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News - Press Release
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| Dorgan Secures $44 Million for High-Tech Research Training in North Dakota
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Washington, D.C. November 7, 2007
-- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) announced Tuesday that
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on legislation that will give a well-deserved raise
to U.S. military personnel and direct $44 million in federal funding to high-tech research
and training projects in the Red River Valley Research Corridor.
Dorgan is a member of the House-Senate conference committee that negotiated the final
version of the Fiscal Year 2007 Defense Appropriations bill. He worked to include a pay raise
for military personnel of 3.5 percent a larger increase than recommended by the
President.
Dorgan also secured $44 million for high-tech projects in North Dakota. Among them are
projects to develop vaccines that will protect troops in the field, cutting-edge research to
develop new technology that will give soldiers a leg up on the battlefield, and a training
course that will bring West Point cadets to the state to learn to fly helicopters.
"Our military personnel are serving their country with honor in a difficult time, and they
deserve the raise we are providing in this legislation," Dorgan said. "The high-tech research
and training in this bill will also strengthen our military while boosting the Red River Valley
Research Corridor. That s good for our country and good for North Dakota."
The compromise bill will get a final vote in the House and Senate before being sent to the
President. A list of North Dakota projects in the bill is below.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
$2.8 million
This project will allow Minot's InfoTech to provide for the first time a single web-based
location where the Department of Defense can access military databases around the world,
while still protecting sensitive data. It is part of the effort to build a worldwide Department
of Defense information network called the Global Information Grid. This project is critical to
ensuring the U.S. military has "information dominance" on the battlefield.
Original press release
Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, InfoTech is a software house and systems integration company offering a variety of technology and business solutions
in the five following practice areas:
- Media Management Solutions
- Financial Services Software
- Federal/DoD Systems
- Application Development & Integration
- IT Outsourcing
InfoTech is a Microsoft Certified Partner. For further information, please visit:
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