AREA GETS DEFENSE MILLIONS.Byline: Joseph Giordono Staff Writer Ventura County stands to receive $35 million in military funding and two new C-130 aircraft to fight wildfires under an appropriations bill approved by Congress on Wednesday. The $243 million total appropriation includes $12 million to buy a troop protection system from Simi Valley-based Condor Systems, Inc. The funding was included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal 2001 and is expected to go to the president for his signature within the next two weeks. ``If you look at what we've done earlier in the year, combined with this, we have had a pretty good year for Ventura County,'' said Rep. Elton Gallegly Elton W. Gallegly (born March 7 1944), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, currently representing the 24th District of California (map). , R-Oxnard, who championed the additional funding. ``These funds, especially for the C-130s, are something that we have been working on for a long time, and they address some desperate needs.'' The C-130s will be based in Ventura County and used by the Air National Guard and Army Reserves to fight wildfires in California and neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. states. The two new planes will cost about $208 million. ``The aging equipment that we have been using has endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. the lives of the people who use it and the people it is supposed to protect,'' said Air National Guard Brigadier Gen. John E. Iffland. ``This is a welcome decision.'' The funding includes $23 million in electronic communications upgrades for the Navy's EA-6B planes, based at the Naval Air Warfare Center The Naval Air Warfare Center was a former U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Navy purchased the grounds to establish this facility from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation following its bankruptcy in the at Point Mugu. The communications gear will be manufactured by Grumman-Northrop at its Point Mugu Facility, Gallegly said. The contract with Condor Systems is for its Shortstop Electronic Protection System. Under the SEPS SEPS Subfascial Endoscopic perforator Surgery SEPS Shortstop Electronic Protection System SEPS Styrene-Ethylene-Propylene-Styrene SEPS Southeastern Pharmacology Society SEPS Standard Electronic Processing System SEPS Sprint Email Protection Services system, portable field units home in on the radio frequencies of incoming artillery, mortars and rockets and send a counter pulse that explodes the incoming munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. before they can reach the ground. |
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