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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27, 2008
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Contact: Zach Goldberg
202-225-5801 (office) |
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HOLT SECURES $13.4 MILLION FOR FORT MONMOUTH
IN CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING BILL
President Expected to Sign Bill That Includes Holt’s
Request to Fund War Capability Efforts at Fort Monmouth
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(Washington, D.C.) – Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) announced today that Congress has approved a federal defense budget that includes his request for $13.44 million in new funding for communications and intelligence programs and activities at Fort Monmouth. Holt requested the funding earlier this year and worked to get it included in the final bill, which passed both the House and Senate and is expected to be signed by the President.
“While we continue to fight to overturn the misguided decision to close Fort Monmouth, we must ensure that the men and women at the Fort receive the resources needed to continue supporting the high-quality communications and intelligence programs that are so important to troops on the front lines,” Holt said.
The $13.44 million in new federal funding will strengthen existing intelligence and communications programs at Fort Monmouth. Included in the bill is:
$2.8 million for both communications and non-communications electronic counter-measures (ECM) programs. These programs are designed to help distinguish friendly from enemy ECM emissions, and to improve the survivability of aviation platforms, ground combat vehicles, and dismounted forces.
$4 million for new counter-improvised explosive device (IED) programs to meet both short and long-term threats.
$2.4 million for a new electronic warfare simulator to help improve and hasten the development and fielding of software and hardware upgrades needed to protect Army helicopters from current and emerging air defense threats.
$2 million to speed the development of a high definition video compression and encoding technology that will improve the Army’s video intelligence collection and analysis capabilities.
$1.6 million for critical information assurance programs, which help to ensure that information on Army computer systems and networks remain reliable and resistant to enemy information warfare attacks.
$640,000 for other key command, control, and communications (C3) technology programs.
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