In accordance with Senate Appropriations Committee rules to ensure greater transparency and accountability in the appropriations process, the following requests have been submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration for inclusion in the Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bills.  The requests are subject to review and consideration by the respective Appropriations subcommittees.  The requests are posted in order of subcommittee deadline and posted in alphabetical order.

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Project Name: Business Development Research Project
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: The University of Alabama’s Business Development Research Project will study current trends and future employment needs to enhance Alabama’s workforce development and spur economic growth.
This project will provide comprehensive occupational data that workforce and economic development officials and educators need to prepare future workers.  The researchers will develop specific county and regional labor profiles that will provide insight into labor supply and demand, along with the implications for economic development.  The survey data will be used by colleges and universities to position their course offerings to provide training for anticipated job opportunities.  The use of this data will also assure new and expanding industry of the availability of a ready workforce for their potential business activities in the state.
The University of Alabama estimates that this research will help to sustain and raise the incomes of about 500,000 Alabama workers, with the potential to boost Alabama wages by $2 billion annually, an average of $4,000 per job.  The University also projects that $142 million in state and local income and sales taxes might be generated as a result of this study.
This project will provide detailed reports and comprehensive profiles of future workforce needs.   The research will be presented to state and local economic development officials, as well as educators, to assist them in positioning Alabama’s economy for the future. 

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: Advanced Algorithm, Integration, and Maturation (AAIM)
Recipient:  Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by Millennium Engineering, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: The AAIM project provides NASA and the International Lunar
Network (ILN) project with an advanced algorithm development and integration capability that enables the rapid testing and development of the Lunar science needs.  This software/hardware integration center will provide the platform to develop, integrate, and test advanced flight algorithms for lunar lander testing, science mission planning, and execution.  The use of modeling-based software development will significantly reduce cycle time, provide a close link between models and actual flight software, reduce program risk and cost, and enhance the flexibility and robustness of NASA flight algorithms. 

Project Name: Alabama Department of Forensic Science
Recipient: Alabama Department of Forensic Science
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: The State of Alabama’s Department of Forensic Science (ADFS)
provides scientific assistance to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies investigating criminal cases in Alabama.  ADFS is also the forensic support unit for law enforcement agencies in Alabama that do not have DNA and forensic capability.  This funding will help reduce DNA backlogs throughout Alabama and is critical to support law enforcement activities.

Project Name: Computer Aided Dispatch
Recipient: Coosa County Commission
Location:  Coosa County, Alabama
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: The Sheriff’s Office functions as the emergency operations center in all
situations.  The existing computer system is outdated and incompatible with mutual support and adjoining county law enforcement systems.  It has limited flexibility, and is severely restricted in functions available for an enlarging requirement placed on the operations center.  This project will replace the antiquated system with a new computer aided dispatch to provide interoperability between the Sheriff’s office, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Project Name: Center for Advanced Materials Engineering at the University of South Alabama
Recipient: University of South Alabama
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Amount: $4,000,000
Purpose: The goal of the Center for Advanced Materials Engineering at the University of South Alabama is the development of a research and educational center devoted to advanced materials applications in aerospace and marine engineering, key to supporting the rapidly growing defense industry in Mobile.  This will contribute greatly to the research and educational infrastructure essential to solving unique materials problems in the designing and manufacturing of large-scale, high-performance systems, such as ships and aircraft.

Project Name: Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine
Recipient: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose:This project will develop  effective treatments or preventions for a wide variety of diseases.  The Center will identify diseases for which promising pharmaceutical treatments can be developed, conduct early stage development of treatments through pre-clinical testing, and generate new drug applications. The Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine will have a global health impact with the identification of less toxic and more effective interventions and preventative measure for various diseases. 

Project Name: Cherokee County Illicit Drug Reduction Program
Recipient: Cherokee County Sheriff
Location: Cherokee County, Alabama
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive and violent drug that has had
a particularly large impact on Alabama’s rural communities.  This funding will provide equipment, manpower, and technology upgrades to help reduce the addiction to this dangerous drug.

Project Name: City of Huntsville Public Safety Technology Upgrades
Recipient: City of Huntsville
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $1,700,000
Purpose: This project will assist the City of Huntsville Police Department in
purchasing equipment and integrating current public safety systems.  Funding will be used to purchase in-car cameras and communications equipment to ensure officer safety, improve officer training, and establish effective crime prevention techniques.

Project Name: City of Montgomery & Montgomery County Interoperable Upgrades
Recipient: City of Montgomery
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Amount: $1,400,000
Purpose: This project will assist local law enforcement prevent, respond to, and
investigate crime.  These upgrades will implement an in-car digital video and server solution for City of Montgomery police vehicles and Montgomery County sheriff vehicles. This system will replace outdated VHS systems that are currently in police and sheriff vehicles and provide new installations in vehicles that are currently without a system. The ultimate goal is to have one upgradeable digital in-car system for the entire fleet and a central depository that will provide video evidence for courtroom presentation.

Project Name: Cleveland Avenue YMCA
Recipient: Cleveland Avenue YMCA
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Amount: $750,000
Purpose: The Cleveland Avenue YMCA is heavily involved in collaboration with
the Montgomery Public Schools through implementation of various structured afterschool and weekend programs designed to improve “at-risk youth” reading and math test scores.  These programs involve several school sites and YMCA facilities and serve over 400 youth daily in grades 3rd  through 9th.  Secondly, the Cleveland Avenue YMCA childcare program serves over 300 additional youth daily in an environment that allows them to receive daily instruction in the following areas:  music, dance, computer technology, and art.  These are children whose parents could not afford the cost of childcare and certainly not extracurricular activities such as these.  These programs provide a safe, healthy, and wholesome environment for children and youth that might otherwise have little or no supervision during these service hours.

Project Name: Computer Forensics Institute and Lab
Recipient: Troy University
Location: Pike County, Alabama
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: This project will develop the Alabama Computer Forensics Institute and
Lab to enhance awareness of cybercrime techniques and practices, to provide training opportunities on computer forensics and electronic systems security, and to develop a lab for examination of cybercrime incidents.  The University’s Information Technology department aggressively engages in the active deterrence of cybercrime within its electronic resources.  The University will develop a forensics methodology research institute to foster awareness of forensics methodologies and techniques.  It will train security personnel and law enforcement in the proper forensics methods and test and develop new forensics approaches and apparatuses.  It will maintain a forensics lab for examination of digital evidence and collect intrusion data from the global network for security trend/threat analysis.  It will expand its current participation in a number of national security projects and training summits to provide specialized consultation services for forensics services and security audits.

Project Name: Cooperative Institute and Research Center for Southeast Weather and Hydrology
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $15,000,000
Purpose: This NOAA/National Weather Service research facility will focus on weather and hydrology research in the Southeastern United States in collaboration with research universities in Alabama. Its purpose is to better understand the dynamics of weather and hydrology in the Southeast U.S. and its impact on people, the environment and the economy of the region. The institute serves as a means of linking university, government, and industry capabilities and assets into an operational, systematic program to address issues related to weather unique to the Southeast, the impact weather has on water as a resource as well as the overall environmental and economic quality of the region. The institute seeks to identify specific actions that the region can take to ameliorate the negative impact of unusual weather posed by drought, flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes. The Southeast suffers from more billion dollar disasters caused by severe weather than any other region of the country. This institute is being established to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and damage to property associated with severe weather.

Project Name: Development of Characterization Techniques for Advanced High Temperature Materials in Space Launch Applications           
Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by Southern Research Institute)
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: The severe environments that will be encountered in currently planned NASA launch systems and other challenging aerospace applications require the use of advanced composites in both structural and thermal protection systems.   These composites exhibit complex mechanical, thermal, and degradation behavior that is highly dependent on the outside environment.  This project will be used to develop advanced modeling, testing, and characterization techniques for advanced composite materials in extreme environments. 

Project Name: Diagnostic Sensing for Predictive Maintenance of Aerospace Vehicles
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: The University of Alabama will establish an institute, composed of an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from the Colleges of Engineering and Commerce and Business Administration, to design and build sensors and study material durability issues that result in structural failures in aerospace vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles and reusable launch vehicles.  The overarching goal is to enable predictive, or condition-based, maintenance.  Predictive maintenance involves establishing maintenance actions and schedules based on real-time monitoring of the status of the health of a system or structure.  It improves safety by predicting future failures while simultaneously saving significant cost through elimination of the need for unnecessary overhaul and replacement of components.

Project Name: Domestic Violence Law Clinic
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $750,000
Purpose: The primary goal of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic is to provide
much-needed free legal services to members of the west Alabama community who are victims of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault.  In Alabama in 2006, domestic violence comprised 11% of all reported violent offenses – homicides, rapes, and aggravated assaults – and comprised 35% of all other simple assaults.  Almost half of all reported victims suffered injury, either by fists, feet or hands, firearm, knife, or other dangerous weapons.  In Tuscaloosa County alone, law enforcement personnel respond to approximately 6,000 domestic violence calls per year.  The Domestic Violence Law Clinic is the first and only free services provider in west Alabama dedicated solely to providing legal assistance to victims of domestic violence.

Project Name: High Temperature Materials Research and Development for Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle Initiatives
Recipient: Alabama A&M University Research Institute
Location: Normal, Alabama       
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: A dedicated High Temperature Carbon-Composite Laboratory will be created within Alabama A&M University Research Institute’s Advanced Space Propulsion Materials Research Center to provide for advanced high temperature materials research and development that will support NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle initiatives. 

Project Name: Increasing K-16 Genetics and Biotechnology Education
Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology)
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $1,250,000
Purpose: This project will educate Alabama students of all ages in the emerging fields of genetics and biotechnology.  One of the primary objectives is to create unique educational opportunities to bring biotechnology and genetics programs to students across the state.   By incorporating biotechnology hands-on activities for students of all ages, the skill development necessary to successfully compete for STEM-based careers in research, healthcare, agriculture and information technology would be provided to students. These are vital skills necessary for Alabama students to succeed in the global marketplace, yet are currently missing across much of the state’s educational programming.

Project Name: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Teaching and Research Corridor
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $30,000,000
Purpose: The future economic viability of the State of Alabama requires a globally competitive workforce that is highly trained in the sciences and engineering.  This funding will construct two additional interdisciplinary science and engineering buildings to complete a Science and Engineering Corridor at the University of Alabama.   The existence of new interdisciplinary research space will increase the effective size of the various research groups.  A larger “critical mass” of researchers in key areas improve competitiveness for individual investigator research grants, multi-investigator research grants, and educational and research program grants.  The interdisciplinary laboratory space will facilitate the larger, multi-investigator programs and projects that will be prominent in future scientific endeavors.

Project Name: Law Enforcement Data Communication Upgrades
Recipient: Cullman County Commission
Location: Cullman County, Alabama
Amount: $2,300,000
Purpose: This project will aid law enforcement personnel in sharing time sensitive
information with other law enforcement agencies.  This funding will provide computer equipment for all vehicles and headquarters of the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office, Cullman City Police Department, and the Hanceville City Police Department to allow all agencies to share information electronically, along with state and federal agencies.

Project Name: NASA Space Nuclear Power Systems Research & Design
Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by Maximum Technology Corporation)
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000     
Purpose: Marshall Space Flight Center is researching nuclear technology in order to support sustained missions to the moon, to Mars, and beyond.  To achieve this mission, safe, abundant, and affordable power will be required.  Nuclear power technology is the most promising source of safe, abundant, and affordable power to meet future mission requirements.  This project will support conceptual design studies, advanced component technology, and non-nuclear system testing to create a roadmap for fission surface power technology development leading to manned flight applications supporting moon and Mars power requirements.  NASA has identified fission surface power as the number one nuclear priority for NASA.

Project Name: Redstone UAS Development for Weather and Atmospheric Research
Recipient: Redstone Arsenal
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: NOAA will deploy unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with sensors and
technology to increase research capabilities and opportunities to monitor weather and climate.  These systems will be equipped to track severe weather, collect data, and study weather patterns.  By locating the UAS Development for Weather and Atmospheric Research at Redstone Arsenal, NOAA will be able to collaborate on research and technology development with the Program Executive Office Aviation, Program Manager Unmanned Aerial Systems, who develop similar programs for unmanned systems for the Army.  The synergy created by these two federal entities will curtail duplicative efforts and produce a much better return on the taxpayer’s investment.

Project Name: Northeast Alabama Regional Mobile Data System
Recipient: Calhoun County Commission
Location: Calhoun County, Alabama
Amount: $1,200,000
Purpose: Public safety and public service agencies have long since suffered from an
inability to effectively communicate with each other in a real-time manner. Delays in communicating information and data create confusion, delay, and inefficient mobilization of resources particularly in the event of a major or critical incident. Interoperable communication allows agencies from across the region to communicate directly and function under a unified command structure. Interoperable communication is the backbone of the National Incident Management System.  This funding will create an interoperable communications and data system to aid public safety and public service agencies in their ability to share information and work together in response to both unified and disparate missions.

Project Name: Operation Swordphish
Recipient: Alabama Department of Public Safety
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: This will be a state-led Cybercrime Initiative to provide leadership and
training to state and local law enforcement on financial cybercrime investigations, enhancing the state's ability to investigate and prosecute financial cybercrimes.  Last year there were approximately 6,900 known cybercrimes committed in Alabama which were not prosecuted because they did not meet the federal threshold.  Limited federal personnel coupled with the fact that the dollar amount in these crimes does not reach the federal threshold leaves a large number of these serious crimes to fall through the cracks.  This project will provide technical assistance to government agencies, develop enhancements to existing tools, and create new tools to assist law enforcement in the fight against cybercrime and cyberterrorism.  The goal is to implement an initiative that will enable state and local agencies to tackle the problems faced by citizens in cybercrime abatement and security preparedness.

Project Name: Overcoming Communication Barriers for AIDB At-Risk Youth
Recipient: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind
Location: Talladega, Alabama
Amount: $750,000
Purpose: Communication barriers, combined with the increased incidence of
dysfunctional and divorced families among children with disabilities and a lack of resources and trained service personnel in rural areas and school systems present unique challenges to disabled youth.  This project focuses on specific preventive education programs related to at-risk issues for deaf, blind, and multi-disabled youth designed with adaptations in communication, specialized equipment, and practical life experiences. An expanded curriculum will use special software, counseling, and equipment to address specific issues related to unplanned pregnancy, substance abuse, crime, depression, and suicide.  The anticipated outcome of this program is to reduce the number of teen pregnancies and the incidence of substance abuse and suicide attempts by providing instruction and counseling through appropriate language and communication methods for deaf and blind youth.

Project Name: Product Lifecycle Management         
Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by BG Engineering)
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: As NASA focuses on the future of space programs additional modeling and simulation and Product Lifecycle Management practices are important from both a time and monetary budget perspective.  The goal of this request is to move NASA  into integrated and interoperable Product Lifecycle environment as it relates to Engineering and Manufacturing Capabilities.  This request will allow the Marshall Space Flight Center Engineering Directorate and the Constellations Program to streamline their focus on critical analyses of flight vehicle performance issues. These analyses include material selections, weight distribution, and thermal properties as well as manufacturing process validation of standard or specialized systems using analysis and simulation methods.  By executing this initiative, NASA will modernize its systems, streamline operations, increase traceability, decrease costs, and increase their aerospace manufacturing expertise.

Project Name:  Public Safety Emergency Communications System
Recipient: City of Dothan
Location: Dothan, Alabama
Amount: $1,500,000
Purpose: This request is to fund the purchase of a digital radio system for
emergency first responders, mobile data terminals for vehicles, and end-user radios.  These technology upgrades for the City of Dothan will enhance the ability of first responders to provide homeland security for Houston County and to protect local, state, and federal assets that are located inside the City of Dothan and Houston County – including both the Farley Nuclear Plant and Fort Rucker.

Project Name: Robotic Lander Multi-Propellant Diagnostic Test Bed
Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by Orion Propulsion)
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $2,500,000
Purpose:NASA’s robotic lander efforts are a critical part of NASA’s exploration program.  The program envisions a series of robotic landers to serve as precursors to human exploration of the lunar surface and ultimately Mars.  These landers would provide needed data important to future human landings and conduct scientific missions as well.  Currently, the Lunar Lander Test Bed team at Marshall Space Flight Center is working on a demonstrator that will use compressed air to conduct hover tests on a lander mock-up.   The main objective of this initial effort is to test a guidance, navigation, and control system.   The Robotic Lander Multi-Propellant Diagnostic Test Bed will provide the Lunar Lander Test Bed team the capability to integrate additional propulsion solutions into the Lander project and drive to even more innovative and reliable propulsion solutions for future robotic lander missions.

Project Name: Tools for Tolerance
Recipient: Simon Wiesenthal Center
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,500,000
Purpose: The Tools for Tolerance Program provides cultural diversity training to law enforcement. The program provides specialty training focused to proactively prevent crimes against the community.

Project Name: Virtual Environment Simulation Laboratory
Recipient: University of Alabama in Huntsville
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Amount: $2,200,000
Purpose:A Virtual Environment Simulation Laboratory would provide a new capability to support Marshall Space Flight Center by developing engineering and science applications of virtual environment simulation.   This project would provide Marshall Space Flight Center virtual examination of rocket engines while firing, virtual participation in spacecraft manufacturing and maintenance processes, and virtual presence on the surface of the moon to examine potential landing sites.   This project will also enhance UAH’s educational mission through student involvement in virtual environment projects and make UAH more attractive to top-quality engineering and science students.

Project Name: University of Alabama After-School Delinquency Prevention Program
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: This project will provide instruction in applied music to economically
disadvantaged school age children, including children with developmental disabilities, in after-school and summer school settings.  Numerous studies have indicated that the study of music, like the instruction provided by this program, enhances academic performance in the learners, particularly in the areas of mathematics and reading.  In addition, this program provides structured learning opportunities outside of regular school hours in a safe, constructive environment, with adult supervision, for children who may not otherwise be able to access them. 

Project Name: Wireless Area Communications Network
Recipient:City of Hartselle
Location: Hartselle, Alabama
Amount:$300,000
Purpose:This project will establish a city-wide Wireless Communications Network
to provide more efficient field communication and data access to law enforcement and public safety personnel.  The network will provide a secure wireless tunnel for several different governmental entities to communicate with each other on a digital and voice network, providing a secure communications community and faster response time by putting accurate and pertinent information in the hands of public safety officials.

Project Name:Zerometh Drug Prevention Campaign
Recipient:Alabama District Attorneys Association
Location:Montgomery, Alabama
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose:Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive and violent drug that has
found its way throughout the nation with a particularly large impact on Alabama’s small towns and rural areas. Zerometh is a public health campaign to disseminate information expose meth and its deadly consequences to teens and young adults (12-24). The goal is to stop a potential first-time user from ever trying the drug, while encouraging everyone to look for the warning signs and support treatment.

STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: Research and Development for More Efficient and Less Polluting Fertilizer
Recipient: International Fertilizer Development Center                 
Location: Muscle Shoals, AL                    
Amount: None - Language Request                   
Purpose: The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) has conducted technology transfer activities in more than 125 countries and has contributed to the development of human resources and institutional capacity building in 153 countries through more than 600 training programs.  This project is important to ensure underdeveloped countries have more efficient and less polluting fertilizer.

Project Name: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Child Sexual Exploitation Law Enforcement Portal
Recipient: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children                  
Location: Alexandria, VA                    
Amount: None - Language Request                  
Purpose:  The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children would operate a secure mechanism to meet and enhance its congressional mandates to provide lead information and elements of child pornography images to foreign, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies investigating crimes against children on the Internet. 

Project Name: Water for Ngenge Area, Kapchorwa District, Uganda
Recipient: Anglican Mission of Hope                 
Location: Montgomery, AL                    
Amount: None - Language Request                   
Purpose: Funding for this project would install solar driven submersible pumps that will continuously provide water resources to elevated water reservoirs from which it will be distributed by pipeline to the communities.  The project is anticipated to provide needed water supplies to thousands of people as immediate potable water relief is very important in developing nations.

AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: Agricultural Research Service Research and Development Center
Recipient: Auburn University   
Location: Auburn, AL                
Amount: $3,500,000
Purpose: A new 65,000 square foot Research and Development Center will be constructed on the Auburn University campus to support the Agricultural Research Service’s Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit and Soil Dynamics Units of USDA and the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures of Auburn University. The new facility will provide researchers with the most state of the art facility to conduct research critical to Alabama and the Nation's agriculture and aquaculture community, bringing together world-class scientists to address pressing needs being placed on our aquatic and agricultural resources from our growing population. 

HOMELAND SECURITY

Project Name: Center for Domestic Preparedness
Recipient: Center for Domestic Preparedness
Location: Anniston, Alabama
Amount: $70,000,000
Purpose: The Center for Domestic Preparedness is the only civilian live agent training facility in the United States.  It serves as the crucial link for advanced Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) response training for our nation’s first responders. The increased funding of the center will allow it to maximize its capacity to train the nation’s first responders.  Funds will prepare mobile training teams, enhance training realism by incorporating high resolution computer simulations into training courses, establish and support extension programs, develop and deliver new WMD courses, and increase responder outreach through fielding of comprehensive distributed learning programs, courses and sustainment training.  The funding request also recognizes the integration of the Noble Training Center into the CDP. 

DEFENSE

Project Name: Advanced Commercial Technology Insertion for Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by AEgis Technologies Group, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $6,000,000
Purpose: This program proposes to enhance the capabilities and efficiencies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, aviation, and missile testing.  It will do so by leveraging commercial advances in selected technologies.  By doing so, the military will have direct benefits for current and planned projects at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Project Name: Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
Recipient: Anniston Chemical Disposal Facility (Project Proposed by Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce)
Location: Anniston, AL
Amount: None – Language
Purpose: The chemical agent stockpile located at Anniston Army Depot consists of blister and nerve agent in several munitions configurations.   Disposal operations at the facility began in August 2003 and are now over 50 percent complete.  As operations continue to progress toward completion, it is important to ensure proper planning is taking place for the closure and potential reuse of the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.  A study to examine reuse alternatives for the facilities is requested. 

Project Name: Application Software Assurance Center of Excellence
Recipient: Air Force Electronic Systems Command (Project Proposed by Telos/Xacta)
Location: Montgomery, AL
Amount: $7,000,000
Purpose: The Air Force established the Application Software Center of Excellence, the first of its kind in the Department of Defense, to assess and strengthen defenses against cyber attacks.  The center’s mission is to develop application security best practices that can be put in place throughout the Air Force.  Funding for this program will provide critical technical support and training to enable the Air Force software development community to immediately improve the security posture of both existing and future warfighter support applications. 

Project Name: Army Aviation – Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM)
Recipient: PEO Aviation (Project Proposed by Avion, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $7,000,000
Purpose: This program will reduce Army aviation operation and sustainment costs by providing accurate and timely maintenance data.  It will provide critical and significant repair information to ensure that supplies and equipment are available to support the Army mission by enhancing Condition Based Maintenance programs.  Streamlining inventory processes and reducing material acquisition costs for replacement, repair, and unnecessary purchases is important to our military. 
               
Project Name: Army Responsive Tactical Space System Exerciser
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by J2 Technologies, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: Our military is looking for new and existing technologies to replace aging or disabled satellites.  Funding for this program provides support in architectural analysis and simulation to determine if the technology will meet our needs.  The military will then determine, based on the data obtained by this analysis, what technologies would work best.

Project Name: Army Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Authority
Recipient: U.S. Army
Location: Worldwide
Amount: None – Language
Purpose:  It is critical that the U.S. Army retains control of tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).  Our soldiers on the ground need this critical capability and it is important that battlefield commanders have unmanned air assets when they want, where they want.  Language has been included in the four previous defense appropriations bills related to this effort. 

Project Name: Autonomous Cargo Acquisition for Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by Advanced Optical Systems, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $6,000,000
Purpose:  This project will allow the U.S. Army to leverage rotorcraft unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to provide unmanned delivery for logistics supply and weapons placement.  These systems could also become useful for emergency evaluation and interoperability with unmanned ground systems.  Funding for this program demonstrates unmanned cargo pickup and delivery under favorable conditions. 

Project Name: Enhanced Military Vehicle Maintenance System Demonstration Project
Recipient: U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (Project Proposed by Auburn University and Frontier Technology, Inc.)
Location: Auburn, AL and Beavercreek, OH
Amount: $4,000,000
Purpose: This program identifies difficult to detect vehicle problems.  It monitors conditions to ensure that the vehicle is restored to an excellent state prior to return to service. This technology can be modified for various military vehicles to detect problems not typically reported using other systems.  Funding for this project helps detect vehicle maintenance problems before they happen.

Project Name: Enhanced – Rapid Tactical Integration for Fielding of Systems Initiative
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by PeopleTec, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $7,500,000
Purpose: Funding for this project will leverage and evolve existing efforts to enhance interoperability testing by establishing an Army Battle Command System – Brigade Architecture to test all digital communications.  The early identification of interoperability issues will limit cost and schedule overruns for development on aviation and missile systems.  The Enhanced – Rapid Tactical Integration for Fielding of Systems Initiative will assist in this effort. 

Project Name: Extremely Large, Domestic Expendable and Reusable Structures Manufacturing Center
Recipient: Air Force Defense Production Act (Project Proposed by Alliant Techsystems, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $10,000,000
Purpose: Current domestic large-scale production capacity is constrained by limitations associated with the large diameter of the items being manufactured.  At the same time, the Air Force is making future plans to utilize structures with diameters in excess of nine meters.  The current domestic industrial production capacity does not support this scale of extremely large structures.  Funding for this program would increase domestic composite manufacturing/processing capacity to meet critical military space access requirements. 

Project Name: Future TOC Hardware/Software Integration
Recipient: U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (Project Proposed by Gray Research, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: Army and joint operations at the theater level require flexible, agile command and control nodes to provide information superiority.  The military is currently delivering products to the battlefield in a timely manner at lower costs than traditional acquisitions.  Funding for this program will design and develop software applications to integrate space capabilities into airborne, land, and maritime assets.  Application of this project will synchronize planning and control of assets within the joint global battlefield.

Project Name: Low Cost Interceptor
Recipient: U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (Project Proposed by Miltec Corporation)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $8,000,000
Purpose: This program, managed by the Space and Missile Defense Command, is proving through a technology demonstration that a long-range, low-cost missile interceptor can be developed using primarily off-the-shelf technology.  This weapon system architecture provides significant cost-per-kill and operational savings. 

Project Name: Missile Attack Early Warning System (MAEWS)
Recipient: U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (Project Proposed by Millennium Engineering and Integration Company)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $4,000,000
Purpose: The purpose of MAEWS is to significantly enhance the protection of our troops from ballistic missile attack.  It is also designed to damage the enemy’s capability to launch ballistic missiles against our forces and allies in the future.  This program provides a significant enhancement to existing deployed early warning systems which only broadcast a wide area alert.  The problem with this method is that it ties down an unnecessarily large force and limits our ability to respond and destroy the inbound threats and the enemy’s ability to launch them.

Project Name: On-Board Vehicle Power Systems Development
Recipient: U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (Project Proposed by DRS – Test and Energy Management)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: The military continues to add electronic equipment to both their tactical and support vehicle fleets.  However, most vehicles have limited capability to produce sufficient power to support the growing electronic requirements.  Funding for this program would benefit both the Army and Marine Corps in delivering a significant percentage of the mobile and exportable electric power for their vehicles. 

Project Name: Rapid Response Hostile Fire Detection and Active Protection of Ground and Air Vehicles Sensor Demonstration
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by Radiance Technologies, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $6,000,000
Purpose: There is an immediate and critical need at forward operating bases in Afghanistan to detect and locate projectile and missile threats both for perimeter security and to protect Army vehicles.  Funding for this program will enable the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center to integrate and demonstrate hostile fire detection sensors with the Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle, providing an unmanned hostile fire surveillance platform.  This will support our ground troops with coverage and protection in rugged, inaccessible terrain. 

Project Name: Remote Monitoring and Troubleshooting Project
Recipient: Naval Sea Systems Command (Project Proposed by Intergraph)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $5,800,000
Purpose: The U.S. Navy is continuously exploring alternatives to improve efficiency, operate with fewer sailors, and shape tomorrow’s infrastructure.  To make this a reality, the ability to move hull, mechanical, electronic controls, and information is essential.  Saving time, travel expenses, and salaries by collectively supporting the entire Naval fleet with one office of experts, funding for this program eliminates redundant on-site support while raising the efficiency and effectiveness of the on-shore infrastructure.

Project Name: Scenario Generation for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Evaluation
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center (Project Proposed by QinetiQ North America Systems Engineering Group)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $8,000,000
Purpose: An Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) system was established by the military to address capability gaps against air breathing and cruise missile threats.  Funding for this request will develop scenarios required for ground test and evaluation of the IAMD battle command system.  Investment in this scenario development will maintain the critical milestone schedule. 

Project Name: Support to Defense Intel Cyber Modeling and Simulation Analysis
Recipient: Missile and Space Intelligence Center (Project Proposed by SPARTA, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $4,400,000
Purpose:  The defense intelligence community has developed a high fidelity threat representation center at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center.  Since becoming operational in 2000, the Joint Research Analysis and Assessment Center (JRAAC) employs successful analysis and develops countermeasures for engaging missile and air defense networks.  Funding for this initiative builds upon past JRAAC infrastructure investments to expand representation capabilities to cyber elements.

Project Name: Swarms Defense System
Recipient: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (Project Proposed by Computer Science Corporation)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $6,000,000
Purpose: This program will satisfy the need to protect soldiers and critical assets against enemy fire, especially high volumes of small munitions such as mortars and rockets.  Funding for this project will provide improved protection against high volume low tech munitions, as well as cruise missile and larger caliber rocket threats. 

Project Name: Tactical UAV, Heavy Fuel Engine
Recipient: PEO Aviation, Redstone Arsenal (Project Proposed by Science and Engineering Services, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $4,000,000
Purpose: The Shadow UAV provides direct surveillance  information to commanders, soldiers, and ground operators, providing significantly improved situational awareness.  The concept behind the project is to replace the low to medium power gasoline engines, found in Shadow UAVs, with a less polluting, heavy fuel engine which burns multiple fuels.  The scope of this project would include building engines to perform platform integration and flight test for use in the U.S. military.

Project Name: UAS Ground Based Sense and Avoid Capability Development for Integration into the National Air Space
Recipient: PEO Aviation (Project Proposed by Dynetics, Inc.)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $7,000,000
Purpose: Producers and users of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have an immediate need to operate their platforms in the National Air Space (NAS).  This need arises primarily due to Department of Defense access for the purposes of development, testing and training.  In 2009, an interim system to allow very limited operation of a UAS in the NAS was accomplished.  This funding is critical to expand the interim capability from a single site supporting development testing to a robust capability.

Project Name: UH-60 Aviation Software Performance Assessment Testbed
Recipient: PEO Aviation (Project Proposed by COLSA Corporation)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $10,00,000
Purpose: The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is the primary utility helicopter in the U.S. Army arsenal and will continue to be used for decades to come.  Currently, the UH-60M model is being upgraded.  To successfully manage a complex integration effort, the project manager has established a performance assessment program that will assure all software upgrades prior to deployment in the aircraft.  Funding for this performance assessment effort will further ensure that vendor-provided software meets the required specifications of the contract. 

Project Name: Ultrasonic Impact Technology
Recipient: U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (Project Proposed by Applied Ultrasonics, LLC)
Location: Birmingham, AL
Amount: $3,200,000
Purpose: Both the Department of Defense and the Army have requirements for technologies that reduce sustainment costs for weapons systems.  The utilization of ultrasonic impact technology enables repair of aviation components in forward deployed locations.  This request will provide resources to improve reliability and availability of aircraft, reduce repair time, and reduce costs of aviation assets. 

INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: Fayette County Clean Drinking Water Reservoir
Recipient: Fayette County Commission
Location: Fayette County, Alabama
Amount: $10,000,000
Purpose: This funding will allow for the construction of a drinking water reservoir in Fayette County.  This reservoir will provide a dependable water supply for Fayette County as well as Marion County and Walker County, AL.  Limited water resources in Fayette County have hampered the County and region’s economic development.  The lack of a dependable water supply in this area is an impediment to future economic growth.   There is the potential to attract new jobs and business development in the reservoir service area due to the areas proximity to Corridor “X” or the new I-22 that crosses the area East to West.

LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: University of Alabama Health Sciences Construction and Equipment, AL
Recipient: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amount: $20,000,000
Purpose: This facility will be a part of a larger research center on the University of Alabama campus.  It will focus on research related to the health sciences, including: Environmental Health Science, Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, Biomolecular Products, Occupational Health, Rehabilitation Engineering/Assistive Technology.  These funds will be used to engage in state of the art, cutting edge research that will benefit individuals throughout the southeast and ultimately the nation.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) Explosive Ordinance Exploitation (EOE) Complex
Recipient: Redstone Arsenal
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $12,000,000
Purpose: MSIC is critically important to national security as they collect information on foreign missile threats and evaluate foreign missile systems.  This facility will provide a safe, efficient, and modern EOE complex to meet the specialized needs of the Foreign Military Exploitation team’s missile disassembly, research, and testing operations. The complex consists of seven stand alone facilities and two open storage facilities to support hazardous and non-hazardous operations and materiels.  The explosive operations building, used for missile disassembly, has four work bays and explosion proof infrastructure.  The open storage areas will allow for outside explosive storage of oversized foreign materiel with minimal hazards.  Other buildings are workspace, conference room, and a communications processing center. 

Project Name: Training Support Center
Recipient: Fort Rucker
Location: Dale County, AL
Amount: $4,650,000
Purpose: Fort Rucker is home to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Flight School 21, training all Army and Air Force rotary wing aviators. The funds requested for this project would construct a Training Aids Support Center, including installation of an intrusion detection system, building information systems, and antiterrorism measures to protect training aid and device investments. These funds will support additional storage for the virtual training devices and adequately protect these investments, increasing due to Army relocations.

TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project, AL
Recipient: City of Tuscaloosa
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Amount: $7,000,000
Purpose: This funding will complete implementation of the City of Tuscaloosa’s Downtown Urban Renewal Plan.  With the new Federal Building being constructed in the heart of downtown and the continued growth of the University of Alabama, this project is vital to economic development and job creation in West Alabama. This project will involve property acquisition, business and residential relocations, demolition, and utility rehabilitation.

Project Name: Lanett Municipal Airport Runway Construction, AL
Recipient: Lanett Municipal Airport
Location: Lanett, AL
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: A new runway is necessary to support the region’s growing aviation needs due the construction of a new automobile manufacturing plant 4 miles away in West Point, Georgia.  A longer runway is needed to boost economic development in the area and attract tier one auto parts suppliers, who will need an adequate airport to support increased air travel.  If this airport is able to support greater air traffic it will be an incredible economic development and job creation tool for a region in Alabama that has lost numerous jobs in recent times.

Project Name: Senior Transportation Program, AL
Recipient: The Alabama Association of Area Agencies on Aging
Location: Anniston, AL
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: The Alabama Association of Area Agencies on Aging and the Alabama Department of Senior Services are charged with the development and coordination of programs and services to improve the quality of life for Alabama’s elderly and disabled citizens and their caregivers. Access to needed services and community resources (including employment) is essential to improving the lives of these people. This program has proven to be effective over the past several years and has been able to put more, safer, and handicapped accessible vehicles into rural areas of the state that had no previous public or specialized transportation programs. There are still many areas of the state in need of adequate public transportation. This request will allow the Alabama Area Agencies on Aging and the Alabama Department of Senior Services to expand and improve their ability to provide transportation services to the state’s most frail populations.

Project Name: Streetscape for City of Tuscaloosa
Recipient: City of Tuscaloosa
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Amount: $8,000,000
Purpose:  A new federal building will be constructed in downtown Tuscaloosa that will significantly expand development and growth within the city.  This funding will be used to improve surrounding roadway areas to reduce congestion and traffic accidents, thereby increasing overall safety in the downtown area.  This project also involves the resurfacing of current sidewalks and asphalt areas with sections of wide sidewalks, addition of greenery to improve the appearance of concrete sections, and brick pavers.  The project further entails adding elements such as such as street lights, benches, and planters, as well as upgrading utilities and beautifying the area to make it a more pedestrian-friendly destination.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

Project Name: Corps of Engineers, Program Management Office Relocation
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Amount: $15,743,000
Purpose: The current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tuscaloosa Area Office, is comprised of general office facilities, warehouse space, and shop facilities.  The buildings are aging and inadequate – both overcrowded and not up to current environmental standards.  This project will move the maintenance complex and build a new administrative facility that will provide the minimum standards for health and safety.  Relocating the Corps facility will provide the Corps with the opportunity to consolidate offices, improve security, separate Government Owned Contractor Operated facilities from Government offices, and upgrade shop facilities, while also providing the City with the space necessary on the waterfront to fulfill its development plan.

Project Name: Climate Model Evaluation Project
Recipient: The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $1,800,000
Purpose: This project will directly address the cost of energy for manufacturing, industrial, and residential electricity. This research will show how effective potential policies will be in impacting the climate and how confident one can be in their achieving the intended outcome.  The University of Alabama in Huntsville will examine and evaluate climate model simulations to determine the level of performance these models achieve so that policymakers may develop a better understanding of the reliability of these forecasts.  Given the tremendous burden that legislation in this realm could place on the U.S. economy, it is imperative that any steps taken are done so only after achieving reasonable certainty that they will produce the benefits necessary to justify the associated costs.  Providing this research to policymakers will allow them to be better informed as they debate future climate legislation.

Military Construction Authorization Request

Project Name: Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) Explosive Ordinance Exploitation (EOE) Complex
Recipient: Redstone Arsenal
Location: Huntsville, AL
Amount: $12,000,000
Purpose: MSIC is critically important to national security as they collect information on foreign missile threats and evaluate foreign missile systems.  This facility will provide a safe, efficient, and modern EOE complex to meet the specialized needs of the Foreign Military Exploitation team’s missile disassembly, research, and testing operations. The complex consists of seven stand alone facilities and two open storage facilities to support hazardous and non-hazardous operations and materiels.  The explosive operations building, used for missile disassembly, has four work bays and explosion proof infrastructure.  The open storage areas will allow for outside explosive storage of oversized foreign materiel with minimal hazards.  Other buildings are workspace, conference room, and a communications processing center. 

Project Name: Training Support Center
Recipient: Fort Rucker
Location: Dale County, AL
Amount: $4,650,000
Purpose: Fort Rucker is home to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Flight School 21, training all Army and Air Force rotary wing aviators. The funds requested for this project would construct a Training Aids Support Center, including installation of an intrusion detection system, building information systems, and antiterrorism measures to protect training aid and device investments. These funds will support additional storage for the virtual training devices and adequately protect these investments, increasing due to Army relocations.

Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Bill Language Request