HOLT SECURES $26.8 MILLION FOR FORT MONMOUTH IN DEFENSE FUNDING BILL

House Approves Holt’s Request to Fund War Capability Efforts at Fort Monmouth

(Washington, D.C.) – Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Appropriations bill, which contains $26.8 million in funding for communications and intelligence programs and activities at Fort Monmouth. Holt requested the funding earlier this year and worked to get it included in the bill, which passed after a House-Senate Conference Committee and must now be passed by the Senate and then signed by the President.

“As we continue to fight to overturn the misguided decision to close Fort Monmouth, I’m working to ensure that the men and women at the Fort receive the funding they need to continue supporting the high-quality communications and intelligence programs that are so important to troops on the front lines,” Holt said. “I thank Congressman Pallone for his efforts with me to secure this funding. I now urge the President to sign it into law.”

"The communications and intelligence funding approved today by the House shows that Congress and the Pentagon continue to rely on Fort Monmouth to create essential tools for use in Afghanistan and Iraq," Pallone said. "I commend Congressman Holt for his efforts to ensure that these funds were included in the final conference agreement."

The $26.8 million in new federal funding will strengthen existing intelligence and communications programs at Fort Monmouth. Included in the bill is:

•   $16 million for both communications and non-communications electronic counter-measures (ECM) programs. These programs are designed to help distinguish friendly from enemy ECM emissions, and to improve the survivability of aviation platforms, ground combat vehicles, and dismounted forces.

•   $5.28 million for the existing Army Guardrail Ground Baseline system and $2.4 million for its successor, the Defense Common Ground Station-Army, which will help Army’s field commanders to better integrate intelligence information from multiple platforms in real time.

•   $2.4 million for critical information assurance programs, which help to ensure that information on Army computer systems and networks remain reliable and resistant to enemy information warfare attacks.

•   $800,000 for other key command, control, and communications (C3) technology programs.

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