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^- Hello, I'm Lieutenant Eimers and this promotional video

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^is for the Spark Tank's nomination

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and our nomination in particular, titled Brass to Bucks.

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What is the purpose of Brass to Bucks?

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It is to get more money to the United States military

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from brass casings that we expend.

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Right now the Air Force expends 65 millions cases a year

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and the DOD expends 605 million cases a year.

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Brass casings are expended in training

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and in operational use and are picked up

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by the United States military personnel

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and then they are processed.

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And they have to be processed by hand

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because each primer must be verified that it is struck

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and the projectile is fired from the cartridge.

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This labor-intensive process takes thousands of hours away

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from our range officers

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and then the brass currently is shipped to either DLA

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or it is shipped to the local recycling center

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where it is crushed and sold as brass scrap.

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The Brass to Bucks proposal is to leverage

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new spent brass sorting technology to generate more money

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per casing for the United States military.

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What is spent brass sorter technology?

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It allows for machines

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to sort roughly 10,000 cartridge cases per hour.

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The machine sorts with 100% reliability and verifies

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that the primer has been struck

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and the projectile has been fired and then it sorts

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by caliber and then even by cartridge casing metal type.

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How can we leverage spent brass sorter technology?

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The Air Force could set up a centralized location

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of two or three spent brass sorter machines and have

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all bases send their expended brass to them

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as low-level 1.4S explosives.

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This would enable range officers to not have to verify

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that the projectile has been fired

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and the primer has been struck, saving countless man hours.

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Additionally, at the location the spent brass sorters could

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then sort all the brass and allow for DLA members

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to sell that brass on the open market.

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By selling the brass on the open market,

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we generate three to five times more money

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per cartridge casing than what we receive right now

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through spent brass scrap sales.

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This proposal will generate $5 million in revenue

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and save 5,000 man hours annually

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for the United States Air Force and generate $57 million

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in revenue and save 50,000 man hours annually for the DOD.

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^This initiative is all about stewardship

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^of Air Force resources.

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We work hard to make every dollar count,

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but this takes it a step further by generating revenue

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from something that would otherwise have been scrapped.

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We're driving innovation, enabling Air Force priorities

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to be funded and securing our Air Force future.

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