2010 Federal Agenda

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APPENDIX Community Impact: The Huntsville science community has a bright future built on its historic legacy in basic and applied research in Earth and Space science. The community has invested in building significant scientific expertise in specific core technical areas relevant to the basic science missions of NASA and NOAA, including X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy, Solar Physics, Space Weather, Planetary and Lunar Science, Climate Modeling, Remote Sensing, Short-term Weather Forecasting, Hydrology, Severe Weather Research (including hurricanes, lightning, and tornadoes), and Optics.

Requested Actions: Support funding in the NASA and NOAA science budgets for the community’s research programs identified above as having national impact, including a robust and diversified earth science applications program, and an emerging lunar science program, and support continued federal investment in the community’s areas of technical expertise that are relevant to the science missions of NASA and NOAA.

FAA Re-Authorization Congress has not enacted a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Re-Authorization bill since 2003. The interim short term extensions passed by the Congress have disrupted funding for airport infrastructure projects and impeded construction progress at airports. In order to expedite the deployment of the next generation air transportation system for our country, Congress and the Administration must work together to enact a multi-year FAA Re-Authorization bill.

Community Impact: A full reauthorization measure would provide an opportunity to increase funding for airport capital projects to accommodate the growth of passenger and cargo activities.

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Requested Action: Congress to enact FAA Re-Authorization bill including the following critical provisions: • Raise Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) from $4.50 to $7.00 and indexed for inflation.

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• Increase AIP funding by $100 million per year.

• Adjust the AIP entitlement for small airports to accommodate construction cost inflation.

• Reject aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) proposal.

• Increase funding for small community air service programs (SCASD).

National Broadband Policy and Investments There is broad agreement that we need to expand access to Broadband service and increase speeds of service across our nation to further economic and educational opportunities and to keep pace with similar developments in other countries. In order to encourage the continued development of our nation’s Broadband Infrastructure, Congress, along with the FCC, needs to develop a regulatory environment and tax policies that both encourage additional private investment in existing networks and provides targeted assistance to expand service into unserved areas.

Community Impact: The local community is home to several equipment providers that develop and manufacture Broadband equipment and employ between 1600 -2000 workers, and these employers have the capacity to expand rapidly.

Requested Actions: Support a regulatory environment and tax policies that encourage private investment by proven Broadband providers and encourage additional federal investments that build additional networks in a timely and targeted manner.

To the Members of the Alabama Congressional Delegation and their staff: Through your leadership in the Congress you have helped to shape our region into a world leader in technology, research and development. Thank you for all that you do on our behalf and on behalf of our nation.

We continue to be optimistic about our future. BRAC job relocations to Redstone will top 1,400 this year, and several of the major on-base construction projects will be completed. Other significant developments are progressing, thanks in large measure to your support.

There are areas of concern though. The Obama administration has proposed the cancellation of the rocket program that was set to replace the Space Shuttle. The Constellation program would have assured our nation continued leadership on this important frontier. In its place, the administration offers an ambiguous exploration initiative lacking specific goals, timelines and space vehicles. We are most grateful to the members of our Congressional Delegation for their leadership in the efforts to continue the Constellation program. We are committed to assisting you in these efforts in every way possible.

Another troubling effort underway would “insource” a large number of contractor support positions on the Arsenal by converting these jobs into civil service positions. More than 1,000 jobs on Redstone have been targeted for this conversion. The execution strategy has been problematic however. Conversion of contractor-to-civil service positions in the near-term and concurrent with a significant number of unfilled BRAC positions being transferred to the area, has the potential to overwhelm the civil service hiring system. Additionally, in some instances, the government has been “poaching” contractor employees by circumventing the usual civil servant hiring process, utilizing “direct hire” authority. This weakens the contractor base and will likely result in some small businesses closing. Requests from the Chamber to senior Army leadership to delay the execution of these insourcing efforts until the end of the implementation period have been dismissed.

Our country’s missile defense efforts are of tremendous interest, both for the impact that these programs have on our economy, and also for the security that they provide in an uncertain international environment. Now is the time to press ahead with these important programs.

Federal science and technology spending is a major factor in U.S. economic expansion and is a primary factor driving the continuing expansion of our local economy. A common thread running through many of the issues included in this agenda is the important role that federal Science and Technology (S&T) funding plays locally – and the paucity of funding that these activities receive. Adequate investments in S&T and partnerships with industry are essential for our nation’s future economic growth and job generation, ensuring robust national security, developing our future workforce, and improving our quality of life. According to many reports, the S&T capabilities that serve as the underpinning of the U.S. economic leadership are eroding at a time when our competitors in other nations are gaining strength. The U.S. must increase its investments in basic research and ensure healthy educational focus with the science, technology, engineering, and mathematical fields to retain our leadership position in the world.

The following pages detail the many important federal programs with strong ties to our community. Since the early days of space exploration, Huntsville has developed a workforce with the capabilities and capacities to support our Nation’s most complex undertakings. We take great pride in leading Alabama and our Nation into the future and we respectfully ask for your continued support to help us in these endeavors.

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APPENDIX Huntsville-based capabilities. It will provide technical assessments and testing of concepts, component and subcomponent development and integration, post-production software support, development of technical architectures and supporting tactics, techniques and procedures for new UAS technologies, and a centrally located site for transition of key commercial technologies into the UAS community..

Community Impact: This joint effort between the PEO Aviation and the Aviation Engineering Directorate will eventually transition from a primarily technology development effort into a fielded capability, which would provide routine and unrestricted flight within the NAS and making available significant opportunities to industry for the production, fielding, and support of GBSAA.

Community Impact: Redstone and the Huntsville area have available resources to exploit the growing demand for UAS technology insertion. The proposed UAS building would provide much needed office and lab space to further payload integration and interoperability testing, creating 40-50 jobs immediately and setting the stage for greater growth in the future as the Redstone Community is positioned as a technological advancement center for Unmanned Systems. The University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) would also be a key part of the laboratory, bringing the best of academia to UAS technology solutions.

Requested Action: Provide PEO Aviation $13.5 million for PM UAS to invest in the development of GBSAA self-separation algorithms and to fund the organizational structure to test, qualify, produce, and field a robust capability for near-term access of UAS into the NAS.

Requested Action: Support the insertion into the Five Year Defense Plan (FYDP) of the facility requirement for adding the UAS building co-located with the Software Engineering Center on Resdstone Arsenal.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations in the National Airspace System (NAS) Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) While UAS has continued to become a more integral part of the United States military, a significant challenge has arisen, possibly hindering the ability of the U.S. military to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS). This is the inability to comply with Federal Aviation Regulations, which require the ability to “see and avoid.” Manned aircraft see and avoid routinely, but UAS must develop an alternate means of compliance to this requirement in order to achieve unfettered access to the NAS and, ultimately, to international airspace. Developing and validating a technological capability to “sense and avoid” will satisfy this alternate means of compliance. Significant efforts to gain initial access to the NAS are underway. The final solution envisions integration with airborne sense and avoid (ABSAA) systems. Current funding requirements are estimated at $22.9M to further support data collection, data analysis, safety case development, equipment procurement, and testing. This funding also would provide the ability to research and develop new technologies to support incremental improvements of the system, aimed at ultimately allowing unrestricted airspace integration of UAS into the NAS. National Impact: The GBSAA effort will lead to the safe use of National Airspace by UAS and allow safe flights alongside manned airspace operations.

Aviation S&T Funding Aviation, Rotary Wing, and Unmanned Aerial have proven to be critical capabilities in Army OIF operations. The ability to move people and materiel around and over obstacles such as IEDs and terrain has proved invaluable in operational effectiveness and in saving lives. The success of these systems in the support of operations has driven the OPTEMPO to four to six times the planned rate and has driven the demand for technology beyond current S&T funding capabilities.

National Impact: The Army’s ability to apply Aviation power is paramount in the National Defense Strategy.

Community Impact: Alabama is the epicenter of Army Aviation, accounting for thousands of jobs in North Alabama.

Requested Action: Increase and support Aviation S&T funding at a level to permit the Army to keep the current fleet technologically relevant while investing in the future capabilities that maintains aviation technology leadership.

Army Space & Missile Defense JEMS-CDS Tactical Message Interoperability Tool JEMS-CDS will modify a robust tactical message interoperability tool to be used to translate and send information across networks with different security classifications.

A Cross Domain Solution (CDS) provides the ability to bridge these networks. Additional funding of $5.25 million is requested to accelerate this program, performed at the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.

Vertical/horizontal Integration of Space Technologies and Applications (VISTA) The Army Space and Missile Defense Command is developing an application-based software program to integrate space and missile defense products with the tactical

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Federal AGENDA

U.S. Human Space Flight & Exploration Policy National Impact: Global competition for space preeminence has challenged U.S. dominance. Leadership in space can only be maintained by continued advancement in technology and a capable launch system architecture and space transportation system. The Constellation program, through the combined capabilities of Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles will enable human transport beyond low earth orbit (LEO) and further exploration. The President’s FY11 Budget Request recommended cancellation of the Constellation program, including Ares I and V, both managed by NASA MSFC. This decision will have a large impact on the industrial base of propulsion and launch vehicle providers. The FY11 budget lacks a clear goal, timeline and specific beyond LEO mission.

Community Impact: More than 2300 local jobs (800 Civil servants and 1500 contractors) are working on the Constellation program. The loss of Ares I will also have an impact on tactical propulsion systems at Redstone Arsenal.

Requested Action: Support continued funding for the Constellation program as defined in the 2008 Authorization Act. Award Ares V study contracts as planned and increase near-term funding for heavy lift exploration capabilities. Continue to support the launch abort system from MSFC. Ensure Shuttle Transition activities are closely aligned to the development of new launch vehicle. Support Marshall’s leadership role in the development, integration, and oversight of any launch vehicle and propulsion program/project.

Insourcing Implementation Continues to Cause Concerns National Impact: We continue to be seriously concerned with the Department of Defense’s rush to replace private sector functions with government employees.. There remains a lack of uniformity in implementing Secretary Gates’ directive to reduce the number of support service contractors from 39% to 26% over the next five years.

This process is severely impacting the industrial base and delaying economic recovery.

In its FY11 budgets, the administration is assuming a 30 to 40 percent savings as a result of insourcing. Yet these savings fail to reflect the government’s true costs. Decisions are being made without careful study of what actual skills are required. While competition has traditionally been accepted as the single best tool to lower costs and achieve performance improvements, it was not mentioned in

DoD’s budget or insourcing guidance.

Meanwhile, the implementation process continues in spite of Congressional warnings that insourcing initiatives should not be driven by random goals or arbitrary budget reductions. The Pentagon’s response thus far has been to proceed at full speed with enlarging the federal government at the expense of private industry. .

Community Impact: We understand that more than 10 per cent of the workforce associated with DoD located on Redstone Arsenal – more than 1,000 positions – have been scheduled for conversion.

Requested Action: We appreciate the Alabama Delegation’s strong interest in this issue. During upcoming Congressional testimony, we request that Administration witnesses be carefully questioned regarding the current method of insourcing and its impact on private sector contributors to a stronger national defense.

BRAC Workforce Recruitment Campaign National Impact: The successful realignment of the Army Materiel Command and the Missile Defense Agency to Redstone Arsenal is a critical national security matter. For three years the Chamber has been conducting an aggressive workforce recruitment campaign to support the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure move of 4,700 jobs to Redstone Arsenal. Most of these jobs require highly skilled and experienced professionals. Because the incumbent workers have many options in the National Capital Region and because qualified workers in the Tennessee Valley in these technical fields are already employed, the Chamber has focused its efforts nationally. This campaign has been effective in that BRAC jobs are being filled and other local employers are either retaining their employees or finding qualified applicants to back fill loses from BRAC. The Department of Labor and the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Economic Adjustment have provided planning and study grants, but the Chamber has not received any federal implementation funding. The state of Alabama has provided support for the past two years but is experiencing significant revenue shortfalls that jeopardize future funding. BRAC workforce recruitment must continue through 2012 to ensure that mission-critical services to the DOD are not interrupted.

Community Impact: Without aggressive recruitment to ensure an available and qualified labor pool, the workforce at Redstone Arsenal and its contractor support base will be diminished beyond their capacity to perform.

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Federal AGENDA Requested Actions: Identify $2 million funding within the Department of Labor or the DOD Office of Economic Adjustment to support implementation of BRAC recruitment efforts through 2012.

critical function in the missile defense business.

Community Impact: TCP provides jobs to about 250 employees in the North Alabama Area. These employees work for both large aerospace companies as well as smaller, local businesses that support missile targets work in the area.

Air, Missile, Rocket, Artillery and Mortar Defense

Requested Actions: Full funding of the program.

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Program

Cruise Missile and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Defense

National Impact: The GMD program is the cornerstone of the Nation’s layered missile defense architecture and the only limited defense against long range ballistic missile attack. An integral element of the global ballistic missile defense system, GMD consists of sensors, command-andcontrol facilities, communications terminals, a 20,000-mile fiber optic communications network and interceptors deployed in underground silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It’s designed to intercept ballistic missiles during the mid-course phase of flight and is capable of 24/7 operations. Administration decisions to limit the number of deployed GMD interceptors to 30 and to eliminate the proposed GMD European missile defense base have resulted in significant reductions to program funding. Critical gaps now exist in the GMD program plan that if not addressed may adversely impact the long term viability of the GMD system to defend the United States. These gaps include no ageing and surveillance program, no obsolescence program, and deterioration of the industrial manufacturing base--qualified sub-tier suppliers are completing their tasks and shutting down.

There remains a need for lower cost solutions to defend against cruise missiles (CM) and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for theater and homeland defense missions.

Some of the gaps in defense of the Continental United States (CONUS) and future upgrades to current programs of record will come from emerging technologies within the SMDC-TC and AMRDEC.

Community Impact: With the government and industry program offices located in Huntsville, this program supports more than 3,000 government and industry jobs in the Huntsville area. Huntsville defense contractors are losing significant numbers of skilled employees that will be critical to maintain a viable GMD system.

Requested Actions: Request full, predictable funding of the program; sustain Congressional oversight to allow continued development and mitigation of program gaps.

Targets & Countermeasures Program (TCP) National Impact: TCP is chartered by MDA to provide small, medium, and large strategic missile targets which support the development of missile defense programs and their weapons systems. These targets are used to verify the technical performance of critical missile defense weapon systems in actual, live tests conducted around the world. MDA is in the process of recompeting the target work in 2010. This activity will continue to provide a

National Impact: Failure to improve CM and UAS defenses leaves the CONUS and worldwide deployed forces vulnerable to 911 type of attack. US forces need lower cost, longer range solutions to most effectively counter the proliferation of low cost CM and UAS threats and to achieve threat/interceptor cost parity. Funding is required to assess emerging technologies for the ability to mitigate gaps followed by rapid fielding, as well as for Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) improved data processing/fusion capabilities.

Community Impact: This work will support 450-500 government/ contractor jobs in the Tennessee Valley.

Requested Actions: Provide funding to support emerging CMD technologies to fill critical gaps in performance and coverage; protect key Army cruise missile-related defense programs like JLENS, SLAMRAAM, Patriot, Directed Energy Systems Applications and IFCS.

Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) Program National Impact: As US and Coalition Forces transition focus to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), it is imperative to provide increased force protection capabilities to the growing number of personnel and facilities in Afghanistan. We must be prepared to establish or transition the same robust force protection capabilities in OEF that were successful in OIF. The Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) program is one such capability. C-RAM has established a proven track record of not only providing an exceptional force protection capability against hostile indirect fire, but has caused enemy forces to “re-think” their tactical approaches by mitigating one of their greatest threats against US installations in Iraq.

The program has been so successful that the US Army

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APPENDIX accomplished with the BLACK HAWK. The UH-72A Lakota performs missions within the borders of the United States including: MEDEVAC, Homeland Defense, Command and Control, Supply and Search & Rescue.

Community Impact: All of the life cycle management and many of the support modifications, spares or services are performed / managed by firms in Alabama. This directly impacts 150 government positions and a greater number of contractors. Currently, the Redstone Arsenal community lacks sufficient office space to adequately support this work force.

Requested Action: Support PEO Aviation and the Utility Helicopter Project Office in the construction of appropriate building space on Redstone Arsenal.

Tactical Airspace Integration System (TAIS) Over the past decade, the low-level airspace where the Army operates has become extremely complex with increasing numbers of manned and unmanned aircraft, all operating in the same compressed area. TAIS is the Army’s system for the integration and synchronization of airspace and air traffic services and is produced in Huntsville. TAIS provides situational awareness of air activity. Over the past year, PM ATC has developed a Dynamic Airspace Collaboration Tool (DACT) that provides the ability to view airspace and graphically create airspace requests. PM ATC is planning to test and field a real-time collaboration function for multiple stakeholders to create, modify and approve airspace on the fly in 2010. This capability will facilitate rapid clearance of the airspace for each stakeholder and integrate airspace into the tactical operation at speeds and accuracy that were previously impossible. The ability to share situational awareness and collaborate between units to clear airspace for immediate air operations not only directly contributes to mission success or failure, but can also make the difference between life or death.

PM ATC also is planning to convert current TAIS airspace management functions to web services to reduce the dependency on unique hardware and expand access to other battlefield users. All of the development and quality assurance testing of DACT and web services will be conducted at General Dynamics C4 Systems Huntsville.

National Impact: TAIS improvements with real-time collaboration capability and web services will address critical deficiencies expressed by commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan, thus saving lives. PM ATC will be able to reduce hardware and support costs and improve functionality of the system, enabling soldiers to clear airspace quickly for time critical missions.

Community Impact: The Huntsville area has available re-

sources to exploit the growing demand for TAIS technology development, testing, and world-wide support PM ATC has invested $250M over a ten year span through GDC4S, creating employment for some 100 engineers and support staff.

Requested Action: Continue to invest in the development and support of TAIS emerging requirements.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) The Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office provides a total Army perspective to the life cycle management of the UAS program, including development, acquisition, testing, integration, and logistics. UAS directly support the core mission of Army unmanned aircraft systems to provide tactical commanders near-real time, highly accurate, reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition. This mission has grown to include Manned/Unmanned Teaming, Communications relay, Weaponization and Interoperability.

With the increased demand for more unmanned aircraft systems, the UAS Project Office is poised to add approximately 10 new jobs during 2010 to support the growth and is projecting the creation of an additional 115 jobs over the next five years. UAS activities currently have an estimated $120M per year impact on the North Alabama economy.

Army UAS Technology Center Combatant Commanders continue to identify immediate needs for unmanned systems and the advanced sensors and communications payloads they carry. PM UAS has proposed leveraging the inherent capabilities of the Redstone community and its contractors to provide a transition path for technologies from the science/engineering community to the warfighter. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office proposes a UAS Technology Center on Redstone Arsenal.

This facility is sized at 181,000 square feet at an estimated cost of $67M and would be co-located with the Software Engineering Center on Redstone Arsenal. As the technical arm of UAS programs, this center would dovetail with the UAS Center of Excellence (COE) headquartered at Fort Rucker.

While Fort Rucker’s UAS COE provides the warfighting perspective for each Army UAS, it needs a connection with the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), technology insertion, software lifecycle support, and field testing which can be best afforded by a sister center focused on aviation technology, such as is proposed for the Huntsville community.

This combination will make Alabama a powerful force in the national unmanned aircraft community.

National Impact: As a national focal point for technologies that support UAS, this center would integrate current

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APPENDIX Apache Block III is a remanufacture program of these less capable versions of the current Apache Attack Helicopter.

The program ultimately becomes the long-term sustainment effort for this fleet while meeting current and future required operational capabilities. It ensures the aircraft remains a viable combat multiplier beyond 2025 by addressing obsolescence issues and adding capabilities. The cornerstone to the Block III program is the remanufacture of older Apaches while integrating technologically current upgrades into a proven weapon system platform. Block III will address current Apache capability gaps.

National Impact: Apache has already proven to be the most flexible and lethal attack helicopter anywhere in the world today and the Apache Block III will guarantee that standard well into the future.

Community Impact: Multiple North Alabama contractors are currently part of the Block III Team with The Boeing Company. Two primary Block III electronic components were developed and are manufactured in Huntsville. Boeing recently selected a local company to perform the premodification phase to Block III Apache aircraft fuselages.

The potential exists for Alabama growth in the Block III effort if new fuselage production requirements increase.

Apache Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) Critical lessons identified from Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields have pushed the M-DSA to the top of the Apache priority list. The Apache’s primary weapons sensor suite uses a 30-year old Day Sensor Assembly that has never been upgraded. Significant obsolescence and reliability risks are now associated with this old technology. The Apache Night Sensor has recently undergone a redesign, resulting in tremendous success in Iraq, dramatically reducing enemy IED bomb emplacements, and multiplying Apache war-fighting capabilities. The M-DSA offers similar, dramatic improvements to the remaining Apache sensor equipment, providing longer range engagements, improved target identification with color optics, multi-band laser capability, faster speeds, and unmatched sensor performance. The Army has defined requirements for this upgrade and the Apache program office is poised to release contract actions immediately after it is funded.

National Impact: M-DSA answers critical war-fighting lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. M-DSA reduces fleet operating & support (O&S) costs and improves mission reliability and will provide more than $561M in production work for the national defense industrial base.

Community Impact: M-DSA will be managed by an Apache Sensors program office of some 25 engineers and

professional staff. M-DSA will support a 70,000 sqft commercial repair depot in Huntsville of some 30 technical and professional staff.

is in the process of transitioning C-RAM to a formal Program of Record (POR) which will be known as Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC).

Requested Action: Provide PEO Aviation $58.5M for development and qualification.

Community Impact: The C-RAM program has already resulted in an increase in highly skilled jobs and technology in Huntsville, along with a significant economic impact.

The systems, electrical, and software engineers associated with the C-RAM program will continue to increase as the program matures into IFPC. This program employs approximately 500 people in North Alabama.

Armed Aerial Scout Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) In July 2009, the Army validated an Aerial Armed Reconnaissance Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) which identified several capability gaps. As the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated, the current armed, aerial, reconnaissance fleet does not achieve desired levels of combat effectiveness. The current OH-58D helicopter, while performing up to its limits in combat, lacks speed, range, endurance, and power margin to operate in ‘high and hot’ environments. The Defense Acquisition Executive recognizes the need to fill these gaps and directed that an Analysis of Alternatives be conducted by the Army to quantify the attributes of using armed scout helicopters, Apache helicopters, and unmanned aviation systems (UAS). The conclusions drawn by the ongoing AoA will likely result in a requirement for a new manned armed reconnaissance helicopter which would be managed by the PEO. It could also result in requirements for more Unmanned Aviation Systems or Apache helicopters.

National Impact: The outcome of the AoA will result in the establishment of a new helicopter development program to replace the aging OH-58D fleet by identifying and prioritizing capabilities and performance associated with providing the desired capability improvements.

Community Impact: Establishment of a new helicopter development program will result in employment of 30 to 50 engineers, logisticians, and support staff personnel.

Requested Action: Support the Armed Aerial Scout Analysis of Alternatives and any subsequent Army Aviation acquisition programs for development and procurement.

Utility Helicopters, Systems and Services The Redstone Arsenal Utility Helicopters Project Office provides life cycle management for a variety of Army aircraft and engine fleets, executing more than $11 billion in contracts per year.

National Impact: The versatile BLACK HAWK fleet provides the Army with combat, combat support and combat service aviation support. The U.S. Army maintains the world’s most powerful Utility Helicopter fleet. This force provides the tactical commander with the mobility and agility to act decisively inside the enemy’s decision cycle. Many Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) logistical transport tasks are

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Federal AGENDA

Requested Actions: Additional FY10 funding will be needed to cover the transition period from C-RAM to IFPC. Request additional FY10 funding to transition to Afghanistan (OEF) the C-RAM capabilities equal to those currently found in Iraq.

Directed Energy Systems (DES) National Impact: The emergence of Directed Energy Systems capabilities has provided increased capabilities for the warfighter. During 2009 the capabilities to acquire, track and engage from air-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-air have been demonstrated through tests and demonstrations. These capabilities must continue development and application in multiple roles for all services, to include Special Operations. Airborne Laser is developing megawatt power boost phase intercept capability and offers the potential to conduct other missions—counter air, counter SAM. The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator will offer improved capability in the Counter RAM mission area. The kilowatt lasers demonstrated on the Avenger provide potential capabilities for counter-UAV and IED operations, and providing a force protection system for many applications. Customer interest in the use of other laser variants is rapidly emerging.

Community Impact: The design and development of laser technologies and their applications are under the oversight of SMDC in conjunction with PEO Missiles and Space and multiple business units in the Huntsville community. Continued development of these systems and their capabilities is problematic with minimal or declining resources.

Requested Actions: Fund continued development, testing and application of Directed Energy Systems to get to Milestone B decision, precluding loss of current momentum, and loss of skill sets to exploit these capabilities from the Huntsville community. This is an area for Huntsville to take leadership role for Defense customers.

Small Satellites The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is partnering with industry, government, and academia to focus research and development efforts on developing small satellites designed to provide affordable, persistent, and tactically relevant data on demand to the ground component warfighter. In 2010, the first of these small satellites or cubesats, SMDC-ONE, will be launched into orbit as a technical demonstration. SMDC-ONE is a communications relay. Also in 2010 FastSat-HSV will be launched.

FastSat-HSV is a microsat supported by SMDC, designed

by NASA MSFC, and financed by a Huntsville company.

It will launch a cubesat, Nanosail D, a SMDC experiment, as well as five other DOD and NASA space experiments.

SMDC is also conducting research and development for a low cost, tactical missile system (Multi-purpose Nanomissile System) that can be used for suborbital and orbital missions. The orbital variant of this system can place one to three cubesats into orbit for one-tenth the cost of today’s lowest cost launcher.

National Impact: Small satellite and small missile technology efforts support DoD’s Operationally Responsive Space concept, and will improve the warfighter’s capability for persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and also Beyond Line of Sight communications.

Community Impact: SMDC’s Technology Center plays a pivotal role in technology development, systems engineering/integration, program management, and acquisition of space capabilities. The lack of applied research funding leaves a gap in critical technology development and focused space applied research efforts.

Requested Action: Work with the Army and DoD to develop a robust budget for research and development of responsive space capabilities to include small/micro/nano satellite programs and multipurpose missile/launch systems to support warfighter requirements.

Cyberspace National Impact: Protection of U.S. Government computer networks from attack and exploitation of foreign networks are rapidly escalating priorities within the U.S. Government that affect all agencies. U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, as the Army Service Component Command to U.S. Strategic Command is responsible for integration of Cyberspace capabilities, including R&D, across the Department in support of STRATCOM’s mission “to deter attacks on US vital interests and to ensure US freedom of action in cyberspace…”

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Federal AGENDA Community Impact: With the heavy reliance of computers and computer networks for operation and control of weapon systems across the Army, comes a potential inherent vulnerability to disruption of capability through attack. Many Army programs are addressing this vulnerability to some degree, mostly on a limited basis, but integration of Army capabilities, an SMDC responsibility, is just emerging and severely under-resourced. With the creation of U.S. Cyber Command, the DoD is placing significantly more emphasis in this critical mission area.

Requested Actions: Support funding of the SMDC Cyberspace integration responsibility to include its R&D role.

Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) National Impact: Located at the Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence on Redstone Arsenal, MSIC is one of the nation’s premier scientific intelligence organizations. Charged with analyzing foreign threat missile and space systems, MSIC’s efforts are vital elements in the nation’s defense, especially in support of the combatant commands, the acquisition community, and national decision makers. In addition to sustaining and expanding current mission work, MSIC has critical requirements for an additional analysis facility on Redstone Arsenal. The Advanced Analysis Center, a $45M project, will provide laboratory space and administrative spaces for state-ofthe-art scientific intelligence analysis in MSIC’s growing mission areas, as well as badly needed improvements in the Shelby Center’s electrical and cooling capacity.

Community Impact: Employing about 400 government personnel and about 250 contractors, MSIC will continue to significantly contribute to the nation’s defense. The local economic impact from MSIC, typically more than $100M a year, could be enhanced by mission adjustments and the needed construction project. The construction project will provide significant enhancements to the capabilities of Redstone Arsenal; and the impact of MSIC’s efforts on Team Redstone and the nation will continue to grow.

Requested Actions: Increased support for the MSIC analysis programs and funding for the proposed construction project.

Army Aviation Programs National Impact: Army aviation platforms have performed superbly in Iraq and Afghanistan, flying more than 3.6 million hours, while operating at four to six times the peacetime operational flight rate. Increased usage places

a greater burden on maintainers, shortens aircraft lifespan, and increases support costs. Countering this effect is the modernization of the current manned fleet, as well as the procurement of new replacement aircraft for those lost in combat. Major on-going efforts include the Apache Block III, the Blackhawk UH-60M, Chinook CH-47F upgrades and OH58D Kiowa Warrior Life Support 2020. Also the Army and the USMC have a growing need to augment the CH-47 and the CH-53, which are approaching their reasonable physical limits. Front end S&T funding for a competitive Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) program is planned. Near term efforts will ensure a Technology Demo in FY12 and a JHL System Design and Demonstration in 2018. Meanwhile, the unmanned fleet of Army air vehicles has proven its value in combat. Since the onset of combat operations the unmanned aircraft fleet has logged more than 825 thousand flight hours in support of the Warfighter. Operational usage of these unmanned systems has increased more than 46 times since 2003.

Community Impact: At least 2250 jobs are directly related to Army Aviation Programs. Given the full spectrum capabilities of Army Aviation in a current and projected environment of persistent conflict, more jobs are projected to support proposed initiatives.

Requested Actions: Support the President’s Budget, OCO requests that support Army Aviation operations and requests included in the appendix.

Tactical Missile Systems and the Industrial Base National Impact: Our National security in part depends upon maintaining the tactical advantage of robust missile systems. Declining funding for missile S&T, development and production in recent years have adversely impacted industry and government missile development capabilities making it difficult to retain key missile engineering and technical skills within government labs, acquisition offices, and private industries. Funding is needed throughout the missile life cycle to convey the critical knowledge and skills to the next generation of workers. Tactical missile companies are likewise reducing their own investments in key missile technologies since the potential return on investment and capital has dramatically declined.

Community Impact: Well over 3000 jobs in the Huntsville community are associated with development, acquisition and sustainment of tactical missile systems. Huntsville and Redstone Arsenal have enjoyed the reputation for developing world class tactical missile technology and for delivering the world’s best tactical missile systems.

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APPENDIX the UAS program by AMCOM, has enabled the community to be intimately engaged in this new initiative. Further collaborations among these entities present added opportunities to push the state of the art of technology and further advances in ISR and to enhance the role of Huntsville in providing the ISR solutions of tomorrow.

Requested Action: Continue to support the ISR Task Force and its emerging suite of projects and technology development activities and to support the activities of local agencies, firms and academia to be engaged in this new initiative be it platform or payload design and development, operations or data visualization systems, testing and maintenance.

Army Aviation Support Unmanned Systems/Robotics National Impact: Unmanned systems are now a vital asset for many government agencies but for DOD they have become a critical element of the war fighters tool kit and are key assets in keeping our war fighters out of harm’s way, executing routine or risky tasks, providing enhanced intel, surveillance and recon information. Huntsville today is the home of the UAS Program Office (AMCOM), the lead for the LEM-V airship (SMDC), and a center of collaborative activities in interoperable robotic systems (AMRDEC, SMDC, SED, MSFC). Industry on the other hand has developed a new microsat, FastSat, a new cubesat launch vehicle, MNMS, and a new suite of cubesat payloads, SMDC-ONE. All of these activities are stimulating collaboration across government agencies and industry and facilitating key advances in unmanned systems.

Community Impact: The growth of regional involvement in unmanned systems creates new job opportunities at Redstone, MSFC, and in the private sector, as well as enhances research activities at local and state academic institutions including research universities and community colleges. Capitalizing in unmanned systems has enabled collaborative activities between NASA and DOD, NOAA and DOD, the Navy, NASA, DOE, and the Army. Adaption of NASA technology has advanced the state of the art of IED detecting robots and adaption of Army robotic operational regimes could facilitate lunar exploration. MOAs between NOAA and the Army will enable NOAA to meet operational requirements with Army UAV assets and the instruments designed for UAVs are migrating to microsats for theater and tactical applications. Airships are now being designed and developed that further increase the need for sensors, instruments and advanced technologies.

All of these activities bode well for the Huntsville Region.

Requested Actions: Continue to support the key roles played by DOD, NASA MSFC, DHS, and NOAA in unmanned systems, the development of next generation unmanned systems and new applications for existing systems, and the collaborative activities taking place in the community to enable Huntsville technical talents to play a key role in meeting the tactical and theater requirements of the U.S. Army, the exploration goals of NASA, and the operational needs of NOAA.

New PEO Aviation Complex Due to growth in new programs and activities, PEO Aviation has outgrown its current office space on Redstone Arsenal. Even with locating 192 people in portable office space on post, PEO Aviation has 227 people off post plus an additional 554 needed for new programs within two years. PEO Aviation has submitted space packages to be considered for the new an Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) development, on-post facilities as they become available, or off-post leased facilities. The optimum solution would be in providing adequate space to co-locate all PEO Aviation personnel and consolidate the expanding PEO Aviation mission under one roof in the immediate future.

National Impact: Army Aviation provides critical warfighting equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as equipment for Homeland Security, border patrols and numerous worldwide bases. Having the organization that manages these systems scattered over nine buildings on and off post is an unnecessary challenge that creates many inefficiencies.

Community Impact: Resources are expected to be available soon to accommodate this demand quickly through EUL facilities to provide one space, on post, for the entire PEO Aviation community. This will enhance the local economy by increasing numbers of government and contractors personnel.

Requested action: Provide all necessary support for the Enhanced Use Lease concept to permit construction on new facilities to enable centralization of PEO Aviation as soon as possible.

Apache Block III The current Apache AH-64D Longbow Capabilities Production Document (CPD) mandates an assurance that Apache will meet the Army’s attack helicopter requirements within the Future Modular Force (FMF) through 2025, identifying known capabilities gaps within the Apache fleet currently operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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APPENDIX centric operations that lead to terrain restricted surveillance and engagements, limited interoperability, and result in capability gaps. The AIAMD SOS program, managed in Huntsville, is chartered to provide a Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) and a Common Battle Command System.

National Impact: AIAMD will utilize mobile, modular, scalable, and mission-tailored task force organization and a common command and control capability acting as a force multiplier for existing sensors and weapons, to provide increased capability for our Warfighters and significantly decrease the likelihood of fratricide events.

Community Impact: The AIAMD program employs 250300 people in the Huntsville community. Upon award of future contracts supporting the AIAMD Battle Command System and modeling and simulations, more than 200 additional engineering-related jobs will be added.

Requested Actions: Support funding for the AIAMD SOS program to allow the development, testing, and fielding of this critical capability.

Military High Altitude National efforts to provide affordable, reliable, and timely High Altitude products to the warfighter are hampered by the lack of resources applied to the research, development, test and evaluation of technologies. Existing technologies including and the platforms need to be matured to provide persistent (greater than 2 weeks) capability to the warfighter. The potential benefits of exploiting HA domain include: robust secure communications; persistent Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); and improved situational awareness on the battlefield – all provided at a significant cost savings.

National Impact: HA technology efforts will improve the persistent (greater than 2 week’s duration) communication relay and ISR at a reduced cost. The persistent HA capability will reduce the manpower needed to support the missions.

Community Impact: The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center has a pivotal role in technology development, systems engineering/ integration, program management and acquisition of space capabilities to meet urgent needs of the warfighter. However, the lack of applied research funding by the U.S. Army leaves a gap in critical technology development and focused space applied research efforts.

Requested Actions: Work with the Army and DOD to develop a robust budget for research and development of high altitude platform and payload capabilities

Space Data Fusion and Exploitation The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Center is engaged in providing rapid Space technology development to support real-world mission requirements and acquisition support through in-house concept development, experimentation and assessment. This supports warfighter needs to integrate and fuse space-based data for detection and discrimination of targets and battlefield awareness in nearreal-time utilizing raw data from space-based platforms.

National Impact: Data from space-based infrared and other sensing systems can be exploited for multiple warfighting uses, and needs to be available to the tactical warfighter as well as national level decision makers. Technology development in this critical mission area is required to develop means for fusing all-source data and providing tiered security levels to enable widest dissemination of valuable battlefield awareness information.

Community Impact: The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technology Center has a pivotal role in technology development, systems engineering/integration, program management and acquisition of space capabilities to meet urgent needs of the Warfighter. However, the lack of applied research funding by the U.S. Army leaves a gap in critical technology development and focused space applied research efforts.

Requested Actions: Work with the Army and DoD in developing a budget for space data exploitation and fusion to meet warfighter needs for improved battlefield awareness.

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets LEM-V National Impact: OSD recently created the ISR Task Force to foster and promote the advancement of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets, technologies and operational systems. SMDC secured the initial ISR Task Force Project, LEM-V, but other candidate projects, as well as technology development and integration activities, are still being formulated. The ISR Task Force is focused on future strategic and tactical requirements of the war fighter and will drive requirements for existing and future platforms such as microsatellites, UAVs, and airships, as well as payloads and sensors, all of which will be small in size, consume less power, have better specificity, and lower weight.

Community Impact: Key government agencies, firms, and academic institutions in Huntsville are playing key roles in the advancement of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance assets – platforms, payloads, data visualization, and operating systems. Leadership of the LEM-V project

by SMDC, the FastSat Microsatellite Initiative by MSFC,

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Federal AGENDA Increased funding in missile S&T accounts will allow new technologies to be developed by engineers in Huntsville.

The new technologies can be matured to be ready for insertion and transition to new missile development programs. New development programs are needed for Air and Missile Defense, Close Combat, and Fire Support tactical missile systems.

Joint Battle Command Platform (JBC-P)

Army Modernization and Upgrades

National Impact: JBC-P is a system within the PM-FBCB2 program that has been designed to eliminate the capability gaps created by incompatible and non-interoperable Command and Control (C2) and Situational Awareness (SA) platform level battle command and blue force tracking (BFT) systems in response to extensive platform battle command and CID lessons learned from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and exhaustive research on platform battle command requirements. JBC-P is the future of Army Battle Command.

JBC-P will establish standards to achieve interoperability among land platforms, which includes ground vehicles, helicopters and dismounted Soldiers, Marines and Airmen. In total, nearly 200,000 Army, Marine Corps, and other services will have JBC-P hardware and fully interoperable JBC-P Situational Awareness software.

The Army is the major component of Huntsville’s economic engine. Government and industry personnel are involved in pursuing a strategy that rapidly fields equipment to the current force; upgrades equipment for Soldiers going into combat and modernizes select systems; spins-out technologies; and modernizes Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs).

Community Impact: The Army has decided to move JBCP development to Huntsville under the AMRDEC Software Engineering Directorate. This is work previously performed in California and New Jersey. Full funding of this program will result in approximately 200 highly skilled government and industry jobs in Huntsville.

Brigade Combat Team Modernization (BCTM)

Requested Action: Request an additional $15M over President’s budget request.

Requested Actions: The Chamber requests increased investment in tactical missiles. Increased funding to the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center for missile technology development is needed to develop the next-generation missile and weapon systems.

Funding to PEO Missile and Space managed systems need to be maintained and in some cases increased.

Huntsville’s Army community is deeply involved in the transition from the Future Combat Systems program to a Brigade Combat Team (BCT) Modernization Strategy consisting of several separate but integrated acquisition programs.

The FCS program was revised by the Secretary of Defense in 2009 to focus on building a versatile mix of networked BCTs and enablers that can leverage mobility, protection, information, precision intelligence and fires across the spectrum of conflict.

National Impact: The Army BCT modernization strategy builds an adaptable group of mobile, networked BCTs that will leverage mobility, protection, information, and precision fires to conduct effective operations across the spectrum of conflict. Modernizing the Army BCTs will empower Soldiers with increased Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Lethality capabilities. Starting in 2011 Soldiers of the Army’s infantry brigade combat teams will receive incremental capability packages that will provide much needed networked ISR capabilities.

Community Impact: Approximately 250 highly skilled government and industry personnel in Huntsville are now working on the BCTM strategy.

Requested Action: Full funding of the President’s budget request.

Biotechnology Biodefense and DoD Medical Research Programs National Impact: Investments to protect U.S. soldiers and civilians in potential biowarfare and bioterrorism events are critical to national security. Additionally, efforts in treating combat-related issues, including traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder are key to soldiers and their families. DoD has long provided funding for disease-related research such as autism and ovarian, breast and prostate cancers. Resulting endeavors have improved healthcare across a wide spectrum including soldiers, their families and the public sector.

Community Impact: Our community has an unmatched capability to innovate driven by the combination of our biotechnology, engineering and entrepreneurial expertise. The HudsonAlpha Institute, in close proximity to the Redstone Federal Campus and the region’s extremely high concentration of scientists and engineers, strengthens the fusion of biotechnology and defense industry interests.

Requested Action: The Chamber encourages the Alabama delegation to support DoD funding and policies to: advance the development and testing of pathogen-

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Federal AGENDA specific, genomic signatures (toxicogenomics); research countermeasures to support and protect U.S. soldiers and civilians in potential biowarfare and bioterrorism events; and research pathogens of endemic and pandemic diseases. We support further investments through DoD for combat and post-combat related health issues. We also encourage the delegation to fully support DoD’s mission in sponsoring disease-related research and advancing medical technology solutions, while creating opportunities for technology transfer to the public sector.

Genetics and Genomics Funding Strides in genetics and genomics make today’s potential for discoveries impacting human health and well being the greatest in U.S. history. The Chamber supports an increase in overall funding levels for agencies sponsoring genetic and genomic research, particularly the National Institutes of Health. Prior to 2009, funding levels for NIH were not keeping up with the rate of inflation. Funding in the FY2010 budget and investments made by ARRA should be maintained to continue the momentum created over the past year; otherwise, advances in basic research will languish rather than further stimulate the development of new tools, processes and technologies that create new jobs and an enhanced quality of life.

economic diversification and growth in the region. New community efforts such as the Huntsville Mayor’s Green Thirteen, The Nexus Energy Center, and the Oak RidgeHuntsville Partnership Office reflect the attention that these issues are getting. By leveraging the strong defense and aerospace technology base towards the development of energy and environment related technologies and businesses, the Huntsville/Madison County community will see substantial economic growth and will lead to the formation new jobs that have broad reaching impact across the Tennessee Valley.

Requested Actions: Range from tactical to strategic · Resist the efforts to implement the cap and trade and renewable portfolios as currently presented in the Waxman-Markey energy/climate bill. · Continue support for ARPA-E to ensure that it becomes an ongoing program. · Support regional NASA, DoD, DoE, and TVA laboratories with a focus on the identification and development of energy and environment related technologies and give priority to R&T activities that integrate technical assets and capabilities from across government organizations.

National Impact: Continued investment in basic research enabled by NIH is essential to scientific breakthroughs and U.S. prominence.

Infrastructure

Community Impact: HudsonAlpha continues to be successful in the competitive process of NIH funding. Continued investment in basic research enabled by NIH and other agencies is essential to ensuring healthier lives around the world and high-wage, non-exportable jobs in Huntsville/Madison County.

Community Impact: A limited access expressway along US 72 east will sustain present economic growth, encourage future economic development, and improve opportunities for the region’s businesses and industries to compete in domestic and global markets. The project will complete the corridor as a limited access expressway through Madison County and will assist the Appalachian Regional Commission to meet the goals of the ARC Strategic Plan for 2005-2010. By the year 2015, it is estimated that the corridor will experience extreme congestion if no improvements are made.

Requested Action: Support increased funding for NIH, and genomics-based research through DOE and other agencies.

Energy and Environment National and Global Impact: By fostering stronger partnerships between Redstone Arsenal, Marshall Space Flight Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, UAHuntsville and the regional university research community, the Tennessee Valley Corridor will become a global leader in the research, development and technology transfer of energy and environment related technologies.

Community Impact: Energy and environment investments represent one of the most promising area for significant

US 72 East/ARC Corridor V

Requested Actions: Funding be allocated and appropriated through the ARC budget as soon as possible to fund this much needed corridor.

to our ongoing economic development, and increasing the number of interested, qualified candidates for our science, technology, engineering and math jobs is critical to maintaining our workforce.

The Career Coaches program also increases the relevance of school to students, a critical factor in drop-out rates which have been identified as a major economic development challenge.

Requested Actions: Provide $1.2 million to continue the Career Coaches program in 2011 at which time the state should be able to renew its support.

Community Impact: US 231 is the main access road into and across Huntsville from the north and the south. It is projected that by the year 2030, approximately 90,000 daily trips will be made on the northern portion of US 231 by

Community Impact: Provides the North American area with a large number of high tech jobs and also expands our technical research and development community. The program has broad industrial participation by defense and research and development companies within the area. PAC-3 provides 300-400 local jobs.

Requested Actions: Fully fund the domestic program and depot refurbishment program to address rapid recertification of the existing fielded inventory. Support expansion into international market.

Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Program

Space, Air and Missile Defense Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) National Impact: MEADS is a NATO Chartered transatlantic cooperative development effort between the United States, Germany, and Italy to develop a world-class Air & Missile Defense system that meets current and future needs for U.S, German and Italian forces. MEADS will replace Patriot, Hawk, and any remaining NIKE systems still operational across the participating nations. The material developer is the NATO MEADS Management Agency (NAMEADSMA) located in Huntsville, Alabama, providing Program execution oversight. The prime contractor is a tri-national joint venture team led by MEADS International and composed of Lockheed Martin, Lenkfulgkorpersysteme (LFK) and MBDA-Italia. The enabling engineering support contractor, MEADS, LLC, is a Huntsville based trinational joint venture composed of CSC, ITT/CAS, IABG (Germany), and Space Engineering (Italy).

Community Impact: Huntsville is the home of NAMEADSMA; the Battle Management, Command and Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I) Integrated Product Team led by Lockheed Martin and assisted by its German and Italian industry partners; and MEADS, LLC. This program provides approximately 500 highly skilled Government and industry jobs in Huntsville.

Requested Actions: Full funding of the President’s budget request.

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) US 231 North and South Overpasses and Corridor Improvements

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National Impact: Mid-Range Missile Defense in today’s world is paramount. The PAC-3 Missile is the primary antitactical missile interceptor program for the Army. It provides defense against Ballistic and Cruise Missiles as well as Air-breathing Threats. The missile is used by both allies and friends in Europe and the Middle East.

National Impact: The THAAD system is a key element of the terminal Ballistic Missile Defense System. THAAD’s combination of high-altitude, long-range capability and hit-to-kill lethality enables it to effectively negate the effects of weapons of mass destruction at intercept ranges well beyond the defended area. All components have been successfully integrated, tested and demonstrated during the first program phase that concluded in 1999.

Flight testing of THAAD development program began in late 2005 with the first of the 14 fight tests.

Community Impact: This program provides more than 750 government and industry jobs in the Huntsville area.

Requested Actions: Full funding of the President’s budget request.

Reagan Test Site Distributed Operations (RDO) National Impact: Complex system-of-system and large envelope Ballistic and Hypersonic missile test missions require seamless communication and data handling between test elements and supporting test ranges so that interoperability can be demonstrated and tested. The RDO project will develop the technical capability to distribute operations from a central location in Northern Alabama and will include technology insertion to improve capability, efficiency, and customer support.

Community Impact: The transfer of more than 130 Kwajalein Atoll Reagan Test Site positions to Redstone Arsenal is scheduled to occur over the next few years. However, there is presently no Redstone Arsenal facility identified for the RDO. Requested Actions: Assistance in obtaining military construction funding for a RDO facility on Redstone Arsenal.

Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) System of Systems (SOS) Current air and missile defense capability provides system-

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APPENDIX accomplishing the missions of the DOE, DOD, NASA, and NSF. As the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, the DOE’s Office of Science offers the Huntsville science community significant competitive funding opportunities, which are being well-utilized by cutting-edge high-tech communities across the nation to provide a strong S&T foundation for their economy.

COMs) and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) identify current gaps through Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statements (JUONS). Science and Technology programs at SMDC and AMRDEC have been rapidly transitioned to meet these urgent needs. Recent successes have occurred with counter IED programs, computer network defense portable boundary systems and deployable satellite communications hardware.

Requested Actions: Support robust funding for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the DOE’s Office of Science.

National Impact: Traditional programs of record take up to ten years from program start to fielding. Rapid transition of emerging technologies is a means of providing state-of-the-art technical solutions to fill capability gaps in support of the ongoing war effort.

Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation National Impact: The Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation (VCSI) is committed to collaborative projects that integrate government, university, and industry capabilities across the region, the state, and the nation to meet pressing customer requirements. To date, the VCSI has successfully executed projects for NASA, NOAA, Space Test Program, TVA, RS JPO, and the AMRDEC, with more projects being actively executed. Be it an upgraded Marcbot for the warfighter, a lunar lander test bed for NASA, a hurricane forecasting instrument for NOAA, or a new microsatellite for the Space Test Program, VCSI is using innovative technical and business concepts to address critical customer needs. The resulting prototypes and engineering demonstrations are then candidates for future government procurements with local contractors.

Community Impact: The Huntsville community is committed to capitalizing on the key Army and NASA assets at the Redstone Arsenal. Towards that end, the community has supported the creation of the VCSI, Inc., a not-orprofit 501(c)3, that is housed at the National Space Science and Technology Center on the UAHuntsville campus.

The VCSI leverages a collaborative relationship involving industry, government, and academia in Huntsville and is expected to be a source for attracting a steady stream of science, advanced technology, and R&D funding to our community. The VCSI board consists of leaders in industry and academia and provides a forum for key government liaison to participate.

Requested Actions: The Huntsville-Madison County Chamber endorses the efforts of the VCSI and would request that the Alabama congressional delegation continue to support VCSI collaborative activities and its innovative business model.

Rapid Transition of the S&T to Support the Current Fight Unified Combatant Commands (formerly known as CO-

commuters from Lincoln County, Tennessee. Additionally, 90,000 daily commuter trips are expected on the southern portion of the corridor, originating from Morgan County.

To meet the emerging needs of the community, overpasses are planned at the intersections of Memorial Parkway at Martin Road, Byrd Spring Road and Lily Flagg Road.

Requested Actions: Funding for the construction of the scheduled improvements and for the preliminary engineering, right of way acquisition, and construction of the planned capacity projects required for US 231.

Martin and Zeirdt Road Widening

Community Impact: These efforts provide funds to support both onsite and offsite research activities. Funding for student training and faculty support is being provided to universities within the Tennessee Valley as well as advanced research with the Redstone Arsenal government and contractor community. These efforts are also providing upgrades to existing Redstone government facilities to provide new capabilities for forensic examination of IEDs.

Community Impact: Martin Road is the primary east-west road providing access to and across the Arsenal. Several years ago the State upgraded the eastern section of the road to four lanes. Major housing developments are underway to the west of the Arsenal along Martin and Zeirdt Roads and projected traffic increases make it critical to upgrade these sections of Martin Road and Zeirdt Road be expanded to four lanes.

Requested Actions: Continue support of counter-IED related efforts and other initiatives to enable rapid transition of S&T products to support the current fight.

Requested Actions: Fund the widening of Martin Road west of Rideout Road and Zeirdt Road to four lanes.

Workforce Career Coaches for the Tennessee Valley National Impact: Near-term recruitment success is critical for the successful implementation of BRAC, but the aging federal workforce, particularly in the technical fields, requires a steady pipeline of workers to ensure long-term success for Redstone Arsenal and the critical federal programs it manages. Huntsville/Madison County and the seven other counties of northeast Alabama have identified the Career Coaches program housed at regional community colleges as the best way to raise career awareness among students and give them the information they need to pursue the careers in our region. Because so many of our jobs require science and technology education, the process must start in the middle grades to ensure that students are qualified when they graduate from high school to pursue the required post-secondary degrees. In 2009 the state provided start-up funding for this program despite impending statewide budget cuts. The fiscal projections for Alabama are for even less funding to be available in out years.

Community Impact: The Career Coaches program increases the relevance of school to the student, and lack of relevance is often cited as a reason for students dropping out. Lowering the drop-out rate for our region is critical

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Federal AGENDA

Winchester, Wall Triana and Highway 53 Improvements

Requested Actions: Fund the $30 Million federal portion of this construction project.

Small Community Air Service Grant This community has applied for a $1.5 million Small Community Air Service Development Grant. The airport along with regional community and city leaders are committed and have pledged financial and in-kind support of more than $1.8 million in cash and in-kind contributions with $1.3 million from the airport and $500,000 from the community. Huntsville International Airport (HSV) is the principal air carrier airport for 18-counties in North Alabama and South Central Tennessee and generates more than 1.2 million passengers. The latest Bureau of Transportation Statistics report shows HSV to be the highest fare airport in the country for the first two quarters of 2009.

High fares at HSV continue to drive significant passenger volumes to neighboring airports and leakage is estimated at 39%. To achieve significant and long-term fare reduction, HSV needs sustainable low cost carrier service.

Community Impact: The presence of a low cost carrier would reduce fares 40% in our market and save the community more than $60 million in airfare.

Community Impact: Moving people from the surrounding suburban communities into the central city and Redstone Arsenal is becoming increasingly challenging as the population of those communities surges. Congested roads, clogged with commuter traffic are threatening the quality of life that has enabled this region to attract population.

Request Action: Totally fund the $1.5 million Small Community Air Service Development Grant request.

Requested Actions: These roads require widening improvements.

The airport is preparing for the new generation of aircraft and must make upgrades to existing facilities, in order to accommodate this new equipment. The primary improvements include - the taxiway turning radiuses, blast pads and paved shoulders so that the larger aircraft can safely operate at Huntsville International Airport. One of our current air cargo operators - Cargolux - will be one of the initial airlines to take delivery of Boeing’s first Group VI aircraft, the B747-800. It is anticipated that this aircraft will be serving HSV.

Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd/Northern Bypass – Interchange at Memorial Parkway to Highway 72 East Previous improvements to this road have provided improved access to employment and industrial development opportunities at the North Huntsville Industrial Park, such as Toyota manufacturing. The extension of this roadway from Pulaski Pike to the proposed interchange at Memorial Parkway and eastward to U.S. Highway 72 will greatly reduce commute times for persons in North Huntsville, North Madison County, and Southern Tennessee; will tremendously improve overall accessibility to the transportation network for industries moving freight and services through the region; and will alleviate congestion and increase safety.

Group VI Improvements

Community Impact: These improvements enable our current air cargo operations to remain competitive and sustainable. This project will create 100+ construction jobs.

Request Action: FAA approve airport program discretionary grant of $3.55 million.