of the airframe and 80% of the engines in the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35). MAI programs have already accomplished over 50 current or planned technology insertions into military systems. MAI provides innovation, rapid development and implementation of new metals technology; many MAI programs impact sustainability of the aging AF fleet.
This funding will allow initiation of four new, more immediate high-impact programs, as well as sustaining ongoing programs. These new industry-led programs will be directed at improvement in total systems cost, fuel savings/energy management, "green" (environmental impact), sustainment/life extension, and access to space.
Item Name: Multiple Source Data Fusion for Dugway
Request: $4,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences
Location: Dugway, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Army's Developmental Test Center at Dugway is modernizing its ability to test constantly evolving chemical and biological threats. As part of that evolution, referee instrumentation and modeling tools have been introduced to give Dugway the capability for virtual as well as live testing. The current project seeks to enable the development of sample data for virtual testing via lab tests and/or simulation and allow for the test and evaluation of the proposed data products.
Item Name: Nano-Satellite Attitude Control for Military Applications
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Space Dynamics Laboratory
Location: North Logan, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
To develop the capabilities of nano-satellites to provide the warfighter on the ground with the necessary information to conduct the battle with eyes and ears that reach beyond his line-of-sight. A constellation of nano-satellites could provide that capability provided they are designed, developed and capabilities demonstrated to perform those functions.
Item Name: Neural Control of External Devices
Request: $2,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Blackrock Microsystems
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
These funds will assist the development of products which are critical pieces of enabling technology that are essential to the eventual application of a military healthcare system to treat wounded servicemen suffering from ALS, Spinal Cord Injury, strokes or other motor diseases. Funding will further the development of the next generation of prosthetics, which will provide all individuals who have lost limbs or limb movement the ability to function at a level not presently possible.
People who suffer loss of limb or limb movement as a result of military service deserve the full benefit of Blackrock's development program. This program carries the promise of offering sophisticated limb movement beyond that which is possible today.
Further, by illuminating the function of the brain, these neurotechnologies promise new progress in diagnosing and treating a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The goals of this research are to meet specific technological challenges for realizing neural control of external devices by people with severe neurological injuries or disorders. The proposed work will microminiaturize a portable, wireless bidirectional communication device for the eventual use in reanimating muscles using command signals coming from the brain. The project will address a critical step that requires integrating state of the art microelectronic signal processing components to an implantable platform, and in so doing make major contributions in solving the vast array of technological and patient-care related challenges.
Item Name: Optimizing Natural Language Processing of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to support Multi-Source Information Fusion Systems
Request: $1,500,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Attensity
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
To provide the US Army with a transition-ready prototype OSINT Fusion System for more effective intelligence analysis and decision-making in asymmetric warfare.
Item Name: Personalized Health Screen for FilmArray
Request: $1,500,000
Account: Defense Health Program
Suggested Recipient: Idaho Technology
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
An integrated one-hour system for automated detection, quantification and typing of important blood viruses will be developed. Idaho Technology's FilmArray platform will process whole blood samples, PCR amplify viral nucleic acids, provide viral load quantification, and guide therapy by viral typing. HIV-1, HCV, and HBV are the primary targets, although qualitative assays for CMV, WNV, HTLV I and HTLV II will be included. This project will advance USAF diagnostics and build on the Epidemiological Office of Surveillance forward testing capabilities. The development of this wellness panel will give the Air Force and other services the ability to protect service members from naturally occurring diseases rapidly and far forward.
Item Name: Portable Oxygen Delivery Patch for Battlefield Medical Use
Request: $3,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: MicroLin., Inc.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Injuries arising on the battlefield may result in loss of airway to the lungs. While tracheal intubation and subsequent ventilation can be utilized to deliver sufficient oxygen to the victim meeting metabolic requirements, this is dangerous on the battlefield and incorrect intubation can result in complications including death. Some injuries to the face may preclude normal intubation due to blocked access to the airway. To avoid further attack on the patient or the medic, a victim preferably will be evacuated to a safe location before intubation is performed but the technology and science to deliver oxygen directly to the patient's tissues and circulatory system without the respiratory system does not exist.
MicroLin, in partnership with the Office of Naval Research's Combat Casualty Care program, is developing a portable oxygen delivery patch to provide ample oxygen to sustain a life for 30 minutes, small enough to carry in the battlefield for emergencies. With the development of a portable oxygen delivery patch, oxygen can be generated on demand with lightweight portable patches in quantities sufficient to sustain metabolic requirements. The devices will weigh approximately 200g. Additional patches can be used to further extend oxygen delivery. To be useful, the oxygen must be effectively transferred through the skin, absorbed, then transferred to the body through the circulatory system.
Item Name: Precision Strike Munitions Advancement with Integrated Millimeter Wave Power Sources to Satisfy Army Strategic Goals
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: InnoSys., Inc.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This project involves millimeter wave (MMW) amplification to enable truly autonomous operations of precision strike weaponry. InnoSys Solid State Vacuum Device (SSVDTM) technology not only provides the required power at MMW, but is also compact, lightweight, and can be easily manufactured in volume at relatively low cost. This will finally enable stand-off range launch of precision strike weapons that today still require host platform support through terminal operational phases.
Item Name: Cell Therapy for Treatment of Traumatic Injury to the Brain and Spinal Cord, and Other Neurodegenerative Disease in Military Veterans
Request: $2,600,000
Account: Defense Health Program
Suggested Recipient: Q Therapeutics
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
America's Military Veterans suffer from debilitating injuries and diseases of the brain and spinal cord at much higher rates than the general population. Over 150,000 veterans are living with disability from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury; 31% of recent admissions to Walter Reed were for TBI. Lou Gehrig's Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS), which destroys motor neurons resulting in paralysis then death within 3-5 years, is twice as prevalent among military veterans. There are no effective treatments for these debilitating injuries/disease, with tremendous toll on patients and their families and significant government expense.
Q Therapeutics, a small cell-therapy company, is developing Q-Cells®, a novel product to treat debilitating diseases of the brain and spinal cord. Q-Cells have the ability to do what traditional drugs cannot. This natural cell-based therapy interacts with damaged nerves to restore function. Q-Cells offer the promise of Regenerative Medicine by replacing the support cells necessary to keep nerves alive and healthy.
Prior to human trials, Q-Cells must be manufactured to FDA guidelines and shown to be safe and effective in animal models. Studies in animal models conducted by Q and collaborators at leading universities (Johns Hopkins, Drexel) have shown substantial benefits in mobility or survival with no harmful effects in animal models of traumatic injury as well as ALS. Q and University of Utah have developed a process to produce Q-Cells to meet FDA guidelines. Q is seeking funding to manufacture Q-Cells and conduct further animal testing needed to enable clinical testing.
Item Name: RAPID (Research Activities for Process Implementation and Development)
Request: $2,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: ES3
Location: Clearfield, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The In-Service Support Center (ISSC) at MACS Cherry Point includes the Materials and Engineering Division for all US Navy vertical lift aircraft. ISSC has been participating in the feasibility studies for several promising advanced coatings and stripping techniques. Under the RAPID program, ISSC will focus on selecting candidate parts and implementing advanced coating techniques such as cold spray metal deposition, as well as advanced stripping techniques such as forced pulse water jet stripping for those selected parts. RAPID will address actual implementation of the technology for depot repair of aircraft. The RAPID program can also assist the Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) East in securing the overhaul workload for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35.
Item Name: Rapid Burn Wound Therapies
Request: $2,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Arteriocyte, Inc.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This project will develop an easily deployable cellular therapy for burn patients using their own blood and bone marrow with Arteriocyte's Magellan technology that can be sprayed directly onto serious burns, used in conjunction with compression dressings, or can facilitate engraftment and healing of skin grafts. It will develop and test wound-healing cellular treatments that address the unique requirements of burn victims, based on its two primary technologies - platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, and STEM-PREP therapy.
PRP is produced from a small volume of the patient's own blood, and delivers high concentrations of platelets, growth factors, and blood-borne immune and stem cells to the wound that stimulate the natural healing process. STEM-PREP is produced similarly from bone marrow and whole blood, and delivers a "cocktail" of stem cells that rapidly form new blood vessels and rebuild damaged tissue. Each of these systems can be readily coupled with antibiotic agents to further reduce the rate of infection. Arteriocyte will adapt PRP and STEM-PREP production and delivery systems to treat severe burn wounds with forward medical personnel and major trauma centers worldwide.
In today's military deployments, advanced medical support requirements for military personnel in remote areas are increasingly difficult. The Magellan system can be readily deployed to existing medical facilities with minimal training and infrastructure requirements. This system will ultimately provide enhanced burn wound care to active duty personnel deployed worldwide, greatly improving long term recovery and reducing infection rates while significantly reducing cost of care.
Item Name: Real-Time PCR Assays for naturally occurring Infectious Diseases leveraging the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System
Request: $750,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Idaho Technology
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Infectious diseases such as dengue, malaria, scrub typhus and rickettsioses pose a significant threat to our deployed military forces. Historically, infectious diseases account for more than 70% of casualties during war. Prompt, reliable and field deployable diagnostic tests are crucial in the battle against infectious diseases. A critical aspect of any diagnostic test is FDA clearance: once the FDA clears a diagnostic test, clinicians can immediately interpret test results to obtain a definitive disease diagnosis and can make treatment decisions without delay. The purpose of this project is to produce the laboratory validation data required for the submission of a 510(k) application to the FDA to clear a real-time PCR test for the diagnosis of scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi) and rickettsioses (Rickettsia spp.) on the JBAIDS (Joint Biological Agent Identification and Detection System) platform.
Item Name: Repair Technology Insertion Program (RepTIP)
Request: $5,200,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: General Atomics
Location: Kaysville, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Repair Technology Insertion Program (RepTIP) identifies and develops, qualifies repair and overhaul technologies that increase productivity and reduce the cost of sustaining weapon systems. Insertion of these technologies into the 309th MXW at Hill Air Force Base as qualified processes decrease the cost of depot maintenance as well as provide more timely and reliable product support to the warfighter. Insertion of these technologies enhances depot core-capabilities and helps maintain 50% organic-depot content in the USAF repair and overhaul requirement.
The Repair Technology Insertion Program (RepTIP) will employ a disciplined engineering approach to the development and qualification of these new technologies for implementation at the 309th MXW.
Item Name: R-IAIS Depot Modernization
Request: $12,000,000
Account: Other Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: BAE Systems
Location: Ogden, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
As part of their modernization efforts, OO-ALC is focused on investing in Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) that allows them to meet both current and future test requirements. The R-IAIS is well equipped for its current role testing F-16 LRU's and has begun to test avionics from the A-10, Pave Penny Pod and other weapon systems. The depot plans to leverage the extensive test capability of the R-IAIS to support this broader range of avionics. This approach will further reduce the number of unique test systems used in the depot allowing them to realize additional savings.
Item Name: Robotic Platform Advanced Detectors (RPAD) for Continuous, Real-time Monitoring of Chemical, Radiological, and Nuclear Threats
Request: $1,500,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: VPI Engineering
Location: Draper, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Based on the Army's vision, as outlined in the 2008 Army Modernization Strategy, of employing focused defense against Chemical, Radiological, and Nuclear (CRN) threats, the Army desires to design and build a distributed network of low-cost advanced CRN detectors capable of being integrated into currently deployed and in-development manned and unmanned vehicle platforms resulting in the Robotic Platform Advanced Detector (RPAD) system.
The RPAD program will build upon recent advancements in chemical and radiological detection technologies, allowing existing vehicle and robotic platforms to monitor for CRN threats without interfering with their primary mission. The RPAD system provides a low-cost method of greatly expanding the CRN detection capabilities of the Army's forces. Almost all military platforms could be integrated with RPAD monitors.
The RPAD program addresses the core requirement of the CRN defense outlined in the 2008 Army Modernization Strategy through development of advanced, state-of-the-art detectors optimized for continuous, real-time operation on manned and unmanned robotic vehicle platforms. This program will provide a full-spectrum monitoring solution for CRN threats, providing Battle Command enhanced capabilities to detect, respond, and counter potential CRN threats with faster detection, improved identification, and more efficient planning and deployment of resources.
The US Army is interested in developing RPAD through the research and development of technology related to rugged, low-cost, real-time monitoring of Chemical, Radiological, and Nuclear threats. The DOD FY2010 budget request will provide RDT&E funding for research, prototyping, testing, and evaluation for technology transition.
Item Name: Sensor and Array Cost/Performance Improvement for Deployable Autonomous Distributed System (DADS)
Request: $3,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Progeny Systems Corporation
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The current DADS acoustic sensor is a conventional piezoelectric ceramic omni-directional hydrophone. The number of conventional sensors required to meet performance requirements take up too much space in the DADS sensor node and still do not fully meet the acoustic performance requirements. Progeny will address the need of the DADS Program for an improved acoustic sensor to meet requirements and reduce system cost by leveraging its proven single crystal, directional vector sensor technology being adapted for DADS application under SBIR N08-216 (Progeny contract N65538-09-M-0041). This higher performance directional acoustic sensor approach will provide acoustic detection and directional sensing in a much smaller form factor that fits within the space budget of the DADS sensor node and which reduces cost and the number of sensors required per array. The Navy has identified the need for a directional acoustic sensor that will fit within the demanding packaging size requirements while improving acoustic performance and in doing so reduce the number and cost of sensors required for the DADS array compared to the omni-directional legacy sensor currently used in DADS.
Item Name: Shipboard Production of Synthetic Aviation Fuel
Request: $3,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Ceramatec, Inc.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
To produce aboard ship synthetic aviation fuel, a Fischer-Trope process uses readily available resources such as coal, power plant combustion products or on-board synthesized products, and converts them into syngas using electric power. Conversion of syngas to liquid fuel is a well-known chemical process. Future needs for the US military, the US Navy in particular, require extended missions, and capability to deploy in areas where fuel supply is inadequate or interrupted. On-board generation of aviation fuel using non-petroleum resources will allow the US Navy unprecedented mission capability. While electricity is available on board, limitations in supply and transport of logistic liquid fuel can severely impact the mission of aircraft carriers. This process provides a means for ships to be self-sustainable in their fuel needs. Key system advantages and superiority of this process include: a) onboard generation of logistic fuel; use of non-petroleum resources that are common and plentiful; use of available natural resources at sea; and on-demand, uninterrupted liquid fuel supply for extended missions.
Item Name: SmartStem Wireless Tire Pressure Indication System
Request: $2,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Crane Aerospace
Location: Ogden, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
On July 15, 2007 an F-16 crashed on takeoff at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The Air Force incident report cited low tire pressure and maintenance data mishandling as the cause of the accident. The F-16 Landing Systems Group at Hill AFB has been exploring the Crane SmartStem solution to mitigate any future mishaps of a similar nature. Already implemented in the commercial marketplace, the project funding would provide for flight testing and demonstration of the solution on the F-16 platform. Implementation of Smart Stem could yield millions of dollars in annual savings to the Air Force through accident prevention and reduced maintenance costs.
Item Name: Space Sensor Data Link Technology
Request: $12,500,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: L-3 Communications: Communication Systems West
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
CDL is successfully employed on all airborne ISR platforms, no operational capability exists to enable tactical operations of space-based ISR systems. Analysis of recent combat operations has identified a need to reduce the latency and increase the persistence of intelligence data from space-based systems to the combatant forces. Although programmed space ISR systems and Air Force responsive space operations (RSO) initiatives can provide critical intelligence in denied areas, these systems currently have no capability for in-theater tasking and down link. The addition of CDL to space-based military ISR and commercial remote sensing platforms is a unique opportunity to add a low-cost, significant force-multiplier for our combatant forces that was not included in the most recent budget cycle. With a space-based CDL system, in-theater tasking collaboration, collection and dissemination can take place real-time by the war fighter using the existing deployed CDL ground infrastructure to support multi-layered sensing and trusted sensor networks for air, space and cyber domains.
Item Name: Time Critical Targeting Testbed
Request: $4,380,000
Account: Aircraft procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Sierra Nevada Corporation
Location: Draper, UT and Idaho Falls, ID
Purpose/Project Description:
The Time Critical Targeting Testbed will create a dynamic test and training capability that can be utilized by DoD intelligence assets to prepare warfighters for the environments encountered in the Global War on Terror. Responding to the emerging threats related to the Global War on Terror requires the ability to rapidly design and procure capabilities that can be provided to the warfighter such that they can prevail against the enemies of our nation. Of equal importance is the ability to prepare and train our warfighters to utilize these technologies. This project will create an environment in which all facets of the ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) kill chain can engage in joint training and thus better prepare our airmen and soldiers for the war effort before they deploy. The culmination of this project is to bring together the necessary technologies whereby we can test and evaluate tactics, techniques, and procedures that will be utilized to win the war on terror.
Currently there is no test range where this level of fidelity can be provided to the intelligence community in a time sensitive and cost effective manner. Without this capability, intelligence collection assets may be deployed that are potentially providing less than accurate data to the supported warfighter. Potentially allowing enemies of our nation to escape capture and/or harm our forces.
Item Name: Tomahawk Cost Reduction Initiative
Request: $7,600,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Williams International
Location: Ogden, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The purpose of the continuation of this program is to proactively insert new and affordable technology into the Tomahawk missile Williams International engine system to assure long term affordability, performance and reliability, leading to a more affordable missile system that meets the overall budget objectives.
Item Name: Tooele Army Depot Propellant Conversion to Fertilizer Program
Request: $3,400,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: ARCHTECH, Inc.
Location: Tooele, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) has approximately 14,000 tons of excess munitions that must be demilitarized. It also has a sizable amount of explosives-contaminated scrap metal that must be decontaminated and large quantities of hazardous hydrolysate that must be properly treated. TEAD is committed to reducing its reliance on Open Burning and Open Detonating and is pursuing alternative eco-friendly technologies. The propellant to fertilizer technology is a safe, effective, and an environmentally protective multipurpose technology that should be used to reduce this stockpile and address the hazardous hydrolysate. Approximately $3.4M is required to implement this program. $2.2m was provided by Congress in FY07 to initiate the design, procure long lead equipment items and perform preparation work at TEAD.
The use of the R3 technology will provide a multipurpose solution for recycling of the propellants and explosives generated from demil operations, decontamination of explosives-contaminated scrap metal, and for the treatment of hazardous hydrolysate from CAD/PAD operations. It will also produce a beneficial byproduct while reducing TEAD reliance on burning the propellant.
Currently, there is a critical need to deal with not only the propellants and explosives that are produced from demil operations but also the more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous hydrolysate that is produced annually. This hydrolysate is currently treated offsite at a high cost and increased risk from spills during transportation and final disposal. With the partial funding of $2.2M in FY07, the design and procurement of long lead equipment has already begun. However, without the additional $3.4 million in FY10 the program cannot be implemented.
Item Name: Transitioning Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber to Production Programs
Request: $4,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Hexcel Corporation
Location: West Valley City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
SBCF technology affords major weight and cost reductions. Funding will go to fabricators to develop robust part molding processes. Funding will also generate a Mil-HdBk-17 database. Both tasks are necessary to take SBCF into production.
Item Name: TRITON Deployable ASW Magnetic Detection UAV Demonstration
Request: $5,100,000
Account: Research and Development, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Applied Signal Technology
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Starting in 2013, the new P-8A Poseidon will begin replacing the venerable P-3 Orion as the Navy's principle airborne Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) platform. The P-3 is equipped with a magnetic sensor in its extended tail boom that detects the presence of large underwater metallic objects, such as submarines, when the aircraft flies over them at a low altitude. For nearly 40 years, this Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) has been very valuable for providing the location of a submarine with sufficient precision to launch a torpedo attack.
The P-8A will not incorporate a MAD sensor and will operate predominately at high altitudes, well above MAD sensor ranges. This may challenge the aircrew's ability to obtain the location of a quiet diesel submarine, particularly in shallow water with the precision needed to launch an attack.
A series of SBIRs and basic research initiatives over the past five years have provided proven sensors and processors for both MAD and ELFE detections. Additionally, the ability to launch an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) from a standard Navy sonobuoy tube has been successfully demonstrated.
The TRITON deployable ASW MAD Detection UAV initiative would consist of a feasibility study, prototype fabrication and airborne concept demonstration in advance of product test, evaluation and production. The results of this study can then be used to structure a follow on program that will restore the ability of airborne ASW platforms to exploit the magnetic and electric signatures generated by potentially hostile submarines.
Item Name: U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
Request: $1,700,000
Account: Operations and Maintenance, Navy
Suggested Recipient: U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
Location: Arlington, VA
Purpose/Project Description:
The program is focused upon development of youth ages 11-17, serving almost 9,000 Sea Cadets and adult volunteers in 387 units country-wide. It promotes interest and skill in seamanship and aviation and instills qualities that mold strong moral character in an anti-drug and anti-gang environment. Summer training onboard Navy and Coast Guard ships and shore stations is a challenging training ground for developing self-confidence and self-discipline, promotion of high standards of conduct and performance and a sense of teamwork. Funds will be utilized to "buy down" the out-of-pocket expenses for training to $120/week. NSCC instills in every cadet a sense of patriotism, courage and the foundation of personal honor. A significant percent of cadets join the Armed Services often receiving accelerated advancement, or obtain commissions. The program has significance in assisting to promote the Navy and Coast Guard, particularly in those areas of the U.S where these Services have little presence.
Item Name: Army National Guard Unit History Records
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide
Suggested Recipient: Storyrock
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
To honor and recognize the service of each individual service members with the presentation of their personalized unit historical and current record of service as a legacy tool they can share with family for generations; to educate the public through presentation of same historical records for hands-on use to each school in the state, each media outlet, and every legislative representative.
Item Name: Unserviceable Ammunition Demilitarization via Chemical Acid Dissolution
Request: $1,200,000
Account: Chemical Demilitarization
Suggested Recipient: Battelle Memorial Institute
Location: Stockton, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Innovative conventional ammunition demilitarization technology is a growth industry; New, environmentally friendly techniques are needed to dispose higher risk munitions; Tooele Army Depot's mission, infrastructure and personnel expertise make it ideal as a sustainable center for DOD conventional demilitarization support ; Ammunition storage, maintenance, demilitarization ammunition peculiar equipment; Battelle's ADP is well suited for handling multiple munition types and quantities; Battelle's High Energy Research Laboratory (HERLA); Multi-purpose research facility with the largest privately-owned blast containment facility in the U.S; Platform for further ADP ammunition applications development; As an existing corporate presence in Tooele County, Battelle is well postured to support sustainable Tooele Army Depot growth.
Item Name: Tomahawk Block IV Multiyear Procurement
Request: $290,000,000
Account: Weapons Procurement, Navy
Suggested Recipient: Raytheon
Location: Ogden, UT and Tucson, AZ
Purpose/Project Description:
To leverage economies of scale and save the taxpayers millions of dollars, the U.S. Navy requires multiyear procurement authorization for the Tomahawk Block IV missile.
By achieving a modest 10 percent cost savings through a multi-year procurement agreement, the U.S. Navy could reduce costs by $20 million annually or purchase 20 additional missiles at the same annual contract cost. Tomahawk Block IV was on a multiyear contract from 2004 through 2008 and meets the Title 10 criteria for multiyear procurement including the Navy's intent to procure the missiles for the next five years.
Williams International of Ogden, Utah produces Tomahawk missile engine systems.
Item Name: Reference of PKD in FY2010 National Defense Authorization Act
Request: $5,000,000
Account: Defense Health Programs, Research and Development
Suggested Recipient: The PKD Foundation
Location: Kansas City, MO
Purpose/Project Description:
The request is that a peer-reviewed PKD research program be established under the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) beginning in FY 2010 at an initial multi-year funding level of $5 million. PKD is the most common life-threatening genetic disease and affects over 600,000 Americans and one in 500 of all active and retired military personnel (including DOD civilians and VA eligible individuals, about 17,000 in total). PKD is of significant military relevance because diagnoses are often made at an age after individuals are selected for military duty, symptoms generally occur at age 30 or later and the average age of the onset of end stage renal disease (ESRD) is age 50 thus, leading to the medical discharge of highly experienced military personnel. The costs of medical care under military and VA health systems are substantial and probably understated due to incomplete diagnosis. The VA Health system estimates that "Veterans with ESRD require chronic dialysis or kidney transplantation to replace lost kidney function, requiring health care resources costing over $31,000 per patient annually." Potential research and clinical trials conducted under the CDMRP may lead to a treatment that will delay the progression of PKD long enough so that patients will not experience renal failure or medical symptoms requiring a medical discharge from their services, thus saving billions of military, VA, Medicare and Medicaid costs for dialysis, kidney transplants, immunosuppressant drugs and related therapies; and free-up several thousand spots on the kidney transplant waiting list.
Item Name: Army National Guard Regional Training Team
Request: $2,400,000
Account: Other Procurement, Army
Suggested Recipient: Utah National Guard
Location: Draper, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
In order to assist the Army National Guard (ARNG) in providing training to soldiers, the addition of a third three-man regional training team will enable the ARNG to support an increasing volume of requests for artillery training in the western region. This is a one-time request that has the full support of the Product Director, Fire Support Command and Control Family. The existing two regional training teams have already proven their ability to increase readiness and decrease post-mobilization training time.
Item Name: Senior Scout Remote Processing Capability
Request: $5,800,000
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Lockheed Martin
Location: Draper, UT and Denver, CO
Purpose/Project Description:
The Senior Scout Remote Processing Capability will develop the necessary remote processing functionality and integrate these capabilities into the Senior Scout system. This includes the necessary engineering for system design, implementation, integration, verification, accreditation support and documentation. The addition of remote processing capabilities to the Senior Scout platform will enhance the mission and increase the amount of data that can be exploited by the platform. This upgrade will leverage enhanced data link capabilities currently being added to the platform. This will result in an increase in actionable intelligence data, a more timely response to adversary threats and a mitigation of current Host Nation Operator security concerns.
Item Name: Senior Scout Electrical Optical Infra-red Capability
Request: $9,200,000
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Lockheed Martin
Location: Draper, UT and Denver, CO
Purpose/Project Description:
By incorporating an imagery capability into the Senior Scout system, the platform will be able to accomplish the existing SIGINT mission while adding the additional dimension inherent in the IMINT domain. The platform is already implementing the Ku Beyond Line of Sight data link that is utilized by the Predator program. This data link has a video mode that will allow the Senior Scout platform to disseminate the collected imagery off the platform. The Senior Scout Electrical Optical Infra-red Capability will enhance the mission of the Senior Scout without requiring support from an independent imagery platform. Operational costs will be reduced by having a single platform that can accomplish this multi-INT role. This will result in an increase in actionable intelligence data and a more timely response to adversary threats.
Item Name: Senior Scout High Bandwidth Line of Sight Data Link
Request: $5,400,000
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Lockheed Martin
Location: Draper, UT and Denver, CO
Purpose/Project Description:
The implementation of a Line of Sight (LOS) data link capability on the Senior Scout platform will greatly increase the bandwidth available for information dissemination to and from the platform. The LOS upgrade to the Senior Scout platform will encompass four specific technical areas; LOS modem upgrades, airborne LOS antenna integration, ground LOS terminal and common infrastructure tasks. The existing BLOS capability on the Senior Scout platform allows the upgrade to the LOS capability with a minimum of additional effort.
Item Name: Virtual Training Systems
Request: $65,000,000
Account: Other Procurement, Army
Line: 170
Suggested Recipient: Radon Corp.
Location: Draper, UT and Daytona Beach, FL
Purpose/Project Description:
These virtual battlefield training systems allow soldiers to master critical skills in a controlled environment prior to deployment.
Item Name: JAMMA Family of Vehicles
Request: $6,300,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: Klune Industries
Location: Spanish Fork, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The TAC-V JAMMA family of vehicles meets or exceeds requirements in the USMC/ USSOCOM Joint Operational Requirements Document (JORD) for the family of Internally Transportable Vehicle (ITV) for the V-22, and satisfies the V-22 ITV requirements of 3 unfunded deficiencies defined in the AFSOC FY10-35 Prioritized Capability Deficiency List (PDL), and, meets the JLTV requirements for 1-4 occupant vehicle specific gaps, and is planned to meet the requirements of the USSOCOM RFI for the Family of Special Operations Vehicles (FOSV) ITV which will be issued in the next several months. No other lightweight, armored, high performance off road tactical vehicle or family of vehicles satisfies all of these requirements at the performance levels demonstrated by the TAC-V JAMMA family of vehicles.
Item Name: Life Sciences Test Facility Addition
Request: $32,000,000
Account: Military Construction, Army
Suggested Recipient: Dugway,UT Location: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah
Purpose/Project Description:
This project would construct a permanent addition to the existing Life Sciences Test Facility building, to house test research, design, analysis and report writing area for scientists, as well as other facilities and equipment to aid Dugway's mission to study military applications of life science. Supporting facilities will include a parking lot and a connection to the existing road network.
Item Name: Water Treatment System Improvement
Request: $25,000,000
Account: Military Construction, Army
Suggested Recipient: Dugway Proving Ground Location: Dugway, Utah
Purpose/Project Description:
This project will construct a water treatment system to connect to existing wells, pump houses, and elevated storage tanks. The project will include the construction of an additional cell in an existing evaporation pond to accommodate backwash water from the filtration plant at the Ditto Technical Center. Supporting facilities will include: electrical service; security lighting, fencing, and gates; fire protection; access roads; parking; and site improvements.
Item Name: A-10 Wing Replacement Program
Request: President's budget request
Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: The Boeing Company
Location: Ogden, UT and St. Louis, MO
Purpose/Project Description:
The A-10 Wing Replacement Program will build 242 new wings to replace all thin-skin A-10 wings. The new wing will include several major wing components: pods, tips, flight controls, and fuel, hydraulic and electrical lines. A-10 replacement wings will also incorporate reliability and maintainability improvements to known fatigue critical locations. The replacement wings will be produced by Boeing at Macon, GA and installed at the Air Force Air Logistics Center at Ogden, UT.
Supporting the Air Force budget request will help ensure serviceable wings throughout the production period, allowing the Air Force to maintain adequate flight operations during this critical period in the War on Terrorism.
Item: Highly functional, skeletally attached, intelligent prosthetic devices
Request: $8,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Army
Suggested Recipient: University of Utah
Location of Performance: Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an unprecedented number of warriors surviving multiple limb loss. The resulting "short stump" amputees cannot be fitted with conventional socket technology. In joint collaboration, the University of Utah and WPI will develop new technologies for the unprecedented number of warriors surviving multiple limb loss to attach intelligently designed prostheses and implants directly to the skeleton. This technology, with established proof of concept, could replace the standard socket technology for most patients with limb loss in the near future. More importantly, the project will improve the quality of life for a significant portion of the more than 1,500,000 American amputees.
Item: ICBM Demonstration/Validation -- Command and Control
Request: $3,600,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: The Boeing Company
Suggested Location of Performance: Layton, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
The Minuteman III system, including its Command and Control (C2) system, is being life-extended through 2020. However, modern technologies that can "net-enable" Minuteman will provide improved efficiencies and security being demanded of the system today, while reducing the cost of ownership. As the Air Force responds to Congressional direction to extend the life of Minuteman through 2030, studies are required now to define appropriate changes to the C2 infrastructure. The Air Force is determining the optimal way to extend the life of Minuteman through 2030, maximizing mission capability, minimizing cost. Tension between tightening budgets and demands for flawless mission execution makes it imperative that every dollar spent on sustainment and life extension yields maximum benefit. These demands cannot be met by operating, maintaining, and securing the Minuteman system as has been done for decades. Throughout FY09, Boeing continued work under a competitively-awarded Air Force contract to study C2 concepts. This effort leverages Boeing-funded R&D to analyze how net-enabling Minuteman reduces ownership costs, while providing enhanced capabilities and flexibility in operating, maintaining, and securing the weapon system, such as improved field communications and situation awareness. The FY10 President's Budget request included $TBDM for Minuteman ICBM RDT&E, but did not fund the C2 application programs. Funding for C2 Applications in FY10 is required to conduct weapon system-level studies that characterize potential net-enabling concepts and their benefits to security and cost of ownership. These studies are required now to support the development of the ICBM 2030+ Roadmap.
Item: ICBM Demonstration/Validation -- Guidance
Request: $4,000,000
Account: Research and Development, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: The Boeing Company
Suggested Location of Performance: Layton, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
Through programs such as the Guidance Replacement Program (GRP), the Minuteman III system is being life-extended through 2020. However, the heart of the guidance system-the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-was not replaced under GRP and remains a significant maintenance cost driver. Guidance Applications Program funding has focused on IMU instrument technology maturation. Additional funding is required now for guidance system-level studies to evaluate IMU replacement options. As directed by Congress, the Air Force is working to determine the optimal way to extend the life of Minuteman through 2030, maximizing mission capability while minimizing cost. Growing requirements for increased security and cost avoidance necessitate changes to the Minuteman IMU, changes which must be studied now. Recent studies suggest that maturing technologies in instruments that will provide a more reliable IMU are nearing readiness for incorporation into Minuteman III. However, the seamless integration of the IMU necessitates that the next level of studies be conducted now to provide critical guidance system-level requirements to the instrument and IMU developers. Factors that must be explored and defined include: mechanical and electrical interfaces; system timing and synchronization; ground and flight software; and nuclear hardness. The study should focus on IMU/wafer concepts enabling component in-silo replacement without opening the launcher closure door or removing the warhead, keeping the launch facility as secure as possible by minimizing site penetration time.
Item: ICBM, Procurement
Request: Same as President's Budget
Account: Missile Procurement, Air Force
Suggested Recipient: Northrup Grumman
Location: HAFB, UT
Purpose/Project Description:
This program funds modifications to extend the operational capability of the Minuteman ICBM. ICBMs are an important part of America's primary strategic deterrence capability. Modernization efforts will ensure the continuing readiness of this critical weapons system. The ICBM program is managed at Hill AFB, UT with operational bases at F.E. Warren AFB, WY, Malmstrom AFB, MT, and Minot AFB, ND.
The FY07 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by the President directs maintaining a force of 450 Minuteman III missiles to 2030. Minuteman systems are undergoing modification programs to ensure their accuracy, availability, reliability and survivability as our land-based nuclear deterrent through 2030.
Project: Highly functional, Neurally Controlled, Skeletally Attached and Intelligent Prosthetic Devices
Amount: $8,000,000
Purpose: To provide prosthetics research for victims of limb loss.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Recipient of Funds: University of Utah
Explanation/Justification: The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an unprecedented number of warriors surviving multiple limb loss. The resulting "short stump" amputees cannot be fitted with conventional socket technology. In joint collaboration, the University of Utah and WPI will develop new technology for these needy men and women to attach intelligently designed prostheses/ implants directly to the skeleton. This technology, with established proof of concept, could replace the standard socket technology for most patients with limb loss in the near future.
Project: Utah National Guard Counter Drug Program
Amount: $1,500,000
Purpose: To expand the Natioanl Guard Counter Drug Program to help carry out the governor's anti-drug plan.
Location: Draper, UT
Recipient of Funds: Utah National Guard
Explanation/Justification: The Utah National Guard provides significant support to the Utah State Office of Education's "Prevention Dimension" substance abuse program, and is a pilot of the National Guard's science-based, measurable-result "Stay on Track" program. Because of the current high demand for near-peer role models in the classroom, the Utah National Guard requires federal funding to expand their role in counter-drug activities.
