Also included in the bill at Matheson's request is $1.5 million for a solar cell production facility in St. George, a high-tech manufacturing plant that creates solar arrays used in defense and NASA satellites, and $1 million for Artiss' research into an anti-motion sickness computer display, a drug-free device that may reduce motion sickness for soldiers in the field.

"These Utah firms and Utah employees have developed a number of innovative products that contribute to our national defense and I am pleased this funding will support that effort," said Matheson.

Among the other projects, all requested by Bishop:

• $5.6 million for research and development of new casting technologies utilizing copper.

• Restoring 75 percent of the proposed cuts to the Ballistic Missile Defense program, which will help ATK-Thiokol.

• $800,000 designated for design of a missile silo consolidation/military construction project for HAFB.

• A long-term procurement agreement for the C-17 aircraft. Salt Lake City companies make parts and sub-assemblies for the aircraft.

• $3 million toward the design and construction of a new beryllium processing plant. Beryllium, a metal of strategic military importance, is mined only in the United States at Brush-Wellman mines in Millard County, Utah.

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