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
-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