Fort Riley

• $1 million for Parents as Teachers/Heroes at Home. This important program provides assistance to military families by providing instructional assistance to parents of pre-school children, and is currently in place at both Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth.

Fort Leavenworth

• $1.3 million for the Adaptive Command and Control Team Training Program at Fort Leavenworth. This important program provides Army units with command and control and team coordination training scenarios. This program addresses the full spectrum of combat operations and is an important tool for our service members preparing to deploy overseas.
• $2.73 million for Maximizing Open Source in Foreign Intelligence Studies at Fort Leavenworth. As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Roberts strongly supports efforts to develop and maintain open source intelligence training and databases. The Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth plays an important role in providing relevant open source intelligence support.

  McConnell AFB

  • $5 million for additional equipment for the 161^st Intelligence Squadron at McConnell AFB. The procurement of this equipment will expand the ability of the 161^st Intelligence Squadron in the Kansas Air National Guard to staff, train, and equip for critical intelligence support operations.
  • $1 million for the Air National Guard Network Operations and Security Center at McConnell AFB. This center plays an important role in information security operations for the Air Force and the Air National Guard.

    Kansas National Guard

    • $2.85 million for an Advanced Turbine Engine Army Maintenance Dynamometer for the Kansas Army National Guard. These funds will replace an aging M1A1 Tank engine dynamometer, allowing the program to more than double its engine rebuild capacity in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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University of Kansas

• $1.3 million for a new Rail Sensor Test Bed program at the University of Kansas. This project supports the real-time detection, identification, and assessment of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats to the United States. The University of Kansas is contributing to the development of an exciting new rail test bed in Kansas City.

Wichita State University

• $4 million for Inspection and Analysis Methods for Aging Military Aircraft program at Wichita State University. The Aging Aircraft Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University is involved in several U.S. Air Force programs assisting with investigations for maintaining the structural integrity and airworthiness of aging aircraft fleets.
• $2 million for Next Generation Ice Protection Technologies for UAV’s. These funds will address current UAV in-flight, ice protection shortfalls. Research contributing to this project is conducted at Wichita State University.
• $1 million for Materials Integrity Management Research for Air Force Systems. These funds will address the development of sensors to monitor the health of aging military aircraft. The Air Force is leading the effort in developing this technology to address important aging issues with the current fleet.

  Pittsburg State

  • $1 million for the Multifunctional Materials for Naval Structures program at Pittsburg State University. These funds are used to study and develop radar transparent, flame retardant, corrosion resistant, impact resistant and self-repairing advanced structural materials for the Navy.

    Wichita

    • $2.6 million for Composite Small Main Rotor Blades. These funds support the design, development, certification and production of composite rotor blades that will replace the current metal blades on the A/MH-6 Little Bird helicopter. Plastic Fabricating Company in Wichita leads these efforts.
    • $305 million for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) for the Air Force. Raytheon Aircraft, Wichita, manufactures the aircraft, utilized in the initial phase of military pilot training.
    • $146 million for JPATS for the Navy.
    • $577 million for the procurement of UH-60 ‘Black Hawk’ Helicopters. Plastic Fabricating Company and Excel Manufacturing Incorporated, Wichita, manufacture components for the UH-60 helicopter.
    • $631.6 million for the Airborne Laser (ABL) Missile Defense System. Boeing conducts significant work on the ABL at their Wichita facility, where the aircraft is currently undergoing the laser integration process.
    • $1.1 billion for the Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA). Boeing is an important partner in the MMA program.
    • $10.2 million for the procurement of additional Civil Air Patrol (CAP) aircraft. Cessna, in Wichita, manufactures the CAP aircraft.
    • $4.1 million for an additional aircraft for the Golden Knights, the elite Army parachute team. Cessna produces the aircraft.
    • $4 million for Life Support Radio Test Sets. The test sets are manufactured by Aeroflex in Wichita, Kansas.

Manhattan/Junction City

• $1 million for Nanocrystalline Solid Decontamination Technology. NanoScale, in Manhattan, Kansas, will use these funds to support the development and optimization of a dry powder chemical decontamination system that will have numerous applications to improve war-fighter protection and decontamination capabilities.
• $43 million in educational aid to local school districts affected by the assignment or location of military families, including $30 million for Impact Aid, $5 million for educational services to severely disabled children, and $8 million for districts experiencing rapid increases in the number of students due to BRAC, including Fort Riley.

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