Project Title: 2.0kW Stirling Tactical Cogeneration
System (STaCS)
Recipient: Infinia Corporation
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Kennewick, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to further develop a small, low maintenance engine for the Army that uses solar power to simultaneously produce hot water and electricity for troops in the field.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in central Washington, this would improve field conditions and safety for warfighters by allowing them to generate hot water and electricity more reliably, efficiently and quietly.
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Project Title: Advanced Ground Electronics
Warfare and Signals Intelligence System
Recipient: Agilent Technologies
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding would continue development of an advanced electronic jamming device for the Army to detect and neutralize a wide spectrum of threats.
Importance: This would help keep servicemembers safe in a time of war by allowing them to counter roadside bombs and other electronic threats more effectively.
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Project Title: Advancing iPSC Technology for
Regenerative Medicine Therapies to
Treat Combat Injuries
Recipient: FATE Therapeutics,
Inc.
Amount: $3,400,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop regenerative medicines for the Army to treat traumatic combat injuries, such as blindness, deafness, and tissue loss.
Importance: This would advance safe and effective therapies for serious injuries sustained by soldiers in combat for which there are currently little or no treatment options.
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Project Title: Advanced Maritime
Technology Center (AMTC) Research and
Development Riverine Command Boat (RCB) Craft
Recipient: SAFE Boats International, LLC
Amount: $5,400,000
Location: Port Orchard, WA
Project Description: This funding would provide the Navy with a Riverine Command Boat (RCB) to train forces for deployment and to test mission-critical command and control technology.
Importance: This would provide an essential pre-deployment training platform for our troops, and improve testing of new technologies to aid in the prevention of friendly fire, reduce collateral damage to civilians in conflict zones, improve response time for close air support and speed the evacuation of wounded troops.
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Project Title: Advanced Medical Training
and Technology Platform
Recipient: Seattle Science Foundation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: The funding will enable the Andersen Simulation Center at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) to use the Seattle Science Foundation’s (SSF) advanced training and technology platform to support MAMC’s medical education and training programs.
Importance: This would enable military medical personnel to connect with remote military installations nationwide and around the globe. The collaboration will enhance training opportunities and networking for military physicians, nurses, and medics worldwide.
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Project Title: Advanced Naval Sustainment
and Reset
Recipient: National Center for
Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS)
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Bremerton, WA
Purpose: This funding would improve maintenance and repair technologies at Navy Region Northwest installations, allowing for quicker and more efficient repair and recapitalization of Navy ships, submarines, and aircraft.
Importance: This would help ensure that the Navy’s critical assets are available to meet national security objectives, and save money through cheaper and quicker repairs.
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Project Title: Advanced Power Efficient
Microdisplay for US Army Night Vision
(NVESD)
Recipient: eMagin Corporation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Bellevue, WA
Purpose: This funding will develop low power, high performance microdisplay devices for the Army to use with advanced digital sensors and other critical technologies.
Importance: This technology would improve visibility for warfighters in obscured field conditions, enhancing their situational awarenss and helping keep them safe in complex battlefield scenarios.
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Project Title: afterdeployment.org
Virtual Agent Technology Pilot Program
Recipient: Next IT Corporation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would expand the ability of servicemembers, veterans and their families to obtain information about the psychological and emotional effects of deployment by implementing virtual agent technology on the afterdeployment.org website.
Importance: The program will improve access for servicemembers, veterans and their families to tools that will help them readjust to life after deployment.
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Project Title: Airborne Electronic Attack
(AEA) Technology, Doctrine, and Tactics
Development
Recipient: Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc.
Amount: $2,200,000
Location: Oak Harbor, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the
Navy to develop sophisticated procedures and tactics for electronic
warfare, with a focus on the new Growler electronic attack aircraft.
Importance: This would improve electronic
warfare skills and help the U.S. military maintain its competitive edge
in a critical branch of modern warfare.
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Project Title: Army Chinook Helicopter
UID (Unique Item Identification) Park Marking Expansion Project
Recipient: ID Integration, Inc.
Amount: $3,210,000
Location: Mukilteo, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army to acquire critical equipment to track CH-47 Chinook helicopter assets for better maintenance.
Importance: This would enhance logistical efficiency and repair operations for the CH-47 fleet by allowing Army personnel to quickly access information about installed parts.
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Project Title: Cockpit Modification with
New Materials for Advanced Sensor
Integration
Recipient: Esterline Control Systems - Korry
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding would improve effectiveness of pilot operations in the cockpit by providing improved night time situational awareness and vision.
Importance: As well as supporting jobs in northwest Washington, this funding would advance night vision technology, help the U.S. regain its night vision dominance, and ultimately increase the safety and effectiveness of U.S. pilots.
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Project Title: Common Digital Sensor
Architecture Program (CDSA)
Recipient: Applied Technical Systems,
Inc.
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Silverdale, WA
Purpose: This funding will develop a software solution with a common interface, robust data analysis capabilities, and ship-to-shore distance support facilities to improve the operational availability of Navy radars.
Importance: This would greatly reduce lifecycle costs of Navy radar systems and save the money for the taxpayer.
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Project Title: Corrosion and Crack
Detection and Visualization Program
Recipient: Quest Integrated
Amount: $3,200,000
Location: Kent, WA
Purpose: This funding would use magneto-optic imaging technology to detect hard-to-access corrosion on Air Force fighter planes.
Importance: This funding would allow quicker and more effective maintenance on aging fighter planes, lowering costs and improving pilot safety.
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Project Title: Environmentally Sustainable
Combat Vehicle Fire Suppression Agent and
Delivery System
Recipient: Aerojet General Corporation
Amount: $800,000
Location: Redmond, WA
Purpose: This funding would modify a proven water-based fire suppression system for use in Army combat vehicles.
Importance: This funding would protect soldiers in the field by suppressing the vehicle fires which may lead to severe burns and other injuries.
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Project Title: Epigenetic Disease Research
or Epigenetic Biomarkers for Military Personnel Environmental
Exposures and Health
Recipient: Washington State
University
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army to better understand how genetic and environmental factors interact to affect the health and well-being of soldiers.
Importance: This would help the military to identify what makes military personnel ill or unhealthy, and to minimize environmental conditions which worsen preexisting problems.
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Project Title: Expansion of Existing ICAS
Vibration Monitoring System Program
Recipient: AzimaDLI
Amount: $4,200,000
Location: Poulsbo, WA
Purpose: This funding would install a real-time monitoring system on Navy Destroyers to allow sailors to repair machinery more quickly and cost-effectively.
Importance: This would enhance the Navy’s operational effectiveness and present significant operations and maintenance costs savings.
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Project Title: FASTinfo: Patient Status
Monitor
Recipient: Pyng Medical USA
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Kirkland, WA
Purpose: This funding would design and develop a light-weight integrated health monitoring device for the Army.
Importance: This would improve the ability of Army medical personnel to triage and treat victims in the event of a mass casualty incident.
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Project Title: FRCSW ASM Implementation
(Fleet Readiness Center South West –
Advanced Skills Management)
Recipient: Paladin Data Systems
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Poulsbo, WA
Purpose: This funding would continue and expand the use of a centralized, web-based system allowing Navy and Marine aviation personnel to track their qualifications, certifications, and licenses.
Importance: This would enhance operational efficiency by allowing commanders to assess the readiness of military personnel for required missions and save the taxpayer money by allowing the military to utilize qualified personnel more efficiently.
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Project Title: Fuel and Energy Laboratory
at the Institute for Shock Physics/Applied Sciences Laboratory at WSU
Recipient: Washington State
University - Spokane/ReliOn
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would help establish a Fuel and Energy Laboratory at WSU’s Institute for Shock Physics/Applied Research Laboratory. This Lab would apply leading edge surface chemistry, catalysis, and material science to develop alternative energy sources for sustainable energy and transportation systems for the Navy.
Importance: This would develop new ways of providing energy for the military and help the Navy meet its renewable energy requirements.
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Project Title: Hearing
Restoration through Cellular Regeneration
Recipient: Sound
Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Amount: $3,500,000
Location: Seattle,
WA
Project Description: This funding would allow further studies and testing on critical hearing restoration therapies for the Army.
Importance: Hearing loss is a permanent and progressive disease which affects many servicemembers. Restoring hearing in military personnel would improve servicemember health, quality of life, productivity, and reduce disability costs.
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Project Title: In-Space Solar Electric
Resource Transport Development
Recipient: Aerojet General
Corporation
Amount: $1,600,000
Location: Redmond, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop high-power solar electric propulsion systems, leveraging recent dramatic improvements in ultra-lightweight solar array technology, to place, reposition and service heavier payload Air Force spacecraft.
Importance: This would use cutting-edge technology to reduce satellite weight and fuel consumption, allowing them to carry larger payloads at less cost to the taxpayer.
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Project Title: Low Cost - High Wear
Transformation Polymer Materials for Military Assets
Recipient: Dyco Industries Inc.
Amount: $1,278,000
Location: Woodland, WA
Purpose: This funding would advance research on transformational polymer materials for the Army.
Importance: This would potentially provide the Army with durable and cost-effective synthetic polymer materials for use in a wide range of Army equipment such as tank track pads and other vehicle components.
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Project Title: Madigan Army Medical Center
Trauma Assistance Program
Recipient: Tacoma Trauma Trust (TTT)
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide military medical personnel at Madigan Army Medical Center with critical trauma care experience in local hospitals and also expand trauma treatment for military beneficiaries and civilians in the region.
Importance: In addition to lowering the cost and improving the quality of health care for local residents, this would help deployed military doctors provide the best possible care to wounded warfighters.
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Project Title: Miniature Advanced
Multi-band Sensor for Unmanned Vehicles
Recipient: Trident Systems
Incorporated
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop multi-band radar for small Unmanned Vehicles for the Army to simultaneously conduct operations in multiple radar bands in the field.
Importance: This would help keeps troops in the field safe by providing an improved radar system with all-weather general surveillance and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection capabilities.
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Project Title: National Guard CST/CBRNE
Enhanced Response Force Package Sustainment Training and Evaluation
Program (CST/CERFP STEP)
Recipient: Volpentest HAMMER Training
and Education Center
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Richland, WA
Purpose: This funding would bring specialized National Guard teams from across the country to the Volpentest HAMMER Center in Richland, where they would receive critical hands-on training in responding to potential Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incidents.
Importance: This would boost the National Guard’s WMD response capabilities, addressing the 2008 Commission on the National Guard and Reserve finding that the U.S. “does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available” for WMD incident response.
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Project Title: National Guard Employment
Enhancement Project (NGEEP)
Recipient: Washington Military
Department
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Camp Murray, Washington
Purpose: To expand the National Guard Yellow Ribbon program by providing employment assistance such as pre-apprenticeships, short-term training, and certification and testing fees to Washington National Guard members.
Importance: With more than 14 percent of Washington Army National Guard currently unemployed, it is more important than ever to address gaps in federal, state, and private sectors employment assistance programs. By enhancing the skills sets and employability of National Guard members, this funding would benefit Washington State employers and the economy as well as Washington State National Guard members and their families.
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Project Title: National Tidal Energy Test
Platform
Recipient: University of Washington
(UW)
Amount: $ 4,700,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would establish a world-class tidal energy test platform to accelerate research and development of tidal energy for the Navy.
Importance: This would expand research into the potential use of tidal energy to help the Navy meet its renewable energy requirements in a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly manner.
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Project Title: Navy Automatic
Identification Technology (AIT) Logistics Modernization Initiative
Recipient: Intermec Technologies
Corporation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding would modernize the
Navy’s supply chain management using portable computer technology.
Importance: This would improve the Navy’s supply and logistics system, thereby lowering costs, increasing accountability, and improving the flow of goods and materials to the sailor.
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Project Title: Next Generation
Leishmaniasis Drug Development
Recipient: Seattle Biomedical
Research Institute (Seattle BioMed)
Amount: $2,300,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would research long-term cures for the parasitic illness leishmaniasis, which has affected over 1,600 servicemembers since 2003. Current treatments take months to complete, yet still leave the patient infected with the parasite.
Importance: This would improve medical care for military personnel and reduce the costs of providing long-term chronic disease management for servicemembers who suffer from leishmaniasis as a result of service abroad.
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Project Title: Non-Lethal Portable Vehicle
Immobilization Device (NLPVID) for Large
Vehicles
Recipient: General Dynamics – OTS Seattle
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA and Moses Lake, WA
Purpose: This funding would complete the development and qualification for the Army of the Non-Lethal Portable Vehicle Immobilization Device (NLPVID) to immobilize potentially dangerous large vehicles.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in central and western Washington, this would meet the critical need to provide non-lethal protection against Large Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices in Afghanistan to protect servicemembers and civilians.
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Project Title: Northwest Manufacturing
Initiative (NMI)
Recipient: Manufacturing 21 Coalition
Amount: $2,550,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding would support a coalition of over 100 private, non-profit and public entities in Oregon and Washington that work to support and expand the Northwest’s highly diverse manufacturing sector, in order to provide high quality, lower cost products for the Department of Defense.
Importance: In addition to providing valuable vocational training to the manufacturing workforce of southwest Washington, this would strengthen the manufacturing base regionally ensuring the Pacific Northwest meets the Department of Defense’s equipment needs.
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Project Title: On-Chip Integrated Photonic
Polymer Transceiver
Recipient: Gigoptix
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Bothell, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop cutting edge photonic modulator technology for the Air Force’s high frequency, high bandwidth systems. Current technologies are physically too large and energy-intensive to sustain the anticipated levels of bandwidth growth in coming years.
Importance: This would continue important research into faster, smaller, and more energy efficient power and communications systems, to provide accurate, timely information to airmen and help the Air Force maintain its edge in the air.
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Project Title: Open Source Worldwide Naval
Shipbuilding Cost Projections Database
Recipient: AMI International
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Bremerton, WA
Purpose: This program will provide the Navy with analysis and comparative cost data for past and current naval surface vessel international shipbuilding programs.
Importance: The Open Source Worldwide Naval Shipbuilding Cost Projections Database will be an invaluable tool in assisting the U.S. Navy to develop more timely and accurate shipbuilding cost estimates, reduce shipbuilding costs, and save money.
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Project Title: Pacific Rim Blood Alliance
Perfect Match Program
Recipient: Puget Sound Blood Center
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This program would expand the Perfect Match Program, which works to increase the diversity of the blood donor population to expand the availability of well-matched blood supplies.
Importance: This would increase the diversity of the blood supply available to the Army to ensure that the Army’s blood supply is sufficient to meet the medical contingencies of all soldiers.
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Project Title: Peer Reviewed Medical
Research Program in the Defense Health
Program
Recipient: N/A
Amount: N/A
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding, awarded by competitive grant, would allow the U.S. military to research illnesses which affect both servicemembers and civilians alike.
Importance: This would improve the quality of health care for both servicemembers and civilians through expanded research into diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Gulf War Illness, Tinnitus, Military Burn Trauma, Mesothelioma, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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Project Title: Positron Capture and
Storage
Recipient: Washington State
University
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would expand Army
research into positrons, a high-density, highly-concentrated
non-nuclear energy source.
Importance: This would advance cutting-edge research with potential applications in fields ranging from space travel to medical diagnostics.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Baseline
Monitoring/Intrusion Detection System
Recipient: BioSonics, Inc.
Amount: $3,500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would further develop the scientific monitoring systems necessary to conduct baseline aquatic species assessment studies at potential Navy tidal energy development sites within the Puget Sound region.
Importance: This would help the Navy meet its renewable energy requirement while protecting marine life in Puget Sound.
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Project Title: Rapid Casting Technology for
Naval Castings
Recipient: Ex One Company, LLC
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Bremerton, WA
Purpose: This funding would transition sand casting technology to digital casting technology to produce metal castings for Navy parts more efficiently and quickly.
Importance: This would expand the castings supply network, reduce lead times, improve quality, and decrease costs for the Navy.
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Project Title: Scalable Open Architecture
Upgradeable Reliable Computing
Environment (SOURCE)
Recipient: Progeny Systems
Corporations
Amount: $5,100,000
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop commercial-sourced hardware for critical IT systems on Navy submarines.
Importance: This would address one of the Navy’s top unfunded priorities using cost-effective, reliable versions of commercial hardware.
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Project Title: Scleral Healing and Bone
Repair with Sphere-templated (6S)
Polymers
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $1,687,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Project Description: This funding would advance critical research for the Army on a new biomaterial for saving traumatized eyes and restoring sight after corneal injuries.
Importance: This would allow cutting-edge medical research into new biotechnologies to address battlefield injuries affecting our servicemembers.
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Project Title: Small Agile Tactical
Spacecraft (SATS)
Recipient: Andrews Space, Inc.
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Tukwila, WA
Purpose: The Small Agile Tactical Spacecraft (SATS) program would develop and demonstrate a low-cost nanospacecraft for the Army capable of providing detailed imagery from space and beaming that imagery directly into the field.
Importance: This would provide critical “real time” Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and communications capabilities to troops deployed around the world, maximizing warfighting effectiveness for our troops in the field.
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Project Title: The Advanced Amphibious
Transportation Lifting and Storage System
(AATLAS)
Recipient: Sunstream Corporation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Kent, WA
Project Description: This funding would provide the Navy with a single system for on-water dry storage, launch, recovery, transportation and yard storage of Navy craft.
Importance: This would address the Navy requirement for safer, more efficient handling and storage of small craft both in and out of the water, and would extend the life of Navy small craft.
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Project Title: The Biological and
Chemical Warfare Online Repository of Technical Holdings 2 System
(BACWORTH2)
Recipient: Battelle Northwest
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Toppenish, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide access to comprehensive, detailed data on chemical and biological warfare to Department of Defense analysts.
Importance: This would allow military analysts to better understand threats posed to our country and its citizens by Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Project Title: Tidal Turbine Composite
Structure Qualification
Recipient: Renewable Energy Composite
Solutions, LLC (RECS)
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding would support the research and development of composite components for a kinetic hydropower system at the Navy tidal energy demonstration site in the Puget Sound.
Importance: This would help the Navy meet its renewable energy requirement while demonstrating the durability of composite components for a kinetic hydropower system.
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Project Title: Understanding Increased Risk
of Preterm Birth and Stillbirth in a Post-Combat Setting
Recipient: Global Alliance for the
Prevention of Prematurity & Stillbirth (GAPPS) - Seattle Children’s
Hospital
Amount: $3,900,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would improve the military’s understanding of how a post-combat environment affects female servicemembers who were deployed in these conditions and later became pregnant.
Importance: This would expand diagnostics, therapeutics and other medical innovations for female servicemembers, and thereby improve maternal health and birth outcomes, and reduce prematurity and stillbirths.
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Project Title: Universal Freeze Dried Blood
Plasma for Battlefield Use
Recipient: HemCon
Amount: $4,600,000
Location: Portland, OR
Purpose: This funding would further the development of universal freeze dried plasma, which Army medics in the field may use to assist injured soldiers regardless of blood type.
Importance: This would provide Army medical personnel with a vital new medical tool to provide better battlefield care to soldiers and help save the lives of injured troops in the field.
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Project Title: U.S. Special Operations
Forces (SOF) Modular Glove System
Recipient: Outdoor Research
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) with advanced, adaptable gloves which function across a spectrum of weather conditions while preserving user dexterity and comfort.
Importance: This would help protect Special Operations Forces personnel from extreme weather conditions and enhance their ability to carry out wartime missions.
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Project Title: Vaccine Stabilization
Initiative
Recipient: PATH
Amount: $3,200,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop a needle-free vaccine platform to help ensure vaccines can be delivered in a timely and efficient manner to servicemembers in the field.
Importance: This would allow the Armed Forces to deliver vaccines to servicemembers more reliably, safely, and at a lower cost.
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Project Title: VIGILANT SENTINEL IED Detect
/Defeat Technology
Recipient: Camber Corporation
Amount: $1,400,000
Location: Richland, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop advanced multispectral video technology for the Air Force to detect and track Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the field.
Importance: This would help keep servicemembers safe by identifying roadside bombs and monitoring the combat environment for signs of bomb threats.
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Project Title: Washington Army National
Guard Emergency/Disaster Public Safety Aviation Equipment - Star SAFIRE
II Thermal Imaging Systems
Recipient: Washington Military
Department
Amount: $1,800,000
Location: Joint Base Lewis-McChord,
WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the
Washington National Guard to acquire critical thermal imaging systems
for its helicopters.
Importance: This would improve the Washington National Guard’s ability to respond to natural or manmade disasters, perform search and rescue missions and fulfill its mission to protect lives and property in Washington state.
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Project Title: Washington Army National
Guard Emergency/Disaster Public Safety Aviation Equipment - External
Rescue Hoists for CH-47s
Recipient: Washington Military
Department
Amount: $570,000
Location: Joint Base Lewis-McChord,
WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the
Washington National Guard to acquire rescue hoists for its helicopters.
Importance: This would improve the Washington National Guard’s ability to respond to natural or manmade disasters, perform search and rescue missions, and fulfill its mission to protect lives and property in Washington state.
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Project Title: Washington Army National
Guard Emergency/Disaster Public Safety Aviation Equipment - Digital
Downlink Systems
Recipient: Washington Military
Department
Amount: $345,000
Location: Joint Base Lewis-McChord,
WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the
Washington National Guard to acquire live video transmission systems
for its helicopters.
Importance: This would improve the Washington National Guard’s ability to respond to natural or manmade disasters, perform search and rescue missions, and fulfill its mission to protect lives and property in Washington state.
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Project Title: Western Regional
Counterdrug Training Center
Recipient: Washington Military
Department
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Camp Murray, WA
Purpose: This funding would support a counterdrug prevention, detection, and interdiction training center at the Army National Guard installation at Camp Murray.
Importance: This world-class, multi-use training and education center offers vital training to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement officers to provide them with the skills needed to protect communities in Washington state and across the nation from illegal narcotics trafficking and the threat of narcoterrorism.
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Project Title: Wounded Warrior Careers
Demonstration Program
Recipient: National Organization on
Disability (NOD)
Amount: $710,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would accelerate the return to self-sufficiency for the most severely wounded disabled soldiers through proactive career counseling and employment services.
Importance: This would improve and expand critical employment transition services for wounded warriors.