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“$4,000,000 to Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human Capital Development for Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) - Human Capital Development (HCD)”

Sponsor: Rep. Hobson (R-OH)  

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EastKY wrote:

It's not mentioned at the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center website but Riverside Research Institute will manage the center.

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/othercities/dayton/stories/2007/07/23/story3.html?b=1185163200%5E1493370

Riverside has received over $172 million in federal grants since FY 2000.

http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?company_name=Riverside+Research+Institute&sortby=r&detail=0&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=GO

posted March 8, 2008 at 3:28 p.m.

john_ohio wrote:

It should be noted that Rep. Hobson is retiring and will not run for re-election in 2008

Below is from 2005....same Congressional members....same basic area around Dayton. Wright-Pat AFB

Bill includes $527M for Ohio defense projects
By the Dayton Daily News
June 10, 2005

WASHINGTON | U.S. Reps. Dave Hobson, R-Springfield, and Michael Turner, R-Centerville, announced late Wednesday that $526.9 million in funding for Ohio defense projects was included in the Fiscal Year 2006 Defense Appropriations bill approved Tuesday by the House Appropriations Committee.

The funding supports Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and regional facilities.

Hobson, a senior subcommittee member, and Turner, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said they worked closely with the Dayton Development Coalition and community leaders to identify research programs with the most potential for growth.

"This legislation will allow us to continue supporting our military forces at home and overseas, while providing needed equipment purchases and supporting crucial defense research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base," Hobson said.

Turner added: "This is an important next step in our efforts to be certain that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has the tools and resources to continue its pioneering work."

JP Nauseef, president and CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition, said, "Many of the new funds are targeted to projects with significant growth potential and that will build on existing expertise in the Dayton region.

"We are particularly pleased to see robust funding for capabilities planning, which was a high priority for the Coalition and the community. This will help position Wright-Patterson for receiving future work developing new weapons systems."

Overall, the bill provides more than $408.7 billion to fund defense programs, including military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The next step for the legislation is consideration by the House.

The legislation provides $68.1 million for research projects at Wright-Pat and Miami Valley research companies. They include:

• $6 million for the Wright Brothers Institute capabilities planning support, an initiative to link the future technology needs of war fighting commands with the research and planning conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Aeronautical Systems Center and contractors.

• $4 million for a decision support tools for complex analysis program at the Air Force Research Lab, to provide the technology and tools necessary to establish and operate a new center at the lab — a national center for complex analyses.

• $3 million to establish a process for retrofitting the Defense Department's four high performance computing centers with advanced cooling, power and packaging techniques that eliminate the need for additional floor space. The work will be done in part at the Advanced Major Shared Resource Centers at Wright-Pat.

• $2 million to purchase research and engineering services to develop and deploy Ultrafast, Ultraintense Laser Microfabrication and Diagnostics, a promising technology for reducing life-cycle costs of current and future aerospace weapons systems.

• $2 million for hardware, software, and technical services to establish an expanded common configuration environment functioning as an operational support battle lab in the Wright-Pat area.

• $1 million for the GeoBase program at Wright-Pat for managing force protection and the base infrastructure.

• $1 million for the Information Assurance Initiative, performed at Wright-Pat.

• $1 million for the USAF Receiver and Processing Concepts Evaluation Program, which funds graduate research in the area of electronic combat. All research is approved and monitored by the RAPCEval research steering committee of scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Pat, Wright State University and three other education centers.

• $500,000 to develop a geospatial higher education curriculum for the Defense Department, to be implemented and managed out of the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Pat.

• $2 million for Multifunctional, Nanostructured Materials for future combat systems, which will support an Army need for lightweight armor and lightweight wheeled vehicles. This program will commercialize nanomaterials technology developed by AFRL and the University of Dayton. TPI Composites of Springfield, and Ogara, Hess & Eisenhardt of Fairfield, will also assist in the development and become users of the material for lightweight armor and other applications.

• $1 million for the development of a high-power sub-200 mm optically pumped atomic laser that will provide for the inspection and manufacture of classified electronics for the defense and intelligence community. This project will be conducted at Wright-Pat.

• $2 million to provide for the conversion of the Worldwide Warehouse Redistribution Services Virtual Database to an NCR Teradata Relational Database Management System for the Air Force Security Assistance Center for Worldwide Warehouse Redistribution Services. The center develops and executes international agreements with friendly forces to provide defense materiel services, in support of national security.

• $2 million to study detect/see & avoid capability so unmanned aerial vehicles can detect nearby air traffic. This project is administered by Defense Research Associates, Inc. of Beavercreek.

• $1 million for the procurement of low-profile night vision goggles for special operations forces. The devices are manufactured by Specialized Technical Services in Beavercreek.

• $2 million for the Computational Tools for Materials Development program, which develops hardware and software to help the Air Force extend the life of existing materials and facilitate rapid development of new materials. This project would be completed by Triune Software in Beavercreek.

• $1 million for the development of ultra-lightweight structural armor material for ballistic and bomb protection. This project will be administered by Wright Materials Research in Beavercreek.

• $2 million to continue the development of the Aeronautical Enterprise acquisition database, which will provide online analytical processing capability featuring data mining, pattern recognition, and complex systems analysis. The database will involve Dayton-based NCR hardware and Teradata, making it fully interoperable with the Air Force Enterprise Data Warehouse.

• $2 million for the hard and deeply buried targets program that provides a coordinated effort on hard and deeply buried target detection. This project will be administered by CACI MTL Systems in Dayton.

• $2 million to purchase portable, low-power blood cooling and storage devices for frontline Army medical units. The project is administered by Energy Storage Technologies in Dayton.

• $1 million for surveying systems (equipment, training and training systems) for the Air National Guard. This project would be completed by Trimble (Spectra Precision) in Dayton.

• $2 million for a Megawatt Electric Power System that will provide the power necessary to operate new airborne-directed energy weapons. This project will be administered in part by General Atomics, which has an office in Dayton.

• $1 million for research on a Vulnerability Determination for Air Vehicle Contamination Sensor System that can detect chemical and biological agents in aircraft. The project will be administered by Wright-Pat and Micro System Technologies in Dayton.

• $2 million to develop a real-time capability for Battlespace Laser Detection System in F-16 and A-10 aircraft that detects, locates, and classifies laser threats. This project will be administered by General Dynamics and Sensors Directorate in Dayton.

• $2.6 million for an Airborne Optical Communications Flight Demonstration project, administered by ITT Industries in Dayton.

• $5 million to work with the Dayton Radio Frequency Identification Solutions Center to develop a pilot program for defense inventory management.

• $2 million to develop a Special Operations Target Acquisition and Control Suite, a new "family" of lightweight portable computers to process, fuse, report and direct operational targeting. This project will be administered by the Wright Brothers Institute.

• $2 million for the Unique Stealth UAV Houck Aircraft Design Program, to be administered in partnership with SRA's Adroit Systems of Fairborn.

• $5 million to provide the Army with approximately 35 Navistar-International commercially-based logistical support trucks for testing and evaluation. The trucks are engineered to meet the military's needs. The cabs and frames will be built at Navistar-International's facility in Springfield.

• $1 million for the development of the Electronic Industry-Wide Network for Characteristics and Specifications. This new system will allow producers of parts for aging and deployed aircraft better electronic access to the defense supply chain. This project will be administered by Renaissance Services in Springfield.

• $5 million for Data Intensive High Performance Computing, a program to procure research services to develop an in-depth understanding of the impact of data output/input and large data storage across a high-end computer network. This is a collaborative effort among the Aeronautical Systems Center, Major Shared Resource Center, Ohio Supercomputer Center, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, LexisNexis and the Greentree Group in Springfield.

• $1 million to support an IMS Sample Concentration and Bioagent Detection program to detect and identify contamination in water supplies. This program will be administered by YSI, Inc. in Yellow Springs.

• $1 million for research on new coating system technology for Air Force aircraft and equipment to reduce the dry-to-fly time. The research will be conducted by PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.

The legislation also provides funding for the following Ohio defense programs:

• $438 million for the Up-Armored program to provide armored vehicles and armored vehicle kits to support military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The project is administered in part by Fairfield-based O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, an Armor Holdings Company.

• $1 million for Up-Armored and Tactical Truck Crew Trainer Program for the Ohio Army National Guard.

• $2 million for the Reliability and Maintainability Information System to provide maintenance and logistics information for Air Force weapons systems. This project is administered by Northrop Grumman Corp.

• $3.6 million for a hybrid-bearing project to develop a corrosion resistant high-speed bearing. Defense applications would include the Joint Strike Fighter as well as other weapons platforms or devices requiring high-speed bearings. This project would be administered by the Timken Company in Canton.

• $7 million for the All Composite Military Vehicle program, which will review all requirements for composite vehicles. The goal is to develop a tactical vehicle that is faster, more mobile, easier to maintain and less detectable. Vehicle hoods will be made by TPI Composites of Springfield.

• $1.2 million for the Ohio State University-Indiana University Center for the Traumatic Amputee Rehabilitation Research program, to study the needs of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Administration related to the rehabilitation and care of veterans with traumatic amputee-related injuries.

• $1 million to develop a centrally located source for rapid qualification/certification/inspection of manufactured parts made by government and commercial companies involved with aerospace, trucking, automotive, avionics, electronics, plastics and other industries. This program will be administered in part by the Logistics Support Management Group in Springfield.

• $2 million for smart weapons triple ejection rack development, to provide the added capability to carry and release weapons.

• $3 million for an autonomous underwater vehicle docking and recharging station to enable such vehicles to conduct nearly continuous ocean surveillance in remote locations. This project will be administered by Battelle Institute in Columbus.

• $25 million for a multi-regional National Aerospace Leadership Initiative. When approved, Ohio is expected to receive a portion of this funding as designated by the Air Force.

posted March 14, 2008 at 12:31 p.m.

bexarpork wrote:

I want to add a comment to john_ohio's bullet::::::::
$2 million for the Reliability and Maintainability Information System to provide maintenance and logistics information for Air Force weapons systems. This project is administered by Northrop Grumman Corp.:::::::
July 2003 a delegation that included Hobson was touring Europe. "Instead of paying for the meals out of their government allowances, they were treated by a parade of defense contractors and lobbyists, most of which sent personnel to Europe to host the meals, according to foreign-service officials and the companies. The meals gave Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and others private access to legislators who control billions of dollars in government contracts"--- According to The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2006, article authored by Scot J. Paltrow.

posted March 15, 2008 at 8:07 p.m.