BILL NUMBER: SCR 117	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad
    (   Principal   coauthors:  
Assembly Members   Keene  and La Malfa   )

    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Cedillo,   Cogdill,   Cox,   Denham, 
 Ducheny,   Dutton,   Harman,  
Margett,   McClintock,   and Runner  )

    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Adams,   Aghazarian,   Beall,  
Gaines,   Huff,   Maze,   Niello, 
 Plescia,   Sharon Runner,   and Smyth 
 ) 

                        MAY 8, 2008

   Relative to Beale Air Force Base.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 117, as amended, Aanestad. Beale Air Force Base.
   This measure would proclaim the Legislature's support for Beale
Air Force Base in Yuba County to be the best and only choice to host
the United States Air Force Cyber Command Operations.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, Beale Air Force Base has been an integral part of the
State of California since the United States Air Force took over Camp
Beale in 1948; and
   WHEREAS, Beale Air Force Base is situated on 23,000 acres in Yuba
County, only 40 miles north of the California State Capitol,
providing ample space for expanded mission capabilities and the
prospect of adding to the resources of private industry through a
recently developed enhanced use lease program; and
   WHEREAS,  The more   More  than 3,000
military personnel stationed at Beale Air Force Base make a strong
contribution to the character and economy of the surrounding
communities as well as to the State of California; and
   WHEREAS, Beale Air Force Base is the home of the 9th
Reconnaissance Wing and consistently maintains a high state of
readiness in its combat support and combat service support forces for
potential deployment for the protection of our great nation; and
   WHEREAS, Beale Air Force Base is the home for the RQ-4 Global
Hawk, the Air Force's premier high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned
aerial vehicle that has played key roles in both the global war on
terror and in identifying hot spots during the 2007 wildfires in
southern California; and
   WHEREAS, Beale Air Force Base is identified by the United States
Air Force as being "in the forefront of the Air Force's future in
high technology," with its superior bandwidth and communications
capacity for conducting complex cyberspace operations; and
   WHEREAS, California is home to 77 institutions of higher learning
in northern California alone--including eight California State
University campuses and four University of California campuses--that
stand ready to provide high-tech educational support to any and all
missions at Beale Air Force Base; and
   WHEREAS, California is home to three of the four learning
institutions nationwide that are designated by the National Security
Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as National Centers of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, and all
three are within driving distance of Beale Air Force Base; and
   WHEREAS, California is well established as the nerve-center for
technology, with more than 750,000 people working in high-tech
positions, most of whom are classified as computer specialists, which
includes computer scientists, programmers, system analysts, and
system administrators; and
   WHEREAS, California is at the forefront of cyber technology,
housing five of the top supercomputer sites in the world at Lawrence
Livermore Laboratories and at NASA Ames Research Center; and
   WHEREAS, The land where Beale Air Force Base is situated is one of
the most geographically safe sites in the nation for businesses to
locate, based on the risk of natural hazards; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Air Force has announced its intention
to establish Cyber Command as a new operation to conduct cyber
warfare, electronic warfare and effectively protect critical United
States infrastructure networks that support telecommunications
systems, utilities, and transportation; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring,  That the California Legislature proclaims its
support for Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County to be the best and
only choice to host the United States Air Force Cyber Command
Operations; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.