"O-o-o-o-o-o, speaking of Bigfoot----how's about getting me a date with THAT hunk."
Posted on 02/19/2009 9:09:43 AM PST by smoothsailing
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS
Feb. 19, 2009 – 5:52 a.m.
Firm with Murtha Ties Got Earmarks From Nearly One-Fourth of House
By Jonathan Allen and Alex Knott, CQ Staff
More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm — The PMA Group — known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.
“It shows you how good they were,” said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.”
PMA’s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers.
No matter what the outcome of the federal investigation, PMA’s earmark success illustrates how a well-connected lobbying firm operates on Capitol Hill. And earmark accountability rules imposed by the Democrats in 2007 make it possible to see how extensively PMA worked the Hill for its clients.
In the spending bill managed by Murtha, the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriation, 104 House members got earmarks for projects sought by PMA clients, according to Congressional Quarterly’s analysis of a database constructed by Ashdown’s group.
Those House members, plus a handful of senators, combined to route nearly $300 million in public money to clients of PMA through that one law (PL 110-116).
And when the lawmakers were in need — as they all are to finance their campaigns — PMA came through for them.
According to CQ MoneyLine, the same House members who took responsibility for PMA’s earmarks in that spending bill have, since 2001, accepted a cumulative $1,815,138 in campaign contributions from PMA’s political action committee and employees of the firm.
Friends in High Places PMA’s founder, Paul Magliocchetti, is a former House Appropriations Committee aide who has a long-running relationship with Murtha, D-Pa., the chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Murtha, who used to boast that his middle initial stands for “power,” carved out $38.1 million for PMA clients in the fiscal 2008 defense spending law, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Indiana Rep. Peter J. Visclosky , who serves on Murtha’s subcommittee and additionally is chairman of the subcommittee that allocates money for the Pentagon’s nuclear programs, earmarked $23.8 million for PMA clients in the fiscal 2008 defense spending bill.
His former chief of staff, Richard Kaelin, lobbies for PMA, as does Melissa Koloszar, a former top aide to defense appropriator James P. Moran , D-Va.
Moran sponsored $10.8 million for PMA clients, and Rep. Norm Dicks , D-Wash., another member of the subcommittee, sponsored $12.1 million.
Spokesmen for Murtha and Visclosky did not respond to requests for comment.
Spending Freely Of the 104 lawmakers who lent their names to earmark requests for PMA clients in the fiscal 2008 Pentagon spending law, 91 have, since 2001, received campaign money linked to PMA, either from its political action committee or its employees.
Overall, since 2001, PMA’s PAC and its employees together have poured $3.3 million into the coffers of congressional campaign committees and so-called leadership political action committees that support the ambitions of lawmakers who want to raise their profile.
In reviewing the millions of dollars of campaign contributions made by PMA or its employees, CQ excluded from its totals money from individuals whose employment by PMA could not be confirmed. Those unverifiable donations added up to less than $50,000.
Visclosky raked in $219,000 in campaign donations from PMA and its employees since 2001. That’s more money than he spent in three of his 13 elections.
Murtha’s political committees have collected $143,600 in contributions from PMA’s employees and its political action committee during the same period.
Moran ranks third, having taken $125,250 in PMA contributions since 2001.
Dicks is fourth at $91,600.
Rep. John B. Larson , the Democratic Caucus chairman, can attribute $37,850 worth of campaign money to PMA sources.
PMA was less generous with the campaign committees of other legislative leaders.
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer , D-Md., got $11,000 in PMA-connected contributions during that time; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received $4,500; and Majority Whip James E. Clyburn of South Carolina received $3,000.
Of the Democratic leaders, only Pelosi could be documented as having secured an earmark for a PMA client in the first Democratic-written Defense spending bill: $2 million for SA Photonics’ Satellite Coherent Optical Receiver.
Of the top 20 House recipients of PMA money since 2001, only Larson did not guide any earmarks to PMA clients in the fiscal 2008 Pentagon spending bill.
PMA and its employees have not given campaign money to the top three House Republican leaders, John A. Boehner of Ohio, Eric Cantor of Virginia and Mike Pence of Indiana.
It is clear from PMA’s earmark success, though, that it didn’t need the intervention of top leaders.
And though some of its political money went to Senate campaigns, PMA’s earmark success was clearly the result of efforts in the House, and particularly its efforts with the clutch of Democratic defense appropriators closest to Murtha.
“By and large their strength is nobody was better or more capable of moving the House Defense Subcommittee when it came to these matters,” Ashdown said.
No Overhead? Curiously, in the last four election cycles, PMA’s political action committee reported expenses of only $18, according to federal campaign finance reports compiled by CQ MoneyLine.
It reported no payroll costs.
The $18 was for re-ordering checks and another bank fee.
Now that PMA has been the focus of news reports, several lawmakers have said they’ll give away some of their campaign money.
“My campaign has informed me that the PMA Group has made contributions to my re-election committee in past years. I have directed that all contributions ever received from the PMA Group be returned to them,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren , D-Calif., chairwoman of the House ethics committee. “I do so without making any comment to the veracity of the allegations against PMA Group.”
Aides to Visclosky and Sen. Bill Nelson , D-Fla., also have told reporters that a portion of campaign money would be returned.
Murtha’s Corner The inventory of PMA’s contributions and earmark benefactors includes a number of House members who have clout by association, because they are Murtha’s friends or his proteges in the Pennsylvania delegation — a group that congregates along the southeast edge of the House chamber in what’s been known for years as Murtha’s corner.
Among the top 20 recipients of PMA campaign dollars since 2001 are Pennsylvania Democrats Mike Doyle ($69,400), Tim Holden ($57,275), Paul Kanjorski ($37,150) and Chris Carney ($38,500) — even though Carney was first elected in 2006.
In the PMA donation top 30 are Pennsylvania Reps. Patrick J. Murphy ($29,250), Allyson Y. Schwartz ($25,000) and Jason Altmire ($24,500). Schwartz was first elected in 2004, and Altmire and Murphy first won their seats in 2006.
Those Pennsylvanians combined for $17.3 million in PMA earmarks in the single fiscal 2008 bill shepherded by Murtha.
Rep. Michael E. Capuano , who is often only partially visible in the House chamber because he stands behind Murtha’s back row with his arms over the railing, has taken $54,000 in campaign contributions from PMA sources in the last eight years.
In the fiscal 2008 bill, he requested a successful $2 million earmark for Parametric Technology Corporation, a PMA-represented information systems company with offices near Capuano’s Boston-based district and in Murtha’s district in western Pennsylvania.
Capuano also secured $800,000 in that bill for another one of the lobbying firm’s clients.
The list of lawmakers who have guided money to PMA clients also includes Republicans, most prominently Reps. C.W. “Bill” Young of Florida and Jerry Lewis of California.
Young, the top Republican on Murtha’s subcommittee, won $20.4 million in earmarks for PMA clients, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. Lewis, the top Republican on the full Appropriations Committee, secured $8 million.
PMA’s customers, of course, turned the tax dollars they received into products and services for the government and profits for their companies.
As a cost of getting that business, they paid PMA nearly $16.4 million in 2007, according to congressional disclosure reports.
No lobbying firm specializing in Defense clients took in more money that year.
Until recently, PMA had 34 lobbyists on payroll, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
By comparison, the firm Holland and Knight, which made $15,000 more than PMA on lobbying in 2007, has 73 lobbyists and Patton Boggs, which took in more than $43 million in 2007, has 151 lobbyists, according to CRP.
It’s capitalism, Capitol Hill style.
“There has been a system put in place in this town and they are playing by the system,” a well-connected Republican lobbyist said of PMA. “They’re good at it, and the bottom line on good here is generating revenues.”
CQ © 2007 All Rights Reserved | Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1255 22nd Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 | 202-419-8500
Yes he does have to be Voted out.
To impeach him would lead to a cleaner Demrat replacement.
We need to leave the red meat out for Bill Russell to cook.
It just appears to perfectly define a “shell” company set up solely to extort taxpayer funds in exchange for campaign contributions. Quid Pro Quo.
| Requesting Member | State | $ Secured Solo | $ Secured w/Others | Total Credited | PMA campaign $ since 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter J. Visclosky# | Indiana | $21,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $23,800,000 | $219,000 |
| John P. Murtha# | Pennsylvania | $31,705,000 | $2,400,000 | $34,105,000 | $143,600 |
| James P. Moran# | Virginia | $8,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,800,000 | $125,250 |
| Norm Dicks# | Washington | $11,330,000 | $800,000 | $12,130,000 | $91,600 |
| Bill Pascrell Jr. | New Jersey | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $73,200 | |
| Mike Doyle | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $69,400 | |
| Loretta Sanchez | California | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $60,118 | |
| Tim Holden | Pennsylvania | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $57,275 | |
| Tim Ryan | Ohio | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $54,250 | |
| Michael E. Capuano | Massachusetts | $2,000,000 | $800,000 | $2,800,000 | $54,000 |
| Chet Edwards | Texas | $6,040,000 | $6,040,000 | $48,734 | |
| Silvestre Reyes | Texas | $800,000 | $800,000 | $42,300 | |
| Christopher Carney | Pennsylvania | $5,900,000 | $5,900,000 | $38,500 | |
| Paul E. Kanjorski | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $3,200,000 | $4,800,000 | $37,150 |
| Marcy Kaptur# | Ohio | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $34,500 | |
| Carolyn McCarthy | New York | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $31,500 | |
| Patrick J. Murphy | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $29,250 | |
| Allyson Y. Schwartz | Pennsylvania | $800,000 | $800,000 | $25,000 | |
| Jason Altmire | Pennsylvania | $2,600,000 | $2,600,000 | $24,500 | |
| Brad Sherman | California | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $15,500 | |
| Susan A. Davis | California | $800,000 | $800,000 | $13,750 | |
| Allen Boyd# | Florida | $6,400,000 | $2,200,000 | $8,600,000 | $12,000 |
| Sanford D. Bishop Jr.# | Georgia | $1,200,000 | $2,400,000 | $3,600,000 | $10,500 |
| Jane Harman | California | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,500 | |
| Jim Matheson | Utah | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,000 | |
| Steve Israel | New York | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $8,500 | |
| Jerrold Nadler | New York | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $8,500 | |
| Joe Sestak | Pennsylvania | $1,280,000 | $1,280,000 | $8,500 | |
| Jim Marshall | Georgia | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $7,000 | |
| Mark Udall* | Colorado | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $6,533 | |
| Michael H. Michaud | Maine | $800,000 | $800,000 | $6,500 | |
| Tom Allen* | Maine | $1,800,000 | $1,800,000 | $5,750 | |
| Danny K. Davis | Illinois | $295,000 | $295,000 | $5,500 | |
| Robert E. Andrews | New Jersey | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | $5,000 | |
| Gene Taylor | Mississippi | $800,000 | $800,000 | $4,750 | |
| Nancy Pelosi | California | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $4,500 | |
| David E. Price | North Carolina | $800,000 | $800,000 | $4,000 | |
| Steven R. Rothman# | New Jersey | $800,000 | $2,400,000 | $3,200,000 | $4,000 |
| Brian Higgins | New York | $3,400,000 | $3,400,000 | $3,000 | |
| Brad Miller | North Carolina | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,250 | |
| Brad Ellsworth | Indiana | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Ed Perlmutter | Colorado | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Phil Hare | Illinois | $6,800,000 | $6,800,000 | $1,500 | |
| Martin Meehan* | Massachusetts | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $1,500 | |
| Howard L. Berman | California | $800,000 | $800,000 | $1,000 | |
| Carolyn B. Maloney | New York | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $1,000 | |
| Ben Chandler | Kentucky | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $250 | |
| Shelley Berkley | Nevada | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Dan Boren | Oklahoma | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | ||
| Leonard L. Boswell | Iowa | $1,650,000 | $1,650,000 | ||
| Baron P. Hill | Indiana | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | ||
| Gwen Moore | Wisconsin | $400,000 | $400,000 | ||
| Christopher S. Murphy | Connecticut | $400,000 | $400,000 | ||
| Mike Thompson | California | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 |
| Requesting Member | State | $ Secured Solo | $ Secured w/Others | Total Credited | PMA campaign $ since 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David L. Hobson*# | Ohio | $3,500,000 | $3,500,000 | $70,050 | |
| Jerry Lewis | California | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $8,000,000 | $34,649 |
| Rodney Frelinghuysen# | New Jersey | $2,500,000 | $4,800,000 | $7,300,000 | $29,129 |
| Ander Crenshaw | Florida | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $27,300 | |
| Zach Wamp | Tennessee | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $23,900 | |
| Todd Tiahrt# | Kansas | $5,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $21,250 |
| Tom Reynolds* | New York | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $12,000 | |
| Jack Kingston# | Georgia | $4,000,000 | $2,400,000 | $6,400,000 | $11,500 |
| H. James Saxton* | New Jersey | $2,000,000 | $1,500,000 | $3,500,000 | $11,500 |
| Jo Ann Emerson | Missouri | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $11,000 | |
| C.W. Bill Young# | Florida | $16,000,000 | $4,400,000 | $20,400,000 | $10,750 |
| Howard P. "Buck" McKeon | California | $1,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $9,500 |
| Heather Wilson* | New Mexico | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | $9,000 | |
| Jim Walsh* | New York | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $8,500 | |
| Mark Steven Kirk | Illinois | $390,000 | $390,000 | $7,750 | |
| Todd Akin | Missouri | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $7,500 | |
| Ray LaHood* | Illinois | $7,800,000 | $7,800,000 | $7,450 | |
| Jeff Miller | Florida | $1,600,000 | $2,200,000 | $3,800,000 | $7,000 |
| Duncan Hunter* | California | $15,200,000 | $15,200,000 | $6,500 | |
| Chris Cannon* | Utah | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $6,000 | |
| Kay Granger | Texas | $3,600,000 | $3,600,000 | $6,000 | |
| Joe Knollenberg* | Michigan | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $6,000 | |
| David Dreier | California | $3,000,000 | $3,000,000 | $5,000 | |
| Jim Gerlach | Pennsylvania | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $4,500 | |
| Tom Latham | Illinois | $5,150,000 | $5,150,000 | $4,500 | |
| Joe L. Barton | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $4,000 | |
| J. Dennis Hastert* | Illinois | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $3,500 | |
| Roscoe G. Bartlett | Maryland | $400,000 | $400,000 | $3,000 | |
| Peter Hoekstra | Michigan | $3,700,000 | $3,700,000 | $2,500 | |
| Howard Coble | North Carolina | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,000 | |
| John T. Doolittle* | California | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $2,000 | |
| Kenny Hulshof* | Missouri | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Steve Pearce* | New Mexico | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | $2,000 | |
| Bill Shuster | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Frank A. LoBiondo | New Jersey | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | $1,500 | |
| Rob Bishop | Utah | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Geoff Davis | Kentucky | $6,800,000 | $6,800,000 | $1,000 | |
| Virgil H. Goode Jr.* | Virginia | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Doug Lamborn | Colorado | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $1,000 | |
| Kenny Marchant | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Christopher Shays* | Connecticut | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $1,000 | |
| John Sullivan | Oklahoma | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $1,000 | |
| Tom Tancredo* | Colorado | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $1,000 | |
| Michael C. Burgess | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $500 | |
| Ralph M. Hall | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Doc Hastings | Washington | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | ||
| Sam Johnson | Texas | $1,200,000 | $1,200,000 | ||
| Todd R. Platts | Pennsylvania | $4,400,000 | $4,400,000 | ||
| Rick Renzi* | Arizona | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Pete Sessions | Texas | $1,600,000 | $4,800,000 | $6,400,000 |
Great chart! No surprise that Murtha leads in securing solo earmarks.
"O-o-o-o-o-o, speaking of Bigfoot----how's about getting me a date with THAT hunk."
Plains Radio .. talking about Rosa Pulido RIGHT NOW! Saying how important it is that a conservative go after and win that seat.
http://www.plainsradio.com/chat1.html
Takes a few secs to load.
~~PING to above .. go get ‘em!!
I saw a clip of a revolt, thought it was a CNN newscaster, can NOT find video. Can you?
Doesn't matter at all. Murtha could perform human sacrifice on a newborn infant in front of the Capitol and the zombies in his district would still send him back.
Altoona and Johnstown are a disgrace to humanity.
# = Member of House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the 110th Congress
Democrats
Requesting Member State $ Secured Solo $ Secured w/Others Total Credited PMA campaign $ since 2001
Peter J. Visclosky# Indiana $21,400,000 $2,400,000 $23,800,000 $219,000
John P. Murtha# Pennsylvania $31,705,000 $2,400,000 $34,105,000 $143,600
James P. Moran# Virginia $8,400,000 $2,400,000 $10,800,000 $125,250
Bloomberg reports, today:
U.S. Sues UBS Seeking Swiss Account Customer Names (Update4)
By David Voreacos and Carlyn Kolker
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government sued UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to try to force disclosure of the identities of as many as 52,000 American customers who allegedly hid their secret Swiss accounts from U.S. tax authorities.
U.S. customers had 32,940 secret accounts containing cash and 20,877 accounts holding securities, according to the Justice Department lawsuit filed today in federal court in Miami. U.S. customers failed to report and pay U.S. taxes on income earned in those accounts, which held about $14.8 billion in assets during the middle of this decade, according to the court filing.
“At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, their homes and their health care, it is appalling that more than 50,000 of the wealthiest among us have actively sought to evade their civic and legal duty to pay taxes,” John A. DiCicco, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s tax division, said in a statement.
More:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axZmpp36b_OA&refer=home
Unless all the accounts belong to Gerge Soros, DiCicco said.
.............................
There, that's better!
I keep the TV on CNBC during the day and I was home today but I must have been outside when it happened. However I saw an instant replay shortly after. It made my whole day. CNBC is the only NBC channel I watch.
From our friend Leo...
http://murthamustgo.blogspot.com/2009/02/murtha-political-equivalent-of-greasy.html
Check out the part about...
“If anyone really wants to follow the money they should look at Murtha’s
creation in Armstrong County. The Electro-Optics Center.”
I wonder what the Vegas odds would be that the next raid will be there?
Good piece by Leo, this Electro-Optics Center sounds very interesting. I wonder if the Feds will have anyone at that March shindig and also wonder if Murtha will show for his speech? :)
A list of the nearly 100 tenant organizations who call Fort Belvoir home reads like a "Who's Who" of the Department of Defense. No other Army installation in the world can compare to Fort Belvoir and its singular mission to provide both logistical and administrative support to such a diverse mix of tenant and satellite organizations.
Fort Belvoir is home to one Army major command headquarters and elements of 10 others; 19 different agencies and direct reporting units of the Department of Army; eight elements of the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and 26 DoD agencies. Also located here are a Marine Corps detachment, a U.S. Air Force activity, and an agency from the Department of the Treasury.
http://www.belvoir.army.mil/welcome.asp
The RSVP info is interesting, as well.
The telephone belongs/belonged to Penn State Materials Research Institute Senior Scientist of Physics, Karl A. Harris, at the Applied Research Laboratory 165 Applied Research Laboratory Building University Park, PA 16802
From a report by Dr. Harris in a March 2004 newsletter:
The Electro-Optics Center conducted a 2 ½ day Fiber Optic Acquisition Training Course for the Naval Air Systems Command at Titan, Inc. from February 17-19 in Lexington Park MD near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Dr. Karl Reichard, head of the Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory Electro-Optics Research Group and Assistant Professor of Acoustics, taught the class.
Thirteen professionals supporting the EA-6B, F/A-18, Joint Strike Fighter programs and the Office of Naval Research attended this initial class. The class was structured as a pilot, with continuous interaction between the audience and the instructor. Valuable feedback was received from the attendees and it will be used to add to and improve the course content.
This class, which was initiated by NAVAIR under the Office of Naval Research Manufacturing Technology Rapid Response program, is designed to give program management and program technical personnel the knowledge necessary to understand and effectively specify fiber optic
For questions concerning the technical content of the class contact Dave Ditto, Assistant Director for Fiber Optics Technology, at dditto@psu.edu , for questions related to scheduling a class for your organization or future planned classes, contact Wendy Gilpin, Director of Education, Work Force Development, and Outreach at wlg5@psu.edu. An Electro-Optics Alliance member based in Chatsworth, CA, Sabeus Sensor Systems, has established a high technology R&D and manufacturing facility near the Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, PA specializing in the automated production of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) arrays for sensor applications. For further information contact Dr. Michael Teter at Sabeus in Freeport at 724-295-4600 or Mr. Jim Andersen at Sabeus in Chatsworth at 818-407-6000
-snip-
It is hard to imagine that five years has passed since the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) was established in February 1999. The EOC operations began with an initial 4 employees and 2 technical projects. At that point, the Electro- Optics Alliance (EOA) consisted of eighteen companies, nine universities and three government research centers. While I am sure that the original planners for the EOC had planned some growth, I am also sure that none of them had foreseen how much would be accomplished in such a short period.
During the last year, the EOC has continued on its course of growth and expansion. FY03 saw an increase in the number of EOC personnel; the number of projects; the number of subrecipients and subcontractors receiving awards; the amount awarded to subrecipients and subcontractors; and the number of EOA members.
Here are a few points to illustrate the Center’s growth. In 2003, the EOC Staff increased from 29 full-time personnel to 41. Of this increase, over 90% were added to the Technical Staff. The number of Technical Projects underway increased from 41 to more than 65, an increase of more than 55%. As you can see from Table A the amount of annual awards to the EOC has increased from $7M in FY99 to over $56M in FY03. The number of Subrecipients and Subcontractors awards has increased from 1 in FY99 to 35 in FY03. The amount of funding that these Subrecipients and Subcontractors have received, has increased from $2.7M in FY99 to over $25M in FY03. In the ManTech Projects, approximately 80% of all project dollars received go to the EOA members. At the same time the number of EOA members has increased from 30 to over 225.
http://www.electro-optics.org/Docs/newsletter-mar-04.pdf
But now, which of the following is the actual description for the "eoa" in the RSVP listed on Pusateri's site [eoa@eoc.psu.edu]
EOA Equal Opportunity Advisor EOA Ethics Officer Association EOA End Of Address EOA Esophageal Obturator Airway EOA Effective Orifice Area EOA End of Auction EOA Early Operational Assessment EOA Exclusive Operating Area EOA Early Onset Alzheimer's EOA End Of Availability EOA Embassy of Aesthetics EOA Engines of Aggression EOA Excess Ordering Authority EOA Exercise Operating Area EOA Elites of Annihilation EOA Estimate of Alternatives
A list of the nearly 100 tenant organizations who call Fort Belvoir home reads like a "Who's Who" of the Department of Defense. No other Army installation in the world can compare to Fort Belvoir and its singular mission to provide both logistical and administrative support to such a diverse mix of tenant and satellite organizations.
Fort Belvoir is home to one Army major command headquarters and elements of 10 others; 19 different agencies and direct reporting units of the Department of Army; eight elements of the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and 26 DoD agencies. Also located here are a Marine Corps detachment, a U.S. Air Force activity, and an agency from the Department of the Treasury.
http://www.belvoir.army.mil/welcome.asp
The RSVP info is interesting, as well.
The telephone belongs/belonged to Penn State Materials Research Institute Senior Scientist of Physics, Karl A. Harris, at the Applied Research Laboratory 165 Applied Research Laboratory Building University Park, PA 16802
From a report by Dr. Harris in a March 2004 newsletter:
The Electro-Optics Center conducted a 2 ½ day Fiber Optic Acquisition Training Course for the Naval Air Systems Command at Titan, Inc. from February 17-19 in Lexington Park MD near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Dr. Karl Reichard, head of the Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory Electro-Optics Research Group and Assistant Professor of Acoustics, taught the class.
Thirteen professionals supporting the EA-6B, F/A-18, Joint Strike Fighter programs and the Office of Naval Research attended this initial class. The class was structured as a pilot, with continuous interaction between the audience and the instructor. Valuable feedback was received from the attendees and it will be used to add to and improve the course content.
This class, which was initiated by NAVAIR under the Office of Naval Research Manufacturing Technology Rapid Response program, is designed to give program management and program technical personnel the knowledge necessary to understand and effectively specify fiber optic
For questions concerning the technical content of the class contact Dave Ditto, Assistant Director for Fiber Optics Technology, at dditto@psu.edu , for questions related to scheduling a class for your organization or future planned classes, contact Wendy Gilpin, Director of Education, Work Force Development, and Outreach at wlg5@psu.edu. An Electro-Optics Alliance member based in Chatsworth, CA, Sabeus Sensor Systems, has established a high technology R&D and manufacturing facility near the Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, PA specializing in the automated production of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) arrays for sensor applications. For further information contact Dr. Michael Teter at Sabeus in Freeport at 724-295-4600 or Mr. Jim Andersen at Sabeus in Chatsworth at 818-407-6000
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It is hard to imagine that five years has passed since the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) was established in February 1999. The EOC operations began with an initial 4 employees and 2 technical projects. At that point, the Electro- Optics Alliance (EOA) consisted of eighteen companies, nine universities and three government research centers. While I am sure that the original planners for the EOC had planned some growth, I am also sure that none of them had foreseen how much would be accomplished in such a short period.
During the last year, the EOC has continued on its course of growth and expansion. FY03 saw an increase in the number of EOC personnel; the number of projects; the number of subrecipients and subcontractors receiving awards; the amount awarded to subrecipients and subcontractors; and the number of EOA members.
Here are a few points to illustrate the Center’s growth. In 2003, the EOC Staff increased from 29 full-time personnel to 41. Of this increase, over 90% were added to the Technical Staff. The number of Technical Projects underway increased from 41 to more than 65, an increase of more than 55%. As you can see from Table A the amount of annual awards to the EOC has increased from $7M in FY99 to over $56M in FY03. The number of Subrecipients and Subcontractors awards has increased from 1 in FY99 to 35 in FY03. The amount of funding that these Subrecipients and Subcontractors have received, has increased from $2.7M in FY99 to over $25M in FY03. In the ManTech Projects, approximately 80% of all project dollars received go to the EOA members. At the same time the number of EOA members has increased from 30 to over 225.
http://www.electro-optics.org/Docs/newsletter-mar-04.pdf
But now, which of the following is the actual description for the "eoa" in the RSVP listed on Pusateri's site [eoa@eoc.psu.edu]
EOA Equal Opportunity Advisor EOA Ethics Officer Association EOA End Of Address EOA Esophageal Obturator Airway EOA Effective Orifice Area EOA End of Auction EOA Early Operational Assessment EOA Exclusive Operating Area EOA Early Onset Alzheimer's EOA End Of Availability EOA Embassy of Aesthetics EOA Engines of Aggression EOA Excess Ordering Authority EOA Exercise Operating Area EOA Elites of Annihilation EOA Estimate of Alternatives
Oops.
Dang it. Meant to ping you.
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