Posted on 10/06/2007 7:08:22 PM PDT by mdittmar
BOSTON – Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry today announced that Congress passed the 2007 Defense Appropriations bill late last night. The bill provides $777 million in funding for Massachusetts projects.
Kennedy and Kerry have worked to add funds for key programs important to Massachusetts, including $208 million for the Patriot Missile for Raytheon in Andover, $4 million for the Extended Cold Weather Clothing System for Malden Mills in Lawrence and $2 million for the Nanomanufacturing of multifunctional sensors for the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
“The passage of the Defense Appropriations bill highlights the essential role of our Commonwealth in keeping America safe at home and abroad. From UMASS Lowell to Foster Miller to Raytheon, this legislation will enhance Massachusetts’ position as a leader in the defense industry,” said Senator Kennedy.
“These investments will keep Massachusetts in the lead in new military technologies from designing protective clothing for our troops to developing an early warning system for naval vessels under attack to building better prostheses for returning veterans,” said Senator Kerry. “This bill will further help expand our state’s economy, strengthen our military and secure our homeland.”
Defense Medical Technologies:
CIMIT: Boston, MA
$5 million for the development of critical new medical devices and treatment of internal bleeding, managing brain and spinal cord injury after trauma, accelerating wound healing, optimizing rehabilitation, diagnosing emerging infectious diseases, and training emergency first responders.
Foster Miller: Waltham, Bedford and Holliston, MA
$3 million for the Advanced Lower Limb Prosthesis for Battlefield Amputees; a neurally-controlled, powered artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to lower extremity amputee patients
Medical Free Electron Laser: Boston, MA
$3 million for the Medical Free Electron Laser which will help continue to provide the necessary scientific research capability to solve some of the most difficult and challenging medical challenges facing our soldiers today.
Steris Corporation: Natick, MA
$22 million for Reactive Coatings enhanced to Resist Chemical/Biological Contamination. This add will provide reactive coatings incorporated into military uniforms and equipment to provide enhanced survivability when forces are exposed to contamination. .
Army Technologies:
Malden Mills: Lawrence, MA
$ 4 million for Fleece Insulating Liners for Extended Cold Weather Clothing System Generation III which will provide increased protection, comfort and mobility between +40 and -40 degrees F.
$2 million for Multi Climate Protection System (MCPS)
The Chief of Naval Operations FY 2000 Aircrew Systems Operational Advisory Group identified that Naval and Marine Corps aircrew personnel need an improved protective clothing system.
$1 million for the Responsive Textiles
The single responsive garment would replace a multitude of layers, allowing for maximum mobility in varying environments. The requested funds will be used to research the technical feasibility of the Responsive Textile concept, estimate costs, and manufacture a prototype concept.
Boston University
$ 4 million for a soldier wearable acoustic detection and targeting device, a modulated retroreflector for laser communications, and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for bacterial bio-sensing and detection.
University of Massachusetts Lowell
$ 2 million for the nanomanufacturing of multifunctional sensors to work to aid those in the fight against terrorism by developing and designing highly sensitive chemical and biological sensors.
Raytheon: Andover, MA
$208 million to modernize the Patriot Missile; the PATRIOT missile is an integral asset in the Global War on Terrorism and figures prominently in all theatre contingency force plans, including homeland defense and the security of our allies throughout the world.
Textron Systems: Wilmington, MA
$2.8 million for the alternate payload bomb live unit munitions which will provide the warfighter with a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle deliverable mission capability to utilize this effective weapon, while minimizing the concern for unexploded ordnance.
Ahura Corporation:Wilmington, MA
$2 million for the Raman Chemical identification System to develop a truly handheld device (under 8 oz.) that can identify unknown explosives, chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, narcotics, and other hazardous materials.
Navy Technologies:
DRS Power Systems: Fitchburg and Hudson, MA
$9 million for the Permanent Magnet Motor; a lighter, more efficient, and smaller propulsion system that will free ship weight for use in carrying additional weapons or fuel and increases future warship operational capability per ton.
American Superconductor: Devens, MA
$5 million for the High Temperature Superconductor AC Synchronous Propulsion Motor; an electric drive propulsion system for DD(G)1000 and CG(X) in an effort to increase power while reducing vessel weight.
General Electric, Rolls Royce
$480 million for the Joint Strike Fighter Alternate Engine; the alternate engine approach, through competition, will ensure increased quality, reduced risk, increased readiness, and drive down cost.
Other Defense Technologies:
Retica Systems Incorporated: Waltham, MA
$4 million for the Variable Distance Iris Identification on the Move. This funding will create a functional, accurate optical biometric system.
I-Robot Corporation: Burlington, MA
$10 million for the Warrior Unmanned Ground Vehicle ; a highly mobile vehicle designed for explosive ordnance disposal. The development of this vehicle will help in the fight against the proliferation of IED’s.
New England Supply Chain Initiative: Worcester, MA
$2 million for the New England Supply Chain Initiative to support the work of a six-state initiative to expand activities with the Defense Logistics Agency/DLA Battlefield Backorder Breakout Initiative (B3I) Program and to proactively prevent battlefield backorders.
$3 million for New Technology for Detecting Nuclear Weapons program
The funding will be used to manufacture improved technology to protect our soldiers and citizens from a nuclear weapons attack by detecting and identifying smuggled special nuclear materials, such as enriched uranium and weapons grade plutonium. No existing nuclear detector technology is sufficiently sensitive to detect smuggled special nuclear materials in real-world field use.
$4 million for the Advanced Intercept Ranging System (AIRS)
The Advanced Intercepting Ranging System (AIRS) provides early warnings to vessels being prosecuted by active search and localization sonar and under torpedo attack. They use direct 360 degree range systems to gauge threat measurements, making counter-measures and evasion tactics more effective.
$1 million for the Improved Energy Density Battery
This project will use technology developed under SBIR funding to produce a safe, high energy rechargeable lithium ion battery. The focus of this effort will be to optimize recently developed electrode materials for high charge rate capability and long cycle life.
Other Initiatives:
$7 million for the Procurement Technical Assistance Program
$5 million for the Impact Aid or Children with Disabilities
$20 million for University Research Initiatives
$2 million for the One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit
$ 15 million for Gulf War Illness Peer Reviewed Research
$10 million for Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Initiative
$10 million for the High Performance Manufacturing Initiative
$30 million for the Industrial Base Innovation Fund
$150 million for Peer Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program
$10 million for Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program
$80 milllion for Peer Reviewed Prostrate Cancer Research Program
>>$2 million for the Nanomanufacturing of multifunctional sensors for the University of Massachusetts Lowell.<<<<
This needs to be looked at MORE closely. Clinton hid a large number of items under nanotechnology that is bringing us many nanny state initiatives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Excerpt:
Before Bill Clinton left office, he authorized 2001 an 84% increase in the government’s investment in nanotechnology research and development, National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and made it a top priority.
What has not been publicly realized is the meaning of this initiative and the various components that are encompassed.
(snip)
Focus Areas at a Glance (28)
1. Access to Quality Health Services
2. Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Chronic Back Conditions
3. Cancer
4. Chronic Kidney Disease
5. Diabetes
6. Disability and Secondary Conditions
7. Educational and Community-Based Programs
8. Environmental Health
9. Family Planning
10. Food Safety
11. Health Communication
12. Heart Disease and Stroke
13. HIV
14. Immunizations and Infectious Diseases
15. Injury and Violence Prevention
16. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
17. Medical Product Safety
18. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
19. Nutrition and Overweight
20. Occupational Safety and Health
21. Oral Health
22. Physical Activity and Fitness
23. Public Health Infrastructure
24. Respiratory Diseases
25. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
26. Substance Abuse
27. Tobacco Use
28. Vision and Hearing
When an association, state, or company applies for the grants to fund these initiatives, in turn they authorize a Freedom of Information Release to all their data. This is a sample of the data collected from a grant application. All the data requirements are the same, the only difference is the partnered agency that is acting as a liaison for relaying the data. Example, this one below is using the USDA as the partnered liaison. If this was a hospital application, it would say the CDC.
More at thread
what does any of this $300M+ have to do with the military?
$7 million for the Procurement Technical Assistance Program
$5 million for the Impact Aid or Children with Disabilities
$20 million for University Research Initiatives
$2 million for the One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit
$ 15 million for Gulf War Illness Peer Reviewed Research
$10 million for Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Initiative
$10 million for the High Performance Manufacturing Initiative
$30 million for the Industrial Base Innovation Fund
$150 million for Peer Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program
$10 million for Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program
$80 milllion for Peer Reviewed Prostrate Cancer Research Program
What the heck is prostrate cancer?
Isn’t this the bill he attached Poofter Protection to?
No need to be concerned unless your a Prostraian.
I know what prostate cancer is.
The question is about prostrate cancer.
Prostrate Cancer is cancer of the knees, forehead and palms from groveling in front of Hillary.
The devil is in the details folks..............and much of this will not come as a surprise to the
NANNY STATE PING
list :)
It's a quagmire! We should pull out!
Good one.
I think a number of people also suffered from it when Hillary’s husband was in the White House.
U Mass Lowell is the renamed Lowell Tech. It does not surprise me that there is nanotech research being performed there. Quite frankly, the top half of the main post list looks pretty solid. It is when you get ot “other initiatives” that it beaks down into touchy feely stuff. $240M in cancer research under defense?
Just a lot more stuff to watch us, or perhaps, do much worse.
Thanks for the ping!
I see that no one mentioned that whole Democrat military industrial complex thingy...
Follow the money, folks...
...while keeping in mind that Democrats have controlled the defense and intelligence committees for most of the last sixty years or more.
...then...look up some FEC campaign reports...
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