Financial Services and General Government

Bryant University John H. Chafee Center for International Business
Smithfield, Rhode Island
Global Business Command Center
Request: $500,000
Bryant University’s John H. Chafee Center for International Business in Smithfield, Rhode Island requests funding for a new Global Business Command Center.  The Center will provide state-of-the-art interactive learning methodologies and global information networks to local businesses and the academic community in order to improve the state’s economic development through international trade.  The initiative would also provide education and training to the Rhode Island workforce to ensure that Rhode Island businesses remain competitive in the global market, that workers are provided opportunities to enhance their global business skills, and that students are afforded a top-notch global education that prepares them for today’s international business environment.             

Farm Fresh Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Open Kitchen
Request: $100,000
Farm Fresh Rhode Island of Providence, Rhode Island seeks funds to establish an incubator kitchen that will be available to a range of users, including farmers, low-income entrepreneurs, and at-risk youth and would be used for a site for harvest preservation, value-added products, and nutrition education/public health programming.  The kitchen would serve 600 Rhode Island farms and up to 200 Rhode Island entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking the assistance and resources provided by a shared, managed kitchen site.  In addition, up to 100 nutritionally at-risk youths will receive job training, nutrition, and culinary education at the incubator kitchen annually.

Middletown, Town of
Middletown, Rhode Island
Aquidneck Corporate Park Improvement Project
Request: $1,381,400
The Town of Middletown, Rhode Island seeks federal funds for the second phase of the Aquidneck Corporate Park improvement project. Additional funding would be used in conjunction with the local municipal match of up to $1 million to install new signs, improve street lighting, replace the entire road system, build pull-off areas at entrances, install sidewalks throughout the park, and construct a wind turbine for renewable energy generation.  Aquidneck Corporate Park is an industrial/corporate park originally built in the 1970's by the Town to create economic growth.  The park has the largest concentration of defense-related businesses in Rhode Island.  It currently has 44 businesses, employing approximately 2,500 employees. These enhancements will help the park to remain competitive and attract new high-tech and defense-related businesses that will offer high-paying job opportunities.   

Providence, City of
Department of Planning and Development
Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Center for Life Sciences, Research, Development and Commercialization
Request: $750,000
The City of Providence requests funding for a planning, site selection, and project economics study to support the creation of the Rhode Island Center for Life Sciences, Research, Development and Commercialization in the City's Jewelry District. The proposed center will support research and development capacities in the life sciences, particularly in the areas of human disease research, vaccine and drug development, bioprocess research, and biomedical-oriented life sciences.  Funding will support the preliminary scoping and design work for the center, which will pool resources and talent from Brown University, the University of Rhode Island, and other institutions and businesses.  The preliminary scoping and design will create approximately 14 jobs, while the center, once established, could support up to 1,200 employees.  This center has the potential to transform the Jewelry District into an area of research-driven activity and economic development, which is critical to future economic growth in the state of Rhode Island.   

Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University
Partnership for Sustainable Design/
Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI-CIE)
Providence, Rhode Island
$1,600,000
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island request funding for a collaboration between their two small business development assistance efforts.  The RISD Partnership for Sustainable Design will provide intensive technical assistance for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and early-stage product developers who will participate in collaborative design projects that will connect them to RISD's art and design expertise in areas of renewable energy, alternative materials processes, and sustainable product design.  Brown University’s Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI-CIE) will provide a central location for early stage Rhode Island-based ventures to access the collaboration, support, and expertise they need to transfer ideas into successful enterprises.  A portion of the appropriated funds would go toward seed funding for new businesses. This partnership would leverage investments by Brown, RISD and the Rhode Island Economic Development Council to promote entrepreneurship and business development in Rhode Island.  Hard data will be maintained on the number of users, companies launched, and new jobs created.  

Rhode Island Rural Development Council
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Agriculture Economic Development
Request: $214,180
The Rhode Island Rural Development Council of North Kingstown, Rhode Island seeks funding to support small business development in the fields of agriculture, natural resources, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture. Federal funds would be used for capacity-building of small business to support collaborative efforts to improve the economic development, sustainability, and marketing efforts of rural businesses in Rhode Island, as well as education programs and new efforts with the University of Rhode Island to encourage younger workers to enter the farming and horticulture industries.


Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

American Sail Training Association
Newport, RI
Out-of-School Programs for At-Risk Youth
$250,000
The American Sail Training Association (ASTA) of Newport, Rhode Island seeks funding for educational after- and out-of-school programs for disadvantaged youth who otherwise would not have a chance to experience America’s maritime heritage on the water.  The focus of ASTA is teaching American youth the values of sailing and its impact on growing their character, learning team building, and developing leadership qualities.  A proven methodology that ASTA has used with schools around the United States is "experiential learning,” which connects a student's textbook lessons to real life experiences.  These programs create a direct link between ships and the classroom to show the application of math, science, and history to the ocean environment.

Big Brothers of Rhode Island
East Providence, RI
Mentoring for At-Risk Fatherless Boys in Rhode Island
$100,000
Big Brothers of Rhode Island, based in East Providence, Rhode Island, requests federal funding to help match 60 fatherless boys, ages 7 to 18, from low-income, single-parent families statewide with Big Brother mentors and professional social services.  The beneficiaries of this project will have outings with their Big Brothers once a week, outside of school. Each outing will last two to five hours, and the mentorships will last for a minimum term of one year. Each participant, parent, and Big Brother receives ongoing direct professional support and social services in order to promote healthy, long-term, active relationships. Services are targeted to meet each child’s particular needs.

Town of Bristol
Bristol, RI
Silver Creek Restoration
$500,000
The Town of Bristol, Rhode Island, seeks funding to develop and implement a plan for the continued restoration of Silver Creek and its surrounding parks, Thomas Park and Veteran’s Memorial Park.  Silver Creek is a thirteen acre, tidal estuary on the eastern shore of Bristol Harbor.  The creek is tidally restricted, which has impounded freshwater, diminished connectivity with Narragansett Bay, and allowed invasive plant species to flourish in the salt marsh.  The goal of this restoration project is to improve the tidal flushing to the creek and restore the native salt marsh plant community.  The project may have the added benefit of reducing flooding around the creek.

Burrillville Police Department
Burrillville, RI
Emergency Operations Center Technology
$100,000
The Town of Burrillville, Rhode Island seeks funding to outfit a new Emergency Operations Center that will serve as the hub of any planned response to emergency situations. Federal funds would help equip the Center with technology and communications resources that would ensure that the town meets the standards of the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System to command, control, and coordinate the use of emergency management resources and responder personnel.

City of Central Falls Police Department
Central Falls, RI
$300,0000
The City of Central Falls, Rhode Island seeks funding for technology upgrades for its police department. The city recently reported that the police department’s computer and telecommunications systems are substandard and in danger of a catastrophic failure if not replaced. Such a failure could compromise public safety in a city that is attempting to address an increase in crime that is associated with a high number of foreclosures and abandoned homes.

Chamber Education Foundation
Warwick, RI
Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership
$800,000
The Chamber Education Foundation (doing business as the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership) of Warwick, Rhode Island, requests federal funding to help expand mentoring programs statewide to 2,000 additional at-risk youths.  The Partnership will help local programs develop and enhance quality mentoring relationships by matching additional at-risk youth statewide with mentors who are properly screened, trained, and supported to assist young people deal with difficult life circumstances.   The program will also provide intensive, hands-on field support for all mentor program coordinators and will use Internet resources to provide “E-mentoring,” a mentoring relationship conducted over the Internet in a safe and secure environment.

Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation
Saunderstown, RI
Cooperative Research and Technical Assistance
$750,000
The Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation of Saunderstown, Rhode Island, seeks funding to undertake collaborative research and to offer technical assistance to local fishermen.  New England’s fisheries face extraordinary challenges, including the need to rebuild stocks, the implementation of new fishery management systems, the growing threat of disease to native shellfish, the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, and the development of offshore energy resources.  The Foundation would expand its efforts to assess these issues and develop practical solutions.  In doing so, it would draw on the expertise of New England fishermen, as well as the resources of the University of Rhode Island, including the Rhode Island Sea Grant Program, the Graduate School of Oceanography, and the Coastal Institute.

Day One
Providence, RI
Child Advocacy Center 
$330,000
Day One of Providence, Rhode Island requests funding for its Rhode Island Children’s Advocacy Center, which provides evaluation, evidence gathering and treatment services to child victims of sexual abuse and their non-offending family members.   Funding will be used to increase access to services for such children and families throughout Rhode Island and provide enhanced follow-up services, including case management and advocacy.  Day One will partner with law enforcement, the RI Department of the Attorney General, Child Protection Services of the RI Department of Children, Youth and Families, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital to administer this program.

Institute for International Sport
Non-Violence Promotion Program
Kingston, RI
$175,000
The Institute for International Sport requests funds to expand a violence prevention program for students that utilizes sports as a means to encourage healthy competition as opposed to violence.  The funding would be used to continue the development of a training model for coaches for use throughout Rhode Island and the nation, with a particular focus on at-risk communities.  This program is designed to help curb violence in our communities and foster leadership and critical thinking skills in young people.

Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
Providence, RI
Nonviolence Streetworker Program,
$300,000
The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence (ISPN) requests funding to support its Nonviolence Streetworkers Program, which provides outreach and mentoring for youth at high risk of joining gangs or committing violent offenses. The Institute’s Streetworker program, based in Providence, RI and Central Falls, RI, is a group of outreach workers who serve as advocates for families in court, schools, hospitals, and on the streets. Streetworkers also provide innovative opportunities for young people to commit to nonviolence and offer them resources to build more hopeful and productive futures.  The program collaborates closely with local law enforcement, the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, the Rhode Island Training School, and juvenile re-entry programs, to ensure continuity of support for youth returning from incarceration.

City of Newport
Newport, RI
Incident Command Center
$250,000
The City of Newport, Rhode Island requests funding to outfit an Incident Command Center that would function as a necessary complement to the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) currently in place at the Newport Police Station. This model is supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) incident command training at the FEMA Center for Disaster Preparedness.  To accomplish the project, the City Council Chamber, located in a structurally sound and physically accessible building (Newport City Hall) will be: fitted with wireless and/or hard cable computer capabilities; provided with an independent emergency power supply, and equipped with portable partitions to sub-divide and isolate critical task activities within the command center. The center will house federal and state agents and agencies providing pre-incident and post-incident support of man-made or natural disasters.

Ocean Tides School
Narragansett, RI
School-to-Work Training for At-Risk Youths
$645,000
Ocean Tides School, Narragansett, Rhode Island requests funding for a school to work program. The school has been instrumental in turning around the lives of court adjudicated young men and providing direction toward vocational and/or college acceptance. With federal funding, Ocean Tides will expand its culinary, landscape training, carpentry, and marine trades programs to provide career training to young men at risk. The school will partner in this effort with the Whitmarsh House, a residence program for boys who are no longer in state care but do not have families to return to.

Pawtucket Police Department
Pawtucket, RI
Sex Offender Law Enforcement Multi-disciplinary Network (SOLEMN)
$3,700,000
The Pawtucket Police Department (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) requests funding to begin a two-year sex offender multi-disciplinary task force to demonstrate a more effective means to manage and locate registered and noncompliant sex offenders.  Funding would pay for 21 Full Time Employees (FTE) in law enforcement, probation officers, a computer forensic expert, prosecutors, a mental health professional, a centralized location to house the task force, and equipment for the members to aid the four Rhode Island cities with the highest density of sex offenders.

Providence Police Department
Providence, RI
Gun Violence and Gang Reduction Initiative
$1,000,000
In 2008, for the first time in over five years, the City of Providence experienced an increase in violent crime.  The Providence Gun Violence and Gang Reduction Initiative will provide the necessary funding to increase intervention efforts that specifically address gun-related violence and gang activity occurring in the city.  The intervention efforts will consist of both short- and long-term investigations into the illegal possession, use, and trafficking of firearms.  The performance standards shall include: the number of gun and gang investigations conducted, number of arrests made, number of guns seized, and number of successful prosecutions resulting from the initiative.

Roger Williams University
Bristol, RI
Narragansett Bay Shellfish Habitat Restoration Project
$500,000
Roger Williams University (RWU) of Bristol, Rhode Island seeks funding to expand its Oyster Gardening for Restoration and Enhancement (OGRE) Program, which works to reestablish naturalized oyster beds in Narragansett Bay.  It is hoped that this effort will improve water quality and restore healthy ecosystems throughout the Bay.  Under the project, scientists at Roger Williams will use disease resistant lines of local oysters to grow young oysters in the University’s hatchery.  Juvenile oysters grown from these lines will be planted in naturalized oyster beds throughout Narragansett Bay and into Massachusetts, helping restore habitat and improve water quality.  This effort will also enable scientists to continue research into innovative means of shellfish and fin fish restoration.  This project will also maintain a continuing relationship with the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council to expand restoration efforts to include those areas that have been seasonally or conditionally closed to shellfish harvesting.

Roger Williams University
Bristol, RI
Teaching Police Department Initiative (TPDI) 
$750,000
Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island requests $750,000 to assist in their development of the Teaching Police Department Initiative (TPDI). Over the past decade, the Justice System Training and Research Institute (JSTRI) at Roger Williams University has gained an international reputation for the quality and scope of its training programs serving first line, middle-tier, and top-level law enforcement managers. Through a partnership with the New England Association of Chiefs of Police, 10,500 police leaders throughout the region have attended supervisory, management, and leadership training. The TPDI would build on that expertise to provide a national model for a “teaching police department,” similar to a teaching hospital, to enhance the professionalism of the police force through academic and field training, combined with cross training and exchange experiences. The project will be led by the Justice System Training and Research Institute at Roger Williams University (RWU) and the Providence Police Department (PPD), in partnership with the Brown University Medical School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Save the Bay
Providence, RI
Marine Education Program
$1,000,000
Save the Bay, Providence, Rhode Island requests funding for the Narragansett Bay Marine Education program.  Save the Bay, southeastern New England's largest environmental organization, provides both classroom and on the Bay experiences to youth and adults with limited economic and educational resources. The target audience for the marine education program is middle school students with a special focus on underserved children in Rhode Island’s urban areas. Prior to federal funding, the program served about 11,000 students, primarily from school districts that could afford to pay a portion of the program costs. Now the program’s enrollment is approaching 30,000, with a growing number of students from Providence, Central Falls, and other communities whose students would otherwise be unable to participate. The program provides enhanced science educational opportunities and fosters a respect for the economic, recreational, and environmental benefits of Narragansett Bay. The program also benefits Save the Bay’s mission as a cooperative research arm and a vital link to the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.  Additional federal funding will allow the program to serve more students, enhancing a new generation of young people’s awareness for the need to preserve and protect our environment.

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
$1,250,000
The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, seeks funding for a nanotechnology consortium with Brown University.  The consortium will focus on (1) advances in the synthesis and manufacturing of nanomaterials, including smart nanoparticle-based chemotherapeutic agents and nanoscale sorbents for the capture and sequestration of high-priority environmental toxicants such as mercury; (2) safe nanomaterial design to ensure that nanomaterials are designed and used safely; and (3) nanoimaging technologies that clearly and specifically identify disease progression.  The vision and long-term goal of the consortium is to continue to expand into high payback areas in nanoscience and nanotechnology and create a pool of highly trained professionals who will launch scientific and entrepreneurial projects that will directly benefit the state and national economy.


Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

East Coast Shellfish Research (ARS): $3,000,000
Recipient: Agricultural Research Service
There is a great need for research, particularly genomic research, on East Coast shellfish.  With a better understanding of the characteristics of individual shellfish lines, domestic growers will be able to breed more-marketable, disease-resistant varieties of shellfish that will allow growers to remain competitive in an international marketplace.  The Agricultural Research Service’s Aquaculture Action Plan for 2010-2014 recognizes this need but notes that while “[s]ignificant public resources have been devoted to developing genomic and bioinformatic infrastructure for catfish, rainbow trout, and Atlantic salmon over the past 5-10 years,” the investment in shellfish has lagged.  By working in cooperation with East Coast research institutions that have expertise on shellfish aquaculture, ARS could leverage and coordinate ongoing research efforts and infrastructure.  Funding would support ARS research, staff, and equipment.

Seafood Integrity (Food and Drug Administration): $3,000,000
I urge the Subcommittee to provide $3,000,000 for the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Regulatory Affairs for the Office to work with states to more aggressively combat economic fraud in the seafood industry, including mislabeling of species, weights, country of origin, and treatment.  Seafood is essential to a healthy diet and an increasing number of doctors and dietitians are encouraging Americans to eat fish twice per week.  Consumers are becoming familiar with this public health message.  Unfortunately, the practices of some in the seafood industry run the risk of decreasing consumer confidence in the industry.  Some seafood providers short-weight their products, over-treat their products, attempt to circumvent anti-dumping duties, or substitute one species for another.  These illegal practices by a few run the risk of damaging the whole industry and decreasing consumer confidence in seafood.  The FDA and individual states have the responsibility to combat economic fraud in the food industry.  I want to thank the Committee for ensuring that language was included in the explanatory statement on FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act encouraging FDA to work with states to more aggressively combat economic fraud in the seafood industry, and urge this funding to be included in FY2010.

Nitrate Pollution Reduction (NRCS/CO): $500,000
Recipients: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Warwick, Rhode Island and University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
Nitrate contamination plagues our nation's drinking water supplies and the viability of estuaries.  In Rhode Island and southern New England, elevated  nitrate concentrations in groundwater has caused private and public wells to become unusable, and nitrogen inputs into Rhode Island's coastal ponds and estuaries contribute to loss of spawning habitats and oxygen-depleted "dead zones” where oxygen levels are insufficient to sustain commercial and wild fisheries.  The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and  the Department of Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island (URI) will use funding to develop management and prioritization strategies to reduce nitrate contamination from existing hot spots of nitrate contamination; new approaches to land management that can protect and enhance the ability of watersheds to retain nitrate; and nitrate control strategies that reduce nitrate contamination at the source and at the aquifer and watershed scale.  Research techniques developed at URI will be used to enhance nitrate removal through restored shoreline buffer and to identify aquifer and watershed sinks that can reduce the risks of individual sources of nitrate contamination.  Finally, URI and NRCS will work with local decision makers and the public to implement nitrate controls, such as alternative septic systems on high-risk sites and land management strategies that can minimize the risk of nitrate contamination from future growth and development.

Pocasset River Watershed Project (NRCS/WFPO): $4,500,000
Recipient: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Warwick, Rhode Island
Location of Activity: Cranston and Johnston, Rhode Island
The Pocasset River Watershed covers 13,200 acres with flooding affecting communities in Johnston (70%), Cranston (29%), and Providence (1%).  Sedimentation, erosion, and a lack of basic floodwater retardation infrastructure along the Pocasset River system have resulted in persistent flooding over the past 50 years, with increasing severity and frequency over the past twenty years.  Commercial and residential property owners in Johnston and Cranston, Rhode Island experience one or more flood incidents each year and have incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in related damages, while local governments face road and bridge repair costs .  Each flood raises serious environmental and health threats from chemical spills and sewage backup.  The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will soon complete a Watershed Plan.  The draft plan provides recommendations to mitigate and prevent additional flooding damages, including the removal, rehabilitation (flood-proofing), or relocation of endangered homes, the restoration of natural floodplains, and the construction of floodwalls.  The requested funds would allow NRCS to complete engineering work for floodwalls to protect an apartment complex for low-income seniors and local businesses in Cranston and Johnston, Rhode Island.  It would also allow for nonstructural measures to be taken to assist homeowners and restore the floodplain. 

Soil Survey Work in the State of Rhode Island (NRCS/CO): $200,000
Recipients: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Warwick, Rhode Island and University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
As the lead federal agency for the mapping of the nation's soil resource and the extension of soil survey technology to new areas, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has recognized the importance of subaqueous soils (underwater areas capable of supporting rooted plant growth such as eelgrass) to coastal water quality and the productivity of U.S. coastal aquaculture and fisheries.  A lack of definitive information on the properties and spatial distribution of subaqueous soils places major limitations on science-based management of activities like dredging, fishing, and conservation in critical shallow water habitats.  The requested funds would allow NRCS and the University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) to continue efforts to map subaqueous soils in Rhode Island.  With the federal funding provided so far, 9,000 acres of nearly 30,000 acres of coastal subaqueous soil have been mapped.  Additional federal funding will support mapping inside Narragansett Bay and will be used to develop interpretive profiles for subaqueous soils in shallow estuarine ecosystems in order to provide shellfish fishermen, marina operators, coastal zone managers, the aquaculture industry, and restoration scientists with empirical data on the suitability of soils for various uses.

Tick-Borne Disease Prevention (CS/SRG): $550,000
Recipient: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island's Center for Vector-Borne Disease seeks federal funding for continued research and public awareness about tick-borne disease.  Almost three-quarters of Rhode Island's population lives in close proximity to deer ticks and is at increased risk of contracting one or more of the three serious diseases ticks can transmit: Lyme disease, Babesiosis, and Human Anaplamosis.  The threat is also growing throughout much of the eastern U.S. and other north-temperate regions of the globe, including in Southwest Asia.   The Center for Vector-Borne Disease is developing a comprehensive research and outreach program aimed at stemming the public health impact of tick-borne diseases. The Center's program focuses on: developing public health information and decision support tools, including forecasts and predictive models; and anti-tick vaccine and small molecule therapy development.  Funding will provide for continuing support of research to identify and integrate critical climate-based determinants of deer tick activity into a tick forecasting model and other products leading to a readily available, user-friendly Tick Encounter Risk Index for Rhode Island and the Northeast region.

Homeland Security

City of Providence
Providence, RI
Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
$2,500,000
The City of Providence, Rhode Island requests $2,500,000 for the Providence Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) to expand its Emergency Operations Center (EOC).  In accordance with the recommendation of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Technical Assistance Team on-site review, PEMA will build an addition to the existing building to provide enough space for a ready 24 hour presence within the City’s EOC.  This additional space will accommodate a second complement of staff should an emergency incident intensify or require the expertise of specific individuals. PEMA is the lead agency responsible for managing the Greater Providence Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) and Providence Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI).  Once complete, the Providence EOC facility would be fully ready and equipped to provide needed incident support and coordination to neighboring communities within the region.


Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Arc of Blackstone Valley
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
$750,000        
The Arc of Blackstone Valley of Pawtucket, Rhode lsland requests funding for a pilot program to provide respite, emergency mental health care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are experiencing a mental health crisis.  Arc will establish a facility in the community, which, when needed, will be fully staffed 24 hours a day by direct support professionals trained in the needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health and behavioral issues.  A crisis team of professionals will be on call to deal with all facets of the traumatic situations.  The Arc of Blackstone Valley will provide the residential facility.  Federal funds will support training and staffing. 

Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc. 
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care (BVCHC), a free-standing, not-for profit, federally funded community health center serving low income and uninsured residents of Pawtucket and Central Falls, has recently undertaken a significant facilities expansion program.  Federal funding will support phase two of BVCHC’s expansion, which calls for the construction of a new, 30,000 square foot health clinic to replace the aging John Cunningham, MD Health Clinic located at 42 Park Place.  The new health center clinic will feature 30 medical exam rooms, allowing for a significant increase in the number of underserved patients currently receiving care at BVCHC.

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
Brown University seeks funding for a medical simulation laboratory in its planned medical education building, a key part of the redevelopment of Providence’s jewelry district.  The medical simulation laboratory will consist of simulated patient care rooms and a control center, which will allow for state-of-the-art education that will span the spectrum of physician skills from basic and advanced physical examination to the performance of the most demanding procedures that confront the generalist.  Sophisticated, high fidelity medical simulation mannequins provide trainees with the ability to observe changes in physiology associated with severe conditions, such as trauma and shock, in an environment more conducive to teaching and learning than the acute care setting.

Butler Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island
$350,000
Butler Hospital, of Providence, Rhode Island, requests funding to establish the Butler Hospital Center for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease.  This Center will combine an advanced brain imaging laboratory, an infusion center, and a functional outcomes laboratory to improve early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 

CharterCARE Health Partners
North Providence and Providence, Rhode Island
$1,400,000
CharterCare Health Partners, a newly-formed parent corporation created by the affiliation of Roger Williams Medical Center and St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island, seeks funding to fully integrate the two hospital's information systems to establish one common hardware platform with full business continuity thereby creating an electronic medical record and computerized physician order entry, as well as supporting applications.  This project will benefit thousands of patients through improved care and safety standards and will enable physicians to order medications and procedures based on improved integrated decision support and clinical functions.

Providence CityArts for Youth, Inc.
Providence, Rhode Island
$100,000
Providence CityArts seeks funding to support its extended out-of-school time programs for middle and elementary school-aged urban youth.  Through its afterschool, summer, and integrated school day programs, CityArts focuses on visual arts and design, music, dance, theatre, and creative writing. 

City Year, Inc
Providence, Rhode Island
 $200,000
City Year Rhode Island requests funding to expand the capacity of its “Whole School Whole Child Initiative,” a school-based strategy that aims to improve the conditions that lead to student success and increased graduation rates.  Funding would focus on middle school students, supporting mentoring for 65 at-risk students, providing in-class assistance to at least 200 students, and providing City Year-led afterschool programming for 325 students.

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
Cranston, Rhode Island
$3,100,000
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. seeks funding for the construction of a new substance abuse and behavioral health care treatment facility, to be built on CODAC-owned property, adjacent to its existing facility.  The new facility will be energy efficient, more accessible for individuals with disabilities, and will help consolidate and delivery of services for co-occurring disorders under the same roof.

College Crusade of Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island
$400,000
The College Crusade of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island requests $400,000 for mentoring services to help students go to college.  Students apply for membership in the program in sixth grade and, if admitted, receive mentoring until they graduate from high school.  The program services 4,000 middle school and high school student in low-income urban school districts, specifically Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. 

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island
$200,000
Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) seeks funding to expand its successful College Now pilot project to urban high schools across the state.  The project currently engages targeted, under-prepared high school students at Central Falls High School (CFHS) and Davies Technical and Vocational High School (DHS) through dual enrollment that offers high school and college credit, focusing on career tracks that encourage long-term retention and graduation.  Students have access to all of CCRI’s on-campus facilities and the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities designed to enhance their understanding of academic concepts and content material, and prepare them for their course work at the College upon their graduation from high school.

Connecting for Children and Families (CCF)
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
$400,000
Connecting for Children and Families (CCF) of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, seeks funding to implement the Woonsocket Center for Working Families.  This project will work to provide access to a suite of services to help support families, including: 1) workforce development (job training and career development; job placement, and job supports such as transportation, counseling, case management, and health care access), 2) family economic support services (financial education and financial counseling to maximize income and increase financial assets and financial benefits such as the EITC and Child Care Tax Credits), and 3)  community development investments.

Heritage Harbor Museum
Providence, Rhode Island  
$1,800,000
The Heritage Harbor Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, requests funding for the design of exhibits and education materials on Rhode Island history. The museum will showcase the history of all the ethnic groups comprising the state's diverse population and will house six thematic galleries depicting the full range of Rhode Island's history.  The thematic content of the exhibits will be aligned to the recent standards set by the Rhode Island Department of Education. 

Landmark Medical Center  
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
$1,800,000     
Landmark Medical Center (LMC) seeks funding to acquire a 1.5 T MRI magnet for its 115 Cass Avenue, Woonsocket Rhode Island campus.  Currently, LMC spends approximately $100,000 per year in transportation costs shuttling patients needing an MRI from its Woonsocket location to its North Smithfield campus 3.5 miles away.  Relocation of the magnet to LMC is not practical or feasible.  With LMC's evolution as provider of tertiary level services for cardiology, the increased field strength of a 1.5 T magnet is needed.

Meeting Street
Providence, Rhode Island
$980,000
Meeting Street, a community organization that helps children with multiple and severe developmental challenges, as well as children with minor delay, seeks funding for Project PRIME (Preparing Rhode Island’s Most Vulnerable Children Through Meeting Street Excellence).  Through Project PRIME, Meeting Street will launch a full service early childhood development program that will take advantage of its accessible, centrally located Providence site and well-established relationships with low-income communities to improve physical, intellectual, and social outcomes for high-risk children.

National Student/Parent Mock Election
Tucson, Arizona
$275,000
Since 1980, the National Student/Parent Mock Election has been teaching the nation’s youth about civic responsibility, and over 50 million people have participated in the program since its creation. This non-partisan program is designed to engage students and their parents in the electoral process through mock national elections. It demonstrates the importance of voting and involves students in each election cycle by challenging them to learn more about the candidates, their viewpoints, and current policy.  In Rhode Island, over 17,000 students voted in the last mock election.

National Writing Project
Berkeley, CA
$30 million
The National Writing Project (NWP) is the only national program that focuses on the teaching of writing.  Through a proven professional development model, the NWP gives teachers the skills they need to improve student performance in writing. In Rhode Island, the National Writing Project conducts intensive summer institutes as well as programs in schools to assist teachers in literacy instruction at all levels. Nine separate studies have indicated that NWP instruction for teachers has translated into greater success in writing performance for students.

Northwest Community Health Care
Pascoag, Rhode Island
$500,000
Northwest Community Health Care requests funding to expand its facilities to accommodate increased demand.  Northwest serves the communities of Burrillville, Smithfield, Scituate, Foster and Glocester, providing care to over 8,000 patients a year, regardless of their ability to pay.  Since the original Northwest medical building was last modernized nearly 20 years ago, the patient load has more than tripled from 2,500 patients to a projected 8,000 in 2009.

Providence Community Health Centers
Providence, Rhode Island
$3,000,000
Providence Community Health Centers (PCHC) requests funding for construction of a new Urgent Care facility to complement its existing health center locations throughout the City of Providence.  The new facility will provide much-needed urgent care services to PCHC’s existing patient population, which includes a preponderance of individuals who live in poverty.  The new construction project will provide immediate benefits to PCHC’s patient base, allow for significant savings to the overall health care system, and provide an infusion of new jobs and revitalization to a community in distress.

Reach Out and Read
Boston, Massachusetts
$10,000,000
Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a widely respected national program that promotes literacy and language development in infants and young children.  ROR has become a powerful and effective program for promoting early language, literacy and school readiness, filling the crucial gap before children have access to traditional early childhood programs. It engages pediatricians and other health providers in guiding and encouraging parents to read aloud to their children from the earliest years of life, and send children home from each doctor visit with a prescription to read aloud together. ROR Rhode Island began in 1999 with four sites and has grown to 41 sites including most health centers and pediatric clinics in the state.

Re-Focus, Inc.
Providence, Rhode Island
$200,000
Re-Focus, Inc. seeks funding to expand its existing services for individuals with developmental disabilities at a recently renovated facility.  Re-Focus will offer services such as job training, intergenerational learning, cooking and nutrition classes, computer skills, and basic and family literacy to adults and teens with developmental disabilities.  It will serve individuals from Providence, Pawtucket, Cranston, Johnston, North Scituate, North Providence, and Central Falls. 

Rhode Island Afterschool Plus Alliance
Providence, Rhode Island
$600,000
Rhode Island Afterschool Plus Alliance of Providence, Rhode Island, seeks funding to provide grants to expand and support high quality afterschool, summer learning programs, and other expanded learning opportunities in the core urban communities of Rhode Island in order to improve student achievement in these communities.

Rhode Island College Foundation 
Providence, Rhode Island
$200,000
The Rhode Island College Foundation seeks funding for technology improvements to Rhode Island College's largest science lecture hall.  Since 1962, there have not been any significant physical or technology improvements to the facility, which is used for instruction in chemistry, biology, physical science, nursing, psychology, education, and other programs.  Funding would support the replacement of the hall's presentation and communications technologies, which are obsolete or in operable.

Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation
Providence, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) seeks funding to establish a job training program in the use of composites and modern materials in manufacturing for the marine, energy, construction, and defense industries.  The project will benefit businesses in Rhode Island that must have qualified technicians, and it will help entry level, incumbent, and unemployed people who need retraining to meet new job demands.

Rhode Island Hospital         
Providence, Rhode Island
$3,000,000
Rhode Island Hospital of Providence, Rhode Island, seeks federal funding to develop and deploy a patient tracking system to improve hospital surge capacity, emergency care system capability, and preparedness for public health emergencies.  The hospital had been a recipient of a three-year grant under the Department of Health and Human Services’ Hospital Preparedness Program, which was condensed to one year. 

Roger Williams Medical Center     
Providence, Rhode Island  
$1,125,000     
Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, seeks funding to acquire a new MRI machine, as well as equipment for its Comprehensive Cancer Center.  The upgraded MRI will allow the hospital to perform several important procedures, such as vascular arterial work, gastrointestinal scans, and breast MRIs, which it currently cannot perform. With more than 190,000 hospital visits by Rhode Islanders annually, thousands of Rhode Islanders will benefit from this new equipment.

Salve Regina University
Newport, Rhode Island
$600,000
Salve Regina University of Newport, Rhode Island, requests funding to expand its Blackstone Valley Workforce Training Initiative in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.  Salve Regina University established the Blackstone Valley facility in the fall of 2006 to provide educational opportunities, particularly in the field of nursing, to adults in underserved northern Rhode Island communities.  To meet the increased need for workforce training and educational opportunities in the northern region of Rhode Island, Salve Regina will expand the University's current space in downtown Pawtucket to create a learning center fully equipped with cutting-edge technology.

Samaritans, Inc.       
Providence, Rhode Island
$350,000
The Samaritans of Rhode Island requests funds to expand and improve its services and Internet-based resources. Funding will enable Samaritans to work collaboratively with the Rhode Island Medical Society to offer access to training information related to standards of care for assessment and treatment as well as resources available in the state for patients and caregivers. 

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
$700,000        
Thundermist Health Center seeks funding to establish a fitness and wellness program to reduce childhood obesity and improve the health of middle school and high school students in Woonsocket and West Warwick, Rhode Island.  The program will encourage young people to be physically active for a minimum of 1.5 hours each week for eight week sessions in the fall and in the spring.  Measures will be taken at the beginning of the program and at the end of the program to track the success of the program, such as weigh-ins and measurements, health assessments, nutrition assessments, and attendance in the program.

Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island
Lincoln, Rhode Island
$150,000
The Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island, requests funding to increase the number of hours, services, and programs offered to the public at its Family Literacy Center.  The Family Literacy Center provides low- and moderate-income families access to outreach services and family literacy support through books and activities provided at no cost.  The goal of the Center is to increase the interaction between children and parents, to transfer learning activities into the home, and to increase parents' support of children's learning outside of the classroom setting. 

Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program
Providence, Rhode Island
$250,000
The Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP) seeks funding to replicate their successful accelerated learning drop-out prevention program in public school districts outside of Providence.  Currently, most dropout intervention programs begin at the high school level.  UCAP targets middle school students who have fallen severely behind and who are more susceptible to dropping out once they reach high school.   The UCAP model allows these students to complete three years of middle school in just two, so when they go on to high school they are with their peers and have developed the academic and social skills they need to persist through graduation and beyond.  UCAP will use federal funding to provide competitive start-up grants and technical assistance to help school districts implement drop-out prevention programs based on the UCAP model. 

Urban League
Providence, Rhode Island
$145,000
The Urban League and its subsidiary organizations, Cleanscape and South Providence Development Corporation, propose a 12 month employment and education program for 20 low-income in-school youths of color living in Providence’s Southside, West End, Washington Park, and Elmwood neighborhoods.  The project will integrate summer youth employment, school year academic support, workshops, and industry tours with a transition into higher education, vocational training, or employment in green technology industries.  Each youth will develop an educational plan that will address academic needs and identify a future educational, vocational training, and employment plan that specifically outlines a transition plan to achieve his or her career objectives.

VNS Homecare, Inc.
Narragansett, Rhode Island
$175,000
VNS Homecare, Inc. seeks funding for the acquisition and deployment of a point of care electronic medical record (EMR) system.  The system will ensure that current, accurate health care information will be instantly available to the clinicians providing patient care in the home and will increase the accuracy and timeliness patient health information. 

Westerly Hospital 
Westerly, Rhode Island
$4,000,000     
Westerly Hospital seeks funding to implement certified Electronic Health Record technology, connected in a manner that provides, according to applicable law and standards, for electronic exchange of health information. This project will improve patient and family-centered delivery of care through better physician-patient-hospital-state communication, enhanced quality of care, improved outcomes, and reduced risk.

Wood River Health Services, Inc.  
Hope Valley, Rhode Island
$200,000        
Wood River Health Services Inc., a federally qualified, non-profit, community health center, seeks funding to establish a satellite office in Westerly, Rhode Island to provide affordable, primary health care to area residents who are unable to travel to its main office.  Wood River will secure rented space in a high-poverty section of Westerly and would use federal funding for renovations and equipment.  The satellite office will provide primary health care services with two health care providers and support staff.  It is estimated the site will be able to serve 3,800 patients.



Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Beavertail Lighthouse Restoration
Recipient: Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association, Jamestown, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association requests funding to implement the recommendations of a plan it commission in 2006 for the repair, restoration, and preservation of six historic buildings and the 259-year-old original light house foundation.  In addition to being the primary sentinel to the entrance of Narragansett Bay, the site is historically associated with the development and test of fog signaling equipment by the U.S. Lighthouse Board during the mid-1800s.  The site is designated a National Historic Place by the National Park Service.

Bristol Storm Drain Culvert
Recipient: The Town of Bristol, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The Town of Bristol, Rhode Island, seeks funding to upgrade the Tanyard Book Culvert, which is currently under capacity and causing street and neighborhood flooding during rain storm events.  This project will benefit the Tanyard Brook neighborhood, of about 1,000 residents, and the state and local roadways that currently flood during storm events.  It will allow for roads that currently flood to remain open for use by emergency workers who need to travel through the Town during these events. 

John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Construction Projects
Recipient:  John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Commission, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
$750,000
The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, comprised of 24 cities and towns on 500 square miles of land along the Blackstone River between Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, seeks funding to carry out the planning mandates included in P.L. 109-338, the National Heritage Areas Act of 2006.  These mandates call for the updating of the corridor's management plan and other major activities such as the conducting of a Special Resource Study (SRS) to identify resources for possible permanent inclusion within the National Park System, undertaking a boundary study for the possible inclusion of additional communities within the boundaries of the corridor, and the development of a comprehensive plan to guide interpretive and educational offerings with partners over the next five years.  Funding would also be used to continue implementation of ongoing partnership programs and projects as outlined in the plan, The Next Ten Years: An Amendment to the Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan. 

Cranston Wastewater Pump Station Improvements
Recipient: City of Cranston, Rhode Island
$1,100,000
The City of Cranston, Rhode Island requests funding to make improvements to its Allard, Randall, and Amanda Street wastewater pump stations to help eliminate sanitary system overflows (SSOs) and to upgrade to existing facilities to anticipate growth within the city. 

East Providence Water Main Cleaning and Lining
Recipient: The City of East Providence, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The City of East Providence, Rhode Island requests funding to implement its approved Infrastructure Rehabilitation Plan (IRP) for water main cleaning and lining in order to continue to provide quality drinking water to its residents.

Warwick Bell and Clock Town Preservation
Recipient: The City of Warwick, Rhode Island
$710,000
The City of Warwick, Rhode Island seeks funding for preservation needs for the bell and clock tower above Warwick City Hall.  Constructed in 1893, the City Hall tower stands as an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style of the Late Victorian Period, and the entire structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

Narragansett Bay Commission Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Project
Recipient: The Narragansett Bay Commission, Providence, Rhode Island
$10,000,000
The Narragansett Bay Commission seeks funding for Phase II of its Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement project. Each year, the 66 CSOs in the Narragansett Bay Commission District release an estimated 2.2 billion gallons of untreated combined sewage into the Bay and its tributaries, namely the Blackstone, Moshassuck, Providence, Seekonk, Woonasquatucket, and West Rivers. These overflows carry pollutants in the form of sewage solids, metals, oil, grease, and bacteria, which can affect the health of those who swim in polluted water or eat shellfish contaminated by these materials. To protect human health in Rhode Island, certain areas of the Bay are permanently closed to shellfishing, and over 11,000 acres are temporarily closed for harvesting when there is more than one-half inch of rainfall.  Phase I diverted 40 percent of annual CSO flow to a 62 million gallon capacity tunnel 250-feet below the ground;  Phase II will allow additional flow to be conveyed to the Phase I tunnel for treatment.

Newport Ultraviolet Disinfection System
Recipient: The City of Newport, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The City of Newport, Rhode Island requests funding for an ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system to reduce the bacteria loadings and improve beach water quality at Easton’s Beach.  Easton's Beach is the major ocean beach in Newport and completion of this project will provide improved water quality through reduction of bacteria in the runoff from the moat entering the beach.  Runoff from the moat, particularly after heavy rainfall, has resulted in full and partial beach closings due to bacteria levels that exceed Department of Health standards.

Great Friends Meeting House Restoration
Recipient: The Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island
$265,000
The Newport Historical Society of Newport, Rhode Island seeks funding for the restoration of the historic Great Friends Meeting House, Rhode Island’s oldest surviving house of worship, and the seat of New England Quaker activity for more than 100 years. This restoration effort will ensure the ongoing, historically-sensitive conservation of this historic building.

North Providence Stormwater and Flood Control Improvements
Recipient: The Town of North Providence, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The Town of North Providence, Rhode Island requests funding for improvements to the town's drainage system and eliminate flooding in several neighborhoods, including Lymansville, Mariville, and Centerdale.  Funding would be used for Phase II of the project, at Lincoln Downs Brook floodway, to rebuild seven cross culverts and reconstruct a dam and a channel.

Old Slater Mill Restoration Project
Recipient: The Old Slater Mill Association, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
$500,000
The Old Slater Mill Association of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, seeks funding to complete the restoration two historic turbines under the Historic Slater Mill, a national historic landmark, and to create new energy by harnessing the river to generate hydropower using a period generator that will create additional heat for the building.  Along with this green energy development, the project will address the serious and immediate threats of flood, fire and decay that threaten the Mill as well as developing a major education component on the significance of hydropower in the history of the Mill.

Middletown Stormwater Infrastructure Improvements
Recipient: The Town of Middletown, Rhode Island
$825,000
The Town of Middletown, Rhode Island requests federal funding for stormwater improvements to address storm water runoff into Easton's Bay, which often results in the closure of local beaches.. The solutions to be implemented are a very effective approach that are supported by EPA and RIDEM and incorporate low-impact development (LID) technologies utilizing accepted best management practices (BMPs).

Scituate Water Line Expansion
Recipient: Town of Scituate, Rhode Island
$412,000
The Town of Scituate, Rhode Island requests funding for drinking water infrastructure improvements for the Frosty Valley and Ring Rock Acres plats.  This project would entail running public water lines through the two plats and tie in all homes and lots to the public water lines that run past these neighborhoods. This project will assist over 200 Scituate residents, the majority of which are low and moderate income, by securing a safe drinking water supply.

Smithfield Exchange Bank Restoration
Recipient: The Smithfield Preservation Society, Smithfield, Rhode Island
$120,000
The Smithfield Preservation Society, Smithfield, Rhode Island requests federal funds to restore the Smithfield Exchange Bank. The Bank dates to 1822 and was recognized by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission as a historical landmark in 2005 and listed to the National Register in 2006.  Funding will complete Phase II of the restoration which encompasses the complete exterior restoration of the building.

Warren Wastewater and Stormwater Infrastructure Improvements
Recipient: Town of Warren, Rhode Island
$1,000,000
The Town of Warren, Rhode Island seeks funding to address contamination levels at Warren Town Beach, which have risen steadily since 2006, nearly double that of its neighboring beaches with 68 closures.  The Town is working to design new sewer lines for this area to eliminate contamination.  In addition, the Town is creating stormwater abatement designs to address runoff impacts at Town Beach using green infrastructure, such as bioretention areas.  Both of these efforts need funding to address the beach’s water quality and to eliminate further closures and public health impacts.

The Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
$900,000
The Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex seeks funding to help acquire a 52 acre conservation easement, and 10 acre fee title acquisition on the Tower Hill area of the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge. This project will conserve the last remaining area on the North side of Pettaquamscutt Cove still subject to development. The area contains habitat for national trust species including migratory songbirds and wetland dependant species. The site constitutes an important buffer and natural filter for protecting water quality of Pettaquamscutt Cove and the Narrow River.  In addition, funding would allow for the acquisition of 10.5 acres on the Eastern Boundary of the Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge, which may be subject to development.  All lands would be incorporated into the National Wildlife Refuge System in perpetuity.

City of Warwick Sewer Improvement Project
Recipient: The City of Warwick, Rhode Island
$500,000
The City of Warwick requests legislative language to provide for a sewer improvement project.


Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Amos House  
Amos House Training and Support Center, RI         
$1,250,000     
Amos House, a nonprofit social services organization serving poor, homeless, unemployed, and underemployed Rhode Islanders, will build a new Works Training and Support Center, housed in a three-story building that will provide:  expanded classroom space for carpentry and culinary arts job training and literacy programs and space for two micro-businesses.  It will also create an upgraded dining hall with seating capacity for 110 people in need

Town of Cumberland
Cumberland Youth Center    
$900,000
The Town of Cumberland, Rhode Island, requests funding to rebuild a youth center for after school programs. The building will include energy efficient equipment, insulation, passive solar design, solar energy (photo-voltaic & hot water panels), and safe-healthy materials and finishes.  The Center was active from 2002 to 2005, but closed when inspections found structural defects.  Repair is not cost-effective, due to wood rot in the support beams and joists (built on top of an inaccessible crawl space), and outdated construction, which does not meet energy efficiency standards. 

City of East Providence         
North Broadway Reconstruction STP    
$1,000,000     
The City of East Providence, Rhode Island, requests funding for the repair of North Broadway, a highly traveled residential and commercial roadway. Improvements to this roadway would benefit the general commuter traffic, local residents, and the many businesses on this road.

Martin Luther King Community Center        
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center of Newport Repairs
$180,000        
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Newport, Rhode Island, seeks funding for major plumbing repairs in order to renovate the building and remain able to meet the needs of this community.  The Center offers educational, social, and recreational activities to persons of all ages and cultures.  The building housing the Center was constructed in the early 1940s and has serious plumbing and roofing issues that need to be addressed.  

Newport Performing Arts Center
Newport, RI
Restoration of the 1868 Newport Opera House
$500,000        
The Newport Performing Arts Center (NPAC) of Newport, Rhode Island seeks funding to help restore the Newport Opera House theater in Washington Square, Newport.  The project will restore the 1868 theater into a single stage, state of the art performance space while retaining important 19th century architectural detail.  When complete, the theater will serve an average of 53,000 people annually and employ ten staff full time.  It will draw not only audiences but also performers from throughout the state and will offer a venue for high quality national touring acts, enhancing Newport's ability to attract visitors year round.

Nina Foundation        
Renovations to Nina's House
$400,000        
The Nina Foundation of Peace Dale, Rhode Island, seeks funding for the renovation of Nina's House, which is located on the grounds of Rhode Island College, in Providence, Rhode Island.  Nina's House will be the home of the Foundation’s community based visitation center for families working toward reunification with their children.  This is a collaborative effort including the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families, Rhode Island Child Welfare Institute, Rhode Island College of Social Work, and the Nina Foundation. 

Town of North Kingstown    
North Kingstown, RI
Senior Center Construction   
$500,000        
Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, seeks funding to replace the North Kingstown Senior Center, which has been in existence for 34 years, but is outgrowing its existing space.  The senior center serves as a community focal point for senior programs and services and provides senior nutrition and transportation programs, social and recreational activities, health promotion and screenings, case management, physical activity programs, volunteer services, educational programming, and information and referral services. 

Town of North Providence    
Road Paving  
$750,000        
The Town of North Providence, Rhode Island, seeks funding to upgrade the transportation system with paving and other improvements in the districts of Fruit Hill, Centerdale, and Marieville.

City of Pawtucket
Pawtucket Public Library Improvements      
$300,000        
The City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, requests funding for improvements to the Pawtucket Public Library.  The Library is comprised of two historic buildings, the Deborah Cook Sayles Building and the former Post Office, which face threats to their historic integrity and ability to meet users' needs.  This funding would allow the library to maintain its existing facilities and continue to provide the staffing and funding for its various programs.

City of Providence
Providence, RI
Paving and Reconstruction of City Streets                                     
$5,000,000
The City of Providence, which is responsible for the maintenance of 370 miles of paved streets, seeks funding to make much-needed pavement repairs across the city.

Providence College    
Solar Thermal, Rainwater Harvesting & Bioretention Systems         
$500,000        
Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island seeks funding to design and build several Energy Alternative and Green projects, developing energy efficiencies and reducing the impact on the environment.   The project will include the installation of 70 solar thermal panels, the capture of rainwater from eight campus buildings for reuse as process water in the Power Plant, and development of  a vegetative bioretention system to mitigate runoff and stormwater pollution.  

Providence Performing Arts Center  
Energy Efficient Retrofits     
$750,000        
The Providence Performing Arts Center of Providence, Rhode Island seeks funds for energy efficiency improvements to its facilities, including a green roof, solar panels, low flow and waterless technology, and building envelope insulation. The project would include the installation of new insulated doors and windows, and low VOC carpet. 

Rhode Island Public Transit Authority          
Statewide Bus Replacement              
$3,000,000     
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) of Providence, Rhode Island requests funding for its statewide bus replacement program, an ongoing project.  The newer vehicles will be more fuel-efficient, helping RIPTA rein in costs as fuel prices rise.  Replacement of vehicles also benefits passengers around the state who rely on public transit service, improving reliability and comfort for RIPTA's 25 million passengers.  In addition, improvements in fuel efficiency help reduce emissions and benefits air quality for all Rhode Islanders.

Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre      
Stadium Theatre Sprinkler System Upgrade
$100,000        
The Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre, Woonsocket, Rhode Island requests funding for improvements to its fire suppression and life safety system.  The Stadium Theatre is a 1,100 seat theatre built in 1926.   Currently, the Theatre has over 110 shows per year, from free movies to jazz to concerts to plays.   Funding is necessary to bring the Theatre up to revised fire and safety codes passed by the Rhode Island General Assembly in light of the tragic Station Night Club fire in 2003.

Tides Family Services, Inc.    
Facilities Renovations
$500,000
Tides Family Services, West Warwick, Rhode Island, requests funds for building renovations in order to serve an additional 50 youths and families at the request of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families.  Tides helps at-risk youth transition from the State Training School back to their homes and neighborhoods and provides intensive peer, individual, and group counseling to high-risk young people. 

Transportation, Rhode Island Department of
Blackstone River Bikeway    
$7,000,000     
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) requests funding for segment 8 of the Blackstone River Bikeway.  The project is within and serves the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, which was established by Congress in 1986.  The project includes the construction of sections of on-road and off-road biking facilities, spur connections to the public library and the future Woonsocket Middle School Complex, and several bridges.

Transportation, Rhode Island Department of
Newport, RI
Newport Cliff Walk Restoration       
$3,000,000     
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) (Providence, Rhode Island) and the City of Newport, Rhode Island, seek federal funding for the restoration of Newport's Cliff Walk. 
In 1975 the Newport Cliff Walk was designated as a National Recreation Trail -- the 65th in the nation and the first in New England. What makes the Cliff Walk unique is that it is a National Recreation Trail in a National Historic District, providing unparalleled views of the ocean on one side and Newport's historic mansions on the other.  Funding would preserve the sections damaged by hurricanes and other storms over the last decade. 

Transportation, Rhode Island Department of 
Pawtucket River Bridge Replacement
$30,000,000   
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) requests funding for the replacement of the Pawtucket River Bridge, a major bridge on the National Highway System.  The bridge is currently posted with a weight limit of 18 tons.  The weight limit, while necessary for public safety, is a major impediment to commercial traffic in Rhode Island and in the region, making timely replacement of the bridge critical. 

Transportation, Rhode Island Department of        
Route 3 (Tiogue Ave.) Improvements
$2,600,000
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) (Providence, Rhode Island) requests funds for improvements along Route 3 (Tiogue Ave.) from South Main Street to Arizona Street in Coventry, Rhode Island.  The project, which is at 90% design, will include site preparation, a full depth pavement reconstruction, installation of new concrete curb and sidewalks, storm drainage modifications, the cleaning of existing storm drainage systems, coordination of new traffic signals, new pavement markings, streetscaping, new signs, landscaping, and placement of plantable soil and seeding.

Town of Westerly
West Street Bridge
The West Street railroad bridge in Westerly, RI, poses a growing risk to Amtrak trains and rail lines. Although federal funds were allocated for the restoration of the bridge, the extent of damage makes it impractical to repair. A technical correction to the authorizing legislation is sought to allow the Town of Westerly to remove the bridge and make enhancements to the surrounding area.

Westerly Adult Day Services, Inc.    
Facilities Renovation  EDI    
$300,000        
Westerly Adult Day Services, Inc. of Westerly, Rhode Island, seeks funding for renovations to its leased facilities to meet the needs of its elderly clients.  This project will enable 75 individuals to remain in the community, connected to family and friends for an average of 22 months (thus delaying premature nursing home placement).  Additionally, it will enable approximately 225 caregivers to remain in the workforce and/or benefit from much needed respite, knowing their loved one is in a safe, secure environment. 

Westerly Area Rest Meals (WARM Inc.)      
Westerly, RI
$300,000
Westerly Area Rest Meals (WARM Inc.) of Westerly, Rhode Island, seeks funding to renovate a portion of WARM's 54 Spruce Street location to include a commercial kitchen and a 70-seat dining area to accommodate the needs of the Community Soup Kitchen program.  The current kitchen and dining area cannot meet the demand for services.

Defense

Item Name:    Integrated Swimmer Defense Information Technology (ISD IT)
Request:         $2,100,000                
Intended Recipient:  2ICSI, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and 21CSI, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The U.S. Navy is nearing final development of an advanced swimmer detection system capable of reliably detecting covert swimmers in extremely challenging operating environments.  This program provides for an open architecture system that allows for the utilization of a variety of sensors to include ground and maritime radar, sonar, infrared and video cameras, and unattended ground sensors.  The prototype of this model was tested in 2007 and 2008 at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport.  This funding would fully develop this system, making it deployable to naval vessels in foreign and local ports to protect against underwater and surface swimmers.  Also, this funding would enable further testing and integration of candidate hardware sensors, the certification and accreditation of the operating system, and the development of alert protocols.

Item Name:    Unique Item Identification (UII) Data Management Systems
Request:         $4,500,000
Intended Recipient:     A2B Tracking Solutions, Portsmouth, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: A2B Tracking Solutions, Portsmouth, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  This project continues to develop and enhance an enterprise-wide software application to support all programs in the U.S. Army that need to meet the UID policy mandate.  Today the system generates thousands of bar coded UIDs on metal data plates and sends the UIDs and item’s pedigree information to the IUID Registry.  Additional funding will provide for design and development of application that meet updated Army architectural standards and will be able to run either inside or outside the U.S .Army G6 firewall and IT infrastructure.  When complete, the IUID Data Platform will contain features that provide the required level of compliance for all Army programs and facilities on a global scale.    

Item Name:    Common Command and Control Mission System
Request:         $2,400,000     
Intended Recipient:   Adaptive Methods, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) features Mission Packages that are interchanged on the Seaframe to support Mine Countermeasures (MCM), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Surface Warfare (SUW) missions.  Currently, each mission package has a unique Command and Control (C2) component on the Seaframe, which provides contact evaluation, contact management, and data fusion, and interfaces to the Seaframe’s Combat Management System (CMS).  Each C2 consists of similar but unique geographically-based situational awareness displays, with environmental overlays and Tactical Decision Aids (TDAs).  This funding will develop a single Multi-mission Common C2 component, which will reduce future life cycle efforts, while improving capability and reliability by reusing the best capabilities from each of the three existing C2 components.  A Common C2 System will reduce operational errors through the use of common terminology, common mission functions, and common operational behaviors. 

Item Name:     Submarine Environment for Evaluation and Development (SEED)
Request:         $4,000,000     
Intended Recipient:   Advanced Solutions for Tomorrow (ASFT), Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Presently, a futuristic submarine attack center has been created at NUWC so that new command decision aids and reduced manning initiatives can be evaluated in a realistic environment.  Expansion of this facility to a full SEED has provided a low-cost, easily accessible test bed for small businesses, academia, and production system developers to create and test innovative technologies without the overhead of creating their own test facility and ensuring that the best innovations are fast tracked to the fleet.  Additional funding would allow for further expansion to improve the ability to perform proof of concept testing and concept of operations testing with fleet sailors using current submarines systems with new technologies.   

Item Name:    Ellipsoidal Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Request:         $5,500,000     
Intended Recipient:  Alion Science and Technology, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Alion Science and Technology, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description: Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are used by the Navy for a variety of missions in littoral zones where strong, fluctuating currents are common.  While torpedo-shaped UUVs are not amenable to operation under these environmental conditions, a study conducted by Alion has established the feasibility of an ellipsoidal-shaped UUV(EUUV) performing missions with improved navigation, stability and control, station keeping, and energy consumption.  Additionally, the study identified an EUUV launch and recovery system for submarines, which will enhance submarine capability as well as more effective missile stowage.  This funding will be used for EUUV composite shell design and fabrication, thruster specification and procurement, thruster controller specification and procurement, assembly, and tests.  Additionally, this funding will develop a parallel preliminary design of a missile tube EUUV launch and recovery system. 

Item Name:    Advanced Load Bearing Equipment
Request:         $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:     American Cord and Webbing, Woonsocket, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: American Cord and Webbing, Woonsocket, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  In order to assist Marines in carrying large amounts of equipment, munitions, and weapons needed in training and combat, the Marine Corps has a program called the Individual Load Bearing Equipment (ILBE) System.  ILBE is a family of nylon-based pouches, packs, slings, and other items.  While ILBE components normally last three years in peacetime, during today’s optempo, the components wear out within months.  To accommodate this strain, the Marine Corps has started to develop and field more rugged pouches, packs, and slings on an accelerated schedule.  Additional funding would provide Marines with upgraded ILBE items.

Item Name:    Castings for Improved Defense Readiness (CIDR)
Request:         $4,500,000
Intended Recipient:   American Metalcasting Consortium/Cumberland Foundry, Cumberland, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  American Metalcasting Consortium/Cumberland Foundry, Cumberland, RI
Purpose/Project Description: The Defense Logistic Agency’s CIDR program aims to provide rapid, cost-effective solutions in the procurement of high-quality critical castings used in the ongoing operations worldwide’s legacy systems and ensure a U.S. manufacturing supply bases for castings in the future.  The CIDR program is focusing on identifying and transferring casting machining technology into the supply chain to slash lead times, reduce backorders and improve cost-effectiveness; gathering properties data to determine applications of high performance cast steels and aluminums for impressed stressed weapon system reliability; and developing new materials and tool processes for improved reliability.  Additional funding is needed to continue these efforts.

Item Name:    X-Band Interferometric Radar (XBIR)
Request:         $6,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Applied Radar, Quonset Point, North Kingstown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Applied Radar, Quonset Point, North Kingstown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  This program supports the current development of XBIR, which employs solid-state MMIC-based phased-array radar technology for a low-cost mobile HMMVW platform, and will provide a precision targeting capability for counter rocket, artillery, and mortars (CRAM).  This additional funding will finalize the hardware design, perform final integration and testing, and enhance software for improved target detection tracking, which will lead to a field demonstration for the U.S. Army.

Item Name:    Flexible Aerogel Materials Supplier Initiative
Request:         $7,500,000
Intended Recipient:  Aspen Aerogels Inc., Northborough, MA
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Aspen Aerogels Inc., East Providence, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The continued and future effectiveness of U.S. military forces requires access to affordable, flexible, high temperature, lightweight aerogel materials, which will provide thermal and acoustic insulation, and thermal control for critical ground, air and sea weapons platforms, and personnel protection systems.  The creation of high temperature aerogel production capacity will lead directly to the establishment of a strong commercial market, as well as an industry better prepared to meet the needs of the military market.  This funding would enable Phase II, the engineering design and buildout of an East Providence facility for aerogel production.  Construction of this facility will take place over the next two years.  Upon completion of this facility, hundreds of on-site jobs will be generated.

Item Name:    Improved Submarine Towed Array Systems
Request:         $4,100,000
Intended Recipient:   BAE Systems, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Over the past three years, several improvements have been made to towed array handling.  One remaining problem area involves the mechanisms for deployment of the towed array from the submarine’s hull.  The current system attempts to “push” the flexible array out of the submarine using multiple rollers which often results in damage to array elements and deployment failure.  A new system which “pulls” the array out could reduce the number of rollers that are the source of array damage and allow for other improvements and increased reliability.  An early prototype of a pull assist system for array deployment is to undergo testing this year.  Additional funding would expand on the early prototype and allow for further development of the new system.   

Item Name:    Harbor Shield
Request:         $4,000,000
Intended Recipient:      Battelle, Newport, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Battelle, Newport, RI
Project Description:  The Harbor Shield initiative is developing a future generation of undersea networks that combines synthetic aperture sonar and subsurface electro-optical imaging to take a “hull print” when a ship passes through an underwater portal.  The hull print is then sent to a shore site and analyzed for anomalies.  The prints will be transferred to a centralized database to be sent to ports around the world.  This technology will be used to track high interest contacts in high density shipping lanes and provide standoff identification of a chemical, biological or nuclear threat.  Additional funding will allow for Phase II, which will allow for testing of a fully operational system in Narragansett Bay.   

Item Name:    Engineered Biological Detectors for Biological Warfare
Request:         $1,500,000
Intended Recipient:  BCR Diagnostics, Inc., Jamestown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: BCR Diagnostics, Inc., Jamestown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  During Phase I of the project, BCR Diagnostics, Inc. (BCR) obtained experimental results that demonstrated the feasibility of applying BCR’s unique biosensing technology to detecting and identifying extremely low levels (e.g., less than 10 bacteria per sample) of infectious agents including bacteria, viruses, and toxins.  For Phase II, the mission’s objectives include producing prototypes of practical biosensors for use at military and civilian hospitals as well as for fielded medical units.  The work will be conducted in collaboration with the Biosensor Team at the U.S. Army ECBC (Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center) through an existing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA).  It should be noted that BCR is currently in the process of moving and expanding its R&D facilities to better fulfill this program.  Final products expected from the project are biosensors providing an optimal combination of speed, specificity, sensitivity, and cost effectiveness that is currently unmatched by any other technology. 

Item Name:         Brown University Center for Neurotechnology
Request:              $2,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Brown University, Providence, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Brown University, Providence, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  This funding is a part of a five year $10 million initiative to create the Brown University Center for Neurotechnology.  This center will spearhead the development of revolutionary new neurotechnologies to re-enable normal function for persons with devastating brain disorders including paralysis, epilepsy, blindness, and psychiatric disease.  Funding is requested to develop new brain-controlled assistive technologies and demonstrate the ability for humans with paralysis to use these brain interfaces.     

Item Name:    Mass – Customizable Collapsible Fuel and Water Tanks
Request:         $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:    Cooley Group, Pawtucket, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Cooley Group, Pawtucket, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   The military has a significant need for collapsible reusable liquid containment tanks.   In response to TACOM’s Market Survey for a “U.S. Army Bulk Liquid Storage Improvement Program,” this project would partner the military with a composite tank fabricator to create a collapsible tank that is survivable in a wider variety of environments, allowing a greater variety of fluids while being both lighter in weight and more easily deployed. 

Item Name:         Undersea Warfare Decision Support System
Request:              $2,000,000
Intended Recipient:  DDL OMNI Engineering, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW DSS) is an ACAT 4 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Command and Control (C2) System developed by the Naval Sea Systems Command (IWS 5E).  USW DDS represents a significant enhancement to current ASW capabilities by providing a near real-time, net-centric antisubmarine warfare command and control capability.  USW DDS leverages existing communication links, networks, contact pictures and sensor data from air, surface, submarine, theater, and surveillance platforms.  USW-DSS utilizes the alignment of sensors to provide improved situational awareness, thus enhancing risk and vulnerability assessment, optimization of operations, and allocations of resources, all of which enhance the lethality and survivability of the fleet.  USW DDS will revolutionize the conduct of ASW among naval forces both at sea and ashore.  Existing TTP will need to be revised to accommodate the functionality of USW DDS and to provide guidance for the optimum employment of sensors, weapons, communications, and platforms in the conduct of the ASW mission area.   This funding request provides for the development of tactical guidance for USW DDS, which will provide for improved situational awareness, enhanced risk and vulnerability assessment, and provide for the optimization of operations and allocation of resources. 

Item Name:    The Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)
Request:         $25,000,000
Intended Recipient:     DEPSCoR
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Rhode Island universities
Purpose/Project Description:   The objectives of the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) program, first authorized in FY 1995 Defense Department Authorization Act, are to:  (1) enhance the capabilities of higher education to develop, plan, and execute science and engineering research that is competitive under the merit-review systems used for awarding federal research awards; and (2) increase the probability of long-term growth in the capacity of universities to compete for federal government science and engineering research.  Strengthening the DEPSCoR program is critical to our national defense by supporting the research priorities of the Department of Defense through enhancing the capabilities of institutions of higher education.  It is also important to keep the program at its current size of 23 states to reflect the program’s statutory purpose, which is to build research capacity in states that historically have received the least amount of research dollars.  To validate the program, an independent assessment was completed and the final October 2008 report stated that DEPSCoR was a valuable program that provides local economic stimulus.  This program not only fosters long-term growth in science and engineering research, but it also promotes scientific progress nationwide.

Item Name:     DoD Impact Aid Funding for Children with Disabilities
Request:        $5,000,000
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  National program used by schools in Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  School districts with a large military presence have higher percentages of students with disabilities than do districts with non-federally connected students - in part because military personnel who have children with disabilities receive compassionate-post assignments to these districts, many of which have strong special education programs.  However, the cost of providing special education services is very high: services to meet the needs of these children can cost upwards of $100,000 a year (as compared to the average national per pupil expenditure of $7,843).  These school districts, which are providing specialized programs mostly at local expense, need assistance in meeting these children’s special needs.   Additional funding would help offset the high cost of schooling DoD students with disabilities, across the country, including schools in Aquidneck Island, RI. 

Item Name:    LCS ASW USV Unmanned Dipping Sonar
Request:         $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:    DRS Technologies, Parsippany, NJ
Address (City. State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   DRS Technologies seeks to improve the mission capabilities of the Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI.  The use of AQS-22 ALFS dipping sonar system on an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) will increase the LCS mission capabilities, providing the LCS Commander a unique long-range detection capability well outside of the threat submarine’s weapons range, therefore greatly improving the probability of mission success.  This low-frequency dipping sonar system is currently used for the Navy’s new MH-60R helicopter and the Navy already has plans to equip MH-60R helicopters on the LCS.  As LCS has a requirement to utilize USVs for high-risk, long-endurance, anti-submarine warfare, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, it would be beneficial to integrate the dipping sonar, weapon system, and USV.  Additional funding would combine these technologies into a single integrated platform.  This system would maximize use of existing programs and technology, reduce redundancy in program costs, and take sailors out of dangerous areas by effectively using unmanned vehicles like the LCS USVs. 

Item Name:    U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) Modular Glove System
Request:         $5,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Duro Textiles, Fall River, MA
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Duro Textiles, Fall River, MA
Purpose/Project Description:  The real-world mission needs of the SOF require the ability to tailor hand wear to multiple environments while maintaining dexterity/comfort in environmental extremes.  This Modular Glove System uses five interchangeable gloves and applies the latest textile technology to reduce weight, minimize thermal discomfort in extreme cold weather, enable maximum dexterity, tactility, flexibility, protect the hand from heat and flame threats, and provide exceptional moisture management.  This funding would support procurement of additional SOF Modular Glove Systems.

Item Name:    Common Command and Control System Module (CCCS)
Request:         $9,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Electric Boat, Groton, CT and Quonset Point, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Quonset Point, RI and Electric Boat, Groton, CT
Purpose/Project Description:  The design of today’s command centers on submarines is fixed during the initial design, remaining fixed for the life of the ship.  The CCCS Module would facilitate rapid reconfiguration of mission equipment, more efficient allocation of watchstanders, and support mission specific tasking.  Additionally, these infrastructure improvements would streamline tech refresh and tech insertion/ARCI upgrades, utilizing an integrated Life Cycle Management Plan across multiple ship classes, therefore reducing total costs.  This funding would develop a CCCS Module that can be used for VIRGINIA Block IV, SSGN, and OHIO Replacement. 

Item Name:    Future Dry Deck Shelter (DDS-F)
Request:         9,800,000
Intended Recipient:  Electric Boat, Groton, CT and Quonset Point, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Quonset Point, RI and Electric Boat, Groton, CT
Purpose/Project Description:  The DDS are approaching end of life and require replacement.  A next generation DDS would be capable of stowing, launching, and retrieving current and future SEAL Delivery Vehicles.  This also provides an open architecture solution to the Navy that would enable them to launch and retrieve large undersea vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles for VIRGINIA Class submarines and SSGNs.  New DDSs would include payload stowage, launch and recovery, and hyperbolic chamber capability if required to recompress divers.  This funding would support the development of DDS-F. 

Item Name:    Quiet and Compact Power Conversion and Actuators for Undersea Devices
Request:         $1,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Electro Standard Laboratories (ESL), Cranston, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and ESL, Cranston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Successful electrification of undersea weapons such as torpedoes requires a power conversion system that converts onboard battery power to suitable AC and DC power for sensitive electronics, actuators, and propulsion while maintaining isolation between the power supply and its various loads.  The current system is inherently noisy due to the high speed mechanical moving parts and has high maintenance requirements.  This program has developed a full solid state power conversion system that meets the noise and power requirements while simultaneously maintaining the stability of the power system during dynamic loading conditions.  This funding would provide for a full scale prototype power converter, further testing, and model refinement, which would be applied to submarine programs and torpedo systems at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.    

Item Name:    Wave Energy Harvesting for Buoy Applications
Request:         $3,250,000
Intended Recipient:   Electro Standard Laboratories (ESL), Cranston, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Electro Standard Laboratories (ESL), Cranston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Operation of remote and autonomous buoys for extended periods of time is often beyond the energy storage capacity that can be installed before launching, limiting buoy effectiveness.  This program has developed an approach that combines active control with a linear electric generator integrated into the buoy structure that can remove electrical power from the motion of the ocean waves.  This power can recharge the buoy’s batteries and maintain buoy operations for extended period of time.  Additional funding would continue development and demonstration, ultimately leading to the insertion of this technology into naval applications. 

Item Name:    AViiD Biodefense Vaccine Design and Support Package
Request:         $6,650,000                
Intended Recipient:  EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, and EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   The AViiD Biodefense Vaccine Design and Support Package would enable DoD investigators to rapidly develop medical countermeasures effective against biowarfare threat agents.  This system’s bioinformatics tools are designed to help researchers identify common targets among multiple threat agents and its in vitro assay and animal model tools would allow these DoD research teams to rapidly evaluate novel therapeutic and vaccine technologies, therapeutics, and vaccine candidates at an advanced stage of development in the context of human-like immune response.  This would eventually provide support for the FDA licensure of new antimicrobial biodefense vaccines, or new indications for licenses products for use in the treatment and prophylaxis of biowarfare casualties.  This funding would support the AViiD Biodefense Vaccine Design and Support Package.

Item Name:    Rapid Repair Structural Adhesives 
Request:         $4,000,000
Account:         Research & Development, Navy
Intended Recipient:   Epoxies Etc, Inc., Cranston, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Epoxies Etc, Inc., Cranston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   The purpose of this program is to continue to develop rapid repair UV curable structural adhesives, using promising new highly flexible and low temperature performance modified urethane chemistries, to repair damaged military aircraft and radomes.  Presently, standard structural repair adhesives for aircraft require either room temperature curing for several days or high pressure and temperature cycles in autoclaves.  Damaged radomes must be replaced.  This program’s high-performance UV curable aircraft coating will meet the performance requirements for military aircraft and radomes, will provide rapid curing, room temperature storage, and one year shelf life, and is environmentally safe.

Item Name:    Virtual Maintenance Engineering Platform (VMEP)
Request:         $1,200,000     
Intended Recipient: General Physics Corporation, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and General Physics Corporation, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  While a submarine is underway, maximum efficiency is required to assist a ship’s personnel in minimizing the time required for trouble shooting and corrective maintenance while meeting operational requirements.  This project will allow experts to assist onboard technicians in remotely analyzing onboard symptoms, troubleshooting, and conducting in-depth diagnosis, thereby reducing down time and eliminating the need to deploy an expert to the ship.  This funding will certify the program so that it can be used over secure military networks and begin installation. 

Item Name:     Diamond Substrate for Cooling of Micro-Electronics
Request:         $8,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Group4Labs, North Smithfield, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Group4Labs, North Smithfield, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  All solid state electronic devices, including those used in communications, sensors, and satellites, ultimately fail when driven to a critical upper temperature limit, often created by excessive heating within the semiconductor itself.  This project is developing an all-passive, liquid-free, motion-free, low-cost cooling solution—placing a synthetic, low cost diamond substrate next to the semiconductor chip.  In the first demonstration of the project, the performance and range of communications and sensors was increased by a factor of ten while weight and size were reduced fivefold.  Additional funding would provide for further development and production of a diamond-semiconductor wafer.  This project would fund the 18-month setup of a manufacturing line at the company’s facility in North Smithfield, RI.   

Item Name:    Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) Support System
Request:         $3,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Group 81, Inc., Newport, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Group 81, Inc., Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Weapon-system programs, such as MPC, have traditionally been focused on technical performance, only partially addressing the supportability requirements of the system in all applicable mission environments.  The MPC Design for Supportability System will manage weapon-system supportability information using commercially available software.  During the manufacturing process, relevant authoritative data and information can be shared for analysis and comment in a collaborative web-enabled workspace, allowing the manufacturer’s drawings to be recreated in 3D models.  These models can be used in the logistics systems, allowing for the reuse of technical data products through all life cycles phases and reducing total management costs.  These models can also support maintenance in the field, allowing repairs to be made sooner with relevant information and enhancing operational planning.  This funding would initiate the MPC program’s design phase and development. 

Item Name:    Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) Technology
Request:         $4,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Hope Global, Cumberland, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Hope Global, Cumberland, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The Navy employs RIBs for a wide variety of missions, including as lifeboats, search and rescue boats, and general transportation from naval ships, yet they are costly and only have a service life of 12 years.  This program would develop, integrate, and demonstrate new technologies, such as carbon fiber laminates and tube sets, to reduce weight, increase payload and mission capability, increase service life, and reduce costs.

Item Name:    Manufacturing Metrology for Weapon System Production and Sustainment (M2WSPS)
Request:         $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:    Independent Quality Labs Inc., Rockville, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Independent Quality Labs Inc., Rockville, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  This program is a new technology called Locus Methods, which allows for simplified optimization and specification of machine tool performance, reduction in procurement risks, and significant improvement in manufacturing productivity.  In the second year of a three year program, additional funding will allow continued research and development specifically to aid the Army’s FCS team to meet operational requirements and production schedule goals with a reduction in cost.

Item Name:    Immersive Naval Officer Training System (INOTS)
Request:         $4,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, California
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI and Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, California
Purpose/Project Description:  Entering its second year, the INOTS program continues to train officers for service and advancement.  Improving on the capstone year program, this INOTS training module will introduce a number of photo-real Virtual Characters who will be able to verbally interact with the trainee, refine its educational strategies to the individual officer, and could ultimately supplement live classroom and simulation training.  The integration of Virtual Humans and Mixed Reality technologies will enhance Officer training and expand the Navy Officer Training Command Newport’s instructional depth.  Additional funding for the INOTS program will improve the ability of the OTCN to effectively prepare officers for future combat situations. 

Item Name:    Critical Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection
Request:         $5,600,000
Intended Recipient:   Kelly Aerospace, Warwick, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Kelly Aerospace, Warwick, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Critical Defense Monitoring and Protection system integrates sensing and wireless communications technologies into a single platform to remotely assess in near-real time the structural integrity of DoD infrastructure such as bridges, levees, pipelines, buildings, and other sensitive structures.  The system uses advanced fiber-optic sensing technology that, when bonded to infrastructure, can detect vibrations and frequencies that may indicate structural distress.  This system is integrated with a secure, encrypted, internet-based wireless communications architecture and management system capable of monitoring large numbers of sensors at low-cost and coordinating response teams and repair and maintenance operations from a central command center.  It may also be applied to perimeter control.  Additional funding would develop this system.  

Item Name:    Encapsulated Ballistic Protection System (EBPS)
Request:         $5,800,000
Intended Recipient:   Kelly Aerospace, Warwick, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Kelly Aerospace, Warwick, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  EBPS is a lightweight advanced composite material solution to a wide variety of armor requirements.  The system has a large array of applications and has the capability of being molded into any shape, making it possible to replace a wide variety of complex parts and eliminating the need for separate armor construction.  This “structural armor” merges structure and armor into a single, integrated ultra-lightweight armor system.  Additional funding will allow the Naval Undersea Warfare Center the opportunity to construct a variety of marine vessel applications to demonstrate the benefits of structural armor.

Item Name:   Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (GEN III ECWCS)
Request:         $8,000,000     
Intended Recipient: Kenyon Industries, Kenyon, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Kenyon Industries, Kenyon, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  GEN III ECWCS uses advanced textile technologies to ensure that our soldiers can meet the challenges presented by a broad range of climates and activities, remaining warm, dry, and comfortable throughout.  The system includes seven layers and twelve components.   It is compatible with body armor, weighs 25% less than previous clothing systems, and uses 33% less space in a soldier’s pack.  This system also integrates near infrared technologies into the garments, reducing detection at night.  The Army has a requirement for 240,000 GEN II ECWCS units per year for the next three years.  Additional funding will accelerate deployment of this system to the field.  

Item Name:    TB-33 Thinline Towed Array Production
Request:         $4,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corporation, Ashaway, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corporation, Ashaway, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   Thinline towed arrays provide the detection range and area search rate required to identify hostile submarines in battle spaces.  Installation of TB-33 Thin Line Towed Array systems on all classes of submarines would enable all submarines to maintain clear acoustical, tactical, and operational superiority in all scenarios.  This funding would accelerate initial qualification testing to full rate production, implementing automated manufacturing equipment, qualifying commercial suppliers for critical components, and improving acceptance test methods. 

Item Name:    Comprehensive Mishap Reduction System (CMR)
Request:         $5,400,000
Intended Recipient: McLaughlin Research Corp., Middletown, RI   
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: McLaughlin Research Corp., Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The CMR System is a web-based, COTS, risk mitigation, and analysis system configured for military use that enables military officers at all levels in the chain of command to prevent avoidable accidents.  The CMR System links accident reporting data to information the system gathers on a new dimension of safety analysis – “safety climate,” collected by administering a survey to servicemembers.  The system processes these two sets of data and produces real-time dashboard reports for commanders at all levels of the chain of command, identifying high risk practices and attitudes in their organization. The CMR System is the realization of a 2004 plan developed by the Defense Safety Oversight Council.  Additional funding would permit the adaptation and deployment of the system to all function areas across DoD.  It is anticipated that the CMR System will become a program of record in FY11.

Item Name:    Weapon Acquisition & Firing System (WAFS) 
Request:         $4,000,000
Intended Recipient:   MIKEL, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and MIKEL, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The success of U.S. Navy operations require the ability to employ weapons accurately and swiftly.  Because of the evolving quiet threat, combat missions are becoming increasingly short range, requiring multiple weapons against multiple surface ship targets in a rapid fashion.  Today’s weapons systems are complex and require many manual procedures using reference documents to determine weapon settings and tactics while ensuring safety of ship by employing proper weapon safety settings.  This cumbersome process is slow and error prone depending on the operator’s level of expertise.  The WAFS is a data fusion capability that automatically develops an accurate target solution based on acoustic and non acoustic sensors, eliminating the need for reference documents and lowering manning.  This funding would initiate research and development efforts as well as allowing for at-sea testing and implementations of real-time algorithms and associated in-board electronics necessary for installation on legacy and future classes of submarines and potential multiple platforms across the Department of Defense.

Item Name:    Hybrid Battery System for “Silent Watch” Operations
Request:         $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Modular Energy Devices, Warwick, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Modular Energy Device, Warwick, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  During field operations, a combat vehicle’s engine is shut down while stationary to minimize audio and thermal signatures and vehicle electronics draw its power from the vehicle battery.  The vehicle must then be frequently restarted to recharge the battery, exposing the crew and associated ground troops to potential threats from the detection and targeting of the vehicle’s thermal or audio signature.  This Hybrid Battery System will accelerate the insertion of high energy batteries into tactical vehicles while mitigating technical risk, through a hybrid battery system of advanced Lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries and proven Thin Plate Pure Lead Acid (TPPL) batteries.  Additional funding for the development of this system will increase safety and protection of the warfighter.    

Item Name:    Lithium-Ion Battery
Request:         $4,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Modular Energy Devices, Warwick, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   Modular Energy Devices, Warwick, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  In order to increase amounts of stored electrical energy in naval platforms, lithium-ion battery technology is becoming the dominant energy source.  While lithium-ion offers high energy, high power, small size, lower weight, and excellent service life compared to traditional batteries, these high energy batteries can be unsafe when they are abused or defective.  This funding would develop “smart” predictive monitoring technology to monitor and maintain these high-energy batteries.  In addition to improving safety and reducing maintenance costs, this funding would allow for the development of hardware, software, and the associated algorithms for predictive monitoring in existing and future shipboard systems.   

Item Name:    Laser Collective Combat Advanced Training System (LCCATS)
Request:         $7,000,000     
Intended Recipient:   MPRI/L-3, Middletown, RI 
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: MPRI/L-3, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   The LCCATS is a comprehensive laser-based marksmanship training system engaging various types of laser sensitive targets using a soldier’s own assigned weapon without the use of live ammunition.  LCCATS is currently in use by ARNG units for MOUT operations, reflexive fire training, Close Quarters Marksmanship, and movement to contact drills.  It is readily transportable and can be deployed operationally with a unit.  LCCATS is included in the Army Marksmanship Training Strategy and is currently an integral part of the ARNG’s marksmanship training program.  This funding will provide for fielding of 28,000 additional LCCAT units. 

Item Name:     New England Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative
Request:          $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:  New England Manufacturing Supply Chain, six New England states
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: New England Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative, six New England states
 Purpose/Project Description:   The New England Defense Manufacturing Supply Chain assists small manufacturers in competing for contract awards for the production of machined parts, utilizing a newly-developed Turn-Key Rapid Production System which significantly minimizes the lead times from design to finished product.  This system will provide DoD rapid response capability to surge demand of needed parts.  Presently, the project has registered over 1,200 CNC machines, representing 155 companies in New England.  There are immediate plans to register an additional 200 companies and 2,000 CNC machines.  Over the past year, 29 companies participated in the Defense Logistics Agency Battlefield Backorder Breakout (B3I) Initiative to provide solutions to backorders.  The solutions resulted in a significant reduction in a part’s unit price ranging from 32% to 74% and significant increases in value engineering savings ranging from $12,000 to $261,000.  Additional funding will allow ongoing initiatives to continue. 

Item Name:    Rugged Electronic Textile Vital Signs Monitoring   
Request:         $6,000,000     
Intended Recipient:   Northeast Knitting, Inc., Pawtucket, RI      
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Northeast Knitting, Inc., Pawtucket, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The purpose of this program is to validate and qualify a system which integrates a Warfighter Physiologic Status Monitoring (WPSM) into clothing worn by military personnel to promote situational awareness of physical conditions and prevent and assess casualties.  This system will interpret vital signs data to indicate such conditions as heat exhaustion or hemorrhagic shock. It will also provide signals that a soldier has been hit by a round, shrapnel, or IED blast.  Field medics and commanders can use this information to provide remote triage and casualty treatment information to combat field medics and commanders. The Special Forces Assessment and Selection, the Rapid Equipping Force, and the Special Operations Air Regiment have been briefed on or evaluated this system with positive response.  Funding will provide for the completion of research and development as well as production of hundreds of systems for testing and possibly small scale deployment.  

Item Name:    Reconfigurable Command and Control Center (RCACC)
Request:         $2,615,000
Intended Recipient:   Paramount Solutions, Newport, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Paramount Solutions, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The purpose of this program is to provide the necessary technology to optimize the command and control center of the VIRGINIA Class Block IV (VA BLK IV) and the Sea Based Deterrent (SBSD) submarines.  Such factors as employment of horizontal or vertical displays, plotter requirements, manned versus unmanned locations and changes in the allocations of functions must be considered.   Additional funding will use virtual technology to assess multiple design candidates and options against hypothetical missions.

Item Name:    Acoustic Countermeasures Technology Transition
Request:         $3,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  Progeny, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Progeny, Middletown, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Acoustic countermeasures are critical for ship and submarine self-defense, especially in their role as “decoys” against incoming torpedoes.  Developing countermeasures capable of operating with other countermeasures without causing mutual interference is the next step in increasing submarine survivability.  To effectively employ necessary countermeasure capability against an improving threat, countermeasure technology must be accelerated to support rapid fleet introduction.  This funding would speed development and transition of group behavior technologies to the Next Generation Countermeasures Program.  This effort addresses the CNO’s fourth unfunded priority, anti-torpedo defense capabilities.

Item Name:    Feature Based Pattern Recognition for Force Protection     
Request:         $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Prometheus Inc., Newport, RI          
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Prometheus Inc., Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  IED classification in ground penetrating radar data, tripwire identification in extreme clutter, undersea mine hunting using side scan sonar, and decoy discrimination in missile defense all present a challenge for the visual discrimination skills of human operators.  Automated Detection and Classification computation algorithms serve to reduce the cost to improve system performance by reducing the need to engineer and add expensive hardware to operational systems. Non commutative group harmonic analysis, an esoteric and sophisticated mathematical methodology, enables image transforms to be generated and applied to sensor images to isolate objects of interest from clutter.  Additional funding will begin implementing appropriate algorithms onto Army systems for testing. 

Item Name:    Zumwalt Class Destroyer Program (DDG-1000)
Request:         Support President’s Budget
Item name:     Zumwalt Class Destroyer Program
Request:         Support President’s Budget
Intended Recipient:  Raytheon IDS, Portsmouth, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Raytheon IDS, Portsmouth, RI
                        Purpose/Project Description:   The President’s Budget request funds the completion of the third ship in this class.  The DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer and its advanced technologies will not only serve as the cornerstone for the Zumwalt’s warfighting capability but are also scalable and reuseable in future ships. 

Item Name:    Reach Out and Read early literacy program
Request:         $2,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Reach Out and Read
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: National program operating in facilities throughout Rhode Island.
Purpose/Project Description:   Project: Reach Out and Read (ROR) early literacy program is a highly effective, physician-based, school readiness strategy.  More than 4,500 clinics and hospitals now implement the ROR program, including facilities throughout Rhode Island.  ROR is near the completion of the first year of a pilot project to expand the program to military bases.  They have successfully added 90,000 military children and their families to the program.  ROR presents a unique opportunity to support military families with young children.  Funding the continued implementation of these Reach Out and Read pilot projects, and an additional 20 military facilities, would bring the total number of military families served to more than 175,000. 

Item Name:    Remote Health Monitoring of the Forward-Operating Warfighter
Request:         $4,500,000                
Intended Recipient:  Respira, Enfield, NH
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Respira, Providence, RI and Respira, Enfield, NH
Purpose/Project Description:   This program is developing highly robust, secure, disposable, and automatic wireless sensors that collect and transmit data automatically to remote medical staff so that they can monitor the health and respond more quickly to deterioration in the health of the warfighter.  This program also has a proven, scalable data-collection and management system developed specifically for government remote-sensing applications.  This funding would allow for continued development of the Remote Health Monitoring system, initially focusing the program on pulmonary function. 

Item Name:    Artificial Intelligence – Based Combat System (AI-BCS) Kernel   
Request:         $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Rite Solutions, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Rite Solutions, Middletown, RI 
Purpose/Project Description: The AI-BCS kernel uses multi-objective optimization, expert systems, advanced signal and data processing, and mission-focused Human Systems Integration to introduce a new level of automation that will optimize manning while increasing command decision and combat system performance.  The completed Phase I addressed collision avoidance for standard operations as a proof of concept.  During Phase II, the Combat Systems kernel was incrementally extended to include stressful operational situations such as shallow water high contact density situations, susceptibility to counter-detection, and tactical submarine operations.  A formal Phase II demonstration was conducted in December 2008 and deemed a success.  Funding will enable rapid III transition of the AI-BCS kernel technology in support of In-Service, new construction Virginia Class and Ohio Class replacement submarines. 

Item Name:    Narragansett Bay Hydrographic Survey
Request:         $4,000,000                
Intended Recipient:  SAIC, Newport, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and SAIC, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Modern hydrographic survey tools, including high resolution multibeam sonar and sophisticated sidescan sonars allow a very detailed acoustic map and image to be compiled of the seafloor – knowledge that is necessary for the Navy’s need of domain awareness and growing use of UUVs and offboard sensors.  This funding would provide for a test and evaluation of new survey tools to better understand and document the physical, biological, chemical, and oceanographic behavior of an “ocean acre” in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s test area in Narragansett Bay.  

Item Name:    Intelligent Mobile Sensor Barrier (IMSB)
Request:         $6,000,000    
Intended Recipient:  Scientific Systems, Woburn, MA and University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 
Purpose/Project Description:  The IMSB project, conducted under the operational guidance of the U.S. Southern Command and the OSD Rapid Reaction Technology Office, will develop, test, and demonstrate a system of multiple autonomous surface vehicles to detect, monitor, and support interdiction of self-propelled semi-submersibles, used extensively by drug traffickers.  The system will consist of multiple “Wave Glider” vessels, small, wave-powered COTS crafts, which will be equipped with solar-power acoustic sensors, will be controlled by advanced collaborative autonomy software, and can remain on-station for up to one year.  This funding will complete the first two of three project phases -- developing and testing the vessel’s detection capabilities, and demonstrating the ability of IMSB vessels to collaborate and communicate with one another. 

Item Name:    Organic Submarine Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Target  Demonstration (ISRT OSAID)
Request:         $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:   Sea Corp, Middletown, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Sea Corp, Middletown, RI 
Purpose/Project Description:  Working with NAVSEA/NUWC, the purpose of this program is to design, build, and test an encapsulated UAV, about the size of a sonobuoy, which egresses from the submarine from the downward facing Trash Disposal Unit common on all submarines.  Additional funding will allow for a full scale submerged capsule deployment and UAV launches from a broached capsule, including a demonstration on a tactical submarine.  This project is expected to become a Navy program of record in FY12.  

Item Name:    3D Woven Preform Technology for Army Munitions Applications
Request:         $2,200,000                
Intended Recipient:  Textile Engineering & Manufacturing (TEAM), Woonsocket, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Textile Engineering & Manufacturing (TEAM),Woonsocket, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The Army has identified a need for the development and qualification of high performance ballistic material technologies that provide enhanced ballistic performance, that reduce weight, and are cost effective.  This program is developing three dimensional preform weaving technology to meet these goals.  Additional funding would allow test and evaluation of 3D preform woven designs for sabots, composite munitions subcomponents, and specialized armor materials. 

Item name:      Clean Lightweight Area Weapon (CLAW)
Request:           $5,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Textron Systems, Providence, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Textron Systems, Wilmington, MA
Purpose/Project Description:  Clean Lightweight Area Weapon (CLAW) has been in development for five years as an affordable and effective alternative to cluster munitions capable of meeting the guideline of no more than 1% unexploded ordnance (UXO).  In addition to replacing the CBU-87/103 weapons incapable of meeting the UXO, CLAW is designed to be ten times as effective as the CBU-87/103, resulting in fewer munitions needed for attack missions and minimizing threats to mission pilots.  This funding would be used to qualify the CLAW production design as a replacement for the CBU-87/103 inventory, leveraging existing hardware from the CBU-87/103, and replacing the hazardous BLU-97 bomblets with the CLAW submunitions.  The proposed effort would enable the Air Force to stay in front of the cluster weapons issue. 

Item Name:       High Energy Laser- Directed Energy Weapon
Request:            $8,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Textron Systems, Providence, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Textron Systems, Wilmington, MA
Purpose/Project Description: Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) power levels on the order of 100 kW will be achieved with Ceramic ThinZag laser development over the next two years.  However, the war-fighter needs a rapidly fielded, ruggedized, test device to efficiently evaluate the effectiveness of HEL (High Energy Laser) DEW’s under multiple scenarios, and to accelerate the transition from laboratory to battlefield environments.  The proposed effort will determine a configuration that produces significant power, in a more compact and rugged geometry, in order to get this emerging technology to the war-fighter under a very fast, cost effective schedule.  Additional funding would allow acceleration of construction, testing, and demonstrations of weapon effectiveness of a ~25kW ruggedized device based on the ceramic ThinZag HEL architecture.

Item Name:    Tactical RPG Airbag Protection System (TRAPS)
Request:         $10,000,000
Intended Recipient:  Textron Systems, Providence, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  Textron Systems, Wilmington, MA
Purpose/Project Description:  The Army has been pursuing alternative technologies, seeking to reduce the size and weight of military vehicles, making them more suitable for the off-road tactical environments of Afghanistan and Iraq.  TRAPS is one such alternative, a low cost and effective system capable of using commercial technologies to defeat the RPG with no harm to dismounted troops or adjacent vehicles.  This funding would enable final testing, qualification, vehicle integration, and transition to production.  This program would allow for the use of TRAPS on MRAP, M-ATV, and other tactical and combat vehicles. 

Item Name:    All Composite Lightweight Military Vehicle
Request:         $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:   TPI Composites, Warren, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: TPI Composites, Warren, RI 
Project Description:  Last year, TARDEC and private industry completed an R&D program that produced three all composite HMMWV-like vehicles. The vehicles contained no structural metal and reduced the curb weight by over a thousand pounds per HMMWV.  In the first quarter of 2009, two of the three vehicles will be tested for performance and durability at the Nevada Automotive Test Center. In addition to the production of composite HMMWVs, the program began an additional project to build a prototype lightweight composite vehicle for extreme off road driving and to create a vehicle that will bridge the gap between the HMMWV and other smaller, dune buggy type vehicles.  By the end of 2009, the Army will have a complete prototype of this smaller, armor ready composite vehicle that will allow for greater reconnaissance and other like type performance capabilities. Additional funding will allow for optimizing vehicle designs and producing additional prototypes that can be road tested and prepared for possible production. 

Item Name:      DoD USOC Paralympic Military Program
Request:           $10,000,000
Intended Recipient:  United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Colorado Springs, CO
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: National rehabilitation program used within DoD and VA facilities
Purpose/Project Description:  The focus of this program is for the USOC to utilize its national platform and network to provide Paralympic program extension and resources in support of rehabilitation within DoD and VA facilities.  This funding will develop programs exclusively focused on injured service members, providing these individuals with opportunities to participate in physical activity at the local, regional, and national levels.  This includes educational and communication tools and an individualized case-worker approach to ensure injured service members become connected with resources and programs within their local communities. 

Item Name:    Self-Inerting Munitions
Request:         $4,500,000
Intended Recipient:   University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI and Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., White Plains, NY
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:   University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  While unexploded ordnance is common in all munitions, it is particularly significant in the case of cluster munitions where the dud rate may be as high as 20 to 30%. While current efforts are focused on improving the reliability of the fuse and arming mechanisms, achieving the 99% performance certainty required by U.S. policy through this means alone is difficult.  The Self-Inerting Munitions program is developing technology that incorporates reactive micro-materials into existing explosive formulations.  When initiated, reactive materials irreversibly alter the energetic chemistry, rendering the explosive inert should the munition fail to detonate.  This funding will allow the continuation of field munitions use while eliminating the costs, risks, and hazards associated with detection, area clearance, and clean-up of the unexploded ordnances.   

Item Name:    Sensors for Terrorist IED Network Defeat
Request:         $4,200,000
Intended Recipient:  University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, PSI Andover, MA, and Raytheon IDS
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:  University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The purpose of this project is to develop a standoff IED detection tool to meet JIEDDO requirements.  Funding will be used to adapt a multispectral imaging technology now used to identify chemical threats by detecting IED signatures, develop a fieldable system, establish a testbed for the technology, and enable deployment to the field.

Item Name:    Waste Heat Powered Vehicle Air Conditioning
Request:         $3,500,000                
Intended Recipient:  University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  Military combat vehicles require cooling and currently Freon based cooling systems are being used for this purpose.  Because the Montreal Protocol requires the elimination of Freon based refrigerants starting in 2010, an environmentally benign alternative is needed.  The proposed system utilizes the unique properties of a hydrated aluminosilicate, commercially referred to as “Zeolite.”  The materials are capable of absorbing a variety of “working fluids,” including water, in the ambient temperature range and desorbing the fluid under pressure when heated.  The pressurized material expanded through an orifice will provide cooling in a conventional like system.  This funding would provide a demonstration model of this system.

Item Name:    Navy Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) Modernization Initiative
Request:         $2,500,000
Intended Recipient:     Zebra Technologies, Warwick, RI
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed: Zebra Technologies, Warwick, RI
Purpose/Project Description:   This Navy initiative will modernize supply and logistics structure with up-to-date AIT technology and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions.  This funding will allow the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) to implement the initial installations of a modernized AIT/RFID logistics tracking system to meet critical ordnance, afloat, and ashore needs.



Military Construction

Project Name: Naval Academy Preparatory School Training Support
Request:  $9,360,000
Recipient:  Navy
Project Location:       Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  This project will construct an addition underneath Building 440 (Perry Hall) to provide training support space for the Naval Academy Preparatory School.  Construction will connect the new and renovated spaces, enclose the open area along the north and south sides, create interior offices, and provide all required improvements in electrical, asbestos abatement, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning work. 

Project Name: Renovation of Senior Enlisted Academy
Request:  $10,550,000
Recipient:  Navy
Project Location: Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI 
Purpose/Project Description:  Building 1269CP (Tomich Hall), Coddington Point, at Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI is used exclusively, on a continuing basis, by the Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA).  This building functions as a berthing for SEA students, while also housing classrooms and administrative spaces.  These building improvements include replacement of the failed Exterior Insulation Finishing System, installation of an air-conditioning system throughout the building where none exists, and installation of fire sprinklers, fire and smoke detectors, and fire alarms to meet code.  These repairs will prevent the continued deterioration of the facility and ensure adequate living conditions for SEA students.

Project Name: Submarine Payloads Integration Laboratory
Request: $11,190,000
Recipient: Navy
Project Location: Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI
Purpose/Project Description:  The Submarine Payloads Integration Laboratory will be a two story addition to Building 1246.  This first floor will be a “Machine Shop” maintenance area and the second floor will be a “Multi-Purpose Administrative Facility.” Construction will include steel framing, concrete floor, insulated panel walls, metal roof deck, and single ply membrane roofing.  Built-in equipment will include a passenger elevator, rails for three overhead cranes, conduit and boxes for the electronic security systems and a roof hatch to be cut into the roof of building 1246.  Anti terrorism Force Protection measures include parking setbacks, annealed laminated glass, and protection of heating ventilation and air conditioning (NVAC) systems.  Information systems include telephone and computer network infrastructure as well as an NMCI Telecom Room.  The project includes sit development, and relocation of utilities, as well as some demolition costs.  This construction will expand operations at the existing facility at Building 123 and conduct software and logistics support from existing labs in building 1371.

Energy & Water Development

Block Island Harbor of Refuge
(Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $1,250,000
Location: Town of New Shoreham (Block Island), Rhode Island
The project will complete repairs to the bulkhead within the Block Island Harbor of Refuge, the subsistence harbor for Block Island, which is located about 13 miles offshore.  The Harbor’s 260-foot long east bulkhead located within the inner basin of the harbor was last repaired in 1970 and is currently in disrepair, jeopardizing the stability of the adjacent bank.  The proposed work includes replacing the steel sheet piling and stabilizing the bulkhead with a stone revetment fronting the structure.

Charlestown Breachway and Inlet
(Army Corps of Engineers – Section 107): Bill Language
Location: Charlestown, Rhode Island
Boulders at the mouth of Charlestown Breachway are a severe safety hazard to vessels attempting to enter or exit Ninigret Pond. The rocks create extra turbulence in the channel, making navigating around the rocks particularly difficult, especially when wave energy is high. There are on average 20 grounding incidents on the rocks each year, and severe damage causing complete loss of a boat occurs on average once every 10 years. While the damages from groundings are significant, town officials are most concerned with the potential for loss of life during a grounding accident in poor conditions.  This funding would go towards removing several large boulders from the mouth of the Charlestown Breachway that connects Ninigret Pond and the Block Island Sound.

Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, Rhode Island
(Army Corps of Engineers-Operation and Maintenance): $500,000
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Funding will support the operation and maintenance of the hurricane barrier located in Providence, Rhode Island. The barrier protects tens of thousands of people and approximately $5 billion worth of property. 

Fuel Cell Research, Brown University, Rhode Island
(DOE-Science): $2,300,000
Recipient: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island requests funding to support a partnership with Draper Laboratories of Cambridge, Massachusetts for research and development of a prototype fuel cell based on novel (non platinum) catalysts.  The goal of the project is to develop fuels cell that do not contain expensive or potentially toxic heavy metals.  The initial prototype device will have an output of less than one kilowatt to several kilowatts and may be scaled up to supply power to individual households.

Genetic Improvement of Switchgrass
(Department of Energy – EERE): $1,500,000
Recipient: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island seeks funding for continued research on the genetic improvement of switchgrass.  Funding will support the development of a system that allows the introduction of transgenes into switchgrass plants, which, when crossed, will produce hybrids that will germinate but never again produce flowers or seeds.  Besides refining the transgenic operating platform, funding will also support the development of technology that converts the cellulosic biomass to biofuel precursors or feedstocks (e.g., glucose). 

Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island
(Army Corps of Engineers-Operation and Maintenance): $200,000
Location: New Shoreham, Rhode Island
Funding will support the assessment and planning for the removal of 150,000 cubic yards of sediment from the federally-maintained navigation channel at Great Salt Pond on Block Island, Rhode Island.  Funding provided in Fiscal Year 2009 is being used to address the immediate shoaling, but more extensive dredging will be needed in the near future to provide a longer-term solution.

Little Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island) Dredging and Navigation Channel Relocation (Army Corps of Engineers – CAP Section 107): $100,000
Location: Westerly, Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) seeks funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to examine the feasibility of relocating the federal channel in Little Narragansett Bay.  With the requested funding, the Corps would conduct a feasibility study to examine the impacts associated with creating a federal channel at the location of an existing natural channel that cuts through the subtidal portion of the Sandy Point barrier spit. The channel formed when the barrier breached during the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 and has remained open since. The channel is thought to remain relatively free of sedimentation due to shoaling.

Narrow River Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project, Rhode Island
(Army Corps of Engineers – Section 206): $2,825,000
Location: Narragansett and South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Narrow River is a constricted and poorly flushed estuary.  Through funding provided by the Subcommittee in Fiscal Year 2008, the Corps of Engineers developed several alternatives to address high nutrient concentrations and the loss of fish and shellfish habitat in Narrow River.  A final feasibility report will be completed soon.  Additional funding will permit the Corps and the local sponsor, the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, to select, design, and implement a preferred restoration alternative.

Pawcatuck River and Little Narragansett Bay
(Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $200,000
Location: Westerly, Rhode Island
The funding will help complete an environmental assessment and prepare plans and specifications for maintenance dredging.  Once completed, the channel will support significant commercial and recreational vessel traffic, benefitting several marinas, boatyards, and commercial fishing vessels along the Pawcatuck River in both Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

Point Judith Federal Channel Expansion Study
(Army Corps of Engineers – Section 107): $250,000
Location: Point Judith, Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council seeks funding for an Army Corps of Engineer’s study of the benefit of extending the existing federal navigation project at Point Judith Pond and Harbor of Refuge.  The requested funds would allow the Corps to initiate a Section 107 feasibility study that would examine a modification of the existing federal navigation project at Point Judith Pond in Narragansett, Rhode Island.  The proposed project would provide an extension of the 15-foot Galilee channel northeasterly along the north bulkhead of the state-operated fishing port, and widen the existing channel. 

Point Judith Harbor of Refuge Federal Navigation Project (Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $300,000
Location: Point Judith, Rhode Island
The breakwater of the Point Judith Harbor of Refuge Federal Navigation Project protects navigation, provides critical shoreline protection, and is important to protecting the fishing fleet and surrounding area from the open ocean.  Portions of the breakwater have eroded and fallen into the ocean.  Furthermore, parts of the center breakwater are submerged at high tide, making navigation perilous.  Requested funding will be used for project planning and design for restoration and repair of the breakwater.

Providence Harbor Shipping Channel, Rhode Island (Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $300,000
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
The City of Providence, Rhode Island, requests funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct maintenance dredging of the Upper Providence River, part of the federally-maintained navigation channel.  This project will dredge and restore the navigability of one mile of the river in Downtown Providence and provide a permanent infrastructure to manage future siltation that currently flows into the Woonasquatucket River, the Moshassuck River, and the Providence River.

South Coastal Rhode Island Regional Sediment Management
(Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $750,000
Recipient:  Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, Wakefield, Rhode Island
Understanding the sediment management system through comprehensive study and mapping will allow for hazard reduction planning along the South Coast of Rhode Island.  Funding will be used for mapping efforts including bathymetric and sidescan sonar survey, sub-bottom profiling, extraction, and analyses of sediment cores to characterize the sediment characteristics and potential sand sources. The study will also include a review of the location and quantification of sediment sources and sinks, sediment transport characteristics, a quantification and interpretation of past shoreline changes, testing of techniques for assessing shoreline response to natural forces and human activity, ecosystem evaluation, and sea level rise impacts. 

Winnapaug Pond Restoration
(Army Corps of Engineers – Section 206): $1,250,000
Location: Westerly, Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council seeks funding to support the removal of sediment and planting of eelgrass to restore twelve acres of essential fish habitat where none exists today.  The project will benefit a number of commercially valuable species and stocks such as winter flounder, striped bass, bay scallop, mussel, and lobster.  Additionally, sediment from the project will be discharged onto public beaches and will create wider beaches for recreational users, as well as storm protection for the public structures and infrastructure at Misquamicut State Beach and the New Town Beach in Westerly.

Woonsocket Local Protection Project
(Army Corps of Engineers – Operation and Maintenance): $200,000
Location: Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Federal funding will support the operation and maintenance of the federal flood protection project in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.  The project provides protection to about one-half of the industrial properties in the City of Woonsocket, as well as homes, commercial establishments, extensive transportation facilities, and public utilities.