CONGRESS PASSES 2008 DEFENSE SPENDING BILL

Excerpt from larger article I can't link to...

CRITICAL DEFENSE RESEARCH

$1.6 million for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This funding will develop unique operational concepts for unmanned aerial systems to meet the demands for both military and civilian applicants.

$3.2 million to continue the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which examines the properties and behaviors of the ionosphere. Research will enhance military and civilian communications and surveillance systems.

$4 million to Arctic Regional Supercomputer located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This funding will enhance research into high-performance computational science and machine/human interactions.

$1.6 million to the University of Alaska for purchasing automotive research equipment. Funding will assist the Army by providing equipment needed to measure the performance, energy consumption, and safety of military vehicles.

$1.6 million to hibernation genomics projects at the University of Alaska. These studies will help develop new models for preventing and treating trauma from injury and ischemia for battlefield conditions.

$20 million to the Expeditionary Craft to support an Office of Naval Research effort to construct a vehicle to demonstrate advanced transport technologies.

$1.6 million for the University of Alaska to study technologies for reala"time identification of airborne threats in the form of chemical, radiological and biological compounds...

The rest of the stuff is rather interesting, but notice the red...This is what a recent RS article was delving into...really interesting stuff, worth looking into so you don't hear it from someone's who's eyes are too dialated, untz untz...like the new posts