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and its recommendations publicized, has this coordinating committee 

 of the Government agencies met with the Academy of Sciences Com- 

 mittee to discuss its recommendations and reports and try to correlate 

 them and make specific recommendations to this or any other legis- 

 lative committee that would be interested in this matter? 



Admiral Hayward. They met. Dr. Brown was there in the de- 

 partmental meeting. I do not know the recommendations of that 

 meeting yet. I have not seen them. They recommended, I know, 

 that they wanted to use the informal committee arrangement but I 

 have not seen the minutes of that meeting. 



Mr. Lennon. There is no suggestion that grew out of that con- 

 ference that a more formalized coordinating committee should be es- 

 tablished by legislative action ? 



Admiral Hayward. No, sir ; not to my knowledge. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Pelly. 



Mr. Pelly. Mr. Chairman. 



I am interested to have Admiral Hayward here today because I 

 recall that a few years ago he was taking command of the great car- 

 rier, the Franklin D. Roosevelt^ in Bremerton Navy Yard and at that 

 particular time I because a little familiar with his record and from 

 his graduation on I know that he has made a definite demonstration 

 of the fact that he is a fine naval officer and we can feel confident 

 at least that this program under his leadership is going to be well 

 handled. 



Admiral, does the Office of Naval Research actually sparkplug the 

 coordinating committee ? 



Admiral Hayward. Yes, sir. Actually, the Chief of Naval Re- 

 search has the problem and job and he also has to initiate the action 

 for us. In the Navy, Admiral Burke has given it to Admiral Bennett 

 to make sure that our program is coordinated completely with all 

 of the other Government agencies. The Office of Naval Research 

 really started and sparked the rest of the agencies, I feel. 



Now I camiot say too much in praise of what the Office of Naval 

 Research has done in this field and it is true across a lot of the other 

 basic sciences as you know, physics, low energy nuclear physics, that 

 they have sparkplugged this. 



Mr. Pelly. From a practical standpoint, does it mean that you will 

 be building over a period of years 10 new vessels at approximately 

 $5 million apiece? 



Admiral Hayward. We will actually build 18 all together. 

 Mr. Pelly. Eighteen? 



Admiral Hayward. Yes, sir. It will be over that period of years, 

 as I said. The first one will be built in 19(50. That is that 'small 

 one. Then actually we hope to get two a year and then we hope to 

 get the large ones. Commencing in 1!)()3 througli 19()(; we will build 

 one of the large ones and one of the small ones each year. 



Mr. Pklly. Do the other agencies, such as the Fish and Wildlife 

 Service, seem to have a need for more modern vessels? Some of theii-s 

 are pretty old. Has the Navy any ships that they can turn over to 

 these other agencies to help them out ? 



Admiral Hayward. Yes, sir. We do have them in the mothball 

 fleet now. The way we handled it with Woods Hole and Scripps 



