Senator Clinton Announces Millions of Dollars for Defense Projects to Benefit New York
Funding for New York in the FY 2007 Department of Defense (DOD) Authorization bill includes:
* $2.5 million for Benet Labs’ Rarefaction Wave Gun
* $12.4 million for Lightweight 155-mm Towed Howitzer which has its cannon assembly manufactured at Watervliet Arsenal
* $1.5 million for Source Sentinel – Detection of Biological Agents in Water
* $1.5 million for Rome-ITT – Masint Warfighter Tools
* $5 million for Lockheed Martin Radar Systems- AN/TPS-59 Low Earth Orbit Satellite (LEOS) Tracking
* $6.6 million in Military Construction funding for NEADS Support Facility’s Phase II construction
* $21.9 million in Military Construction funding from the President’s Budget for Camp Smith Readiness Center
* $1.8 million in Military Construction funding from the President’s Budget for Stewart – USMCR Aviation Support Equipment Shop
* $3 million in Defense and Military Construction funding for ATK Alliant Techsystems’ Scramjet Research
* $3 million for Portal Dynamics’ Aviation/Missile Life Cycle Management Command Integrated Digital Environment Pilot Program at Fort Drum
* $248 million in Military Construction funding from the President’s Budget for Fort Drum
* $9.7 million in funding from the President’s Budget for the ANG Queensbury Readiness Center
* $3 million for General Motors’ Next Generation Non-Tactical Vehicle Propulsion Project
* $3.6 million for Icuiti’s Wearable Hyperspectral Imaging System
* $8 million for RIT’s Defense Sustainment and Modernization Initiative
* $3 million for SUNY Binghamton – Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing Center
* $28 million for one additional MH -60R Helicopter – Lockheed Martin Owego is prime contractor on the common cockpit for the MH-60R
* $112 million for eight additional MH-60S Helicopters – Lockheed Martin Owego is prime contractor on the common cockpit for the MH-60S
* $682 million from the President’s Budget for Lockheed Martin Owego’s VH 71A Project
* $5.2 million in federal funds for Carwell Products' Army Corrosion Prevention and Control program and $5 million for their Marine Corps Corrosion Prevention and Control program
* $3.5 million for CUBRC – Lens X Hypervelocity Ground Testing
* $7.8 million in Military Construction funding retained from the President’s Budget for the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station
May 6, 2006
http://clinton.senate.gov/features/defense/index.cfm$2.5 million for Benet Labs’ Rarefaction Wave Gun
Rarefaction Wave Gun
If engineers could figure out how to uncork the breech and feed the gases from the gun chamber through a rocket nozzle after the
bullet had begun its motion down the barrel what would happen? Because of the key role of the rarefaction wave, this kind of gun has
been named the RArefaction waVE guN or RAVEN. It was patented in October 2002 and assigned to the U.S. Army. No other known
technologies reduce barrel heating by 40 percent. This was experimentally demonstrated, and is the direct consequence of getting the
hot propellant gases out of the barrel before the bullet has even left the muzzle. This would enable a 70 percent increase in the
sustained fire rate and a 70 percent increase in the number of burst-fire shots. Reduction of recoil momentum by 61 percent exceeds
that achievable by a muzzle brake. Since recoil stroke is proportional to the square of momentum, this would allow an 85 percent
reduction in recoil stroke of the cannon.
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