Military Programs 



increase over FY 1968, reflecting primarily increased support of fleet opera- 

 tions and priority developments in military ocean engineering. Program ele- 

 ments and funds proposed are : 



—surveying the properties of the ocean and ocean bottom, 



Navy $29.4 M 



■ — marine science and technology in support of weapon systems. 



Navy 37.7 M 



— development of undersea search, rescue, recovery, and man- 

 in-the-sea capability. (Deep Submergence Systems Project 



and closely related efforts) Navy 81.5 M 



— test and calibration facility for instrumentation. Navy 1.3 M 



- — marine science in support of safeguards for limited test ban 

 treaties (VELA-UNIFORM program), Advanced Re- 

 search Projects Agency 0.2 M 



Surveys for Defense Systems 



The purpose of these surveys is to obtain comprehensive oceanographic 

 and acoustical information about ocean areas of the world in which our 

 naval forces may operate. The surveys provide both fleet support and 

 essential environmental data for design of future systems. Aided by the 

 Coast Guard, private contractors, and ships of opportunity, and benefitting 

 from the recent commissioning of two modern, automated survey ships 

 of its own, the Navy is making substantial progress toward coverage 

 of the areas of highest priority. In FY 1967, for example, the Navy collected: 

 - — over 100,000 miles of seismic sub-bottom profiles and ship-towed 



magnetic data; 

 — 860 Nansen casts for submerged water analysis ; 

 — hundreds of bottom photographs, geological cores, biological and 



radiological samples, and current measurements; and 

 — many thousands of measurernents of propagation of acoustic energy 

 over a wide spectrum of frequencies. 

 While the above oceanographic surveys are intended for military use, 

 others which are closely allied to them are available for civilian use. These 

 include the mapping, charting, and geodetic efforts which are set forth in 

 Chapter VIII. These latter surveys resulted in shipboard collections of 

 approximately a quarter-million track miles of precise bathymetric, mag- 

 netic, and gravity data, and the airborne collection of an additional one- 

 quarter of a million miles of geo-magnetic data. 



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