Project: Advanced Autonomous Robotic Inspections for Aging Aircraft
Recipient: Veracity Technology Solutions
Recipient Address: 2701 Liberty Parkway, Suite 311; Midwest City, OK 73110
Amount of Request: $2,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This project will enable the Air Force to develop an advanced, fully autonomous robotic inspection vehicle which will be capable of carrying a multitude of inspection sensors to include, but not limited to, ultrasonic and eddy current probes. In addition, the deployment of this inspection vehicle will utilize an advanced neural network based vision system which will be able to characterize precursor anomalies that can lead to the destructive corrosion of the airframe structure. Finally, the neural network vision system will be utilized to form the foundation for fastener pattern recognition to make the inspection vehicle fully autonomous. This technology has a high degree of success due to achievements in previously completed stage I and II SBIR projects. Specifically, this funding will be used for the technical personnel, facilities, and equipment required to develop and deploy this technology.
This technology provides advanced decay analysis on structural components of aircraft that otherwise would not be detected through traditional means. Additionally, this technology significantly feeds into the LEAN and Six Sigma efforts at the Air Force Logistics centers.
Project: Project: American Indian Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment Technical Assistance Center
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 2505C Dale Hall Tower, 445 W Lindsey, Norman, OK 73019
Amount of Request $2,889,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This project will build infrastructure to assist Oklahoma’s tribal health systems and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities in (1) designing and evaluating interventions to prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer, (2) training primary prevention staff, (3) offering continuing education to health professionals, (4) providing American Indian patients with more cost-effective and timely sub-specialty care and clinical trials enrollment, and (5) piloting the use of home tele-health with American Indian diabetes and heart disease patients to improve outcomes and reduce the need for and costs of clinical interventions. This Center will result in reduced health care costs for the Native American population by preventing chronic diseases, and providing access to quality health care at a low cost to individuals.
Project: American Indian Cultural Center and Museum
Recipient: Native American Cultural Center and Museum
Recipient Address: 900 North Broadway Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK 73126
Amount of Request: $2,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum will Conserve/showcase cultures of the 39 American Indian tribes who call Oklahoma "home" following relocation in the 19th century from their ancestral lands. PL 107-331 authorized $33 million (1/3 the cost). The State, City and Tribes have provides $73 Million and 290 acres of riverfront land. The $2,000,000.00 requested will allow for development of Tribal educational and cultural exhibits in the Museum.
Project: Arsenic Treatment Plan
Recipient: City of Norman
Recipient Address: 201 West Gray, Norman, OK 73069
Amount of Request: $4,050,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This funding will enable Norman to be in compliance with the EPA revised Arsenic Rule, which went into effect in January 2006. This will provide water customers in Norman with a cheaper, and safer water supply.
Project: Call For Fire Trainer II/Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System
Recipient: Stanley Associates
Recipient Address: 111 SW "C" Avenue; Lawton, OK 73501
Amount of Request: $5,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: In 2007, the United States Joint Forces command rated JFETS the best simulator for training of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) among all of the armed services. JFETS is a leading edge, immersive, virtual reality training simulation at Ft Sill, Oklahoma. It trains joint observers prior to deployments worldwide with particular emphasis on Afghanistan, and Iraq.. The Army and Marine Corps are the most frequent users of JFETS. Joint special operations units and Air Force JTACs are determining how to integrate JFETS into their training. This immersive simulation has unsurpassed realism by incorporating photorealistic graphics, advanced audio capabilities, and multiple stimuli for the joint observer. Perhaps JFETS’ greatest asset is its ability to train students to make sound decisions in a multi-tasked, combat-like environment. Complies with requirements laid out in Capabilities Production Document (CPD) II Approval, signed by Department of the Army G-3, LTG James J. Lovelace, on 16 January 2007 (Encl 1) for Call for Fire Trainer
Project: Campus Safety and Security Enhancement Program
Recipient: East Central University
Recipient Address: 1100 East 14th Ada, OK 74820
Amount of Request: $500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Recent acts of violence on campuses across the United States have forced ECU to re-evaluate all safety/security components. The campus will purchase a $500,000.00 digital telecommunications system that will give the institution a campus-wide notification and early warning system. The evaluation process also indicated a significant need to implement a keyless entry system on exterior doors of all academic and administrative buildings, and the three residence halls. ECU has educated students for 100 years. It is vital to maintain a safe and secure campus for students during the next 100 years. Without this system, ECU, which has been important to higher education in Oklahoma and the region, students will not be able to learn in a safe and secure environment.
Project: Capitol Hill Center
Recipient: Oklahoma City Community College
Recipient Address: 7777 South May Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73159
Amount of Request: $3,500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Currently, the Capitol Hill Center is housed in a rented space from the Latin Community Development Agency in South Oklahoma City. they have outgrown the space and last December purchased an older building on Commerce Street in the heart of Oklahoma City's Capitol Hill district for $395,000. The building has currently been through the Phase I Asbestos evaluation. However, funds are needed to prepare the necessary asbestos abatement and remodeling and retrofitting of the space.
OCCC intends to use the facility to provide access to the community of South Oklahoma City, at risk low income families, and residents of Capitol Hill for services including, but not limited to, GED classes, Adult Basic Education Classes, and English as a Second Language Classes. The facility will also have a computer lab for use by the public, a civic area for local and community meetings, and several classrooms for program curriculum that will lead to coursework certificates that will prepare the student for the job market.
Project: Capitol for Classroom Equipment
Recipient: Oklahoma City Community College
Recipient Address: 7777 South May Ave, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK 73159
Amount of Request: $130,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This proposal would fund much needed equipment and education tools for Oklahoma City Community College and its students. This funding would purchase twenty pieces of GIS hardware to enhance the knowledge of students who will be entering a variety of fields other than GIS itself, but will use such systems in their own future employment fields. OCCC would also like to purchase a refurbished Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instrument to help nearly 150 students each year who enroll in organic chemistry. Finally, the College would like to purchase tools to help train students in Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles.
Project: Carbon Nanotube Technology Center (CANTEC)
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 660 Parrington Oval, Norman OK 73019
Amount of Request: $1,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The University of Oklahoma (OU) has a technological advantage in the production of carbon nanotubes, via the use of a proprietary catalyst and a truly scalable production process, commercialized by an OU startup company (South-West Nanotechnologies, SWeNT). The Center for Applications of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (CANTEC) investigates the applications of the SWNT produced in the CoMoCAT process in several important areas: biomedical applications (biosensors, cancer cell targets, and cancer therapeutics), polymer composites of unique electrical and mechanical properties, metal-nanotube composites, thermally conducting composites, transparent electrodes, solar cells, field emission devices, and thin film transistors.
Project: Center for Biomass Refining
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 660 Parrington Oval, Norman OK 73019
Amount of Request: $1,500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This project will develop technologies for improved, highly efficient processes for production of biomass-derived liquid fuels compatible with the existing fuels infrastructure. The specific initial research projects will focus on critical aspects of an integrated process for thermochemical/catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to green gasoline and diesel, and chemicals – i.e., hydrocarbons compatible with the existing fuels and chemicals infrastructure Such a process will make use of our State’s agricultural resources to provide environmentally improved fuels that will significantly increase domestic fuel supplies to meet growing demand without increasing dependence on imported petroleum feedstocks.
Project: Critical North Tower Modernization Project
Recipient: Norman Regional Health System
Recipient Address: 901 North Porter St., Norman, OK 73071
Amount of Request: $2,253,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Norman Regional Health System (NRHS), a not-for-profit community health system in south central Oklahoma, seeks $2,253,000 in funding in the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill for the modernization of the North Tower of the Porter Street Campus in Norman, Oklahoma. This request will assist in bringing the North Tower, built in 1980, up to modern standards (NRHS is currently operating the North Tower under a variance until the tower can be modernized)
Project: Chickasha Potable Water – Infrastructure Construction
Recipient: City of Chickasha
Recipient Address: 117 N. 4th Street Chickasha, OK 73018
Amount of Request: $1,031,250
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Improvement to the city’s aging water infrastructure will provide the city with an improved water delivery system that will in turn supply a reliable fire, domestic, commercial and industrial water system for the much-needed growth within the community.
Project: Chickasaw National Recreation Area Visitor Center
Recipient: Chickasaw National Recreation Area / National Park Service
Recipient Address: 1008 West Second Street, Sulphur, OK
Amount of Request: $6,179,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Visitor Center will provide those visiting the Chickasaw National Recreation Area a much needed centralized location where the Park Service may educate individuals on the ecosystems and history of the area. This will increase tourism to the recreation area, and thereby grow the local economy substantially.
Project: Construct Air Traffic Control Tower
Recipient: Tinker, AFB
Recipient Address: OC-ALC, Oklahoma City, OK 73145
Amount of Request: $9,600,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Within the FYDP, Tinker, AFB requires the construction of a new control tower to manage associated operations. It is a base priority, is mission critical, executable in the next fiscal year, and has an associated parametric cost estimate.
Project: Denison Dam, Lake Texoma, TX & OK
Recipient: Corps of Engineers
Recipient Address: 1645 South 101 East Ave. Tulsa, OK 74128
Amount of Request: $100,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The basic operating and preventive maintenance need is imperative to provide a safe project for the public to use. The final EIS was completed in 1976. There is a critical need to evaluate the cumulative environmental impacts of past recreational development on the lake. A Supplemental EIS is justified based on the context, intensity and likely impacts of additional development. Completion of a Supplemental EIS will allow for reevaluating and updating of the Lake Texoma Master Plan and Shoreline Management Plan. These are the planning documents governing future private and public sector recreational development. The total study cost will be $3,500,000 and will take 3 years to complete.
Project: DOD Technology Outreach Center - Oklahoma
Recipient: Defense Technology Solutions, LLC
Recipient Address: 2423 Gaboury Lane; Huntsville, AL 35811
Amount of Request: $2,500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Oklahoma DoD Technology Outreach Center will identify, evaluate, deploy, and transfer to Federal, State and local first responders DoD technology items and equipment in support of homeland security. The Oklahoma center will serve as a means of putting DoD technology in the hands of first responders of all types at no cost to the user and no obligation to purchase the equipment. One hundred percent (100%) of all appropriated funds will be used to purchase an initial allotment of unmanned ground robotic systems and other technology deemed necessary to support and enhance state and local Anti-Terrorism response capabilities, pay payroll and operating costs, and fund training for local personnel and agencies in and around the Oklahoma center.
Project: Emergency Response System
Recipient: Southeastern State University
Recipient Address: 1405 N 4th Ave, PMB 4187, Durant, OK 74701
Amount of Request: $270,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: With the Emergency Response System Project, Southeastern State University seeks to enhance its emergency response public safety system through purchase of a new mass emergency communication system; an emergency power generator; a new fingerprint and document imaging system; and much needed equipment, radios and uniforms for campus police officers. Southeastern Oklahoma State University is an integral part of the State of Oklahoma's higher education systems and specifically the southeastern region of Oklahoma and north Texas. As recent events indicate, universities must be equipped against violence, natural disasters and other man made disasters. This safety equipment will ensure that students feel safe on campus and that increase the response abilities of Southeastern. This safety will encourage more students to attend this college and therefore grow the community overall.
Project: Expanded Wheat Pasture
Recipient: Oklahoma State University
Recipient Address: 107 Whitehurst, Stillwater, OK 74078
Amount of Request: $360,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The purpose of this initiative is to develop science and technologies, uniquely adapted to wheat varieties, decision-support economic models, and extension education programs to increase profitability of the many dual-purpose wheat enterprises in Oklahoma and the southern Great Plains and strengthen the economies of rural communities. The potential of this project for improving many rural communities in Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains is enormous. Annual income in Oklahoma could be increased by $91 million by improving technical efficiency of production of the $1.5 million stocker cattle that are grown to heavier weights on wheat pasture prior to being finished in feedlots. This research and education program has similar potential impacts for the 5.5 million wheat pasture stocker cattle in the states of Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Project: Human Patient Simulator
Recipient: Oklahoma City Community College
Recipient Address: 7777 South May Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73159
Amount of Request: $250,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Division of Health Professions at OCCC has more than tripled on campus student enrollment since 2000. Due to the increasing competition for clinical sites for students in the OCCC Division of Health Professions (HP), the Division has increasingly relied on the Human Patient Simulator (HPS) to provide consistent, high level, student lab and clinical experience. The current HPS is more than five years old and requires an increasing amount of age-related maintenance. In addition, it has become difficult to schedule all classes that wish to use it. The ideal educational template is to have lab reinforcement as soon after theory as possible, and that is no longer possible for all classes.
Project: I-35
Recipient: Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 200 N.E. 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Amount of Request: $9,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Funds will be used by ODOT to widen I-35 to six lanes from the 1-35/SH-9 West Interchange to North of Main Street.
Project: I-44 / US-62
Recipient: Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 200 N.E. 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Amount of Request: $5,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Funds will be used by ODOT to reconstruct access for safety reasons from I-44 and US-62 to Fort Sill Artillery Center.
Project: I-40 ( Crosstown Expressway)
Recipient: Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 200 N.E. 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Amount of Request: $7,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Funds will be used by ODOT to construct the Lincoln / Byers connection for the I-40 Crosstown Expressway.
Project: Infrared Materials Laboratories
Recipient: Amethyst Research
Recipient Address: 1405 4th Ave., NW Box 345; Ardmore, OK 73401
Amount of Request: $7,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Infrared Focal Plane Arrays (IFPA) are the key to infrared sensor systems widely used by the military. New and improved military capabilities will require the development of new and more complex arrays. Recent reports reveal that the United States, which has traditionally held the lead in IFPA technology, is falling behind. This poses the very real threat that the United States government could lose control of this technology.
Project: Integrated Production Systems
Recipient: Oklahoma State University
Recipient Address: 107 Whitehurst, Stillwater, OK 74078
Amount of Request: $320,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The project investigators conduct research to develop and refine crop management techniques that enable environmentally sound and economically feasible production of alternative crops that will best utilize natural resources as they produce organically grown vegetable crops and crops for the bio-fuel industry. This research, technology development, and extension program has the potential to positively impact Oklahoma and the south central states by creating production opportunities for traditional farmers by transitioning from less profitable agronomic crops to organic vegetable crops and or bio-fuel crops. The focus is on sustainability of commercial growers and small farmers and protection of environmental quality in Oklahoma and the southern states. Emphasis and primary focus will be on developing economically sustainable production methods for organically produced vegetables and bio-fuel crops. Regional focus will be to capitalize on Oklahoma’s transportation cost advantage to fill the expanding niche markets in large metro areas. Technology will have international application in similar climatic zones.
Project: Joint Fires & Effects Trainer System Enhancements
Recipient: Creative Technologies, Inc.
Recipient Address: 6255 W. Sunset Blvd. Suite 716; Los Angeles, CA 90028
Amount of Request: $2,500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The application of precision fires and effects is an essential capability not only in the Global War on Terrorism but in virtually the entire spectrum of conflict for which US defense forces prepare. Live fire training cost and environmental impact are limiting factors in the volume and frequency of Soldier training in this domain. Virtual simulation training for Joint Fires and Effects is intended to mitigate these limitations, for both initial training and currency, by reducing total cost and increasing the total number of training repetitions Soldiers may experience. The Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS) at the Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE), Fort Sill Oklahoma has received funding to develop an excellent prototype; Joint Forces Command rates the JFETS Close Air Support Module as the best in existence. The current system design, however, limits throughput and, as a result, Instructors at the FCoE are unable to use the system to its fullest potential for their classes. Accordingly, the FCoE Fires Battle Lab in 2008 commissioned a study to increase throughput in the JFETS Open Terrain Module (OTM): a key venue for Call For Fire Training. The results of this study propose a technological enhancement that will allow a single Instructor to manage nine concurrent discrete call for fire training sessions in the OTM facility: an 800% increase in efficiency over the current configuration.
Project: KC-135 Aeromedical Evacuation Upgrade
Recipient: ARINC Engineering Services, LLC
Recipient Address: 6400 S E 59th Street; Oklahoma City, OK 73135
Amount of Request: $5,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The funding would be used to start the KC-135 Aeromedical Upgrade process. Initial aircraft targeted would be located at Tinker AFB, OK. These aircraft are owned by the 507th ARW, a joint Air Force Reserve Command and OK Air National Guard unit. Modification of these aircraft would allow OK ANG 137th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron to use the aircraft for dedicated missions. This requirement was originally in the KC-135 Block 45 Upgrade program. The requirements were removed due to a directive preventing new capability on legacy aircraft. However, the requirement still exists and is part of the KC-135 Aircraft Extension Program (AEP) CDD
Project: Project: Lake Texoma Modernization
Recipient: Corps of Engineers
Recipient Address: 1645 S 101 E Ave Tulsa, OK 74128
Amount of Request: $3,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Modernizing the 1976/78 Corps of Engineers Lake Texoma Master Plan, Environmental Impact Statement, and 1996 Shoreline Management Plan is critical to future regional development. Expedited federal funding to update these critical plans will greatly enable resolution of critical interstate and intrastate water use issues and effective and balanced planning, zoning and development around Lake Texoma. The updated Master and related plans will involve public and business participation and will be essential to manage future development and different interests in the Lake Texoma and surrounding areas.
Project: Law Enforcement Visual Intelligence Tool for the Chickasaw & Choctaw Nations
Recipient: The Chickasaw Nation
Recipient Address: 1130 West Main Street, Ada, OK 74820
Amount of Request: $2,700,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Chickasaw Nation is requesting funding to administer a law enforcement visual intelligence technology project for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, which encompasses 22 counties in Southern and Southeastern Oklahoma. For the first time, all federal, state, and local agencies operating within the aforementioned areas will have a common visual imagery tool to jointly manage emergencies. The project enhances public safety, officer safety, and puts sophisticated geospatial intelligence information into the hands of those responding to fire, crisis, 911 calls, and more. In this way, they can better respond to the situations at hand and do so more safely.
Project: Lawton Industrial Park Expansion – Water and Sewer Line Extensions
Recipient: Lawton/ Ft. Sill Chamber of Commerce
Recipient Address: 9 SW “C” Avenue, Lawton, OK 73501
Amount of Request: $1,749,645
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Comanche County Industrial Development Authority recently purchased an additional 480 acres immediately southwest of the present industrial park for purposes of expansion. Before this development can begin, water and sewer lines must be expanded to the property. The Lawton Industrial Park is home to companies such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Republic Paperboard, Bar S Foods and Silverline Plastics. The Industrial Park Expansion will allow for more commercial expansion, thus creating jobs and aiding Lawton's economy.
Project: Learning Partnerships – To provide comprehensive teacher training programs Recipient: Mid-America Christian University
Recipient Address: 3500 W 119th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73170
Amount of Request: $715,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: MACU is addressing the critical shortage of math and science teachers in the State of Oklahoma by creating learning collaborations with community colleges. MACU will develop a site-to-site program that will provide a Bachelor of Science in Math and in Physics for students on Oklahoma community college campuses, as well as the University’s main campus. Recognized as having one of the highest teacher certification pass rates in the State of Oklahoma, MACU is well positioned to facilitate accelerated teacher training programs which is desperately needed in the fields of math and science.
Project: Metrology and Manufacturing for Aerospace
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 200 N.E. 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Amount of Request: $1,700,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This project addresses aerospace industry needs in design, reverse engineering, rapid manufacturing, precision product measurement, and materials analysis. OU has assembled a very strong team of researchers within OU and other universities within the state providing critical expertise in several areas of shape engineering and precision manufacturing. OU is connected with several industries, both small and large, to empower them while bidding on competitive proposals. OU has obtained grants from the NSF, US Air Force and the State of Oklahoma for building their state-of the-art research program. They are building an advanced laboratory for focused research that will transform Oklahoma into the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) capital of the world for commercial and military aircraft. OU intends to use the funds to purchase several cutting edge pieces of equipment, largely unavailable to aerospace. These include industrial CT scanner, 3-D printer and Electron Beam Melting Machine. Their calibration and maintenance, and special requirements are also included.
Project: National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar
Recipient: The University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 100 E. Boyd Street, Room 1110, Norman, OK 73019
Amount of Request: $10,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: “National Weather Radar Testbed” is in operation for a Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) that has already proven capabilities for almost doubling the tornado lead time for warnings and for tracking aircraft surveillance. A Joint Action Group of Federal departments and agencies, coordinated by NOAA’s Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) has indicated great potential for MPAR technology and to upgrade existing radar systems, especially the 20 year old NEXRAD (WSR-88) network.
The Phased Array Radar research, with its multi-function applications, will allow a potential savings to the taxpayer of $2 billion in acquisition costs and an additional $3 billion in operations and maintenance costs over a 30-year period by utilizing one multi-function radar network that can provide the same coverage available today from several weather and aircraft surveillance networks, but with 40% fewer radars.
Project: Norman Public Safety Networking Initiative
Recipient: City of Norman
Recipient Address: 201 West Gray, Norman, OK 73069
Amount of Request: $1,450,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The replacement of the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and the Records Management System (RMS) will allow for a more efficient inter-operability service for the Norman Police Department, Norman Fire Department, Norman Animal Welfare and the Norman Regional Hospital Emergency Medical Service, thereby creating a safer environment for the citizens of Norman.
Project: Oklahoma City National Memorial
Recipient: Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Recipient Address: 620 N. Harvey Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Amount of Request: $2,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable, educational foundation which owns and operates the National Memorial and Museum honoring the April 19, 1995 bombing victims at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City (“the Foundation”) This is the final installment of a $5 million congressional authorization of which $3 million was appropriated in Pub. L. 108-447 enacted 12/8/04 (H.R. 4818) for FY 2005, leaving the requested $2 million outstanding from the amount previously authorized but not yet appropriated by Congress.
Project: Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan Study
Recipient: Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Recipient Address: 3800 N. Classen Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Amount of Request: $200,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: This project provides technical assistance and funds to assist the State of Oklahoma in updating the Oklahoma State Comprehensive Water Plan. FY2010 funds are being requested to complete modernization of the OWRB database management system, migration of existing data and appropriate training.
Project: Oklahoma University Enhanced Oil Recovery Design Center
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 660 Parrington Oval, Norman OK 73019
Amount of Request: $1,500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Existing domestic oil fields, such as those in Oklahoma, contain, on average, 80% of their original oil. New technology in the form of next generation microemulsion technology now exists to increase the production from these fields and recover as much as an additional 30% of this oil. By bringing this technology to the small, independent oil producers who produce most of our domestic onshore oil, we can significantly slow the decrease in US domestic oil production, reduce oil imports, improve the US balance of trade, and create tens of thousands of new, high paying jobs, without drilling in environmentally sensitive areas.
Project: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Research Tower
Recipient: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Recipient Address: 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Amount of Request: $8,850,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The project is to equip and maintain a floor in a new eight-story, state-of-the-art, Leed Gold Certified green research tower. This construction project is permitted and will begin immediately. Immediate economic impact of this tower is 200 construction jobs and $100 million in direct construction costs. Total construction impact is $150 million. The long term economic impact is 300 new permanent positions at OMRF. These OMRF positions are high paying, intellectual jobs with an average wage in excess of $58,000. Each new OMRF job will generate almost one additional job in the state.
Project: Operation Servicemen Success
Recipient: Oklahoma City Community College
Recipient Address: 7777 South May Ave, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK 73159
Amount of Request: $200,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: With the passage of the GI Bill for the 21st Century, college administrators across the country expect a drastic increase in veteran student inquires, applications and enrollments. Few schools are prepared to timely and accurately address the questions, issues and needs of applicants and matriculated veterans. In order to address the unique challenges faced by military veteran students, Oklahoma City Community College proposes to pilot the Operation Servicemen Success Program. The goal of the program is to address the unique needs of military veteran students and equip them to successfully transition from military service to college and then to their civilian careers.
Project: Pilot Technology Transfer
Recipient: Oklahoma State University
Recipient Address: 107 Whitehurst, Stillwater, OK 74078
Amount of Request: $360,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Oklahoma half of this project helps fund the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma in providing technology transfer services and engineering assistance to small, rural manufacturers with the goal of improving their profitability and enhancing the economy in rural communities. The impact of this program is measured in several ways. One is the economic value of the service to the company as reported by the client. Another measure is the number of jobs created or retained. Both impacts are measured by an independent survey of the client. In State FY 2008, clients reported a sales increase of $75,297,002. There were also 280 new jobs created.
Project: Program expansion of the Math and Science Teacher Training
Recipient: Mid-America Christian University
Recipient Address: 3500 W 119th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73170
Amount of Request: $285,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: MACU will combine federal funds with private matching funds to expand its partnerships with Oklahoma community colleges to address the critical shortage of elementary school teachers within the state. MACU has employed interactive educational television broadcasts (IETV) since 1996 and is well positioned to facilitate this accelerated teacher preparation.
Project: Prosthetic and Assistive Mobility Technologies for Injured Warfighters
Recipient: University of Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 660 Parrington Oval; Norman, OK 73019
Amount of Request: $2,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The goal of this project is to take assistive mobility technology, surgical techniques and engineering methodologies, all of which have been demonstrated experimentally or under lab conditions, and bring them to a technology readiness level suitable for use by patients or development by industry. This research will directly further assistive technology development that should enhance wounded soldiers lives.
Project: Red River Above Denison Dam, OK & TX
Recipient: Corps of Engineers
Recipient Address: 1645 South 101 East Ave. Tulsa OK 74128
Amount of Request: $100,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The study area would be the upper Red River Basin in Oklahoma and Texas, with Denison Dam as the downstream limit of the study. The area includes several large tributaries in Oklahoma and Texas. Mesquite, native to Texas and Oklahoma, originally grew only along streams and rivers and in open groves, but now it dominates millions of acres of rangelands. The potential water resources benefit of brush rangeland management is a 30% to 40% increase in watershed runoff. Other benefits of brush management include increases to ecological diversity of plant and animal species, range fire control, and cattle production. If salt cedar along streams is not controlled, streams tend to become clogged, thereby reducing channel capacity and potentially increasing flooding and channel migration.
Project: Robinson Street Grade Separation (Railroad Underpass) Project
Recipient: City of Norman, Oklahoma
Recipient Address: 201 West Gray P.O. Box 370 Norman, OK 73069
Amount of Request: $2,762,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The funding for the Grade Separation is programmed to be 50% City and 50% Federal. The SAFETEA-LU transportation bill did not include any money for James Garner Avenue so any work on this street will be paid with City funds. The City previously programmed a total of $13,017,000 [General Obligation Bonds ($9,400,000) and PayGo capital funds ($3,617,000)]. The additional $191,000 is to be paid entirely by the City for the design of the proposed bridge on James Garner Avenue and was added to the fund summary as a PayGo funded expense in FYE 2007.
Due to the rapid increase in construction costs in recent years, not all federal funding for a 50-50 split has been secured. The SAFETEA-LU transportation bill funded $10,000,000 over five years and the Transportation, Community and System Preservation (TCSP) Program previously funded $1,164,073. The amount of funding actually sent to ODOT for this project has been reduced by an average of 10.9% to help fund other federal government obligations. Assuming the federal government will continue to reduce the funding for this project by 10.9%, an additional appropriation of $2,762,000 will be required for a 50-50 split with the federal government. The $2,762,000 includes $1,672,000 which is the federal government shortfall due to construction cost increases and $1,090,000 for the estimated funding reduction of the SAFETEA-LU and TCSP legislation.
Project: Secure Supply of High-Purity Carbon Nanotube Solutions
Recipient: SouthWest NanoTechnologies
Recipient Address: 2501 Technology Place; Norman, OK 73071
Amount of Request: $7,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Provides a domestic source of highly refined and pure nanotubes. The should significantly reduce dependence on foreign Chinese produced nanotubes for military applications. As space mission complexity continues to increase it is vital to have high performance memory devices and microprocessors be able to survive severe radiation. Carbon nanotubes are inherently radiation resistant, and memory devices based on CNTs are being made in small volume today, with logic devices soon to follow. As our defense and space programs begin to rely on such devices it stands to reason that a secure supply of these materials is needed. Other military applications for CNT in devices include advanced sensors and flexible electronics. Dozens of universities and laboratories in the US are working to exploit the unique properties of semiconducting CNTs to create new sensors and new devices printed on flexible substrates. Much of their research is funded by DOD as these devices address needs for detection of chemical and biological threats, and for a myriad of flexible conductor and thin-film transistor applications. As practical devices emerge from this research, high-purity solutions of semiconducting CNTs will be needed to support production.
Project: Project: Southeast Oklahoma Water Resource Study, OK
Recipient: Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Recipient Address: 3800 North Classen Blvd., OK 73118
Amount of Request: $500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The study area covers a 29 county area in southeast Oklahoma, including the Kiamichi River Basin and other tributaries of the Red River. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board signed the FCSA in July 2001, halted the study in 2002 due to a lack of State funds, but requested restarting the study and focusing the study on stream flows, habitat analysis and water supply. Study results will be integrated into the OK State Comprehensive Water Planning initiative.
Project: Tactical Metal Fabrication (TacFab)
Recipient: IMTEC
Recipient Address: IMTEC Plaza; 2401 North Commerce; Ardmore, OK 73401
Amount of Request: $4,800,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: TacFab demonstrates a tactically mobile, rapid metal fabrication capability that will be a companion unit to the MPH to provide spare and replacement parts to our Warfighters in theater, and also as a stand-alone metal casting resource provided to domestic organic Army depots and industrial facilities in support of RESET activities. This system cuts the order time from weeks or months to 24 hours. Funding will assist in the RESET efforts and address the need for cast parts for aging and worn-out small to medium size crew-served weapons.
Project: Texas and Oklahoma Modeling & Simulation
Recipient: Tulsa Corps of Engineers
Recipient Address: 1645 S 101 E Ave. Tulsa, OK 74128
Amount of Request: $1,900,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Establish a national pilot project and field test bed for large inland lake computer modeling and simulation. Effective consideration of opposing interstate and intrastate lake purposes and water use demands such as flood control, hydroelectric power generation, recreation and municipal, industrial and agricultural water supply require more capable computer modeling than existing U.S. Corps of Engineers, EPA, Bureau of Reclamation, USGS and Fish and Wildlife Systems.
Project: Transit Capitol Requests
Recipient: Oklahoma Transit Association
Recipient Address: 1141 N. Robinson, Suite 101B Oklahoma City, OK 74820
Amount of Request: $3,713,900
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Vehicle and Capitol needs from the two section 5307 systems in Oklahoma: CART / University of Oklahoma; and Lawton area Transit System
1. Purchase 3 CNG fueled 35' buses
2. Purchase 4 diesel fueled 35' buses
3. Purchase 4 Paratransit vans
4. Purchase Design & Construction of parking lot for Commuter route lot.
5. Purchase 2 30' low-floor, ADA transit buses
6. Purchase 3 Paratransit vans
Project: UML UAV/UAS Test Facility
Recipient: University Multispectral Labs
Recipient Address: 500 West South Avenue; Ponca City, OK 74601
Amount of Request: $6,000,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Army and other military requires greater access to test ranges where less restrictive UAV test flights may occur. The OSU University Multispectral Laboratories (UML) is establishing a National Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Test Facility adjacent to Fort Sill restricted airspace. This facility provides unique opportunity to conduct UAV flight testing while remaining within restricted airspace where UAV flights are exempt from FAA regulations. A wide variety of UAV testing, fully coordinated with Army authorities, becomes possible for all government entities. This facility also supports the Army Fires Center of Excellence and fosters a positive economic impact on surrounding areas.
Project: Upgrade Air Traffic Control Tower
Recipient: Vance, AFB
Recipient Address: Vance, AFB, OK
Amount of Request: $10,400,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Within the FYDP, Vance AFB requires the updating of their air traffic control tower. It is a base priority, is mission critical, executable in the next fiscal year, and has an associated parametric cost estimate.
Project: Water Storage Tower Ada, OK
Recipient: Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 231 South Townsend Ada, OK 74820
Amount of Request: $600,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: To construct a 1 million gallon water storage tower. This water storage tower will facilitate job creation, economic development, and renovation in a distressed area and satisfy fire flow requirements for the 370,000-square-foot Chickasaw Nation Hospital. It will help attract out-of-state jobs related to the nationally recognized EPA Kerr Environmental Research Center and spur planned expansion by area businesses.
Project: Washita River Basin
Recipient: Oklahoma Water Resources board
Recipient Address: 3800 North Classen Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Amount of Request: $500,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Oklahoma half of this project helps fund the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma in providing technology transfer services and engineering assistance to small, rural manufacturers with the goal of improving their profitability and enhancing the economy in rural communities. The impact of this program is measured in several ways. One is the economic value of the service to the company as reported by the client. Another measure is the number of jobs created or retained. Both impacts are measured by an independent survey of the client. In State FY 2008, clients reported a sales increase of $75,297,002. There were also 280 new jobs created.
Project: Wastewater Lift Station
Recipient: Ada Public Works Authority
Recipient Address: 231 S. Townsend, Ada, OK 74820
Amount of Request: $900,000
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The City of Ada requests $900,000 to help replace a troubled wastewater lift station in order to meet the requirements of the new Chickasaw Nation Hospital as well as local business and residential expansion. This project is authorized in P.L. 110-114 and conforms to existing authorized programs and the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency. The City of Ada and other state and local partners will meet, or exceed, federal matching requirements. This lift station is crucial to the $135,000,000 Chickasaw Nation Hospital, its 300 employees, and what is projected to be more than 238,450 patient visits.
Program Requests:
Program: Staffing at the Carl Albert Indian Health Facility
Agency: Indian Health Service
Amount of Request: TBD, based on the President's budget request as put forth by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Because this is a new program, it is impossible to know what costs would be needed before IHS provides an estimate.
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: The Chickasaw Nation and the Federal Government entered into a historic agreement to construct, equip and staff the new Carl Albert Indian Health Facility. The Chickasaw Nation took the unprecedented step of using almost $150 million of its own money to construct and equip this facility. The Indian Health Service (IHS) is expected to include funding to fully staff the new Carl Albert Center in the Administration's FY 2010 Budget Request. Because this is a programmatic funding through IHS, it should not be considered an Earmark under House Rule XXI. (Agency: Indian Health Service)
Report Language:
Project: Tinnitus Research, Report Language
Recipient: American Tinnitus Association
Recipient Address: P.O. Box 5, Portland, Oregon, 97270
Amount of Request: n/a
Explanation, Purpose, Justification: Congressman Cole requests that this language be added to the report language. Tinnitus - the Committee is aware that incidences of tinnitus continue to increase at an alarming rate, and that tinnitus remains the number one service connected disability for returning military personnel. Because tinnitus research will benefit all populations, the Committee remains interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to promote accurate diagnosis and treatment to cure tinnitus. The Committee encourages NIDCD to move ahead with a collaborative research initiative with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs and requests an update on the progress of such efforts in the FY 2011 budget justification report.