Daniel Akaka: “The Senate report accompanying National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 included language on a program to…”

“The Senate report accompanying National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 included language on a program to demonstrate proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell designs at Department of the Navy installations. In particular, the language referred to an uninterruptible substation using fuel cells based on proton exchange membrane technology. This was a program that the Congress supported last year. I believe that the program the Committee intended to support this year was somewhat more narrowly focused on the developing technology to improve the membranes for those fuel cells that might be used in the substation program that was the subject of discussion last year or for other important Defense Department applications.”