September 17, 2010

 Washington, DC – Nevada Senator Harry Reid today released the list of funding for projects in Nevada that he secured in the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2011.  Nevada will receive $84 million for projects that will create jobs and help diversify Nevada’s economy.  In addition to providing funding for small businesses that support the military, this bill funds equipment for our service members, and cutting edge research at Nevada’s universities.
 
“The funding from this bill will go a long way in Nevada because it will help create and sustain jobs as our economy continues to recover, while maintaining our state's important role in our country's national defense," Reid said.  “From university research to equipment for the National Guard, this is important funding that we need for Nevada now.”

Reid also supported $50 million for the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program which focuses on researching diseases affecting combat personnel such as loss of vision or hearing (tinnitus).

The detailed list of funding Senator Reid secured for projects in Nevada through the Defense Appropriation committee mark-up process is included below.

Military

Project: Airfield mobility and logistic enhancement
Request: $ 4,000,000
Requestor: 98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis AFB, NV
Description: This funds the Battlefield/Airspace network integration equipment required for the continued successful operations conducted by the 98th Range Wing include vehicles, trailers, and other equipment.

Project: Additional Personnel Funding for the Nevada National Guard
Request: $8,166,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: Funding to support the Nevada National Guard Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), Nevada National Guard Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and the Nevada National Guard USAFWC F-15C Total Force Integration.  This funding will increase the NGPAF account.  Their personnel breakout of the DCGS programs calls for the addition of 4 Officers, and 29 enlisted drill status Guardsmen and 3 officers and 6 enlisted Active Guard Reserve annually. The Nevada National Guard RPA request would fund the addition of 13 officers and 54 enlisted personnel. The Nevada National Guard USAFWC F-15-C Total Force Integration program includes the addition of 8 officers and 52 enlisted positions to meet USAFWC F-15C mission needs.

Project: Battlefield/Airspace network integration
Request: $ 1,500,000
Requestor: 98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis AFB, NV
Description: This funds the Battlefield/Airspace network integration equipment required for the continued successful operations conducted by the 98th Range Wing. Equipment includes Low Volume Terminal 2, Joint Range Extension, Training for LEGS and ARMS, Link antennas, Simulator/Amalgamated Remote managed Systems, Situation Awareness Data Link (SADL) XY, Low Volume Terminal Voice Cards, Associated Routers and Switches, PRC 117 Radio Filters Expand Coverage, Mt. Ella Power Upgrade, Microwave Encrypted Radios to tie into network node, Remote Generator Monitoring System.

Project: Nevada National Guard Counter Drug Program
Request:  $4,500,000
Requestor: Joint Force Headquarters
Location: Indian Springs, NV
Description: The Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Program requests an additional $4.5 million to fund current operational levels and supplement the equipment capabilities of the Nevada Integrated Imagery Network (NIIN) with personnel. This level of funding would ensure continued sustainment of the Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Program and allow for the integration of the NIIN into the fight against illegal narcotics.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (M249 Squad Automatic Weapon)
Request:  $265,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (light)
Request:  $56,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (M9 Pistols)
Request:  $73,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (M2 Machine Guns)
Request:  $510,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (M4 Rifles)
Request:  $430,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations.

University

Project: DC Air Conditioner Suitable for PV Solar Air Conditioning Using Novel VSD Technology and Commercial AC Compressors
Request: $3,500,000
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description:  Solar driven air conditioning is desirable as the need for energy from the grid or on-site generation engines or turbines is eliminated with environmentally-benign photovoltaic conversion of solar energy into electricity. The major hurdle towards practical implementation is the need to condition, for higher quality, the DC power generated by the PV-panels and the electric current demand profile adjustment from motors as used in air conditioner compressors.

Project: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Links to Desert Environments
Request:  $2,000,000
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The project focuses on diseases that have symptoms particularly relevant to the military and amenable to synthetic manipulation, i.e., neuro-immune diseases that have neurological and/or cognitive manifestations. This request will assess future threats through modeling and experimentation on small bacterial organisms and retroviruses

Project: Gallium Nitride Materials for High Performance Devices
Request: $3,500,000
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: UNLV in conjunction with Kyma requests $4M in congressional support to continue its bulk gallium nitride (GaN) materials development effort and to develop next generation high performance electronic devices for a broad range of DoD and commercial applications.

Project: Global Military Operating Environments (GMOE)
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description: This initiative will aid in understanding natural environments critical to execution of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) by linking assessment of natural environmental conditions in strategic areas with United States training and testing installations. Primary project sites will include all principal Army test centers and training center: Experimental sites for technology developed as part of this initiative will also be established in Reno and Boulder City at NSHE facilities.

Project: In-Field Body Temperature Conditioner
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: The In-Field Body Temperature Conditioner is a portable device to promote normothermic conditions in injured or ill patients in a remote location. The body warmer has of two elements: the heating/cooling module and the contact pads. The module comprises a vapor compression cooler/heat pump with variable speed drive and refrigerant flow control for variable capacity. The pad system comprises a heat exchanger, insulation and a contact surface. The module is designed to be of low weight.

Project: Mobile Aerosol Monitoring System for Department of Defense
Request: $1,200,000
Requestor:  Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description:  This project supports the design, building, and deployment of an instrumented mobile facility to investigate the effects of dust and air pollutants on respiratory health and battlefield operations at U.S. military bases in the Middle East and U.S.A. The goal of the proposed initiative is to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with time-resolved information that will allow them to assess the influence of enhanced dust concentrations on health and DoD operations in the Middle East and else.

Project: Unmanned Aerial Platforms to Support First Responders During Local and National Disasters
Request: $ 1,500,000
Requestor:  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description:  Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized intelligence collection and the delivery of weapon systems in a combat environment. UAVs have saved numerous lives by putting fewer personnel at risk, while simultaneously expanding the capabilities of our military forces worldwide. As impressive as UAVs have been on the battlefield, these contributions will be dwarfed by their entry into the commercial and civil environments.

Project: UNR-Ultra High Efficiency Heat Pump for Cooling and Heating Using In-Rush Control via Variable Speed Operation and Pulsing Refrigerant Flow Control
Request: $ 3,800,000
Requestor:  University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, Nevada
Description: This project will develop, test and qualify for military use an ultra high efficiency heat pump providing cooling and heating for War fighters in hot and cold climates, which in turn will increase combat readiness and War fighter efficiency.

Small Business

Project: A Controllable Shock Absorber for Advanced Submarines' Weapons Shock Mitigation
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The goal of this project is to design, development and testing of a full-scale controllable shock mitigation device for the safety of the US Navy nuclear submarines. The development effort will take 24 months to conduct systems engineering/analysis, test fixture development, design/development of subscale test items and evaluation testing.

Project: Advanced Environmental Control System
Request: $ 4,000,000
Requestor:  Rocky Research
Location: Boulder City, NV
Description: The project will develop energy efficient advanced control systems for thermal and energy management on board ships and land based platforms employing technology with a common platform for dual use in the Army, Navy, and Missile Defense. The effect will be a reduction in fuel and energy consumption while increasing operational reliability.

Project: Affordable Light-weight Composite (MMC) Armor
Request: $3,500,000
Requestor: MC-21, Inc.
Location: Carson City, NV
Description: Metal matrix composites (MMC) provides the military a solution for light, inexpensive armor that provides excellent ballistic performance. MMCs are to be used in multi-layer armor applications where aluminum will not work, and steel is too heavy.

Project: Army Tactical Asset Visibility
Request: $1,500,000
Requestor: MIS2000
Location: Hawthorne, NV,
Description: Mineral County Economic Development Authority (MCEDA) in cooperation with MIS 2000/Global Defense Electronics and UNLV will cost optimize a hybrid "Radio Frequency Identification System" to track ammunition sleds at the Hawthorne Western Ammunition Depot (H.W.A.D) and other ammunition bases.  Furthermore the project will commercialize the technology to create jobs in Mineral County and Nevada.

Project: CISRT Enabling Materials Technology
Request:  $2,000,000
Requestor: Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description: The objective is to develop new materials and designs technologies into relevant applications on submarine based launch/integration systems. Specifically, development of a practical reusable forward closure system utilizing advanced materials and novel design to secure payloads from salt water and sea pressure would be a significant technology enabler that would allow a wide variety of unmanned off board systems to be deployed.

Project: Containment Vehicle for the Suppression and Transport of Munitions and IED's
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Blast Containment, Inc.
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: With the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military needs a lightweight, portable vehicle that can be used to transport high explosive munitions and IED's. This project is the final phase of a 3 phase project that will design, fabricate and test blast containment vessels that will be lightweight enough to be truck deployable, yet rugged enough to contain the blast from 100 pounds of TNT. The technology that will be utilized was developed and demonstrated by UNLV working with the DoE.

Project: Continuous Threat Alerting Sensing System (CTASS)
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Arcata Associates
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: Continuous Threat Alerting Sensing System (CTASS) is a low cost and fully integrated system of unattended ground sensors using hardened field portable technology integrates both fixed and mobile sensor platforms with chemical, video, and tracking data. CTASS enables situational awareness for users in the field to make real time decisions and for command and control centers to monitor remote locations in a quick, reliable, and cost effective way.

Project: Electronic Periscope Detection Radar (EPDR)
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Sierra Nevada Corp
Location: Sparks, NV
Description: The Navy has identified a need to detect submarine periscopes from the decks of these vessels. The Electronic Periscope Detection Radar (EPDR) will meet the size, functionality and affordability requirements that other developmental periscope detection radars -- the APS-137 radar and the SPS-74 radar – do not. The EPDR is a periscope detection radar that is suitable for installation on cruisers and destroyers.

Project: Escalation of Force Non-Lethal Technology for Special Operations Forces
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Varian Medical Systems
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: This is an escalation of force (EoF) initiative to assist in providing non-lethal technology enhancements to Special Operations Forces to enable them to engage and immobilize personnel, and vehicles, with minimal risk of significant injury/damage to the target(s). This project meets the requirements of a Commander, USSOCOM unfunded technology requirement.

Project: Lightweight Cannon Recoil Reduction (LCRR)
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Software and Engineering Associates, Inc.
Location: Carson City, NV
Description: Develop software to assist in the designing, development, and testing of the next generation lightweight cannons with reduced recoil, weight, wear, and erosion. Significantly reducing the cannon recoil, thermal load, and system weight using RAVEN breech venting and advanced muzzle brakes technologies will result in smaller, lighter, and more agile armament systems with the same lethality as current systems.

Project: Multi-mode CWDM Optical Component Production Capability for Space and Avionics
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: OptiComp. Corp
Location: Zephyr Cove
Description: This program addresses the requirement for an upgraded optical module for the JSF F-35 platform.

Project: Navy Single Engine Cruise
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Altairnano, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description: This project aims to develop a large format, high energy density, advanced lithium ion-based battery of 2.5 megawatts, with vastly improved environmentally sustainable characteristics and safety from fire/explosion that characterize other batteries. Such a battery would replace one of the three ship service generators normally in operation or in reserve aboard most surface combatants. Current operations require two units to operate at all times to provide backup power in case of failure.

Project: Next Generation Casting Initiative
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: PCC Structurals
Location: Carson City, NV
Description: The defense of America depends on high technology to detect and deter potential aggression. An industry sector critical to America’s defense needs is the aerospace investment casting industry which primarily produces complex titanium and superalloy castings used in structures and rotating components of current and future aerospace weapon systems. Such Sophisticated weapons require complex production processes to assure reasonable cost, delivery and superior quality.

Project: Biosensor, Communicator and Controller System
Request: $ 5,000,000
Requestor: Eye-Com Corporation
Location: Reno, NV
Description: This project continues FY05-10 R&D and will deliver an eye- and head-tracking Biosensor Communication & Controller system with integrated oculometric, EEG and other biometric monitoring and detection capabilities. The wearable Biosensor will enable a unique Computer Brain Interface that will couple oculometric with neural sensory data that can evaluate and respond to alertness, vigilance and performance, in conditions such as fatigue, epilepsy, mTBI, PTSD, ADD/ADHD, autism, and other conditions.

Project: Terrorist Threat Detection System for Shipping Containers
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Nevada Nanotech Systems
Location: Reno, NV
Description: A set of advanced prototype C-Scout threat detection systems will be fabricated followed by extensive performance characterization in laboratory and field conditions against a broad set of threats. Threats to be evaluated include concealed military and homemade explosives, nuclear and dirty bombs, chemical warfare agents, biological warfare agents, humans, and contraband. Further performance characterization includes units installed in shipping containers and monitored during transport at sea.

Project: Modular Crew Served Weapon Light (CSWL) System
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Night Operations Systems
Location: Reno, NV
Description: This request would provide acquisition funding for the NOS-45A Crew Served Weapon Light (CSWL) systems toward the Army's CSWL program requirement, to support Soldier/gunner safety and US Army night operations. NOS-45A systems illuminate targets beyond 1,000 meters, and are compact, lightweight, and can be handheld or mounted on all US Army crew-served weapon and vehicle platforms.