Washington, DC – April 2, 2009 – U.S. Representative Mike Doyle announced today that he had requested federal funding for a number of initiatives in Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District.

“The federal government has an important role to play in promoting the economic health of our region, and part of my job is to serve as an advocate for my constituents in Congress,” Congressman Doyle observed.  “What’s more, our region’s leadership in a number of important fields means that we have an important role to play in achieving vital national goals.  Consequently, it is essential that I work to secure federal funds to address pressing local needs and to promote initiatives that will benefit the nation as a whole.  All of the requests that I have submitted meet one or both of these goals.”

Congressman Doyle submitted the following requests for Fiscal Year 2010 federal funding to the House Appropriations Committee, the House committee that writes the annual bills that provide funding for all of the federal government’s operations.  These requests are broken down by Appropriations bill and account within each bill.  All of these requests are being reviewed by the House Appropriations Committee and the appropriate federal department or agency.  There is no guarantee that any of these project requests will be funded.

FY2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill Requests

Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Funds support juvenile justice activities targeting at-risk youth, such as youth gang prevention, juvenile mentoring, and juvenile crime prevention. 

KidsVoice, Inc. -- Child Advocacy Program
Frick Building, 437 Grant Street, Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$500,000 -- KidsVoice is the sole provider of child advocacy services in the child welfare system of Allegheny County. Each year, KidsVoice represents nearly 5,000 abused, neglected, and at-risk children.  By assigning both an attorney and a social service professional to each child, KidsVoice draws upon the combined expertise and training of professional staff from different disciplines to develop uniquely tailored recommendations regarding which placement and services might create better possibilities of success for each child and family.  This funding would be used to continue this advocacy.  

Safety Kids Inc. -- S.T.A.R. Community Safety Program
10460 Frankstown Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15235 
$135,000 -- The Stand Together, Act Responsibly (S.T.A.R.) Community Safety Program works to help make children, schools and communities safer while helping to prevent and avoid violence and criminal behavior. Funding would be used to provide additional personal safety programs for children and parenting seminars for adults, expand curriculum and other educational materials, provide training to law enforcement and teachers in safety issues, and build awareness about personal safety for children.

United Way – Youth Futures Commission
PO Box 735
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15230
$1,000,000 -- This funding would be used to prevent youth violence in the Pittsburgh region, by advocating for tougher law enforcement along with intervention and community mobilization. 

Department of Justice, Community Orientated Policing Services, Law Enforcement Technology
Funds assist law enforcement agencies in enhancing public safety through the implementation of community policing strategies.  COPS does so by providing training to law enforcement officers; encouraging development of community driven initiatives to prevent crime; increasing the number of officers directly interacting with the community; and supporting the development of new technologies.

Allegheny County – ThreatViewer Emergency Management Visualization System
436 Grant Street
Room 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$1,000,000 -- Allegheny County would use these federal funds to support the deployment of wireless cameras in selected high-crime areas of the Mon Valley.  This funding would also be used to provide community and location-specific viewer station software of a centralized map-based display system platform to local law enforcement agencies in the municipalities in which the wireless cameras will be located.  This equipment would allow local law enforcement agencies in the participating municipalities to better address local emergency situations.

Borough of Etna -- Security Cameras and Police Equipment
437 Butler Street 
Pittsburgh PA 15223
$180,000 -- The Police Department of Etna Borough would use this funding to place cameras on the main street and in strategic places in the borough to monitor traffic and possible criminal activity. The cameras would assist the police department in controlling these problems and deterring them. The funding would also be used to train and equip Etna officers with better computer technology.

Borough of McKees Rocks – Surveillance Camera Network Installation
340 Bell Avenue
McKees Rocks, PA 15136
$120,000 -- The Borough of McKees Rocks would use this funding to install video surveillance cameras on a “wireless mesh” network that would capture and record criminal activity in several neighborhoods that have been identified as areas of high drug activity and violent crime associated with drug activity.  In addition to recording video to a central repository, officers would be able to remotely access live camera capture via their in-car computers.

Borough of Mount Oliver -- Public Surveillance Camera System
150 Brownsville Road
Mount Oliver, PA 15210
$750,000 -- The requested funding would allow the Borough of Mount Oliver to continue with phase two of its Public Surveillance Camera System. Phase One consisted of five cameras installed at one location covering a five point intersection in part of the business district, which has led to a significant decrease in crime and loitering. Phase Two would add additional cameras in various locations throughout the Borough.

City of Pittsburgh – Crime Watch Neighborhood Camera Security Systems
414 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$2,000,000 -- The City of Pittsburgh would use these funds to purchase additional cameras for their successful CrimeWatch Neighborhood Camera Security System.  This request would support deployment of camera systems in most of the requested business districts and neighborhoods across the City of Pittsburgh. The CrimeWatch Neighborhood Camera Security Systems would support deployment of 84 cameras in 34 business districts across the City of Pittsburgh.

Department of Justice, Edward Byrne Discretionary Grants
Funding under this program is authorized for law enforcement programs; prosecution and court programs; prevention and education programs; corrections and community corrections programs; drug treatment and enforcement programs; planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs; and crime victim and witness programs except compensation.

Cyber -Security Preparedness for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises – Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
$1,000,000 – Duquesne University would use this federal funding to develop cost-effective computer security training programs for small- and medium-sized businesses that can be rolled out nationally. 

Persad – Community Safe Zone
5150 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
$150,000 -- Persad would use this federal funding to expand its Community Safe Zone program, which works to reduce the rate of hate crimes and violence in the region.

The PROGRAM for Offenders – The Family Reunification Project
100 N. Braddock Avenue  Suite 201
Pittsburgh, PA  15208
$250,000 -- THE PROGRAM for Offenders, Inc. (TPFO) is a nonprofit organization that provides residential alternatives to incarceration, drug and alcohol treatment, and a wide range of support services to male and female offenders in Allegheny County.  TPFO would use this federal funding to enhance its Family Reunification Project, which facilitates the reintegration of offenders, reduces recidivism, strengthens families, and supports children.

Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh -- Emergency Shelter Project
P.O. Box 9024
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
$250,000 -- The Women’s Center and Shelter, located in Pittsburgh, PA, would use this funding for its emergency shelter services.  The Emergency Shelter at the Center is a 24-hour shelter that provides a comprehensive range of services for victims in addition to basic necessities such as food and clothing. The number of victims requiring the Center’s services is increasing.

FY2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Requests

Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
This account funds renewable energy and energy conservation research, development, demonstration and deployment activities (RDD&D), and federal energy assistance programs.

ACTION-Housing, Inc. – Weatherization and Energy Conservation Warehouse Facility
425 Sixth Ave, Suite 950
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$250,000 -- Funds would be used for the acquisition and improvement of a weatherization/energy conservation staging area.  This facility would enable ACTION Housing to expand its energy conservation components and add a crew-based model to its current program.  ACTION-Housing, Inc. provides low-and moderate-income clients with weatherization technology services, including a wide range of energy efficiency measures for retrofitting homes and apartment buildings.

Innovation Works – National Energy Innovation Center
2000 Technology Drive
Suite 250
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$1,500,000 million -- Funding would be used to create a National Energy Innovation Center (NEIC) in Pittsburgh. The Center would help assess the commercialization opportunities for the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) intellectual property, and would assist in finding appropriate commercial partners to further develop the technology.  This project meets a critical need for NETL in Pennsylvania by facilitating commercialization of technologies that would otherwise never have the opportunity for market entry and never realize their potential benefit to industry or society.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens/City of Pittsburgh -- Pyromex Community Recycler
One Schenley Park  
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$500,000 -- This funding would be used to develop and build an anaerobic digester that would help fuel the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden’s Living Building as a part of their Bio-Gas Technology Project.  This would serve as a national demonstration project for conservation and eco-restoring technology and would create a model for other bio-gas technology development.

Pittsburgh Gateways – Pittsburgh Green Innovators
4514 Plummer Street  Pittsburgh, PA  15201
$5,000,000 – This funding would go towards the development of a green campus to meet the increasing demand for a curriculum for workforce training programs for career paths in sustainable industry sectors.  With the growth in international markets for sustainable products and services, there is strong potential for new job creation in southwestern Pennsylvania through the commercialization of innovations resulting from local research efforts.

University of Pittsburgh -- Center for Energy
710 Alumni Hall
4227 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
$2,000,000 -- Funding would be used to further the Center’s research on cleaner combustion of coal, converting coal to hydrogen and other clean energy sources, carbon dioxide sequestration and conversion, and developing new technologies for hydrogen transportation. This funding would foster and support energy research, purchase relevant equipment, fund the participation of students in training programs and educational workshops, create jobs, and increase our understanding of desirable, feasible, and efficient energy sources and technologies.

Army Corps of Engineers – General Investigations
The General Investigations Account funds various investigations (such as navigation, flood damage prevention, and shoreline protection studies); comprehensive basin studies; and preconstruction engineering and design of water resources projects.

Army Corps of Engineers -- Lower Monongahela Improvement Project for Locks and Dams 2, 3, and 4
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$93,000,000-- This funding would be used for construction of the River Wall approaches to the first replacement lock, advertise and award the construction contract for the first replacement lock, begin construction of the Port Perry bridge relocation, and complete municipal utility outfall relocations in pool 2.

Army Corps of Engineers – Study of Turtle Creek Watershed – Upstream/Downstream Comprehensive Planning
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$100,000 -- This study would seek innovative upstream, low impact, cost-effective solutions to downstream flooding, sewer overflows, erosion, and water quality problems across all 33 communities and 147 square miles of the Turtle Creek watershed.  This project would create jobs while protecting two existing Corps projects and over $30 million in adjacent and downstream properties.  The methods and benefits could be replicated across the Pittsburgh region.

Army Corps of Engineers -- Upper Ohio River Navigation Study for the Emsworth, Dashields, and Montgomery Locks and Dams
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$3,100,000— Funding would be used to complete a study of the condition of the Upper Ohio River Locks and Dams at Emsworth, Dashields, and Montgomery and to recommend alternatives to repair or replace them.  Specifically, this funding would go towards the analysis of alternative future conditions at the projects, completion of environmental studies, formulation of recommended alternative, and preparation of the draft feasibility report.

Army Corps of Engineers – Construction
This account funds construction, major rehabilitation, and related activities for water resource projects whose principal purpose is to provide commercial navigation, flood and storm damage reduction, or aquatic ecosystem restoration benefits to the nation.

Army Corps of Engineers -- Emsworth Dam Rehabilitation
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$35,000,000 -- Funding would be used for emergency repairs to the Emsworth Dams, which are in a progressive state of failure.  Specifically, the requested funding would permit analysis of alternative future conditions at the projects, completion of environmental studies, formulation of the recommended alternative, and preparation of the draft feasibility report.

Army Corps of Engineers -- Regent Square Gateway Project
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$1,875,000 -- Funding would be used to construct the Regent Square Gateway Project, a highly visible demonstration site featuring an energy dissipation structure, stream bank stabilization, and rebuilding of the major stream culvert outfall in the heart of the Nine Mile Run watershed.  The project would demonstrate a variety of approaches to stormwater management.

Army Corps of Engineers -- Sheraden Park and Carnegie Borough Stream Restoration Program
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$500,000 -- The Corps of Engineers would use this funding to continue two Urban Park Stream Restoration projects in Carnegie Borough Park and Sheraden Park, located in the City of Pittsburgh. Two unnamed streams in Carnegie Borough currently drain into the combined local sewer system. Restoration of these streams would eliminate some of the burden on the municipal combined sewer system and reduce the frequency, magnitude and duration of combined sewer overflows in both parks.  

Army Corps of Engineers -- Three Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program – Pine Hollow / Homestead Run Stream-Sewer Separation
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$4,000,000 -- The 3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Project is a partnership of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, eighty-three municipalities, and other parties, who are working together to control combined sewer overflows and eliminate sanitary sewer overflows in Allegheny County.  A major project of this group is the removal of stream discharges from municipal combined sewers. Prior Federal assistance is supporting stream removal projects in the City of Pittsburgh, Munhall Borough and Stowe Township. This specific funding would be used on a stream removal project to address basement flooding and combined sewer overflows in Kennedy and Stowe Townships and McKees Rocks Borough and the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Munhall Borough inter-municipal trunk sewer.

Army Corps of Engineers – Operations and Maintenance
Funds operation, maintenance, and related activities at the water resource projects that the Corps of Engineers operates and maintains.   Activities include dredging, repair, and operation of structures and other facilities.

Army Corps of Engineers – Allegheny River
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$32,300,000 -- Funding would be used to operate and maintain the locks and dams in the Pittsburgh District, as well as to address critical deferred maintenance. 

Army Corps of Engineers -- Monongahela River
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$29,700,000 – Funding would be used to operate and maintain the locks and dams in the Pittsburgh District, as well as to address critical deferred maintenance. 

Army Corps of Engineers – Ohio River
1000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$37,100,000 -- Funding would be used to operate and maintain the locks and dams in the Pittsburgh District, as well as to address critical deferred maintenance. 

Department of Energy: Science
Funds the Department’s work on high energy physics, nuclear physics, biological and environmental sciences, basic energy sciences, advanced scientific computing, maintenance of the laboratories physical infrastructure, fusion energy sciences, safeguards and security, workforce development for teachers and scientists, safeguards and security at Office of Science facilities, and science program direction.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center -- Focus Area for Computational Energy Science
300 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$5,000,000 -- Funding for this program would enable the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to purchase computer time from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to support its advanced computational modeling program and to provide support to West Virginia University and Carnegie Mellon University for advanced computer simulation research of interest to NETL.  The CES funding would also provide support for the SuperComputing Science Consortium, whose members include regional universities and other organizations that support K-12 and economic development programs in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia.

Department of Energy, Defense Environmental Cleanup
Funds from this Account are used for managing defense nuclear waste and cleaning up contaminated nuclear weapons sites.

NuVision Engineering – The International Agreement
2403 Sydney St, Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
$7,000,000 -- Funding would be used to demonstrate and deploy innovative energy and environmental technologies and methodologies which have been proven in the UK and Europe.  This includes retrieval of nuclear waste from underground storage tanks; long term, safe closure of underground storage tanks and cross site transfer lines; and improving the safety of operations at Department of Energy sites through the development and deployment of advanced technologies.

FY2010 Financial Services Appropriations Bill Requests

Small Business Administration Account
This Account funds initiatives related to small business development and entrepreneurship, including programmatic and construction activities through loans, grants, and contracting preferences.

The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse  -- The Tech Belt Biosciences Initiative
100 Technology Drive, Suite 400
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$800,000 -- The Tech Belt Biosciences Initiative would use this funding to create a Tech Belt partnership among local world-class institutions conducting $1 billion in NIH research and more than 800 fast-growing local life sciences companies.  This initiative would create or retain 20-60 jobs in the region and establish a replicable model for creating mega-regions that can generate far more economic growth than any city or state can do alone. 

The Technology Collaborative -- Southwestern Pennsylvania Advanced Robotics Accelerator
12 Federal Street, Suite 420
Pittsburgh, PA  15212
$700,000 -- Requested funding would go towards the second phase of this project, to help form joint ventures between the international and multi-national companies that are attracted to Southwestern Pennsylvania and the robotics entrepreneurs from the region’s universities and early stage start-up companies.   This initiative would accelerate the formation of such joint ventures by providing the programs and funding needed to perform market research to identify and prioritize unmet end customer needs, to devise initial product and market strategies that combine the relative strengths of the proposed joint venture partners to meet these needs, to help develop very early prototype solutions, and to otherwise seed the formation of such joint venture partnerships.

FY2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill Requests

Federal Emergency Management Agency State and Local Programs Emergency Center Account
FEMA makes grants to states under this title for equipping, upgrading, and constructing State and local emergency operations centers.

Allegheny Conference on Community Development – Joint Readiness Center
425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$1.5 million – This funding would be used to build on work already completed in the development of national medical surge response.  In conjunction with a joint-interagency team assembled by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, the project will develop guidance for development of this national homeland security resource for surge management capabilities; evaluate and recommend changes to vital emergency management resource plans at the national, state, and regional levels; manage the identification of solutions to prioritized capability gaps in the existing medical response of the federal agencies; and monitor resource execution to ensure strategy alignment across local, regional, state and federal partners.   The requested funding would benefit the public by improving both preparation and response for a potential national disaster, which is a core mission of the Department of Homeland Security.   The Joint Readiness Center would help DHS achieve this mission by enhancing the effectiveness of current homeland security capabilities with the creation of a mega-medical response element.   

University of Pittsburgh -- Center for National Preparedness
707 Information Sciences
135 N. Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
$1 million -- Funding would permit the University of Pittsburgh Center for National Preparedness to fund a national extension of the Pittsburgh Framework support system for the management and coordination of responses to medical emergencies and other catastrophic events.  The inclusion of a situation awareness system in the Pittsburgh Framework fuses incoming data into a summary of plausible scenarios that are consistent with the uncertain evolving event.  When sensors or other data are unreliable or fail, the plausible scenarios provide a primary robust and relevant basis for decision making.  Funding for the extending the Pittsburgh Framework across the nation would benefit the public by providing the nation’s first responders with a significant new emergency management tool for police and fire personnel.  This project would enable a higher level of coordination between private, public, and government sectors, and enhance preparedness for and response to such disasters.

FY2010 Interior Appropriations Bill Requests

Environmental Protection Agency, State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) 
Funds in this account are available to help eliminate municipal discharge of untreated pollutants, to improve municipal drinking water supply infrastructure and facilities, to assist in carrying out environmental programs, and for Brownfields assessment and mediation grants.  This account has also included funding to municipalities for wastewater and water treatment projects.

Allegheny County Sanitation Authority (ALCOSAN)—Three Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program—Overflow Control Demonstration Facilities
3300 Preble Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15233-1092
$20 million -- The requested funding would go towards the design and construction of sewer overflow control facilities.  These facilities would produce significant water quality improvement and provide a basis for design of future control facilities.  One facility would be built along the north shore of the Allegheny River and the other facility would be built at the mouth of Homestead Run in Munhall.

Allegheny Land Trust-- Water Quality Control through Strategic Land Conservation

409 Broad Street, Suite 206A  
Sewickley, PA 15143
$5 million --- Funding would be used to purchase land and conservation easements in Allegheny County to address the devastating impacts of flooding, landslides, water pollution and loss of the Pittsburgh region’s distinctive visual character.
 
Char-West Council of Governments --Sewer Cleaner Truck
One Veterans Way, Suite 202
Carnegie, PA  15106
$325,000— Funding would be used to purchase a new Sewer Cleaner Truck, which would allow for continuing the preventive routine and emergency maintenance of the region’s storm sewers and sanitary sewers.  Clean sewers decrease the potential of flooding and disruption of local businesses and industry and promote increased economic development. The sewer cleaner will service approximately 20,000 residents in the municipalities of Crafton, Ingram, Kennedy, McKees Rocks, Neville, Robinson and Stowe.

City of Clairton –Wilson Ejector Station and Sewage Plant Pipe Renovation, CCTV-Sewage Pipeline Evaluation
551 Ravensburg Blvd
Clairton, PA 15025
$1,200,000—Funding would be used for wastewater treatment plant sewer repair, installation of new piping around administration building, and CCTV-sewer inspections. Five municipalities and approximately 75,000 people are served by the Clairton Sewage Plant.

Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA)— Critical Pipe Inspection Program
Penn Liberty Plaza 1 - 1200 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$770,000 -- The requested funding for the Critical Pipe Inspection Program (CPIP) would enable The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA) to locate and prevent the collapse of critical pipelines under roadways, which can cost the city millions of dollars in repairs and lead to a serious public safety hazard.  The deployment of Multi Sensor Inspection in underground pipe infrastructure would demonstrate the benefit of a predictive assessment and would enable more effective management of assets to save cities money and prevent sinkholes.  

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy— Panther Hollow Lake Restoration
2000 Technology Drive
Suite 300
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$3,050,000 – This funding would be used to rehabilitate Panther Hollow as a woodland/watershed preserve and restore the safety of the water in this urban park. This 80-acre section of historic Schenley Park in the City of Pittsburgh suffers from forest fragmentation, drainage system failure, degraded stream channels, and an ecologically stagnant lake. Funding would be used to restore the lake, repair failed infrastructure, restore the trails and bridges, remove non-native invasive species and plant natives, and to stabilize eroding slopes.

Riverside Center for Innovation, North Side Industrial Development Co.— River Alert Information Network
 700 River Avenue
 Suite 531
Pittsburgh, PA  15212
$2,500,000—Funding would be used for the purchase and installation of water quality monitoring equipment and communication technologies to recognize and analyze pollutants and provide for the ability to alert the public to these dangers to public health on the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Youghiogheny Rivers and the headwaters of the Ohio, as well as to establish a permanent agency to maintain and expand this network.
 
National Park Service, Historic Preservation Trust, Save America’s Treasures
Funds allow State historic preservation offices to perform a variety of functions, including: State management and administration of existing grant obligations; review and advice on Federal projects and actions; determinations and nominations to the National Register; Tax Act certifications; and technical preservation services.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust—Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Arts Education Center
 803 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$500,000 -- Requested funding would be used to restore and renovate two of the last remaining buildings from Pittsburgh’s cast iron era.  The nation’s surviving cast-iron architecture, much of which continues to be threatened, merits renewed preservation and restoration efforts.  In addition, this project would create jobs and help continue the revitalization of a previously blighted area of downtown Pittsburgh while also providing a premier facility for enriching programming for children and adults alike.    
 
Steel Industry Heritage Corporation—Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area
The Bost Building
623 East 8th Avenue
Homestead, PA  15120
$1,000,000 -- Funds would go towards the operating expenses of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Areas, one of 40 such Areas designated by Congress.  The Rivers of Steel NHA is working to preserve our region’s heritage and educate the public about national trends in industrial development, scientific innovation and technological advancement, our labor and social history, and our country’s diverse ethnic heritage. 

FY2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill Requests

Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Funding is provided for prevention, intervention, and treatment services for mental health, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. 

Addison Behavioral Care -- Male Mentoring Project
905 West Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15221
$95,800 -- Requested funds would be used to provide drug and alcohol treatment and mentoring services to males age 14 and older exiting community placement facilities.  Addison would provide 24 hour support. 

Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA funds are directed toward a number of different types of projects, including: construction and/or renovation of health facilities; acquisition of capital equipment including laboratory and diagnostic machines; projects to improve education and training of healthcare professionals, or to analyze workforce trends and needs; projects to improve health care in rural areas, both through research and outreach; and funding for telemedicine, distance learning, or use of information technology to improve healthcare.

Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. 
1945 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA   15219
$300,000 -- Funding would go towards support services for individuals who are deaf-blind. Specifically, this program would assist the deaf-blind in food and clothes shopping, reading mail, going to doctor’s appointments, and other activities of daily living with which they need assistance. Currently there is no program that provides these supports in this region.

Children’s Hospital – Expanded Neurosurgery Center
1251 Waterfront Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$2,500,000 -- The requested funding would go towards the purchase of a CT scanner to use at its pediatric hospital in Western Pennsylvania. Physicians at Children’s Hospital have performed more than 2,500 neurological procedures, including more than 700 minimally invasive endoscopic procedures that require the use of a CT scanner in their operating room.  After moving to a new campus, the Children’s Hospital no longer has access to a CT scanner in the operating room. The CT scanner is among the high technology equipment that allows these specialists to perform high-risk, complicated surgeries with the least amount of invasion and the quickest, most thorough recoveries.

Electronic Medical Records Implementation Project -- The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family Center
5324 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
$1,000,000 -- The requested funds would be used to complete the conversion to Electronic Medical Records for a 28-bed pediatric specialty hospital and pediatric extended care center in Allegheny County, PA. These programs are on the cutting edge of an emerging national model of pediatric health care, which seeks to provide children with the same wide range of services available to adults.  The implementation of Electronic Medical Records is part of a continuing trend to provide specialized services that reduce costs and allow for sharing patient information (lab results, public health reporting) which are necessary for timely, patient-centered and portable care.

Jewish Healthcare Foundation – Improving Patient Outcomes
650 Smithfield Street
Suite 2400
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$100,000 -- Funding would go towards a one-year project designed to increase the involvement and impact of pharmacists in hospital and long term care settings across Southwestern Pennsylvania in the care of chronically ill, hospitalized, and subsequently discharged, patients. Through the project, patient and provider education and tracking tools would be developed and tested.

Marian Manor -- Sprinkling and Fire Safety System
2695 Winchester Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15220-4099
$100,000 -- Funding would go towards equipping two buildings Marian Manor’s long term care facility with the appropriate life-saving fire safety equipment. 

Mercy Behavioral Health -- Integrated Physical, Mental, Behavioral, and Dental Health Care
1200 Reedsdale Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
$528,300 -- Funds would create a family medical and dental practice that would allow Mercy to provide integrated physical, dental and behavioral health services to the most vulnerable members of its community, including psychiatrically and medically complex, disabled, and chronically homeless individuals in the Pittsburgh area. 

Ohio Valley General Hospital -- Nuclear Medicine Technology and Facilities Upgrade Project
25 Heckel Road 
McKees Rocks, PA 15136
$450,000 -- Funding would be used to purchase a nuclear medicine camera and related equipment and technology at Ohio Valley General Hospital.  Nuclear medicine scans are a method of diagnostic imaging that is unique, cost-effective, painless and safe in the appropriate patient populations.

Passavant Memorial Homes Foundation – Mobile Dental Unit
100 Passavant Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
$400,000 -- The requested funding would be used to purchase a mobile dental unit to provide dental support services to individuals with developmental disabilities across Western Pennsylvania.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Steps to a Healthy Community Program
400 Holland Ave
Braddock, PA 15104
$500,000 -- Funding would be used to support the Steps to a Healthy Community program which focuses on eliminating barriers to health care services needed by nearby low-income households through aggressive case finding and engagement tactics, interventions to access health insurance or charity care, health education and disease prevention activities, and intensive interventions with patient compliance support and monitoring.

Wellspring Worldwide, LLC -- The Health Data Network
333 E. Carson Street, Suite 537E
Pittsburgh, PA 15219 
$404,000 -- Proposed funding would provide ultra-mobile, computerized health data collection devices to clinics, physicians, and care facilities in underserved communities. These compact touch screen computers enable doctors to administer health questionnaires and collect data from patients before and during a patient visit.  This type of network provides affordable infrastructure for those in underserved communities to ensure that every citizen benefits from modern medical technology.

The Western Pennsylvania Hospital -- Ambulatory Electronic Health Records
4800 Liberty Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
$1,000,000 -- Requested funding would be used for the implementation of an ambulatory electronic health record system for the 700 providers of the West Penn Allegheny Health System Physician Organization. 

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control
This account supports activities deemed as having high scientific and programmatic priority or as necessary to respond to public health emergencies, including: support for public health departments, education and outreach, and response and preparedness for bioterrorism. 

Children’s Institute – Autism Research
1405 Shady Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15217-1350
$1,000,000 -- Funding would support research focused on increasing understanding of the relationship between the environment and autism and using this knowledge to develop treatments to lessen the symptoms of autism and interventions to protect children from environmental triggers in the first place. 

Collaborative Testing Initiative -- Pittsburgh AIDS Taskforce
5913 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
$211,000 – This funding would provide on-site HIV/AIDS testing services in Allegheny County Probation Centers for re-entry population from Allegheny County jail and state prisons.  This will include partner notification done in collaboration with the Allegheny County Health Dept.  This effort will serve a high-risk population in a community setting.

SIDS of PA -- Cribs for Kids Program
810 River Avenue, Suite 250
Pittsburgh, PA  15212
$300,000 -- Funding would be used to disseminate information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), including a safe-sleep video that will be distributed to all 118 birthing hospitals in Pennsylvania along with Safe Sleep for Your Baby brochures and other educational materials.  If families cannot afford a crib, this funding will support the purchase.

Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
Funding is available for a wide variety of higher education projects, including: projects to hire and train faculty, develop and improve curricula, establish and improve degree programs, improve teacher prep programs, upgrade technology and telecommunications, acquire science laboratory equipment, provide student support, implement university partnerships with school districts, and establish research and training centers. 

Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council – Adult Education Support
100 Sheridan Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
$400,000 – Requested funding would support programs at the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council that provide adults with free instruction in areas such as reading, math, writing, English as a second language, and GED preparation.

Point Park University -- Engineering Education Enhancement Project
201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$200,000 -- Funds would be used to upgrade the civil engineering labs to provide students with hands-on experience with the most modern, industry-specific equipment so students can be career-ready upon graduation. Point Park also seeks to enhance its electrical engineering lab, particularly in the area of power electronics, to meet current and future industry needs. 

Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read National Center
56 Roland Street
Boston, MA  02129
$10 million - Reach Out and Read is a national program authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that promotes literacy and language development in infants and young children, targeting disadvantage and poor children and families.  Through fifteen years of peer-reviewed and published research, an extensive body of documentation now clearly demonstrates the importance of promoting early language and literacy skills so that children have the essential reading skills to begin school successfully.  Yet today, a large number of children do not receive the necessary support and assistance to develop these skills and begin kindergarten read to learn.   To close this gap, the federal government provides funding for a variety of literacy programs and strategies that reach children and parents, and the professionals who interact with them.  ROR has proven to among the most effective strategies to promote early language and literacy development and school readiness: pediatricians and other healthcare providers guide and encourage parents to read aloud to their children from their earliest years of their life, and send them home from each doctor visit with books and a prescription to read together.  Currently, nearly 50,000 doctors and nurses have been trained in ROR’s proven strategies, and more than 3,500 clinics and hospitals nationwide are implementing the program, reaching more than 25% of America’s at-risk-children.  Funding provided by Congress through the U.S. Department of Education has been matched by tens of millions of dollars from the private sector and state governments.

Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Education
This account primary funds elementary and secondary education activities such as instruction services, after-school centers, curricula development, teacher training, acquisition of books and computers, arts education, special education, and early childhood education.  In general, the focus of FIE is to provide educational services to K-12 students.

Carnegie Library – Increasing Library Accessibility for Kids
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$100,000 -- The funding would be used to establish a program to ensure that every school student in the City of Pittsburgh has a library card and knows about the resources and opportunities available at their neighborhood library. 

ASSET Inc. – ASSET for Math
2403 Sidney Street Suite 800
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
$200,000 -- The requested funding would go towards the development of the ASSET 4 Math program to assist schools in implementing standards-aligned math programs that include both hands-on, inquiry-based instructional materials and ongoing teacher professional development designed to improve student achievement in mathematics.

East End Cooperative Ministry -- Violence Prevention Program
250 N. Highland Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
$150,000 -- The requested funding would go to support programs to increase children’s knowledge and skills concerning how to negotiate, reduce, and assist in the prevention of youth violence, and to change their beliefs and attitudes about engaging in violent behaviors that put themselves and their community at risk.   The program will target approximately 150 children in kindergarten through sixth grade to reduce children’s attraction to and participation in chronic community violence.

Lifespan -- Mobile Technology Training Facility
314 E. Eighth Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120
$300,000 -- Funding would be used to provide a mobile technology training facility to benefit older Pennsylvanians in Allegheny County.  This mobile technology training facility would provide over 100,000 elderly Pennsylvanians the opportunity to learn basic computing skills like how to access the internet and email.

Manchester Bidwell -- The Learning ARC: Teachers First Program
1815 Metropolitan Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15233
$500,000 -- The requested funding would support the Learning ARC program that uses the visual arts to connect content concepts and skills as well as teachers to each other – e.g. math to science and communications to social studies – by providing teachers the tools for collaboration and planning, as well as assessment that measures actual student learning.  The program has significantly positive documented results, including reduced teacher absenteeism, positive school environment, effective behavior and classroom management skills, increased instructional time, and reduction of problem behavior incidents per student. 

Sarah Heinz House -- Robotics Program
One Heinz Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
$100,000 -- The requested funding would be used to expand the current Robotics Program for at risk youth at the Sarah Heinz House. The Sarah Heinz House, a non-profit Boys & Girls Club, provides children and teenagers with powerful role models and a safe, fun place to go after school, on weekends, and in the summer.  The after-school and summer robotics program teaches at risk youth problem-solving skills in addition to STEM concepts as they build and program a robot.

WQED -- Stories Start Action
4802 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$85,000 -- The requested funding would be used to carry out the Stories Start Action Language Arts and character education program to schools throughout the 14th Congressional District. 

Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Funding in this account must meet the following requirements: 1) must include direct services to individuals to enhance employment opportunities; 2) must demonstrate a linkage with the local workforce investment system; and 3) must contain an evaluation component.

City of Pittsburgh -- Pittsburgh Youth Employment Plan
414 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$1,500,000 -- Funding would allow the City of Pittsburgh to expand its “Pittsburgh Summer Youth Employment Program” and implement the new “Your Turn 2 Intern Program for Mentoring and Internship”.  The mission of both programs is to engage city youth in work experience and career exploration opportunity while providing them with knowledge, skills and abilities.

Community College of Allegheny County -- Labor Management Institute and Urban Workforce Training Center
235 College Office 
800 Allegheny Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
$300,000 -- Funds would go to the creation of a Labor Management Institute that would promote student readiness and understanding of the opportunities for continued employment provided by the significant expected growth in the trades, as well as the desire of local unions to have a credentialed, skilled, professional workforce. Housed within the Institute would be a newly created Urban Workforce Training Center to provide training and career transition services, as well as address small business needs in collaboration with the area’s public schools.

Ironworkers Joint Apprenticeship and Journeyman Retraining Committee -- Joint Apprenticeship and Journeyman Retraining Program
2315 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$750,000 -- The requested funds would be used for an expansion of the Ironworkers Local Union No. 3 Training Center.  This includes hiring and training new instructors and updating the training of the current instructors with the latest OSHA safety and health training.  This initiative keeps local labor employed and up to speed with new technologies and requirements.

MAGLEV Inc. – Precision Fabrication Technology
1905 Technology Center
1100 Industry Road, Box 11  
McKeesport PA 15132
$2,000,000 -- The funding would provide an educational avenue for unemployed and incumbent workers as well as for youth coming into the workforce from high school.  MAGLEV Inc. would prepare and implement a curriculum of coursework designed to train individuals in the field of precision fabrication technology.  This would keep local workers employed and prevent higher unemployment in Southwestern PA.

Pittsburgh Job Corps Center -- Greenhouse Enhancement and Sustainability Project
7175 Highland Drive  
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
$45,000 -- Funds would be used to create a living lab to teach greenhouse sustainability concepts.  The greenhouse would include a system for converting organic waste stream from the center (cafeteria, grounds maintenance, and office) into compost for use in the greenhouse. 

Riverside Center for Innovation, North Side Industrial Development Co.— New Business-New Beginning
700 River Ave. Suite 531
Pittsburgh, PA  15212
$150,000 -- Funding would go towards an entrepreneurial program to train dislocated workers in SW PA to start their own businesses, with supporting programs and on-site mentors. 

Robert Morris University -- Veterans Entrepreneurial Training Project   
600 Fifth Avenue    
Pittsburgh, PA  15219 
$250,000 -- The requested funding would go towards an entrepreneurship training and certification program designed for Veterans.  The program works to recruit, prepare, support and develop veterans as successful business and franchise owners and productive community members.  It focuses on veterans currently operating businesses or seeking to start their own businesses.

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum Trust, Inc. – Veteran Remembrance
4141 Fifth Avenue  
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$100,000 -- Funding would be used to provide support services to returning military and their families through career fairs, seminars, and other needed employment support events.

Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania (VLP) -- Research and Education Experience for Soldiers
2417 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
$90,000 -- Funding would go towards the Research and Education Experience for Soldiers project, a collaboration between the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, University of Pittsburgh and the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania.  The program includes rehabilitation, community reintegration, faculty and peer mentoring, educational assistance, study groups and support networks for wounded veterans, with the goal of preparing these veterans for either continued military service or community reintegration. 

Department Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Social Services and Income Maintenance Research
Funding is allocated for research or for projects relating to subjects such as family violence prevention, teen welfare, abstinence education, and facilitating transition from welfare to work.

Angel’s Place, Inc. -- School Readiness for At-Risk Children of Low-Income Single Parent Students
2615 Norwood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15216
$75,000 -- Funding would be used for intensive early education for the 0- to 5-year-old children of low-income single parents who are full-time students, at no cost to the parent. The families would also be provided additional support services to foster their success, such as assistance in meeting basic needs, social work services, mandatory weekly parenting classes, referrals to community resources, parent tutoring as needed and job placement assistance. 

Homeless Children’s Education Fund -- Network Project
2100 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15222
$200,000 -- The requested funding would be used to strengthen capacity within 17 partnering homeless shelters throughout Allegheny County by providing homeless youth with after-school programs and advanced training for shelter staff and parents in child development and education.

Department of Education, Institute for Museums and Libraries
Funding is available for libraries to acquire books, upgrade computers and technology, and establish education and outreach programs, in addition to funding for public museums, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, planetariums, and nature sites.

Senator John Heinz History Center – Educational Programs
1212 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15222
$325,000 -- Funding would go towards education projects at the History Center which focus on providing services and materials for elementary and secondary school students and teachers to aid them in meeting the Pennsylvania State History Standards.

FY 2010 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill Requests

Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic Development Initiatives
Funds economic development projects, including renovations, construction and community programs. This is one of the few accounts that fund “bricks and mortar” projects.

Borough of Bellevue – Park Renovation
537 Bayne Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15202
$250,000 – Funding would be used for reconstruction of the roads and paving of the parking areas that lead to and are located within the developed area of Bellevue Memorial Park.  Funding would also be used to resurface the basketball court, resurface and fence the tennis court, and purchase ADA-accessible playground equipment for children ages 2-5 and 5-12, as well as replace the playground’s wood chips with safety rubber chips. 

Borough of West Mifflin -- Recreation Complex
3000 Lebanon Church Road
West Mifflin, Pa. 15122
$300,000 -- Funding would be used for the development, construction and operation of a multi-purpose recreation complex that would be designed and constructed to be used by all age groups.  The recreation complex would have both indoor and outdoor activities and would be open year round and would provide facilities and activities for all age groups.

Braddock Redux -- Braddock Community Center
416 Library Street, PO Box 416
Braddock, PA  15104
$100,000 --  Funding would be used to repurpose an historic and formerly abandoned structure on Library Street to return it to use as a full-service community center. 

City of Duquesne -- Center of the City Initiative
 12 South Second Street
Duquesne, PA 15110
$150,000 -- The proposed funding would further revitalization efforts in the city around the intersection of Grant Avenue and Duquesne Boulevard, which serves as the primary access point to the RIDC Riverplace-The Center City of Duquesne 250-acre site, the Monongahela River and the Great Allegheny Passage Trail. 
 
City of McKeesport -- Multi-Purpose Community Facility
 500 Fifth Avenue
McKeesport, PA 15132
$250,000 -- The City of McKeesport would use this funding for a new, multi-purpose community facility. The Commercial Banking Institution, Sky Bank, has built new offices in the downtown and donated the bank building and land to the City. The land would be the site for the new multi purpose community facility.  The new facility will be an ADA accessible, multi-purpose assembly room for public meeting facilities/auditorium. This edifice will be a multi-purpose public-private destination point with professional offices(s) and agency services, both of which will generate foot traffic in the central core business district.

Mount Washington Community Development Corporation -- Site Acquisition Project
 301 Shiloh Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15211
$675,000 – The funding would be used to acquire parcels outlined in a 2008 Business District Vision Plan that would lead to essential new developments. 
 
 Oakland Business Improvement District (OBID) -- Innovation Oakland
 235 Atwood Street 
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
$250,000 -- Innovation Oakland, a community-wide infrastructure initiative that highlights the Oakland community as the center of new technology and research would use this funding to combine technology, design, sustainable practices and multi-layered community planning with innovative energy-efficient practices in order to provide a comprehensive public signage and information system.  Spanning four square miles of pedestrian-packed environments, Innovation Oakland would include pedestrian signage, historical markers and both traditional and digital web based kiosk systems to serve as a pedestrian guide for the Oakland community. 
 
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) -- Beechview Business District Revitalization Project
100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134
$225,000 -- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation would use this funding to redevelop up to four key properties in the Beechview business district and recruit economically viable businesses to the area.  The buildings included in this project would be thoroughly restored, with the upper floors being brought back to their original use as residential units and the ground floor space being utilized as retail/commercial space.

Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Transportation & Community & System Preservation
This account provides grants to states and local governments for planning, developing, and implementing strategies to integrate transportation, community and system preservation plans and practices.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust -- Cultural District Riverfront Development Project
 803 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$1 million – This project would cover the 10th Street Bypass, which currently limits access to the city’s riverfront, and connect the riverfront amenity directly to the surrounding neighborhood and into the city fabric. Requested funds would be used for planning and design, streetscape improvements, and signal synchronization. 

Riverlife Task Force Mon Wharf Switchback
425 Sixth Ave
Suite 1340
Pittsburgh, PA 15129
$2 million -- This funding would be used to build the second phase of the Mon Wharf Switchback project. The Mon Wharf Switchback is a vertical and ADA accessible stair and ramp connection from The Mon Wharf Landing to the Smithfield Street Bridge. This phase would complete the connections between Downtown, The Mon Wharf Landing, the Eliza Furnace Trail, the Allegheny Passage, Three Rivers Park, and Point State Park.  This project will reconnect people to the riverfront, complete a regional trail system, and provide a venue for local and regional events.

Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County – Convention Center Riverfront Park
425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 2750
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$2,000,000 -- The requested funding would be used to complete the Convention Center Riverfront Park.  The park will run from the Rachel Carson Bridge to the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge along the south shore of the Allegheny River, a currently inaccessible shoreline adjacent to the Convention Center. The park will provide a vital pedestrian link between Point State Park, the Cultural Trust Park and the Strip District, as well as additional public green space, areas for Convention Center and city patrons to use, and locations for both private and commercial boats to dock.
  
Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Buses and Bus Facilities
These funds are available for the acquisition, maintenance, and operations of buses and bus facilities

Borough of Homestead -- Steel Valley Revitalization
 1705 Maple Street
Homestead, PA 15120
$150,000 -- The requested funding would go towards implementing a Comprehensive Urban Design Plan that was completed in 2000 to guide redevelopment efforts in the State Route 837 Corridor (Eighth Avenue) in the Boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall.  Specifically, the requested funding would go towards many remaining infrastructure needs in this National Historic District.

Port Authority of Allegheny County -- East Busway Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project
345 Sixth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa 15222
$25 million -- Funding would be used to improve the pedestrian and vehicular access and related infrastructure along the existing Martin Luther King, Jr. East Busway in the City of Pittsburgh.  The project includes two pedestrian access bridges and a parking deck.

Port Authority of Allegheny County – Purchase of Hybrid Buses
345 Sixth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa 15222
$10,000,000 – The Port Authority would use this funding to purchase additional hybrid buses, which have been proven to reduce fuel consumption, maintenance costs, and air pollution.  These hybrid buses emit 95 percent less particulate matter than the buses they would replace. The new hybrid vehicles produce 40% less oxides of nitrogen, and reduce greenhouse gases by 30%. 

Oakland Transportation Management Association – 5th Avenue Bus Railing Replacement Project
 235 Atwood Street, 3rd floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$471,000 – The requested funding would go towards the replacement of 1,570 feet of bus railing that was installed in 1990. Wear and tear has significantly decreased the structural integrity of the original railing, which offers a critical separation between the busy pedestrian sidewalk and the adjacent contra-flow bus lane on 5th Avenue, one of three main arterials in the Oakland neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh.

FY 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill Requests

Advanced Regenerative Medicine Therapies for Combat Injury
Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc.
100 Technology Drive
Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA  15219
$5 million from RDTE Army – Over 4,259 troops have died on the battlefield in Iraq, and more than 40,000 have been injured. Traumatic injury is the cause of nearly all military casualties. At home in the U.S., such injuries also cause more than 200,000 American deaths, and account for billions of dollars in healthcare costs, every year. The urgent need for regenerative medicine therapies and enhanced technologies is especially important right now. PTEI is uniquely situated to mobilize a rapid, nationwide effort to produce improvements in the clinical practice of regenerative medicine with the primary and immediate focus placed on improving combat casualty care. 

Advanced Technology Water Purification System
Alion Science & Technology
1789 Braddock Street
Suite 400
Pittsburgh, PA  15218
$5.8 million from RDTE Defense-Wide – Potable water is indispensible for operations of expeditionary military units. The maximum currently achievable water desalination production, by a mobile system, is 100,000 gallons per day. Starting with the design of the Navy EUWP prototype, this program would develop a road-mobile, air-transportable system to provide 300,000 gallons per day of potable water to expeditionary military forces and to support emergency civil operations. The program will result in a prototype of a semi-militarized/heavy duty commercial 300,000 gpd advanced technology water purification plant designed to support both military expeditionary requirements and civilian disaster relief by generating potable water from coastal seawater and other sources. As an expeditionary prototype the unit would supply two grades of product water—potable water and a high grade potable in the event of NBC contamination.  The program would also produce technical documentation supporting operation and maintenance of the plant. 

Curved Beam Technology
MAGLEV Inc.
1905 Technology Center
1100 Industry Road, Box 11
McKeesport, PA  15132
$5 million from RDTE Navy – This funding would be used to develop innovative Navy ship hulls for stealthy efficient operation at sea, working with NAVSEA’s Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division’s Center for Innovative Ship Design CISD. MAGLEV, Inc. has been singled out by ONR as the precision fabrication center to advance naval engineering and help develop processes for joining various materials for new generation ship hulls and components, thus ensuring a healthy US ability to develop innovative designs for Naval vessels.

Extremity War Trauma Research Foundation
The Extremity War Trauma Research Foundation
5840 Ellsworth Avenue
Suite 304
Pittsburgh, PA  15232
$2 million from RDTE Army – Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom have resulted in approximately 4,000 deaths to soldiers engaged in military operations. Technological and research advancements have saved countless lives of military personnel; over 90% of the soldiers wounded in Iraq survive due to improvements in body armor and battlefield medicine. Of those who have survived blast-related injuries, approximately 82% suffer major limb extremity trauma, and 6% of those undergo amputations. The cost for these injuries has been estimated at $65 million in direct care and $169 million in disability costs. There is limited support for orthopaedic trauma research related to war injuries. This was referenced at the Extremity War Injury Symposium IV held in Washington, DC, January 2009, where it was noted that current funding for extremity trauma research is lacking and that existing programs have been unable to adequately support the significant number of research proposals received on an annual basis. Existing funding opportunities are focused on multi-center consortiums, which will generate clinical trials in areas of military relevance.  There remains a need for smaller, translational projects that can provide proof of concept for unique new research ideas, while also providing funding for promising young clinician scientists developing careers within this area of research and for established senior investigators interested in pursuing this important area of research. The Extremity War Trauma Research Foundation (EWTRF) would use this funding to expand the number of research projects conducted by its investigators. The use of this funding would be for multi-year research grant awards to as many quality science projects within this area as possible, with the hope to fund at least 5-6 in the 2010 research grant cycle. EWTRF has instituted a multi-level review process, including a pre-application and full programmatic and scientific review. The external review board is comprised of experts with various backgrounds, including orthopaedic surgeons, engineers, and active duty or veteran physicians. Scoring and subsequent funding would be based upon scientific merit, translational significance of the project, ability of the project to lead to improved extremity trauma care within a 5 year period, utilization of relevant trauma models and patient populations, qualifications of the applicant, and impact on the development of treatment and restorative function. Through funding research in traumatic orthopaedics, improved treatment outcomes and decreased complications during recovery from blast injuries would result in greater return to duty rates, improved quality of life after service, quicker recovery from injury, and less money needed for long term care and rehabilitation in military hospital systems. The research funded

Eye-Safe Standoff Fusion Detection (ESFD) of CBE Threats
Chem Image Corporation
7301 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15208
$3.9 million from RDTE Army – This funding would be used to enhance the capabilities of the Eye-Safe Standoff Fusion Detection (ESFD) of CBE Threats project to include real-time on-the-move capabilities; as well as to design, build and field test a fully integrated Gen II stand-off eye-safe sensor that includes integration of the sensor on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). These sensors would allow rapid detection of toxic chemicals and/or biological threats, as well as explosives, at standoff distances.

KC-135 Advanced Squadron Level Simulator (ASLS) Program
Fidelity Flight Simulation, Inc.
1476 Spring Garden Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15212
$200,000 from Operations and Maintenance Air National Guard – This funding would be used for the first year project management and oversight for placement of an Advanced Squadron Level Simulator in each of two ANG refueling wings. The ASLS is an affordable, immersive, and high fidelity flight simulator, which allows full flight training, customized training scenarios for mission rehearsal, and fault/emergency training which cannot be conducted in the aircraft. Each ASLS will be type specific for KC-135 flight, aircraft, and auxiliary systems, and will feature training scenarios customized for ANG mission-specific requirements. Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) capability will allow networked training with the ANG KC-135 Boom Operator Station (BOSS).  The cost benefit for the American taxpayer is exceptionally high, allowing a net cost savings in the first full year of operations. The DoD will be able to provide a higher standard of KC-135 training, yet realize savings on each ASLS deployed of close to $10 million per year for an initial investment of only $4 million. 

Low Cost Nanotechnology to Enable Advanced Material Solutions for DoD
PPG Industries, Inc.
One PPG Place
Pittsburgh, PA  15272
$4 million from RDTE Army – This funding would be used to fully optimize and prove out the pilot plasma reactor design and engineering, as well as to expand capabilities to include non-oxide ceramic and metallic nanoparticles that can meet the cost and performance requirements for DoD and commercial application needs. Examples of relevant applications include lightweight body armor (boron carbide), ballistic transparencies (spinel, aluminum oxynitride), battery and energy storage materials, energetics, air and water filtration materials, and printable electronics. Cost reductions of as much as ten to 100 times the cost of currently available nanomaterials are possible utilizing this technology. 

Micro Inertial Navigation Unit Technology
Virtus Advanced Sensors
Gulf Tower, Suite 3200
707 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15219
$2 million from RDTE Army – MEMS are miniature, electrically driven mechanical structures. An INU is a navigation aid that uses motion sensors to continuously track the position, orientation, and velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references. The Department of Defense continues to explore the use of MEMS INUs for various applications such as “smart” munitions navigation and guidance, miniaturization of UAVs and UGVs, pilot attitude detection, warfighter position tracking and biohazard/health monitoring, among other uses. Development of the proposed single chip 5, 6-axis MEMS INU would significantly advance the performance and possible applications of this technology at a much lower cost and size. This new system would integrate global positioning system (GPS) and inertial navigation functions to enable navigation and tracking effectively and accurately for various functions in all environments, including regions where GPS is unavailable due to terrain masking, enemy jamming or other environmental factors. Funding would be utilized to support the design and development of sensor prototypes and eventually a number of applications that would include the developed INU. ARDEC is particularly interested in applying this ground-breaking technology to gun-launched munitions and handheld navigation systems. Additionally, there would be a tremendous cost savings to the taxpayer due to Virtus’ ability to simultaneously increase the capabilities of such sensor technology while drastically reducing the size and cost of production. Also, for example, the Army is currently using a very successful anti-sniper targeting system that has been widely successful in assisting soldiers with early identification of enemy sniper positions particularly in urban settings. These systems currently use a 2-axis IMU to help the user re-acquire a locked-in target after a change in position. In order to outfit every warfighter with such systems, the systems would need to be more accurate (i.e. at least 3-axis and beyond) and less expensive to produce. Virtus is proposing to provide such a solution. Also, The 5, 6-axis MEMS INU could be used in boots and helmets of every soldier in the field in order to keep precise track of position regardless of whether or not GPS is accessible overhead. Troops will increasingly use micro/mini-UAVs to perform reconnaissance missions before entering hostile areas, all of which require 5, 6-axis motion sensing capability that is accurate, has a very small footprint and inexpensive to produce. Development of this technology is currently outside any capabilities being explored by the public or private sector.

Mosaic Camera Technology Transition
L3 Integrated Optical Systems – Brashear
615 Epsilon Drive
Pittsburgh, PA  15238
$3.5 million from RDTE Defense-Wide – Funding this production transition for the SST telescope will reduce the time to deploy additional systems, filling a critical gap in our space situational awareness. It will develop an effective industrial partner for the production of the unique cameras required and fulfill the FFRDC technology transition mandate. This effort will transition the camera assembly technology to an acceptable industry partner. The task is more than just a hand-off of drawings and procedures. Successful, but time consuming, techniques were developed by MIT/LL to align the mosaic of imager chips with the required focal surface. In this task, all aspects of alignment and metrology will be assessed. Viable alternative fixturing and measurement instruments will be prototyped and evaluated. This will both improve the producability of the camera and validate the effectiveness of the technology transition. In addition to the key aspect of imager chip alignment, operational experience with the prototype camera will be used to guide performance, reliability or manufacturability improvements in the camera and its support systems. 

Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center
Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Com
2000 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA  15129
$3 million from RDTE Air Force – The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center has worked closely with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Paterson Air Force Base to identify key nanomaterials technologies which are critical to the future materials technology needs of the Air Force. These technologies have been incorporated into the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Center’s Technology Roadmap. The center has invited research and commercialization proposals from university researchers and small and large companies to further develop nanomaterials research which matches this roadmap. Through a peer review process, the center provides seed funding to the most promising of these projects. The center provides a more efficient mechanism for the DoD to create ideas for new solutions, and quickly producing prototypes from those solutions using nanomaterials. For FY 2010, the center would use this funding to expand this program across a wider range of nanomaterials technologies and projects, including new applications in energy, to accelerate the use of these technologies into new products and processes to meet Air Force needs. 

Perpetually Available and Secure Information Systems (PASIS) program
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
$8 million from RDTE Army – This funding would be used to develop and deploy effective solutions to major cyber security threats. The continued rise in cyber security threats and the clear emergence of cyber warfare practices that has been demonstrated in events around the globe place a premium on the need to rapidly develop and deploy technologies that can respond to evolving operational needs. This program has demonstrated a clear capacity to identify emerging threats, and develop test and deploy countermeasures and security solutions. The program has predicted and helped deploy countermeasures to two major threats that have emerged to the Department of Defense computer and communications systems. Similarly the program played a critical role in identifying threats to the security sensor networks and aided the rapid commercialization of technology solutions. At the heart of this capacity to deliver high quality solutions is the program’s unique capacity to integrate participation by Department of Defense researchers and over 25 major corporations with the ability to generate the creation of cyber security related start-ups. More than 6 new companies have been created by the program and these new start-ups afford an additional critical means of rapidly bringing research to both the field of operations and the commercial marketplace. 

Physiologic Resuscitation and Inflammation Modulating Environment (PRIME)
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
U.S. Steel Tower
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15219
$2.5 million from Defense Health Program – An individual who is stabilized for air evacuation out of theater to Landsduhl Regional Medical Center may be at risk for complications following hemorrhagic shock. Hemorrhagic shock is what happens when organs are deprived of oxygen due to severe blood loss. While the patient may have his blood volume and pressure restored, there are longer-term risks as his body experiences both physiological and inflammatory responses to the hemorrhagic shock incident. The ideal resuscitation platform is a self-regulating closed-loop system. This system would provide the appropriate amount of fluid to restore blood volume after hemorrhage along with a wide range of interventions aimed at restoring normal oxygen delivery to the tissues, but also inflammation-modulating therapy that will lead to restored multi-system homeostasis (internal stability). The ultimate objective of this project is to create an automated patient management system that acts on diagnostic data to deliver appropriate customized treatment to patients. Customized models would be developed for each war fighter, perhaps based on standardized stress tests that would be conducted during the war fighter’s training period. 

Pre-Hospital Assessment and Treatment for Hemorrhagic Shock, Resuscitation and Polytrauma with Advanced Polynitroxylated Pegylated Hemoglobin Therapeutics (PNPH Therapeutics) Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
University of Pittsburgh School of M
3434 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
$4.3 million from RDTE Army – The funding would lead to life-saving trials of treatment for hemorrhagic shock, resuscitation and polytrauma with advanced Polynitroxylated Pegylated Hemoglobin Therapeutics (PNPH Therapeutics). These studies would ultimately improve the delivery of paramedic emergency care in urban and rural communities, with novel polynitroxylated compounds that protect organs after injuries, effectively buying time for transport to emergency rooms or trauma centers for life-saving medical and surgical interventions to be implemented. The PNPH therapeutics program would improve emergency care to civilian trauma, stroke and heart attack victims throughout the United States, reducing medical complications, saving lives and reducing healthcare costs. Also, most importantly, the availability of a safe and effective blood substitute like PNPH with potent anti-oxidant, multiple organ and neuroprotective benefits for life-saving interventions is critically needed by the military to help save the lives of seriously injured combat casualties suffering polytrauma and massive hemorrhage. Currently the FDA has terminated all blood substitute trials because of toxic, vasoconstrictive toxicities including mortality in subjects. The polynitroxylated, pegylated hemoglobin (PNPH) to be tested with this funding has no vasoconstrictive effects and dramatically provides a small volume blood substitute oxygen-carrying capacity, very potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects to protect multiple organs and provide neuroprotective benefits improving outcomes in preliminary research. The initiative would develop a super colloid, oxygen therapeutic for pre-hospital resuscitation in settings of hemorrhagic shock and polytrauma critically important in combat casualty care. The military has always had an ongoing requirement for a safe and effective small volume blood substitute for combat casualty care. Most importantly, the availability of a safe and effective blood substitute like PNPH with potent anti-oxidant, multiple organ and neuroprotective benefits for life-saving interventions is critically needed by the military to help save the lives of seriously injured combat casualties suffering polytrauma and massive hemorrhage. Also, the PNPH therapeutics program will improve emergency care to civilian trauma, stroke and heart attack victims throughout the United States, reducing medical complications, saving lives and reducing healthcare costs. 

Rapid Wound Healing Cell Technology
Stemnion, Inc.
100 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
$4.5 million from RDTE Army – The development of these technologies will aid in the treatment of combat injuries and trauma. The use of Amnion-derived, Multi-potent Progenitor Cells (AMPs) and Amnion-derived Cellular Cytokine Suspension (ACCS) technologies may provide new therapies for more effective treatment of injuries due to blast, burn and penetrating trauma. Wound healing cell technologies are an appropriate target for DoD investment since military personnel are at risk for terrible and devastating wounds that these therapies are being developed to treat. The technologies being developed will also eventually be able to be used medically in the general population and will increase the efficiency of treatment for people with certain conditions. 

Remote VBIED Detection and Defeat System (RVDD)
RE2, Inc.
32 39th Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15201
$2.5 million from RDTE Army – The Remote VBIED Detection and Defeat (RVDD) system would allow military personnel to remotely detect and defeat Vehicle Borne IEDs (VBIEDs).  This would save U.S. military lives. Since the robot carries all the tools it needs with it and the changing of tools at the end of the robotic arm is done automatically, the robot does not need to return to the human during the mission. By allowing the robot to stay on target during the entire mission, mission time is significantly reduced. The shorter the mission time, the less the operator is exposed to hazards such as sniper fire and the more likely the VBIED will be detected and defeated, reducing property damage and saving lives. The RVDD technology provides a much-needed capability to military EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) units. Existing EOD robots have limited robotic arms with basic two-finger grippers. These robots are best used for roadside IEDs. The RVDD will provide existing EOD robots with the capability to change tools for a variety of VBIED detection and defeat tasks, including penetrating a vehicle to perform in-vehicle reconnaissance and inspection. The technology developed under this program could easily be transferred to domestic bomb squads and for use in homeland defense and security efforts. Additionally, the standard interface that the RVDD provides at the end of a robotic arm allows multiple vendors to develop new urgently-needed tools for existing robot systems and leverages current investments within the DoD to get this important VBIED detection and defeat capability.

Small Manufacturers Defense Initiative Phase II
Catalyst Connection
2000 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA  15219
$2.5 million from RDTE Army – The Small Manufacturers Defense Initiative (SMDI) will use this funding to create a more efficient and streamlined procurement process for the U.S. military in order to more rapidly meet their manufacturing demands. By utilizing the unique capabilities of Catalyst Connection and the Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Centers (IRC) network, SMDI can deliver a more cost-effective and efficient procurement systems for prototyped parts.

Traumatic Brain Injury Technology Development
Dynavox Systems
2100 Wharton Street, Suite 400
Pittsburgh, PA  15203
$2.5 million from RDTE Army – The proliferation of the use of Improvised Explosive Devices as a tactic of the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has left hundreds of thousands of returning soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).  Many of these TBIs have gone undiagnosed. Consequently, TBI has regrettably been identified as the “signature injury” of the current conflicts. Advancements in protective equipment have allowed many soldiers to survive attacks that would have likely been fatal in previous conflicts. According to a 2008 study prepared by the Institute of Medicine on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 22% of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have a brain injury. These numbers could rise significantly as screening becomes more prevalent. As efforts are increased to identify soldiers with TBI-related injuries, solutions are required to deal with the long-term mental and physical effects of these injuries. In almost all cases – mild and severe – TBI causes difficulty in organization and memory. In some cases, a condition known as aphasia occurs. Some aphasics have no speech at all; others are able to produce words but cannot connect them together to create meaningful communication. A solution for these veterans is desperately needed to provide memory and organization support, along with communication support for those more severely affected. DynaVox Technologies proposes to develop a specialized solution for soldiers returning with TBI. This solution would include a new, miniaturized handheld device to provide organization and memory support, along with voice generation and communication support designed specifically for those with aphasia and TBI. It would also include GPS functionality to enable those with TBI to find a desired location, as well as to allow caregivers and family members to locate the individual if he/she is lost. Further, the device would include cell phone capability to allow the individual to contact the caregiver or family member, or vice versa. There would be specialized software in the device to allow the individual to easily move from the memory/organization functionality to communication functionality to GPS to cell phone functionality. DynaVox is uniquely positioned to deliver such solutions based on relationships and ongoing partnership with, for example, Dr. David Beukelman at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, one of the foremost researchers in the field of TBI/Aphasia. DynaVox also has the nation’s largest field support organization – approximately 85 people throughout the nation – with local support nearby all military and VA centers serving those with TBI-related injuries. This device would help the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) advance its mission by providing a new, comprehensive treatment approach through a miniaturized, handheld device, which includes GPS functionality, to address the mental and physical effects of TBI, thereby saving costs on other duplicative and less effective rehabilitation efforts. 

University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute (Center for Orphan Disease Drug Discovery)
University of Pittsburgh
Drug Discovery Institute (Center for Orphan Disease Drug Discovery)
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
$2.5 million from RDTE Army – The University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute conducts research and development on drugs to treat so-called rare or neglected diseases that affect more than 25 million Americans.  The Institute would use this funding to conduct research in collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) to develop new drug products that will protect the U.S. population, especially the warfighters deployed around the world and their families, from infectious diseases.

Wearable Hemorrhagic Shock Monitor
Body Media, Inc.
4 Smithfield Street
11th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA  15219
$1.5 million from RDTE Army – Hemorrhagic shock is responsible for roughly 50% of the deaths of wounded soldiers. This number could be dramatically reduced if medics were provided with the most up-to-date medical technology. Lack of information related to complex wounding patterns creates a substantial barrier to caring and making real-time life and death decisions for injured soldiers and is directly related to their deaths. The Wearable Hemorrhagic Shock Monitor could ultimately improve a medic’s ability to save lives by more efficiently monitoring a patients physiological symptoms of hemorrhagic shock. 

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