Successfully obtained $1.3 million earmarked funding in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 Transportation-Treasury Appropriations bill to deploy LogicTree’s VoxLink technology.

Secured $150,000 congressional earmark in the FY 04 from the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) account to deploy GeoDecisions’ GEARS technology.

Obtained a grant – i.e., an ITS Task Order -- for the California Alliance for Advanced Transportation Systems (CAATS) from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.

Received Rights-of-Way permission and contract from the Virginia Department of Transportation to deploy SpeedInfo’s BestRoute. Moreover, obtained permission from the D.C. Department of Transportation to install sensors in Washington, D.C.

Negotiated GeoDecisions’ appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure on ITS, and drafted their testimony and press release.

Created the ITS Congressional Caucus, and was instrumental in inserting two GeoDecisions executives on the 19-member caucus. The Caucus played a crucial role in increasing ITS dedicated funding to $4 billion under TEA-LU, the new transportation legislation.

Successful in procuring a “Dear Colleague” letter of support for the CAATS, which was signed by several members of the California congressional delegation.

Obtained letter of support from the Pennsylvania congressional delegation for GeoDecisions’ PA-GEARS project, which was sent to the Department of Homeland Security’s Under Secretary Hutchinson and Office of Domestic Preparedness Director Mencer. Received commitments from DHS to deploy geospatial and GIS technololgy.

Instrumental in securing congressional earmarks in FY 03 and 04 for PAR to deploy their GPS-enabled container tracking technology for logistics management and homeland security.