U.S. Senator Ken Salazar

Member of the Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs Committees

 

2300 15th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

 

 

For Immediate Release

September 28, 2005

CONTACT:    Cody Wertz – Press Secretary

                        202-228-3630

Jen Clanahan – Deputy Press Secretary

                        303-455-7600

 

CSU’s Center for Geosciences poised to receive $2M in Federal funds for anti-terror efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colorado State University (CSU) may be continuing its work in keeping American’s safe by assisting the war on terror. At the request of United States Senator Ken Salazar, CSU’s Center for Geosciences is slated to receive $2 million in federal funds to help transfer vital information and technology to the Department of Defense. Sen. Salazar’s request was included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 (HR 2863), approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee today.

“The work at CSU’s Center for Geosciences has proven to be of incredible value in helping keep our homeland safe and secure. With these funds, the Center will be able to continue its cutting edge work and provide these advanced and high-quality results to our Nation’s armed forces,” said Senator Salazar.

The $2 million in funds CSU has been allocated in the Defense Appropriations bill would be used to transfer research and technology from the Center for Geosciences to the Department of Defense. A critical part of the war on terror, the Center for Geosciences is a national resource for the DOD in the areas of atmospheric and hydrologic research. For example, the Center was able to provide cave detection technology for anti-Taliban operations within a month after 9/11. The FY06 $2 million allocation is an increase from the Center’s FY05 allocation of $1.8 million.

“These funds will ensure that Colorado helps to keep America’s armed forces on the cutting edge and, most importantly, helps to keep Americans safe,” said Senator Salazar. “In these times of uncertainty, maintaining a top-drawer military force is of paramount importance.”

Having been passed by the full Senate Appropriations Committee, the FY06 Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2863) will now move to the full Senate for consideration. If passed by the Senate, it will then proceed to conference committee to iron out differences before being passed again by both House and Senate in final form and then submitted to the President for signature or veto.

Below is a list of the nearly $1 billion in Defense Appropriations projects requested and secured for Colorado by Senator Salazar:

REQUEST
 REGION
 SPECIFIC COUNTY
 FY06 ADMIN. BUDGET
 APPROP’TD
Pueblo Chemical Depot
 Arkansas River
 Pueblo
 $ 33,000,000
 $ 51,000,000
AIT-enabled Aviation Pack-up Kit/ Phase IV Engineering
 Greater Metro
 Boulder
N/A
 $ 2,000,000
Handheld Chemical Threat Monitor/ Eltron Research and Foster-Miller
 Greater Metro
 Boulder
N/A
 $ 4,500,000
Large Aperture Deployable Structure/ Starsys
 Greater Metro
 Boulder
N/A
 $ 3,300,000
Medical Image Database/ StorageTek
 Greater Metro
 Boulder/
Louisville
 N/A
 $ 2,000,000
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle/ Lockheed Martin
 Greater Metro
 Denver
  $784,347,000
Space Radar System/ Lockheed Martin
 Greater Metro
 Denver
$225,839
$100,000,000
Anti Torpedo Torpedo/ Barber Nicols Inc.
 Greater Metro
 Jefferson/Arvada
 N/A $ 3,000,000
Deployable Structures Experiment/ MicroSat
 Greater Metro
 Jefferson/Littleton N/A $ 3,800,000
Combat Support Hospitals/ Alaska Structures
 Hwy. 50 West Region
 Delta
 N/A
 $ 5,000,000
Center for Geosciences/ Colorado State University (CSU)
 North Central
 Ft. Collins/ Larimer
 N/A
 $ 2,000,000
Bipolar Wafer-cell Lithium-ion Battery/ Electro Energy Mobile Products
 Pikes Peak
El Paso/Colo. Springs
 N/A
 $ 1,000,000
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS)
 Pikes Peak
El Paso/Colo. Springs
 N/A
 $ 4,600,000
Adaptive Sports Program
       $ 150,000
TOTAL
       $966,697,000

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