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Contact: Lori Hamamoto/Peter Boylan (Inouye) 202-224-3934
Jesse Broder Van Dyke (Akaka) 202-224-6361
SENATE APPROVES $207.5 MILLION FOR
DEFENSE PROJECTS IN HAWAII
OCTOBER 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON—Defense projects in Hawaii will receive $207.5 million in federal funds during the coming fiscal year for an array of projects including satellite deployment, space surveillance, improvements to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the development of tactical technology, Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel K. Inouye announced today.
The spending measure passed by a vote of 93-7.
The bill must now face a joint House-Senate Conference and final approval by the Senate and House, before it is transmitted to the White House.
“Developing the infrastructure, technology and services that support our men and women is critical, especially at a time when we are waging war on two fronts,” said Chairman Inouye, Chairman of the Defense Subcommittee. “We have a duty to provide the resources and tools which allow them to do their jobs and return home safely. The military is Hawaii’s second largest industry and supports our economy in a multitude of ways from construction and technology to retail and services for military families.”
“This bill secures funding for the research and development of cutting-edge tools that will improve military capabilities and readiness,” said Senator Akaka.
Chairman Inouye also said he is pleased that successful Hawaii initiatives such as the Pacific Disaster Center, the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance and the Joint Information Technology Center will be funded by the Pentagon.
Here are the Hawaii-related defense initiatives secured in Fiscal Year 2010:
OAHU/STATEWIDE
AKAMAI/Hawaii Federal Health Care Network $24.5 million
Supports applied research, development and deployment of telehealth and biotechnology to improve access and the quality of care to active duty military families and impacted communities. Akamai continues on a transition path toward competitive grants for Hawaii companies in support of DOD health requirements.
Hawaii Tech Development Venture $10.5 million
Provides competitively awarded grants to companies developing advanced technologies in support of Navy and Department of Defense requirements.
Center of Excellence for Research in $9 million
Ocean Sciences (CEROS)
The appropriation provides competitively awarded grants for innovative concept and technology development in ocean and marine research for the Department of Defense.
Joint Venture Education Program $5.5 million
Funding will go toward education programs, school repair and technology innovation to support military families.
USS Missouri $5.5 million
Funds are provided to the U.S.S. Memorial Association for the costs associated with drydocking and repairing the U.S.S. Missouri.
Low-Earth Orbit Nanosatellite Integrated $5 million
Defense Autonomous Systems (LEONIDAS)
This University of Hawaii project is developing the capability to launch small satellites into low earth orbit from the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
Warfighter Rapid Awareness Processing Technologies (WRAPT) $5 million
WRAPT is refining and testing a mobile sensor technology and computing platform for situational awareness. Funding will be used to continue supporting a test-bed application and training environment with the Third Marine Division at Marine Corp Base Hawaii and to develop a sensor for stress detection.
Army Conservation and Ecosystem Management $4.5 million
Funds support the U. S. Army’s efforts to be good stewards of their lands through tested conservation practices, monitoring and removing ordnance on land and in the ocean, fire control management, and community outreach.
Intelligent Decision Exploration $4.5 million
This project provides a planning tool to enhance interoperability with coalition partners, develops 3-D visualization of the battlespace, map interface, and improved sensor fidelity to improve operations of unmanned vehicles, and creates visualization of network traffic to improve computer network defense.
Pearl Harbor Navy Shipyard Equipment Modernization $4.2 million
This funding will go toward five equipment upgrades that will enhance the capabilities of Pearl Harbor Navy Shipyard.
Reconnaissance and Data Exploitation (REX) System $4 million
Funding will be used to improve intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR) tools by leveraging existing technology into a transitional program for immediate deployment opportunities and warfighter impact.
Military Applications for Medical Grade Chitosan $3.5 million
Funding would continue the research and development of optimized anti-bacterial and anti-viral chitosan-based materials for improved treatment capabilities of military injuries and infections.
Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle (AUSV) $3 million
Funding will be used to continue and accelerate the development of a new-technology wind-powered AUSV as a cost-effective, high-endurance reconnaissance and surveillance system.
Eagle Vision for the Hawaii Air National Guard $3 million
Funding will upgrade the Hawaii National Guard’s Eagle Vision system to increase its access to commercial satellite imagery.
Hawaii National Guard Counterdrug $3 million
The funds for this ongoing program will be used to enhance drug interdiction
activities at Hawaii’s ports of entry, support anti-drug programs targeting youths, and eradicate marijuana and crystal meth labs.
Marine Air Ground Task Force $3 million
This funding supports the development and field test of a prototype situational awareness and tactical decision support system for a counter-sniper weapon system.
Mobile Modular Comm. Center (M2C2) $3 million
This funding will provide communications, networking and command and control technologies for Marine Corp’s tactical missions and is developing concepts of operations for early entry and command and control on-the-move missions.
Detection, Tracking, and Identification for $2.5 million
ISRTE of Mobile and Asymmetric Targets
This funding will be used to develop components to support multiple, simultaneous detections, tracking, identification and targeting of asymmetric and mobile threats in ISRTE operations.
Immersive Group Simulation Virtual Training System $2.5 million
for Hawaii Army National Guard
Funding will provide additional training opportunities for the Hawaii Army National Guard by using virtual reality to supplement live training exercises.
Undersea Special Warfare Engineering Support Office $2.5 million
The U.S. Special Operations Command is consolidating its undersea special warfare capabilities in Pearl Harbor. This funding will go toward establishing an office in Pearl Harbor that will provide engineering services to support the reorganization to enable continuous improvement of equipment used by the Special Operations community. The funding will also provide research and development funds to rapidly transition new technologies to support undersea special warfare capability requirements.
Captive Air Amphibious Transporter (CAAT) $2.2 million
This funding will go toward a half-scale technology demonstrator of an amphibious, logistic craft for the Marine Corps to transport supplies and equipment from ship to challenging landing locations.
4-D Data Fusion Visualization $2 million
This funding continues development of capability to process, fuse and rapidly visualize very large amounts of spatial and temporal date in an immersive environment to facilitate situational awareness and understanding of the battlespace.
FLASH Hyper-Dimensional Imaging for Near $2 million
Space Surveillance and Ballistic Missile Defense
Funding for this program will be used to develop technology to provide the capability for immediate, real time threat assessment of a missile intercept and to significantly enhance space situational awareness.
Hawaiian Range Complex $2 million
This project will design operations of the Hawaiian Range Complex as part of an ongoing effort to provide joint service training and mission rehearsal capabilities for the Hawaiian Islands.
Managing and Extending DoD Asset Lifecycles $2 million
Funding for this program will be used to develop technologies to prevent and mitigate corrosion of DoD infrastructure and equipment.
Pacific Data Conversion and Technology Program $2 million
Funding will be used for the establishment of technology outreach centers to support the
transition and integration of advanced technologies into military and homeland security operations.
Covert Sensing and Tagging System $1.5 million
Funding will be used to develop technology to provide a covert, low-cost, and expendable unattended sensor system.
Mobile Localization (M-LOC) $1.5 million
Identifies and locates possible threats/targets through the advanced application of mobile electro-optical/infrared camera sensors to enhance a commander’s ability to understand and safely maneuver on the battlefield.
Virtual Onboard Analyst for Multi-Sensor Mine Detection $1.5 million
This program develops a self-learning, adaptive, multi-sensor, knowledge-based fusion decision-aid capability and creates a means to fuse knowledge-based information with multi-sensor date through virtual onboard analyst that replicates the capabilities and flexibility of an experience min countermeasures analyst.
MAUI
Maui Space Surveillance System Operations and Research (MSSS) $20 million
MSSS is a state of the art electro-optical facility that combines operational satellite tracking facilities with research and development activities. It houses the Department of Defense’s largest telescope, the 3.67-meter Advanced Electro Optical System, and several other telescopes.
PanSTARRS $10 million
Funding will continue development of a telescope system that combines relatively small mirrors with very large digital cameras to observe the entire sky several times each month in order to discover and characterize Earth-approaching objects and enhance space situational awareness capabilities. The Maui Space Surveillance System, the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy, and the Maui High Performance Computing Center are cooperating on this initiative.
Applications of LIDAR to Vehicles with Analysis $6.5 million
Funding will continue to enhance the space situational awareness capabilities of the Maui Space Surveillance Site and provide state-of-the-art intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to the warfighter. It will also provide the capability for immediate, real-time kill assessment of a missile intercept and enhance space situational awareness utilizing hyper-dimensional digital snapshots.
High Accuracy Network Determination System $5 million
Funding continues work on the HANDS-IONS project, which uses a relatively low-cost, innovative network of telescopes to provide greater accuracy in tracking space data for the Air Force to enhance its space situational awareness mission
Real-time Optical Surveillance Applications $4 million
This program provides pathfinder research, technologies, and demonstrations for the next generation of space situational awareness electro-optical assets.
Hawaii Advanced Laboratory for Information Integration (HALI’I) $2.5 million
The HALI'I project will enable intelligence information across disparate classification domains and network interfaces to be exchanged by the intelligence community. HALI'I will use the U.S. Pacific Command theater of operations to develop and validate technologies associated with information fusion, dissemination, and protection.
KAUAI
Pacific Airborne Surveillance and Testing $17.5 million
This project provides competitive awards to multiple companies to improve radar capabilities, such as advanced processing, improved transmitters, and target identification to improve maritime domain awareness. In addition, the project supports development of the True North Module to provide more accurate location and orientation data for unmanned aerial systems.
Strategic Materials $5.5 million
Funding supports efforts to advance technology to chemically grow extremely pure silicon carbide for critical defense applications. This material is ideally suited to a range of optical applications, including space surveillance and seeker optics, fast steering mirrors, and other dual-use items.
Multiple-Target-Tracking Optical Sensor-Array Technology (MOST) $5 million
MOST technology will benefit test and evaluation of missile defense systems by providing enhanced data on missile intercepts.
Pacific Region Interoperability Test and $3.5 million
Evaluation Capability
This project creates a developmental and operational testing environment in the Pacific that is interoperable with other Defense Department test facilities.
Hawaii National Guard Integrated Information Command $1.6 million
This program provides relevant, real-time situational information to all levels of command from the Hawaii National Guard to Hawaii State Civil Defense to civilian responders in the field.
Maritime Directed Energy Test and Evaluation Center $1.5 million
The funding continues preparation of the Pacific Missile Range Facility for future Navy maritime directed energy test and evaluation activities.
COMPETETIVE FUNDING INITIATIVES
Senator Inouye has also supported a wide variety of funding increases in areas that are of interest to numerous organizations and companies based in Hawaii. The funding increases provide competitive opportunities in areas of importance to Hawaii, the Pacific Command and its strategic posture. These include:
• $45 million for test and training range upgrades.
• $75 million for applied alternative energy research.
• $55 million for environmental restoration and unexploded ordnance removal.
• $25 million for the readiness and environmental protection initiative.
• $25 million for the National Guard Youth Challenge.
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