May 22, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1025 2008. Military-hardened systems will be sub- promote television and film production in New Account: Defense-Wide, RDTE. sequently designed. York. He also instituted a summer jobs pro- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Partner- The third and final phase of the program is gram for young people. ship for Defense Innovation. to develop a front-to-rear transfer case to Following his tenure in the administration, Address of Requesting Entity: 455 Ramsey modulate the driving torque between the front Barry joined Madison Square Garden as a Street, Fayetteville NC 28301. and rear axles. In conjunction with the side-to- senior executive before joining MassMutual, Description of Request: The Partnership for side system developed in Phases I and II, this where he served as senior vice president of Defense Innovation received an authorization will provide the soldier with the ultimate sys- government relations for many years. In 1996, for $3 million for an expansion of the PDI Spe- tem for HUMVEE stability and mobility through Barry left MassMutual to work as an inde- cial Operations Forces Wireless Testbed by complete 4x4 active torque management. pendent Washington-based consultant. establishing a testing and evaluation assess- Financial Breakdown: Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join ment center. This added capability will provide Funding Source Breakdown: Total Phase III me in remembering a dedicated public serv- rapid testing and assessment, modeling and project cost: $3,500,000; Federal funds: ant, community leader, a friend to many, as simulation, software verification, validation and $2,500,000; Eaton internal funds: $1,000,000; well as a wonderful husband and father. Barry accreditation, strategic analysis and con- Percent matching funds = $1,000,000 ÷ Gottehrer will be dearly missed by his family— sulting, and provides built out laboratories and $3,500,000 × 100 percent = 29 percent. his wife, Patricia Anne Gottehrer; his children, equipment bays designed for technical testing Allocation of Funds: 15 percent— Kevin Gottehrer, Andrea Kling and Gregg and assessment.Capabilities will include an in- $375,000—Model hardware function and vehi- Salem; and his two grandchildren—as well as door high-bay for vehicle modification and cle maneuvers; 25 percent—$625,000—Mate- the many countless friends he leaves behind. testing, a radio frequency testing chamber for rials—modifications to transfer case and addi- Our thoughts and prayers are with them all evaluation of communications equipment, and tion of differential; 10 percent—$250,000— during this difficult time. environmental testing chambers designed to test and assess the temperature and humidity Preliminary Bench test and vehicle functional f tests; 50 percent—$1,250,000—Labor—De- impact on equipment. USSOCOM requires sign/procure hardware, develop preliminary EARMARK DECLARATION testing and assessment of emerging tech- controls software. nologies in net-centric operations. USSOCOM Justification for the use of taxpayer dollars: HON. ROBIN HAYES is facing a convergence of factors constraining military bandwidth. The reliance on the vast This program addresses a key military need OF NORTH CAROLINA amount and types of data that the net-centric for tactical wheeled vehicle stability and mobil- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ity. The technology will greatly improve soldier warrior requires for computing, communica- Wednesday, May 21, 2008 tion, command & control, intelligence and sur- safety and survivability and mission effective- veillance is challenging. These different types ness. Eaton Automotive is a commercial com- Mr. HAYES. Madam Speaker, I wish to sub- of data are collected from a plethora of dif- pany serving non-military customers. Taxpayer mit the following earmark: ferent sources and sensor types, which rely on dollars are requested for this program to adapt Requesting Member: Congressman ROBIN different data transfer protocols that can affect Eaton commercial technology to military vehi- HAYES the size of the files and thus bandwidth de- cles. Bill Number: H.R. 5658, The Duncan Hunter mands. The Lab will continue to problem-solve f National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2009. these issues while providing a proximate test HONORING THE MEMORY OF Account: Military Construction, Additional bed for just-in-time new product tests and BARRY H. GOTTEHRER Defense Access Roads funding for Fort Bragg evaluations on WiFi battlefield solutions. Access Roads, Phase I (Bragg Boulevard/Mur- Requesting Member: Congressman ROBIN HON. JO BONNER chison Road) HAYES. Legal Name of Requesting Entity: BRAC Bill Number: H.R. 5658, The Duncan Hunter OF ALABAMA National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Regional Task Force, Inc. Fort Bragg, NC. Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box Year 2009. Account: Defense-Wide, RDT&E, R=1 Line Wednesday, May 21, 2008 70999 Fort Bragg, NC 28307, USA. Number: 23; PE #: 1160401BB. Mr. BONNER. Madam Speaker, I rise today Description of Request: This request in- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: to honor the memory of a great leader, a great creases the Department of Defense funding DropMaster, Inc. man, and a truly great American, Barry H. authorization from the President’s FY09 Budg- Address of Requesting Entity: 3600 Aber- Gottehrer. et level of $13.24 million by an additional au- nathy Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28311. A Bronx native, Barry graduated from the thorization for $8.56 million. The increase is Description of Request: Provide a $3.5 mil- Horace Mann School, Brown University, and due to revisions to the original project neces- lion defense authorization to produce a the Columbia University Graduate School of sitated by BRAC and other mission growth at stealthy and expendable small payload system Journalism. Fort Bragg. This is a high priority security of aerial re-supply providing Special Oper- A well-known journalist, Barry worked as an project to close Bragg Boulevard to public traf- ations Forces with immediate on-call logistical author, sportswriter, and editor at various fic through Fort Bragg. This action is nec- airdrop leveraging existing technologies to magazines, including Newsweek. In the mid- essary to ensure the safety of the new produce a scalable family of CopterBox units 1960s, noted reporter Dick Schaap recruited FORSCOM HQ which is being built in close with precision guidance. Special Operations Barry to lead a team of reporters at the New proximity to Bragg Boulevard. The project will Forces have successfully used hundreds of York Herald-Tribune in an examination of the widen Murchison Road to flow traffic around unguided CopterBox units in Afghanistan and rising crime and racial tensions that were Fort Bragg and includes two new interchanges seek to replace depleted inventory. FY09 plaguing New York City. The award-winning to access control points at Fort Bragg. The funding will supply current needs and produce series, ‘‘City in Crisis,’’ was credited with help- project is currently being planned and de- a guidance system and a scalable family of ing to elect John V. Lindsay mayor of New signed by North Carolina Department of precision-guided expendable airdrop delivery York in 1965. Transportation (NCDOT) in two phases. This vehicles (EADS). Using FY08 USSOCOM ap- Barry went on to join the Lindsay adminis- increase is needed for Phase I which will propriations, the U.S. Army Soldier Systems tration as a mayoral assistant, and he soon or- widen NC 210 (Murchison Road) to six lanes Center is preparing to undertake initial certifi- ganized the Urban Action Task Forces, de- beginning at the new I295 Fayetteville Outer cation drop-testing of CopterBox. Full FY09 scribed in his New York Times obituary as Loop interchange and continue north to in- funding will develop guidable variants and re- ‘‘neighborhood-based groups created to antici- clude a new interchange at Honeycutt Rd. The sult in a self-sufficient program as certified pate local grievances and to quell unrest.’’ new interchange, rather than an at-grade EADS units are purchased in the ordinary pro- In a memoir, ‘‘The Mayor’s Man,’’ Barry de- crossing is the reason for the additional funds. curement process. scribed himself as ‘‘a white in a world of black NC DOT is providing additional funding for Requesting Member: Congressman ROBIN and brown, a moderate in a world of revolu- this. HAYES. tionaries, trying to bring change where change Requesting Member: Congressman ROBIN Bill Number: H.R. 5658, The Duncan Hunter seemed needed most, trying to buy time until HAYES. National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal the change would come.’’ Bill Number: H.R. 5658, The Duncan Hunter Year 2009. While serving in Mayor Lindsay’s office, National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Account: Operations & Maintenance, Marine Barry created the precursor of the office to Year 2009. Corps, Operating Forces.

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